Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has said it has qualified a 0.18-micron embedded flash memory (embFlash) process technology family intended for applications in automotive, analog and power-sensitive applications.
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Ultrasoc, a startup company formed in 2005 as a spin-off from the University of Kent has recently relocated from Colchester to Cambridge. The company is developing chip design and systems development tools for embedded multiprocessor system on chip (MPSOC) design.
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The solid-state drive (SSD) market is growing as more enterprise customers see the advantages of the power savings that the drives offer. SSDs are also offered in many laptop and netbook computers currently on the market, but in the consumer realm, the traditional hard drive is still tops when it comes to storage.
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EE Times, the leading resource for design decision makers in the electronics industry brings you- the EE Times Multicore Virtual Conference-the first-ever online gathering of users, experts and technology providers focused on multicore.
When: June 18th, 2009
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Intel’s most significant platform enhancement in 10 years will help the company capitalize on the growth of the virtualization and cloud computing markets.
Intel’s touting its latest Nehalem EP-based quad-core processors as the biggest platform advancement in 10 years, aiming to provide organizations with enhanced virtualization and cloud computing capabilities.
Analysts say virtualization and cloud computing are [...]

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Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced that the Solaris platform, including the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and OpenSolaris, has been extended to provide performance, energy efficiency and reliability enhancements for the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series.
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Sonics, Inc., a premier supplier of intelligent on-chip communications solutions, has announced the availability of the MemMax Memory Scheduler 3.0, a DRAM access scheduler ideally designed for use with DDR2 and DDR3. Targeted at SoCs requiring high-bandwidth traffic management to the memory subsystem, the new MemMax Scheduler accelerates on-chip performance while easing design integration. MemMax [...]

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by Obi Ezechukwu
Starvation occurs when one or more threads of execution are prevented from proceeding beyond a given point due to a predicate that will never be satisfied. Deadlock is a special form of starvation where threads of execution are prevented from making progress due to predicate conditions that are directly dependent on them. To [...]

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by Steve Lewin-Berlin
“Most of the discussion of multithreading that emerges from Cilk Arts is focused on creating multithreaded applications. I want to take a different tack today, and survey a variety of strategies for creating multithreaded libraries. Note that these challenges and strategies are not specific to Cilk++, but are important considerations for any parallel [...]

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NVIDIA makes graphics cards and GPUs that are aimed at two broad categories of users groups — the professional user and the consumer. Among the offerings for the consumer are the mainstream basic GPUs up to the flagship gamer oriented parts. The company is big in graphics for professionals like CAD and graphics design users [...]

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Intel’s “Nehalem EP” Xeon 5500 series of processors for two-socket servers were announced this afternoon. Finally. Now, the server market can breathe a sigh of relief and set about the difficult task of trying to peddle better boxes in a worsening economy. Which sure beats trying to sell last year’s machines this year.
Today, in Santa [...]

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CoWare®, Inc., the leading supplier of electronic system virtualization software and services, today announced the availability of a new platform-centric software analysis development tool that targets multi-core software development. The new tool is part of the CoWare Virtual Platform product. It leads to increased productivity by accelerating and simplifying the software functional verification and optimization [...]

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Pervasive Software Inc., a global emerging leader in next generation analytic applications, today announced the general availability of Pervasive DataRush™, a revolutionary high-performance, embeddable software platform for the next generation of data-intensive processing and analytics. This transformative technology addresses the gap between rapidly proliferating multicore processors, exploding volumes of data and the lack of analytic [...]

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David Bader is Executive Director of High-Performance Computing in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology and author of Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications.
In an interview by Jonathan Erickson (Dr. Dobb’s Journal), Dr. Bader says, “Continued performance on multicore and manycore processors now requires the exploitation of concurrency at the algorithmic level. SWARM [...]

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A group of 38 companies and academic groups have signed on to a so-called Open Cloud Manifesto, calling for open standards for cloud computing. The document echoes a recent paper on the subject by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley.
Cloud computing lets users tap into big data centers to run applications remotely. The [...]

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ARM is lining up a couple of fast Cortex-A9 cores which will be introduced at Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose later today.
ARM will also showcase the Keil Microcontroller Prototyping System (MPS) for prototyping Cortex-M class processors. This will be the first prototyping system incorporating a full-speed Cortex-M0 or Cortex-M3 processor implemented in FPGA which [...]

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There is a good discussion about this question on StackOverflow.
“This is undeniable: multicore computers are here to stay.
So is this: efficient multicore programming is pretty difficult. It’s not just a case of understanding pthreads.
This is arguable: the ‘developer on the street’ need concern him/herself with these developments. To what extent are you concerned about having [...]

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What: UPCRC Illinois Summer School on Multicore Programming
When: June 22-26, 2009
Where: Siebel Center for Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The 2009 UPCRC Illinois Summer School offers programmers with little or no exposure to parallelism an opportunity to learn about multicore programming. This will provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of multicore programming, offer [...]

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QNX Software Systems is using the venue of the Embedded Systems Conference here to disclose that its Neutrino RTOS Secure Kernel v6.4.0 has been certified to the stringent security requirements of the Common Criteria ISO/IEC 15408 Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL 4+).
According to Kerry Johnson, director of product management, QNX Software Systems, the Neutrino RTOS [...]

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On Friday, Intel engineers are detailing the inner workings of the company’s first graphics chip in over a decade at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco–sending a signal to the game industry that the world’s largest chipmaker intends to be a player.
During a conference call that served as a preview to the GDC sessions, [...]

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