DECEMBER 2003

• #169 (December 29, 2003)
  • Sonics Gains Acceptance
    
  • ARC Alters Trajectory
    
  • Awards Nominees Announced
    
  • Roll Your Own Array Processor
    
  • IDT Expands ICP Line
    
  • Silicon Hive Breaks Out

NOVEMBER 2003

• #168 (November 24, 2003)
  • What’s Microsoft’s Game?
    
  • Motorola Revs Engine Controller
    
  • Floating Point Buoys ClearSpeed
    
  • Jupiter’s Twin Cores
    
  • Will Microprocessors Become Simpler?
    
  • Multithread Technologies Disclosed at MPF
    
  • MDR Reorganized, Ready for 2004
    
  • Philips Powers Up for Video

OCTOBER 2003

• #167 (October 27, 2003)
  • Intel Enters Media-Processor Biz
    
  • MPF2003: Funeral or Celebration?
    
  • Motorola Enhances StarCore DSP
    
  • ARM Gets More Deeply Embedded
    
  • MIPS Reveals 24K Core Family
    
  • PicoChip Makes a Big MAC
    
  • TSMC Delivers Chip to Cradle

SEPTEMBER 2003

• #166 (September 29, 2003)
  • Tensilica Makes Music
    
  • 3D Gaming Grows in Influence
    
  • ARC Accelerates Cryptography
    
  • PMC Enhances Portfolio
    
  • Triscend Revs Up for Motors
    
  • Two Threads for TriCore 2
    
  • NEC Processor Gets Secure
    
  • AMD, on Geode-Trek, Buys IA Division From National

AUGUST 2003

• #165 (August 25, 2003)
  • ARM Dons Armor
    
  • 3D Poised for Market Expansion
    
  • It’s Time to Start Spending Again
    
  • Xelerated’s Xtraordinary NPU
    
  • MediaQ’s Silicon Katana
    
  • Breaking Embedded System Barriers
    
  • ARM Wrestles With MIPS
    
  • Rambus Yellowstone Becomes XDR

JULY 2003

• #164 (July 28, 2003)
  • PicoChip Preaches Parallelism
    
  • Ready or Not, 64-Bit Computing Is Here
    
  • Equator Revs Media Processor
    
  • Elixent Expands SoCs
    
  • Wintegra Beefs Up NPU Line
    
  • IBM Proliferates 750 Family
    
  • Motorola Attacks ASICs
    
  • TigerSHARC Swallows DRAM

JUNE 2003

• #163 (June 30, 2003)
  • MIPS Pipeline Favors Synthesizability
    
  • Now This Is a Horse Race
    
  • Tensilica’s Software Makes Hardware
    
  • IBM Offers SoC Head Start
    
  • New Magic in MiMagic 6
    
  • ARM Grows More Thumbs
    
  • ARM Makes Bus Announcement
    
  • Intel Maps Wireless Future
    
  • Josh Fisher Wins Eckert-Mauchly Award
    
  • Microsoft Details Secure PC Plans
    
  • Tensilica Patent Challenged

MAY 2003

• #162 (May 27, 2003)
  • Adding Another Dimension to MPR
    
  • MIPS Reorg Mops Up Business
    
  • Update on Intrinsity Fast Products
    
  • Philips Shows Flashy MCUs
    
  • TI DSP Leapfrogs TI DSP
    
  • TriMedia Comes Home
    
  • Intel’s Pentium M Gets Embedded
    
  • A Stacked SiP From Samsung
    
  • AMCC Reveals Smarter NPUs

APRIL 2003

• #159 (February 24, 2003)
  • Nomadik Roaming in 2003
    
  • Here Today, (Maybe) Gone Tomorrow
    
  • Embedded Processors Chill in 2002
    
  • The Long-Distance Runner
    
  • Extremely High Performance
    
  • Soft Cores Gain Ground
    
  • The 10Gb/s Plateau
    
  • Security by Design
    
  • New Tech for a New Year
    
  • Benchmarks Reveal Design Tradeoffs
    
  • Intel Gets Extreme in 2009
    
  • ARM Tools Link With ParthusCeva

JANUARY 2003