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Code Transformation Strategies for Extensible Embedded Processors
White Papers Embedded application requirements, including high performance, low power consumption and fast time to market, are uncommon in the broader domain of general purpose applications. This paper shows why compilers should sometimes make different...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
AMD pushes for 64-bit mobile computing
News AMD has licensed an advanced architecture from MIPS Technologies in a move to boost its new embedded chips division, which makes processors for "embedded" devices such as handheld computers and information appliances.
[April 30, 2002, 12:24]
Transmeta climbs into embedded market
News The Transmeta chips fill a niche between products from ARM and MIPS, which are fairly popular in the embedded world, and processors from Intel and AMD, said Tom Lee, director of embedded business development at Transmeta.
[January 6, 2003, 7:50]
IDT takes on MIPS licences
News MIPS Technologies, the US embedded chip designer, said it has licensed two of its new cores to communications chip maker IDT. MIPS architectures are used in embedded devices like handheld computers and set-top boxes.
[October 12, 2001, 16:36]
ARM offers low-power mobile chips
News Embedded processors are used in non-PC devices of all kinds. UK chip designer ARM on Tuesday introduced a new processor core for high-end embedded devices, as well as a less power-hungry version of a core already used in devices like mobile phones.
[May 1, 2002, 15:55]
IBM set to boost chip memory
News Starting with its 45nm (nanometre) processors next year, IBM will use embedded DRAM (dynamic RAM) instead of SRAM (static RAM) on its processors, effectively tripling the amount of memory it can put on those chips.
[February 14, 2007, 8:06]
Motorola and MIT to create thinking chips
News Motorola estimates that several billion of its processors are embedded in devices throughout the world right now -- from cars to cell phones to microwaves. The donation will fund a new lab, dubbed the Motorola Digital DNA Lab, and research into how...
[March 16, 1999, 13:12]
Embedded chips chase gadget market
News Try the Embedded Systems Conference, where chip designers and makers are lining up to shop processors for consumer gadgets -- from set-top boxes to mobile phones. Embedded" refers to chips found in anything but a PC.
[April 11, 2001, 10:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This respect and enlightened self-interest appears to be blossoming into something stronger, now that they've announced that they'll be working very closely together in the world of embedded mobile processors -- the chips in your phone, in other...
[June 29, 2001, 18:19]
'Wimpy nodes' could cut datacentre power bloat
News The cluster, called Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes (Fawn), is made up of large numbers of nodes of embedded processors, such as those used in netbooks, combined with between 2GB and 16GB of flash memory. The researchers found that a prototype 21-node...
[October 19, 2009, 9:23]
Wind River adds embedded Linux support
News The tool will be immediately available with Linux support for the IBM PowerPC 405 family of embedded processors, used in routers, switches and other devices. Wind River Systems, the largest provider of software for embedded devices, has added its...
[October 3, 2003, 11:00]
VoiceButler adds new chord to Transmeta
News While Transmeta launched a line of embedded processors earlier this year, the VoiceButler uses a chip that is also used in PCs -- an 800MHz Crusoe TM5800. The VoiceButler exemplifies the diversity of embedded opportunities which exist for Transmeta...
[April 3, 2003, 13:44]
AMD seeks Wi-Fi Alchemy with new chips
News AMD has been expanding its push into embedded processors and chipsets as a way of bolstering its flash memory unit, which along with its PC processor business dominates the company. AMD bought Alchemy in February and then in April licensed a 64-bit...
[November 4, 2002, 15:34]
ARM ups speed, drops power with new chip
News ARM has launched its Cortex-A5 MPCore processor, the latest in its series of embedded chips aimed at internet-connected devices such as handsets, set-top boxes, industrial and consumer electronics equipment.
[October 21, 2009, 17:09]
Transmeta investigating Taiwan foundries
News Some of the most successful intellectual property-based chip companies -- the model Transmeta is following -- make not PC chips, but the embedded processors used in devices such as PDAs and mobile phones.
[August 8, 2000, 10:00]
Transmeta teams with Windows CE .Net
News Chipmaker Transmeta said on Wednesday it has received a key certification from Microsoft, an important step in the company's strategy to enter the embedded processor market. Certification is a crucial stage in Transmeta's plans to tackle the...
[August 22, 2002, 8:20]
IBM plots next PowerPC chips, Part II
News New IBM PowerPC chips are also wending their way to embedded applications, sources said. Also playing an important role in the new embedded chips will be IBM's CoreConnect bus. Another embedded PowerPC chip, due later in the year, will be called...
[May 25, 2000, 14:26]
Japanese researchers harness parallel chips
News We are developing software de facto standard or API for multicore processors for consumer electronics and real-time embedded systems, [such as those used in] automobiles," he explained. Our targets are for consumer electronics and real-time...
[September 30, 2009, 15:22]
Linux set for central role in 3G devices
News Back in April chip-designer ARM signed a deal to bring embedded Linux to its processors, while Lineo's version of embedded Linux has found favour with Sharp's PDA designers. Its DSPLinux embedded operating system is optimised to work within gadgets...
[October 10, 2001, 16:16]
Analyst: Transmeta should drop out of PCs
News They might want to look at other areas, like embedded chips, where low power is a key play. Brown said areas that may still be open to a big Transmeta presence might be embedded chips for products such as routers or "blade" servers, although...
[March 7, 2002, 14:20]
