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News Release from: Freescale Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 February 2006
IBM and Freescale collaborate on
processors
This week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, IBM and Freescale Semiconductor announced a collaboration focused on the evolution of Power Architecture technology.
This week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, IBM and Freescale Semiconductor announced a collaboration focused on the evolution of Power Architecture technology Freescale has become a member of Power.org, a community of companies driving innovation around Power Architecture technology
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 29 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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These announcements bring the two companies together in driving the future of one of the most comprehensive processor architectures available today.
Specifically, IBM and Freescale intend to collaborate by: developing a common instruction set architecture; developing innovations that extend Power Architecture processors into a broader set of customer implementations; understanding each company's Power Processor roadmaps; enabling Linux on the Power Architecture; and expanding the Power Architecture ecosystem through marketing programmes.
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The collaboration is designed to extend Power Architecture technology deeper into next-generation products in a broad range of segments addressed by the two companies including consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, enterprise systems, telecommunications and supercomputers.
"Power Architecture technology is at the forefront of the world's leading computing devices from Blue Gene, the world's most powerful supercomputer, to enterprise systems, automobiles and all of the leading video game platforms", said Dr John E.
Kelly III, Senior Vice President of Technology and Intellectual Property at IBM.
"Power Architecture not only is extremely scalable and versatile - it is extremely open".
"We look forward to collaboratively innovating with Freescale to extend Power Architecture technology's capabilities".
Freescale has joined the Power.org community, broadening the extensive Power Architecture ecosystem.
Power.org comprises microprocessor manufacturers, application software developers, Linux operating system distributors, and design and development tools providers.
"Freescale and IBM are committed to the continued success of Power Architecture technology and to the expanding ecosystem of open tools, solutions and platforms within the Power.org community", said Michel Mayer, Chairman and CEO of Freescale Semiconductor.
"As allied leaders and founding members of Power.org, we have the technical and financial resources to drive the proliferation of Power Architecture microprocessor-based platforms throughout the consumer-driven, networked world".
Within Power.org, Freescale will join IBM in forming a Power Architecture Advisory Council (PAAC).
The council will manage the architectural roadmap and alignment for Power Architecture technology, building new levels of extensibility and compatibility throughout the microprocessor developer community.
The goal is to provide a seamless, compatible instruction set architecture designed to accommodate platforms scaling from low-cost high-volume consumer electronics systems to high-performance enterprise and industrial applications.
"Freescale is a breakthrough addition to Power.org".
"Freescale's experience with Power Architecture technology complements that of existing members, and it has had a significant role in proliferating the architecture", said Joseph Byrne, Senior Analyst with The Linley Group.
"With IBM and Freescale joining together again, this time with other stakeholders, Power Architecture technology maintains the advantage of having multiple chip suppliers".
"It also gains the benefit of managed evolution".
Power Architecture technology offers the broadest, most pervasive coverage of any microprocessor architecture.
The architecture powers the three next-generation gaming console platforms.
Power microprocessors are driving the world's highest performance supercomputers.
Power Architecture technology is also a predominant platform for enterprise servers, automotive powertrain and telematics, wireless infrastructure, and enterprise routing and switching.
As the centre of technology innovation shifts from the personal computer to intelligent, networked multimedia appliances, Power Architecture technology is poised to offer scalable, cost-effective and power-efficient platform solutions for the future of pervasive computing, communications and consumer electronics.
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