By Pallab Chatterjee May 18, 2010 – Santa Clara, CA. At today’s 6th annual Nanotechnology conference, the focus was on the directions for research and new applications for nanotechnology materials. Although the majority of the sessions were focused on NanoBio and NanoMedicine, there were several presentations on power that were related to the entertainment…
Cavium Networks unveiled a family of processors which deliver compute performance and application acceleration for borderless enterprise, mobile internet infrastructure and secure data center and cloud computing applications. The OCTEON II CN68XX/67XX processor families integrate 8 to 32 enhanced MIPS64 cores in a single chip combined with over 85 L3-L7 application and security acceleration engines,…
On June 14th, (the eve of the E3 show) iHollywood Forum is holding the 3D next conference (http://3d-next.com/) . The day long event is focusing on separating the hype from reality in stereoscopic 3D for TV, Film, Gaming and Mobile. While a strong lineup of speakers and expo partners are already in place, there are still speaking, presentation and panel…
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…