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| PolyCore Tools Designed to Ease Multicore Communications |
By BDTI, 8/20/2008
 As computational requirements go up and fab processes increasingly bump up against inconvenient physical limitations, multicore solutions are becoming more attractive. The problem is that no one wants to program them, because there are lots of challenges associated with implementing applications on multiple cores. One challenge lies in handling inter-core communications.
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| Power Nomads |
By Jeff Bier, 8/20/2008
You see them at trade shows, in seminars, in airports—sometimes even in your own office building. They pace a room’s perimeter and scan its walls, eyes perpetually roving from floor to midline. They sneak behind counters and crawl under tables and thrust their hands into dark and cobwebby corners. Who are these people? And what do they want?
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| HP Licenses Imaging IP for Camera Phones |
By BDTI, 6/18/2008
 Late last year Hewlett Packard announced that it was exiting the digital camera market, citing a lack of growth in that business sector. But just because HP has quit the camera business doesn’t mean it’s abandoning all of its digital camera technologies; the image processing algorithms originally developed for HP’s digital cameras will now be incorporated into cell phones, enabling users to create high-quality prints from pictures taken with camera phones.
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| 3DLabs Aims Massively Parallel Chips at Portable Multimedia |
By BDTI, 4/23/2008
 When people talk about massively parallel, multicore chips, they’re usually talking about chips for high-performance line-powered applications, like WiMAX base stations or desktop video processing. But 3DLabs is headed in a different direction. The fabless chip company offers a massively parallel media processor, the DMS-02, which the company says is a perfect fit for portable multimedia devices with demanding video and audio processing requirements—such as high-end cellular handsets and portable media players. According to 3DLabs, the chip is in full production and costs $40 in small (1K) quantities. The company is currently shipping chips to initial customers, including a video surveillance equipment vendor, Grandeye.
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| Hantro 8190 Will Bring YouTube to Cell Phones |
By BDTI, 3/19/2008
 A few months ago, video codec vendor On2 announced its acquisition of Hantro, a company that offers licensable video codec accelerators and software. At the Mobile World Congress in February, On2 unveiled the first offspring from the marriage—the Hantro 8190 licensable silicon IP core.
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| Stretch Announces Second-generation Software Configurable Processor |
By BDTI, 3/14/2007
 On March 5, Stretch, Inc. announced its second-generation software configurable processor family, the S6000, and two initial chips. The S6000, like the previous-generation S5000 family, features a RISC processor core with a reconfigurable compute fabric embedded within the processor datapath.
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| Texas Instruments Announces Multi-core Baseband Processor |
By BDTI, 1/17/2007
 In December,Texas Instruments announced the TCI6487 multi-core baseband processor. The TCI6487 features three TMS320C64x+ DSP cores, and an antenna interface to support OBSAI and CPRI protocols. The device will be manufactured in a 65 nm process and is intended mainly for GSM, TD-SCDMA and WiMAX basestation applications.
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| PicoChip: Defying the Odds |
By BDTI, 12/13/2006
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late 1990s and into 2001 saw a large number of start-ups with unique
processor architectures targeting applications like wireless
infrastructure. Fabless semiconductor startup PicoChip stands out from
among this wave as a survivor. In this article, BDTI provides an update
on PicoChip’s status, technology, and business model.
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