EL DORADO HILLS, CA--(Marketwire - June 29, 2010) - The Multicore Association™, a non-profit organization focused on developing standards that help speed time to market for products that involve multicore processor implementations, today announced that EADS is the newest member of its executive board, and Argon Design, Cavium Networks, and Qualcomm® are its newest working group members.
EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defense, and related services. The company develops and markets civil and military aircraft, as well as communications systems, missiles, space rockets, satellites, and related systems. Its divisions include Airbus, Military Transport Aircraft Division, Eurocopter, EADS Astrium, and EADS Defence & Security.
Argon Design, based in Cambridge, U.K., provides advanced product design and development services for customers in market sectors including embedded systems, industrial control, multicore and parallel processing systems, multimedia consumer products, and semiconductors.
Cavium Networks provides highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in networking, communications, and digital home applications. Its broad portfolio includes software-compatible processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to 40 Gbps, enabling secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data center, broadband/consumer, and access and service provider equipment.
Qualcomm Incorporated provides technologies that power the convergence of mobile communications and consumer electronics, making wireless devices and services more personal, affordable, and accessible.
"Adding these four companies to our membership is a big step toward fulfilling the ultimate goal of the Multicore Association: to have a very wide range of companies participating in our working groups to help ensure sufficiently balanced industry standards," said Markus Levy, president of the Multicore Association. "The diversity of these new members reflects the breadth and scope of the multicore ecosystem and will do much to strengthen our organization's efforts toward developing standards and best practices for multicore processor implementations."
Multicore represents a significant trend in processor technology and is being adopted by the majority of system developers seeking higher-performance capabilities and lower power consumption. The Multicore Association is working to enable the widespread adoption of multicore processor implementations by setting standards and guidelines for how systems will be utilized and programmed.
The Multicore Association provides three levels of membership, with executive board, working group, and university members. The executive board helps determine the overall direction of the organization. Working group members are eligible to work on any of the working groups. University members may participate in any of the Multicore Association's ongoing development work, for which current projects include multicore virtual machine interface standardization, multicore resource management and communication APIs, and multicore programming practices.
About The Multicore Association™
The Multicore Association™ provides a neutral forum for vendors who are interested in, working with, and/or proliferating multicore-related products, including processors, infrastructure, devices, software, and applications. The consortium has made available its Multicore Communications API (MCAPI) specification through its website. Currently, the organization is set up with three working groups: Multicore Virtualization, Multicore Resource Management, and Multicore Programming Practices (MPP). Members include Abo Akademi University, Argon Design, CAPS entreprise, Carnegie Mellon University, Cavium Networks, Codeplay, CriticalBlue, Delft University of Technology, EADS North America, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Enea, eSOL, Freescale Semiconductor, Huawei Technologies, IBM, IMEC, Intel, LG Electronics Co, LSI , Mentor Graphics, MIPS Technologies, National Instruments, nCore Design LLC, Nokia Siemens Networks, Open Kernel Labs, Plurality, PolyCore Software, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Tilera, University of Houston, University of Utah, and Wind River. Further information is available at www.multicore-association.org.
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The Multicore Association
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