picoChip partners with KT for WiBro/WiMAX femtocells -- picoChip is one of many small companies developing chips with a huge number of processor cores -- in their case 200 DSPs on a single chip. This approach has the potential to provide very high performance at low cost while maintaining programmability. Multimedia and communications are two key targets for the various vendors of centicore chips. ("Kilocore" is already taken as the name of a company. It looks like "Centicore" was used at some point as the name of a product. "Centicore" is also the name of a mythical beast and a Swedish metal band.)
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- mark 8-05-2006 5:52 am