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Henri Richard lands at Freescale

Henri Richard, the former chief sales and marketing officer at AMD, has landed at Freescale Semiconductor. Freescale announced that Richard will be chief sales and marketing officer for the chip maker. Richard left AMD last month. That solves one mystery. The next one will...

Tags: Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Marketing, Sales, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-05

System Interconnect Fabrics: Ethernet Versus RapidIO Technology

This white paper is a comprehensive compilation of embedded interconnect information. It provides a high-level market perspective and delivers a detailed technical examination of these two technologies. The paper begins with a top-level description of market requirements for the logical, transport, and physical layers, then moves into a thorough discussion...

Tags: Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Physical Layer, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2007-02-01

Designing Firewall/VPN With the PowerQUICC III MPC8572E

The MPC8572E is a PowerQUICC III processor optimized for network security processing at Gbps speed. Its dual e500 cores provide CPU cycles and flexibility for performing various security operations. The MPC8572E s integrated hardware blocks (Pattern Matcher, Deflate, Table Lookup Unit and Security Engine) further accelerate packet header and application...

Tags: Freescale Semiconductor Inc., MPC8572E, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, VPNs, Networking, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2007-01-01

Race to 32-bit embedded devices gains some incentives

There's a high-speed race this summer -- full of spills and chills -- and it's not on the Nascar circuit or in the French Alps. It's a race between Freescale Semiconductor and ARM among others to woo more developers and device manufacturers from 8- and 16-bit bit architectures on up...

Tags: Freescale Semiconductor Inc., 32-bit

Blog posts 2006-07-25

Linux as a Real-Time Operating System

Linux is a full-featured UNIX implementation. The main design criterion of the Linux kernel is the throughput, while real-time and predictability is not an issue. The main handicap to considering Linux as a real-time system is that the kernel is not preemptable; that is, while the processor executes kernel code,...

Tags: Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Operating System, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software

White papers 2005-11-01

GPRS Wireless Internet Connectivity Using i.MX and Palm OS Based PDAs

This paper describes and provides source code for a reference application, called GSM-GPRS, which provides mobile Internet access on a personal digital assistant PDA based on a i.MX processor and the Palm OS operating system, using a Motorola general packet radio service GPRS enabled phone, the Timeport 280. Guidelines for...

Tags: Freescale Semiconductor Inc., GPRS, Operating System, Palm Inc., PDAs, Palm OS, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software

White papers 2005-07-01

Freescale Semiconductor i.250 Case Studies: CSI Wireless

CSI Wireless, based in Calgary, Canada, is one of the leading designers and manufacturers of fixed wireless and GPS products. CSI Wireless introduced the GSM/GPRS version of the BaseOne handset in March 2004. Since many of the TDMA operators in the Americas are moving to GSM/GPRS, CSI Wireless needed a...

Tags: Freescale Semiconductor Inc., GSM, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Case studies

WiMax & Quality of Service

This webinar reviews the issues that are likely to influence the Quality Of Service QOS of future WiMax networks - from technology choice to spectrum availability.

Tags: Freescale Semiconductor Inc., QoS, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless

Webcasts

Additional Resources

What's up, what's down on our warming planet?

Glaciers are down, the ocean is up. Here are some details: Europe is losing its Alpine snowmass. Glaciers in Europe have lost 25% of their snowmass since 1980. It's more than agony for skiers. Huge sections of rock and rubble are leaving...

Tags: Meter, Glacier, Business Ethics, Government, Leadership, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-06

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlightis Flash chopped liver?I don't get it... Flash is ubiquitous.. it's on almost every PC out there and has a huge developer base behind it, yet these people are implying Silverlight is THE platform to beat. What does Silverlight have that Flash doesn't (besides a...

Tags: Scripting languages, Adobe RIA, SWF, Chrome, WebKit RiA, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, WebKit, Microsoft Office, SVG, Adobe Systems Inc., developer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

$600 mln worth of nanomaterials for electronics to sell in 2008

The global market for nanomaterials for electronics applications will reach $600 mln in 2008 and grow at a compound annual rate of more than 40% to reach nearly $7 bln in 2015, according to The Information Network. The Semiconductor sector will have a 62.1% share of the $600 mln market...

Tags: Electronics, Market, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, AM

Blog posts 2008-09-04

$600 mln worth of nanomaterials for electronics to sell in 2008

The global market for nanomaterials for electronics applications will reach $600 mln in 2008 and grow at a compound annual rate of more than 40% to reach nearly $7 bln in 2015, according to The Information Network. The Semiconductor sector will have a 62.1% share of the $600 mln market...

Tags: Electronics, Market, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, AM

Blog posts 2008-09-04

News to know: Google Chrome; WinMobile's future; WiFi's big success; VMware

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look at Google Chrome One day after Google inadvertently discloses the impending release of Chrome, we get to see the browser first-hand. See my gallery tour...

Tags: Google Inc., VMware Inc., Wi-Fi, Virtualization, Web Browsers, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Internet, Sales, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Worldwide semiconductor sales up 7.6% in July 2008

Global semiconductor sales rose 7.6% in July 2008 from July 2007. Worldwide sales were $22.178 bln, up from $20.603 bln a year ago, the Semiconductor Industry Association said. Excluding memory products, semiconductor sales increased by 11.6% YTY and by 3.2% sequentially. The 7.6% increase is down slightly from the 8%...

Tags: Semiconductor Sale, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Semiconductors, Sales, Hardware, AM

Blog posts 2008-09-02

AMD slims down, sells digital TV business to Broadcom

Broadcom said Monday that it has acquired AMD's digital TV business for $192.8 million in cash in a move that's a win-win for both parties. For AMD, the sale offloads a business that wasn't a priority and allows the chipmaker to save capital expenses while raising some...

Tags: Broadcom Corp., Digital Television, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Can Moore's Law last another 40 years?

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Justin Rattner and Michael Garner talk about materials and processes that will be used in the next 40 years to increase chip performance and advance production. Rattner and Garner discuss the future use of CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology and...

Tags: Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Moore's Law to last 40 more years?

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Justin Rattner and Michael Garner talk about materials and processes that will be used in the next 40 years to increase chip performance and advance production. Rattner and Garner discuss the future use of CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology and...

Tags: Performance, CMOS, Intel Corp., Moore, Nanotechnology, Memory, Performance Management, Emerging Technologies, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Intel, carbon nanotubes, Moore's Law

Videos 2008-08-21

Before Intel's big show, AMD launches an attack

With Intel's annual conference set to start this week, AMD launched a pre-emptive strike in a press conference on Friday. AMD executives said the processor innovations you'll hear about next week are imitations of technology they introduced as much as five years ago, and Intel's Larrabee graphics...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., Attack, Imitation, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Are NVIDIA G92s and G94s failing prematurely too?

The Inquirer is reporting that in addition to the NVIDIA G84 and G86 GPUs being bad and failing due to thermal issues, the G92s and G94s are also affected. If you haven't been following the story, the short version, up till now, is that all G84 and G86 chips...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Chip, GPU, Inquirer, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Emerging markets fuel first half chip sales; Memory prices crater

Global chip sales were up 5.4 percent in the first half of 2008 to $127.5 billion courtesy of solid demand in the U.S. and emerging markets, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. Developing economies in China, India, Europe and Latin America are offsetting any weakness in the...

Tags: Memory, Emerging Market, Semiconductor Industry Association, Chip, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Semiconductors, Sales, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-04