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- Embedded microprocessors to grow 6% in 2005
- The worldwide market for embedded controllers/processors (MCUs/MPUs) will grow 6% in 2005 on top of 22% growth in 2004 to $18 bln, according to The Information Network. In 2008, 8-bit MCUs will hold a 39% share of the $18 bln MCU market. In 2008, the market for 8-bit MPUs will...
- Tags: MCU, 8-Bit
- Blog posts 2005-06-07
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- Wind River: Tasty Embedded Linux Treat
- Intel just purchased embedded systems vendor Wind River for a cool $884M. But why? The answer may lie in Linux and device virtualization. For many, Intel's acquisition of Wind River may have gone over this week as just another asset grab by the...
- Tags: Wind River Systems Inc., Embedded Linux, Operating System, Intel Corp., Smart Phones, Linux, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- New microchip uses 30 times less power
- Scientists at Rice University have created a microchip that uses 30 times less electricity while running seven times faster than today's best technology. The U.S.-Singapore team developing the technology, named PCMOS, revealed results at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference ISSCC, the world's premier forum for engineers working...
- Tags: Rice University, Phone, Microchip, CMOS, Cell Phone, Logic, PCMOS, ASICs, Semiconductors, Memory, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Apple's PA Semi buyout: A defensive move?
- According to reports, Apple purchased embedded chip maker PA Semi this week and the rumors are flying: that Apple is back in chipset business; or that Apple is going back to the PowerPC for some future device (since PA Semi made PowerPC-based processor). However, some chip analysts say that it...
- Tags: Exponential Technology, Apple Inc., IBM PowerPC, Chip, PA Semi, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- "Back that truck up"
- The quotation is from Tim Taylor, star of TV's long defunct sitcom: Glimpses of Heidi, but suits my purpose here, which is to discuss our tendency to remember things in terms of what's important to us rather in terms of what really happened. A big...
- Tags: Wintel, Idea, Microprocessor, IBM Corp., Quotation, Revisionism, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- The T2 and media reaction
- The UltraSPARC T2 announcements back on August 7th consisted of two separate stories. The first of these involved Sun's plan to sell it into the commodity processor market. Unfortunately almost nobody in the press understood either the announcement itself or where Sun's taking this, with the straight up treatment given...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, Paul Murphy, T2, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, UltraSparc T2
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Intel's embedded anti-malware could help business and consumer
- Intel's embedded anti-malware could help business and consumerBut What Protects the Anti-Malware Chip?Having a separate backdoor to allow fixes is great...until someone malicious figures out how to get in the backdoor and wipe out the machine. Curious if this approach uses the TCG compliant hardware authentication chipsets which can...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Government, Network technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, chip, Intel Corp., hardware, anti-Malware
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
- AMD's restructuring could be fab-less--or at least fab light
- AMD's restructuring could be fab-less--or at least fab light"Today, we have proliferated on a product line towards goodness."AMD is not going to recover by relying on IBM for R&D, nor on other companies to make its products. To me, when Apple began to purchase all its hardware components, that...
- Tags: Research & Development, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU
- Discussion threads 2007-04-20
- State to extend comment period on RFID in border cards
- In the light of new criticism of the State Departments plans to use RFID chips in passport cards, the department is extending the public comment period on the proposal until Jan. 7, Information Week reports. The Smart Card Alliance recently criticized the governments plans to use RFID in passport...
- Tags: card, passport card, RFID, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
- PS3 based super-computing cluster on Linux
- As many people know Yellow Dog Linux, from Terra Soft, now runs on the Cell engine in Sonys PS3. Thats very cool, but the thing many people may not realize is that Terra Soft isnt so much in the yellow dog business as it is in the supercomputing...
- Tags: General, Cell, Terra Soft Solutions Inc., Hardware, Linux
- Blog posts 2006-11-29
- Zombies continue to chase Windows PCs
- Zombies continue to chase Windows PCsZombies continue to chase Windows PCs[i]Microsoft introduced the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool in January last year. An updated version of the program ships monthly with Microsoft's security updates. The tool aims to identify and remove prevalent malicious software from PCs.[/i]At least Microsoft is taking...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Desktops, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, MSFT, PC, zombie, Windows PC, Microsoft Corp., malware
- Discussion threads 2006-10-24
- Wedding bells for Intel and Nvidia?
- Forbes.coms Mary Crane: Nvidia shares soared on Wednesday following rumors of a possible takeover by Intel. More than 22 million Nvidia (nasdaq: NVDA - news - ...
- Tags: TVs, Intel Corp., NVidia Corp., AMDs Torrenza, appliance innovator, innovator, Intels, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-05
- More on PPC vs. x86
- More on PPC vs. x86?The auto-vectorisation optimisation is a part of the GNU Compiler Collection. The optimisation is:an optimisation that automates loop vectorisation at tree-SSA level - and is therefore very much not just PPC specific;not IBMs (i.e. not 'their "GCC Auto-Vectorisation Compiler"')."IBM hasn't reported on the other embedded...
- Tags: Development tools, Processors, Intel x86, PPC, IBM Corp., Apple Inc., GCC, Apple Macintosh, compiler, optimisation
- Discussion threads 2006-08-30
- Another reason Intel is in trouble
- Intel apparently hopes to to ship 240 million CPUs this year, making it the world's biggest microprocessor supplier, by revenue. By volume, however, it's not even in the top five - by that measure Texas Instruments wins hands down with half a dozen other cell phone and embedded processor suppliers...
- Tags: cell phone, telephone
- Blog posts 2006-08-21
- AMD/ATI merger is one of equal problems
- Advanced Micro Devices bid to acquire Canadian based ATI Technologies is a risky strategy because both companies are facing the same issue: big, pricey, client-side chips in PCs and other devices are becoming less important, and less profitable than server-side chips.These two companies make very large, complex chips. Graphics processors...
- Tags: chip, graphics, microprocessor
- Blog posts 2006-07-24
- Job satisfaction and open source
- Do you know what makes an engineer happiest? An efficient, elegant, solution to an engineering problem. And the most elegant solutions of all, of course, are the ones that reduce complexity while solving multiple problems at once. This seems to be a basic human thing: watch babies for...
- Tags: job, open source
- Blog posts 2006-06-27
- Will Intel's new vPro business PC help to reverse the company's misfortunes?
- This week, Intel headed into slightly uncharted waters when it announced a new brand for its business desktops call called vPro. The company also took such a terrible tumble on Wall Street that it has announced a major restructuring. Will vPro help with the revival?Whereas Intel's business destkop messaging...
- Tags: Intel vPro, AMT
- Blog posts 2006-04-27
- Here Jini, Here Jini, Jini, jini
- Right now the MulticoreExpo that's been going on at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California is wrapping up. ARM's John Goodacre, chair of EEMBC Multiprocessing benchmark group, was planning to present a session entitled A technical insight into the EEMBC MP benchmarks that I would have loved to attend....
- Tags: Java, Jini, Jini system
- Blog posts 2006-03-23
- Empty towns, packed graveyards
- When most people look at human settlement patterns over time, what they see is a history of transportation; but what I see is a parallel to the development of the computer industry. Settlement patterns reflect transaction costs for information and market exchanges, that's why markets started out walking distances...
- Tags: Empty
- Blog posts 2006-03-10
- Astonishing performance numbers from Freescale
- Freescale's G4 successor, the e600 based series, is now making its way into the world with the 1.7Ghz MPC7448 available since June of last year and the MPC8641D apparently coming out this spring. It's the MPC8641D that's most important in the long run because its internal architecture combines I/O,...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., MPC8641D
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
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