AppliedMicro and Freescale announcements

AppliedMicro PacketPro(TM) Multicore Processor Family Provides Intelligent SoC Management for Embedded Applications

Second-generation platform unleashes breakthrough performance and flexibility in security, power management, high availability, core independence and concurrency

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sep 27, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --

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The AppliedMicro PacketPro family features performance of up to 2 GHz per core, 32KB L1 I/D & 256KB dedicated L2 cache per core, support for full symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and ultra flexible asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP). Memory and bus architecture supports 16/32/64-bit DDR2/3 up to 1,600Mbps and beyond with ECC option. Connectivity features include PCI-e Gen 2 controller, GE, 10GE, SGMII, RGMII, IEEE1588 Rev2 on all Ethernet ports, USB 2.0 - H/D, OTG, all with integrated PHY, USB 3.0, SATA ports and SDHC. The PacketPro family is manufactured on a 40nm TSMC(R) CMOS process and is available in both wire-bond and flip-chip packaging. The first PacketPro device begins sampling in November.

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Seems like a nice chip. Hopefully they manage to ship this one. Nice it has USB 3.0 and SATA ports (notice the plural form). Can't see how many PCI-e lanes, though.


Freescale to incorporate AltiVec technology into its QorIQ family of multicore products

Future QorIQ processors to feature enhanced AltiVec acceleration technology

SAN JOSE, Calif. (Linley Technology Processor Conference) ? Sept. 27, 2010 ? Freescale Semiconductor plans to incorporate its proven and highly successful AltiVec vector processing technology into the multicore QorIQ product family.

AltiVec addresses high-bandwidth data processing and algorithmic-intensive computations, delivering DSP-level performance for control and data path processing tasks. Benchmarks conducted by the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) have demonstrated 10x performance improvements with AltiVec technology.

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