Long time IP supplier Imagination Technologies (UK) had several announcements at ESC this year. Extending their fab agnostic business model of RTL level IP with SDKs and HDKs rather than fab specific hard IP, they announced their new processor integration agreement with MIPS. In addition to being fab agnostic, they are now very processor agnostic…
Netronome displayed their NFP3240P multi-core network flow processor at ESC along with a development board and SDK. The part is a new 40nm implementation of a 40 network core design, with 8 threads per core (total of 320 threads), that is backward compatible to the Intel IXP family of processors. The new implementation has been…
By Tets Maniwa April 28, 2010—Multi-core Expo, San Jose, CA—A view from the upper reaches by Preet Virk, director of strategic marketing at Freescale Semiconductor indicates that multi-core works. In his talk “From users to service providers: multi-core is making a difference with each connection”, Virk developed the thesis that users and their expectations are…
By Tets Maniwa April 27, 2010—Multi-core Expo San Jose, CA—Alan Gatherer, CTO of Huawei Baseband SoC looked at the drivers in wireless and evaluated the fit for multi-core processors in a keynote talk. The two technologies seem to be a good fit, as the wireless base stations are the core of the system and need…
This week the Multicore Expo and conference holds forth as a subset of the Embedded Systems Conference in the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. Some of the topics include: multiprocessor tactics and strategies, multimedia and embedded graphics, programming and debug, software tools and libraries, EDA and ESL technologies, APIs for multicore communications and resource management,…
B&O recently announced a new 40″ and 46″ LCD/LED TV to the North American Market. The TV’s used panels made by Samsung, however they featured an Anti-reflective coating and a close mounting industrial design that results in a very large viewing angle without picture degradation. One of the major enhancements of the B&O TV over…
by Pallab Chatterjee April 16, 2010—San Francisco CA—In the midst of all of the comic books, costumes, collectibles and Jurassicaly preserved science fiction and TV stars, there was new technology being displayed at WonderCon in San Francisco. Some of the technology is in upcoming films, video games and “accessories”. One of the highest profile accessories…
By Tets Maniwa April 13, 2010—Las Vegas—in the ongoing series of iHollywood Forum events, a panel comprised of John Ruby from AEG Network Live represented content creators, Sandy Climan from 3ality proxied the equipment infrastructure, Bob Harris from Panasonic for displays, Tom Edwards from Digital TV at Fox Networks for carriers, and moderator Michael Stroud…
By Joseph Chatterjee At the 24th annual WonderCon in San Francisco, the show had its traditional coverage of new comic books, classic comics, video games, science fiction and animation. The crowd of almost 40,000 waited in long lines for previews and panels of the newest movies from Disney (The Prince of Persia, Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and…