TI's Jacinto 5 automotive infotainment processor is an automotive-qualified, heterogeneous multicore processor providing power, flexibility and real-time signal processing.

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Started in late 1998, the space-alien hunt has recruited the owners of 2.5 million PCs, tapping their machines' idle processing time to search small chunks of radio telescope data for patterns that might signal intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.

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It will take several days to complete the processing and the researchers do not expect to have confirmation of a signal until some time this week.

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It is time to connect them to the real world--and that means new generations of sensors, robotics and digital signal processing.

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