EDN

On-chip code storage in SoCs gets another option

Code storage in smaller embedded systems always presents some hard choices. You can put code in cheap, dense, metal-mask ROM on-chip in any modern CMOS process. But then a software bug fix or a new ...
PC World

Intel shares details of 15-core Xeon chip, Ivytown

Intel has provided more details on its upcoming 15-core Xeon chip code-named Ivytown, which has 4.31 billion transistors and will go into high-end servers. The Ivytown chip, which will be part of the ...
EDN

On-chip ROM Code Used in SOC Designs

Today's system-on-a-chip (SOC) designs typically contain micro-controllers, digital signal processors, memories, peripherals, and physical interface connections to external devices in a single package ...
ZDNet

Alpha chip to live on in Itanium

Compaq Computer's Alpha chip may be heading toward the periphery of the market, but its influence will live on in versions of Intel's Itanium chip coming out in 2004 and beyond. Santa Clara, ...