http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/ Analysis and comment on the electronics industry by Richard Wilson; editor of Electronics Weekly en Copyright 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:41:56 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/08/is-multicore-architecture-supp.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/08/is-multicore-architecture-supp.html Multi-core processors Software Multi-cores multi-processing Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:41:56 +0000 Don't give up. Peter Gabriel could one day play "the Lamb" again with Banks, Collins, Rutherford, and may be even Hackett. http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/05/peter-gabriel-genesis-reunion.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/05/peter-gabriel-genesis-reunion.html Bowers and Wilkins MP3s Peter Gabriel Fri, 23 May 2008 12:35:49 +0000 Embedded computing firm Vmetro is proposing to simplify the development of multi-processor systems by changing the way data is transferred to the shared memory. The company's FusionIPC processor-to-processor comms software handles both bulk data movement and message passing in a... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/05/making-shared-memory-more-effi.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/05/making-shared-memory-more-effi.html Software Multi-processors shared memory Tue, 06 May 2008 15:00:15 +0000 Important, not to say vital, support for the development of the PC-like mobile phone quietly slipped into the handset market this week with Adobe saying it would make its Flash software freely available for mobile devices. Companies endorsing the plan... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/05/turning-mobiles-in-to-pcs-in-a.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/05/turning-mobiles-in-to-pcs-in-a.html Mobile Phones Adobe Intel Mobile phones Thu, 01 May 2008 10:51:02 +0000 Bath is the centre for the UK’s latest basestation conference which is taking place this week, and among the early movers at the event are Nitronex, a GaN-on-Silicon RF power IC specialist and Nujira who are teaming up to create... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/04/awayday-in-bath-for-high-effic.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/04/awayday-in-bath-for-high-effic.html Process Technology WIMAX Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:46:19 +0000 There are still not enough graduates with the rights skills coming out of UK universities. That seems to be the worrying finding of new research in the jobs market published by the CBI. Inevitably is it graduates in science, technology,... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/04/universities-not-stemming-stem-1.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/04/universities-not-stemming-stem-1.html People CBI Skills STEM Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:46:05 +0000 Those clever guys at ARM in Cambridge seem to have come up with another winner with the Cortex-M3 processor core. Not only are the big name licensees, such as NXP, Toshiba and TI, developing new lower power silicon based on... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/04/can-arms-cortexm3-processor-sa-1.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/04/can-arms-cortexm3-processor-sa-1.html Companies ARM NXP TI Toshiba Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:33:34 +0000 IBM and its process technology partners may have found the Holy Grail in their search for a high-k dielectric material which is practical at the 32nm process node and below. The high-k/metal gate (HKMG) material when used in evaluation circuits... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/04/when-highk-dielectric-is-the-h.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/04/when-highk-dielectric-is-the-h.html Process Technology 45nm Freescale IBM Samsung Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:39:49 +0000 Professor David Payne of the University of Southampton has been named as a finalist for the world's most prestigious technology awards. The fact that many people in the UK will not have heard of Professor Payne is yet another sad... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/04/engineering-myopia-in-the-uk.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/04/engineering-myopia-in-the-uk.html People Millennium Technology Prize Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:16:26 +0000 At least one industry watcher has welcomed Motorola's decision to split itself into two parts as a good move. But I have seen nothing to alter my belief that merger or acquisition will be the most likely outcome for Motorola's... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/03/motorola-handset-sale-still-lo-1.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/03/motorola-handset-sale-still-lo-1.html Mobile Phones mobile phones Motorola Qualcomm Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:58:11 +0000 Why doesn't Qualcomm buy Motorola's mobile phone business? It's available, well soon to be, after Motorola's decision to spin off its mobile phone business. Qualcomm has the cash - around $11bn in the bank at the end of January... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/03/why-doesnt-qualcomm-buy-motoro-1.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2008/03/why-doesnt-qualcomm-buy-motoro-1.html Mobile Phones mobile phones Motorola Qualcomm Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:59:09 +0000 Is this the first in-car navigation hardware to use multi-core processor performance? I have had a quick scan around and I cannot find anything similar. http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2007/10/nec-gives-arm-multi-core-a-road-test.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2007/10/nec-gives-arm-multi-core-a-road-test.html Multi-core processors in-car navigation NaviEngine1 NEC PowerVR SGX 535 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:36:22 +0000 I have reported before on the interesting phenomenon of students implement general purpose parallel processing system design on a PS3 games console. http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2007/10/graphics-chips-drive-multiproc.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2007/10/graphics-chips-drive-multiproc.html Multi-core processors Graphics processors PS3 SoCs Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:51:49 +0000 AMD is the latest big name in the PC industry to jump into tthe open source software community. The processor company is to participate in the Eclipse Foundation. http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2007/10/first-intel-then-arm-and-now-amd-all-in-eclipse.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2007/10/first-intel-then-arm-and-now-amd-all-in-eclipse.html Software AMD Eclipse Foundation embedded system design Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:27:41 +0000 There is no real surprise to see Linux being adopted like the bargin of the century by the mobile phone industry. http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2007/10/mobile-linux-and-the-art-of-co.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/parallel-processors/2007/10/mobile-linux-and-the-art-of-co.html Software Linux mobile phones WiMAX Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:27:33 +0000