Multicore systems face the tools challenge
“This is the most exciting decade I have seen for computing,” said Tony King-Smith, executive vice president of marketing at Imagination Technologies, talking at the Multicore Challenge Conference run by verification expert TVS. “There are opportunities to lead this global change here in the UK. He points to the increasing split in the mobile market between ARM and other processor architectures all running different versions of Google’s open source Android operating system.
Intel has started to have some success with x86-based Atom processors in mobile handsets and tablets, while Imagination has acquired the MIPS processor line and is combining this with its PowerVR graphics and video technology and its programmable radio front end. Coupled with the move to technologies such as ray tracing, this creates a widely varying set of requirements, he says.
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