+ In-Stat Processor Watch +

Processor Watch is a free publication from In-Stat available on our web site and by e-mail subscription. It combines the previous [...] Processor Watch may also contain news alerts, analytical articles, and market highlights from our In-Stat industry analysts.

Last Update: Wed May 6 08:32:31 2009

+ Editorial: Complexity Brings Change + Complex SoC design is changing the technical and business relationships between system companies and semiconductor ...

+ Going Parallel With Prism + CriticalBlue’s Prism is a new code-analysis tool that helps programmers rewrite existing serial code into multithreaded code for ...

+ The Magical Magnetic Wand + New six degrees of freedom (6DoF) wand employs electromagnetic fields to determine absolute position and rotation values for playing ...

+ A Radio for Every MCU + ZeroG, the most recent innovator in Wi-Fi communications, targets its chips and modules to low-power systems employing inexpensive ...

+ Editorial: Memory: The Elephant + Memory technology improves slowly from year to year. But the cumulative rise in capacity and decline in prices can suddenly change a ...

+ Intel Will Customize Atom + In a new collaboration with TSMC, Intel will design custom SoCs around the Atom processor core for OEM customers. TSMC will ...

+ Market Watch: Global Semiconductor Outlook + In-Stat’s forecast for the semiconductor industry isn’t cheerful, but the industry is largely at the mercy of global economic ...

+ The Buffet at the MGM Grand + Buses, memory, processors and waiting in line for dinner—what do they have in ...

+ ARM's Smallest Thumb + ARM’s new Cortex-M0 is the smallest 32-bit synthesizable processor core we’ve seen. It also consumes remarkably little power, ...

+ How to Avoid the Traps and Pitfalls of SOC Design: Part 2 + In reviewing the four phases of SoC design, we present the associated complexity and a handful of methods and design tools that may ...

+ How to Avoid the Traps and Pitfalls of SOC Design: Part 1 + Chances are pretty good that current SOC designers are experiencing more difficulties than they should. To reduce effort and risk, ...

+ Editorial: What Security? + Processor ...

+ Viewpoint: Can Detroit Emulate Intel? + In this independent commentary, former Intel engineer John Novitsky says that Intel’s rejuvenation of chip manufacturing in the ...

+ How Intel Got Big + A historical case study by a professor at Harvard Business School explains the decisions that turned Intel from a relatively small ...

+ Processor Design Mistakes, Part 11 + Hailed as a general-purpose approach to speeding up execution, multithreading can be a mistake that leads to slower throughput and ...

+ Flash Resists Recession + This Market Watch article is excerpted from a recent In-Stat report, Applications Drive Strong Revenues Worldwide. It examines the ...

+ Editorial: More Computers, Less Security + We’re so paranoid about security threats sneaking over the Internet that it’s easy to overlook potential threats closer to home. ...

+ Server Processors: Chapter 2008 (Part 1) + This is a sequel to last year’s two-part series, which surveyed high-performance microprocessors and compared their performance ...

+ Server Processors: Chapter 2008 (Part 2) + In this continuation of our two-part series, we examine developments during the past 12 months for vendors of the three ...

+ Processor Design Mistakes, Part 10 + Tensilica’s experts are focusing on a common mistake: myopic definitions of small address spaces that seem adequate at design time ...

+ Cadence Speeds up Bridge to the Real World + Cadence employs thread-level parallelism to speed up heavy workload presented by its Spectre ...

+ Editorial: Surviving the Busted Bubble Economy + This is no ordinary recession. It’s the aftershock of three burst bubbles and fundamental flaws in the financial system. Surviving ...

+ AMD’s Stream Becomes a River + ATI Stream is AMD’s parallel-processing platform for general-purpose computing on ATI graphics processors. It’s now becoming more ...

+ The New Peripheral is Almost Here + Tiny Cubic-Inch Projectors Make Large Color Displays ...

+ Processor Design Mistakes, Part 9 + Tuning Data Word Width to Reduce Cost Makes CPU Pay for ...

+ Editorial: Azure Skies, Beautiful Clouds + A Watch ...

+ AMD’s Fresh Start + Analyzing the Ramifications of AMD’s Manufacturing ...

+ The Oblique Perspective: Moore’s Law, the Film Camera, and the PC + About Technology Breakthroughs and the Value of Intellectual ...

+ Godson-3 Emulates x86 + New MIPS-Compatible Chinese Processor Has Extensions for x86 ...

+ Editorial: Paperless Voting Loses Ground + http://www.mdronline.com/watch/watch_abstract.asp?Volname=Issue%20%23102708&SID=2111 ...

+ Energy Corollaries to Amdahl’s Law + A Watch ...

+ Microprocessor Hits and Misses + Panel at Hot Chips Symposium Reviews 20 Years of Successes and ...

+ Visual Syntax + Easy Programming Without Complex Manuals and Years of ...

+ Energy Corollaries to Amdahl’s Law + A Watch Newsletter ...

+ Intel’s Larrabee Redefines GPUs + Fully Programmable Manycore Processor Reaches Beyond ...

+ Processor Design Mistakes, Part 8 + Avoiding hardware pipeline interlocks by using the compiler’s instruction scheduler was a good idea that didn’t yield the expected ...

+ Decisions, MCU Decisions + The introduction of 32-bit cores into MCUs requires system designers to decide which new parameters are important and what other ...

+ Editorial: The Ultra Device + The Mobile, the Light, the Portable, the Connected—the “Ultra ...

+ The Common Denominator + A Watch ...

+ Market Watch: The Future of Mobile Devices + In-Stat Asks Users About Smartphones, UMPCs, MIDs, Mobile ...

+ Intel’s New SoCs + Pre-Atom Integrated Chips Face Tough ...

+ MPF 2008: Mixed Architectures Dominate Consumer Sockets + Few Homogeneous Configurations Targeting Consumer ...

+ Editorial: Tools for Multicore Processors + A Watch ...

+ EEMBC’s MultiBench Arrives + CPU Benchmarks: Not Just For ‘Benchmarketing’ Any ...

+ Processor Design Mistakes, Part 6 + Overly Deep Pipelining—Too Much of a Good ...

+ Freescale’s Multicore Makeover + New QorIQ Processors Will Eventually Supersede PowerQUICC ...

+ Processor Design Mistakes, Part 5 + Despite Problems, The VLIW Lives In Several ...

+ Market Watch: SuperSpeed USB Is Coming + USB 3.0 Will Accelerate PC Peripherals and Consumer ...

+ A Tale of Two Companies + The sudden collapse of Montalvo Systems has unfortunate implications for Intel’s competitors, and Apple’s surprising acquisition ...

+ Book Review: Architecture Design for Soft Errors + Written from the viewpoint of a working engineer, the book describes sources of soft errors and solutions involving device, logic, and ...