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Adapteva: More Flops, Less Watts (June 13, 2011)
Epiphany is a unique architecture that delivers impressive floating-point performance per watt. Adapteva offers it as an IP core that can be configured for use in mobile processors and can scale to high levels of performance.

Thunderbolt Accelerates PC I/O (March 21, 2011)
Intel has announced Thunderbolt interface and controllers that are shipping in Apple's MacBook Pro. Thunderbolt is the PC's fastest external interface and transports Display Port and PCI Express concurrently. Later in the year, several more manufacturers are expected to announce products that integrate Thunderbolt.

Tensilica DSP Targets LTE Advanced (March 21, 2011)
In February, Tensilica announced its Baseband Engine 64 (BBE64), which revamps the earlier BBE16 core to target LTE Advanced, the proposed standard for raising mobile-broadband rates to 1Gbps. Important features include four-way VLIW execution, 640-bit SIMD data paths, and support for up to 128 MACs per cycle.

NetLogic's Upgrade for Base Stations (February 14, 2011)
With four serial RapidIO (sRIO) interfaces, NetLogic's XLP316L is well suited to 3G/4G base stations. The XLP316 substitutes Serial ATA for sRIO, targeting storage systems. The XLP316S is the first XLP processor to integrate the deep packet-inspection technology found in NetLogic's standalone NETL7 chips.

Editorial: Post-PC Era? Not Again! (February 14, 2011)
Pundits are positing a new era in which tablet computers and smartphones displace the PC. Tablets are the flavor of the month, but vendors of PC chips have little to fear.

In Brief: AMD's Bobcat Prowls Embedded (February 7, 2011)
Following its December launch of Fusion for computing, AMD introduced its new G-Series embedded processors on January 19. These five devices include the four Fusion processors for notebook computers (but which are labeled for embedded use) and a fifth variant.

i.MX6 Brings Quad Cores to Mobile (January 10, 2011)
Using four Cortex-A9 CPUs running at 1.2GHz each, the i.MX6 is the fastest processor yet announced for mobile devices, although it is not due to sample until later in 1H11. Various i.MX6 products will target tablet computers, smartphones, and e-book readers.

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