With several product launches, the company enhanced its embedded processor division this quarter.
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Running it all is an low-power ARM-based embedded processor.
The robots are controlled by an 8-bit Hitachi processor embedded in an oversized Lego brick called the RCX.
It's based on an ARM 32-bit processor running embedded Android and contains a Wi-Fi interface.
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This latest release is a modular software solution that can run on an embedded microcontroller or host processor, which provides greater implementation flexibility than its predecessor.
Clarke offered few details, but he said the technology relies on a second processor and an embedded Linux system that allows users to bypass Windows to surf the Web, check e-mail and calendar, and view attachments the moment users flip up a laptop's lid.
Meanwhile, MPC Data is going after much more of a niche, but doing it well: its SwiftBoot tech can get Linux up and running an actual application on an embedded device-ready Renesas SuperH SH7724 processor in under a second (0.982 seconds, to be precise).
The minimalist approach has helped MIPS find licensees selling processor for networking devices and other embedded devices.
"I had a 286 processor in front of me and was embedded in paper, " he said.
The Archer module consists of the UltraGig 6400 single chip transmitter with its intelligent beam-forming 60GHz RF transceiver, embedded antenna array, and WirelessHD 1.1 compliant network processor as well as all necessary external components on a single, flex- print cable module.
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"The VIA EPIA-P910 features the most advanced technology from VIA with the latest VIA VX11H MSP and VIA QuadCore E-Series processor, " said Epan Wu Head of the VIA Embedded Platform Division, VIA Technologies, Inc.
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For the quarter, ARM said 1.1 billion ARM processor-based chips were shipped for mobile devices and tablets, and another 800 million for consumer and embedded devices.
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