Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Freescale Semiconductor | Subject: MSC8122 and MSC8126
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 13 May 2005
Multicore DSPs deliver frugal processing
power
Freescale's 90nm MSC8122 and MSC8126 DSPs integrate four StarCore DSP cores onto a single die.
Freescale Semiconductor is leveraging its multicore processor design expertise and advanced process technology to address customer needs for higher signal processing performance at lower power consumption Freescale, the number-two supplier of programmable digital signal processors (DSPs), is the first to manufacture a multicore programmable DSP on 90nm process technology and bring it into volume production
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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