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April 24, 2013

The BeagleBone Black is uncorked

Half the price, a 1GHz processor, 2GB of integrated storage and some 'interesting' plug-in capes. All for $45. Let the wild Linux-Making begin.
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April 23, 2013

AMD targets software scalability with embedded x86

AMD has stepped back into the market for embedded processors with a quad core design derived from its desktop APUs, which combine a general-purpose x86 subsystem with a GPU.
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April 18, 2013

ARM intros single-use licence for Big-Little

ARM has decided to put together a package deal for some of the components that will let prospective customers implement a multiprocessor subsystem in a single SoC design
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April 10, 2013

FinFET father headlines Mentor’s west coast user conference

Dr Chenming Hu joins Mentor CEO Wally Rhines and Xilinx SVP Victor Peng to keynote free day-long User2User in San Jose on April 25th, capping a full technical program.
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April 10, 2013

3D-IC cooling ascends the agenda

US defense research agency DARPA sets targets for cooling overall systems and hot spots in stacked silicon, and backs joint research from Rockwell-Collins and Georgia Tech.
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April 10, 2013

H.265 begins to flavor the video codec soup

Two vendors have announced early adopter software implementations of the new video compression standard that promises an up to 50% bandwidth cut against H.264.
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April 1, 2013

DAC 2013 Preview I: Putting users first and marking 50 years

In the first of our weekly DAC 2013 previews, we discuss program highlights with general chair Yervant Zorian, including an expanded Designer Track, keynotes and golden jubilee celebrations.
March 27, 2013

Are you in the BeagleBone queue yet?

With an April release date promised, we should soon have confirmation on the new processor and price tag for the stripped down embedded Linux development board.
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March 27, 2013

Intel and ST stake claims to foundry low power designs

With both now more dependent on foundry business for their finFET (trigate) and FDSOI offerings, DATE was a chance to push their innovations in low power.
March 22, 2013

DATE: ARM proposes ‘unit of compute’ as basis for energy-efficient systems

ARM CPU chief proposes 'unit of compute' as building block for energy-efficient computation systems
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