IBM, Power.org Advance Chip Innovation for Linux

POWER ARCHITECTURE LAUDED AT EUROPEAN SUMMIT

 

Power.org Movement Adds New Members Supporting Group's Formation; 
New Products based on Power Architecture Technology Demonstrated 

 

BARCELONA, SPAIN - June 8, 2005 - Power.org - a movement dedicated to
accelerating collaborative innovation on the Power(tm) microprocessor
technology - today announced eleven new members supporting the group's
formation, demonstrated breakthrough products and detailed momentum on the
European continent for Power Architecture(tm) technology. 

 

The Power.org movement aims to collaborate globally on industry standards
for microprocessor technology.  Joining the seventeen companies that
announced in December 2004 their intention to form Power.org are eleven
leading global organizations, including: 

 

*        AboveMicro - AboveMicro Technologies Corp., a wholy owned
subsidiary of IPCore Technologies is a startup company that provides world
class IC design and turnkey subcontracting services serving International
ASIC design demands. It is and international company headquartered in
Shanghai China with sites also in US, Taiwan, and Japan, and has core
competancies in Design Optimization for low power, high performance, and low
cost and has comprehensive deep submicron solutions support for processes
down through 90nm process generation. More information can be found at
www.abovemicro.com.

 

*        Anyka Cayman - Anyka Cayman Corporation is a fabless design house
that currently focuses on designing, marketing and sales of VLSI chips for
mobile multimedia handheld devices. It also provides customers with
end-to-end solutions based on Anyka's application processor. Anyka has filed
many patents on its innovations in mobile multimedia encoding/decoding
algorithms and protocols. It is also one of the key content producers and
providers of mobile multimedia applications in China. 

 

*        Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Barcelona Supercomputing Center
(BSC) joins Power.org as a formal participant in order to more effectively
drive future design and standards based on Power Architecture(tm)
technologies. The intention is for BSC to help contribute to any sub-groups
in Power.org that focus on Supercomputing.  Overall, the goal is to promote
the delivery of advanced Power based technology to the market place sooner.

 

*        Celestica - Celestica is a world leader in the delivery of
innovative electronics manufacturing services (EMS). Celestica operates a
highly sophisticated global manufacturing network with operations in Asia,
Europe and the Americas, providing a broad range of integrated services and
solutions to leading OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). Celestica's
expertise in quality, technology and supply chain management, and leadership
in the global deployment of Lean principles, enables the company to provide
competitive advantage to its customers by improving time-to-market,
scalability and manufacturing efficiency.

 

*        DAFCA - DAFCA is an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software
company located in Framingham, Massachusetts. It is focused on in-silicon
discovery, rapid root-cause analysis and error fix of sophisticated SoCs.

 

*        Forte Design Automation - Forte Design Systems is a leading
provider of software products that enable design at a higher-level of
abstraction. Forte's innovative Cynthesizer product provides an automated
path from C-algorithms to high-performance hardware significantly reducing
time-to-market and improving the design performance characteristics.

 

*        Rapport Incorporated - Rapport Incorporated is a premier source of
configurable embedded chips, offering the most advanced dynamic architecture
available today in working silicon. Rapport addresses the shortcomings of
conventional chips by putting thousands of flexibly connected parallel
processors on a single chip. Chips based on Rapport's unique Kilocore(tm)
technology can be configured to provide a wide variety of compute-intensive
application, providing unprecedented computing energy by optimizing high
performance and low power consumption as needed. Kilocore is highly scalable
and can accelerate Power-based applications while maximizing their computing
energy, from embedded cores to mobile supercomputers. 

 

*        Teak Technologies, Inc. - Teak Technologies is a pioneer in the
commercialization of its patented, standards-compliant switching technology
to deliver guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) in high-performance
server/networking applications. 

 

*        TimeLab - TimeLab produces highly integrated digital semiconductors
that can replace the expensive analog circuits currently found in clocking,
synchronization and data conversion applications. Major benefits can include
reduced bill-of-material costs, extended battery life in portable systems,
increased performance of desktop systems, lower electromagnetic interference
and cooler operation in systems constrained by space.

 

*        Universal Scientific Industrial - Universal Scientific Industrial
is a leading global company in the Design and Manufacturing Services (DMS)
industry.  USI is a provider of turn-key and value-added engineering and
manufacturing services to Power Architecture-based solutions in the Home
Network Attached-Storage and Home Media center solutions.  USI has numerous
Power Architecture-based solutions under development, including storage and
server technology with broadband and wireless applications.  

 

*        Venture Corporation Limited - Ranked among the best in value chain
management, Venture provides strategic outsourcing services for leading
electronics companies worldwide.  The company is highly-regarded for its
superior technical expertise and flawless execution, and has built its
reputation upon delivering innovative design solutions, manufacturing
technology and world-class testing capabilities which leading Fortune 500
companies, depend on for their long-term needs.

 

"We welcome these innovative companies as they embark on groundbreaking
research and development on Power Architecture technology," said Nigel Beck,
vice president technology marketing, IBM.  The next wave of innovation in
electronics, in areas such as consumer devices, require a highly optimizable
microprocessor technology - one able to be quickly tuned to create entire
new products for growing market segments." 

 

New Products and Systems Momentum

Companies involved in forming Power.org unveiled new products and
deployments based on Power Architecture technology, while others announced
significant industry momentum on Power Architecture based products already
brought to market:

 

*        Thales- Introduced today the EasyG5 - the world's first Dual-G5 VME
system on the market.  The EasyG5 system is built from the Power
Architecture technology and designed specifically for use in cutting edge
avionics environments and military embedded applications.  

 

*        Max Planck Society - Announced today, the Max Planck Society will
use a cutting-edge, POWER5(tm) processor based IBM eServer p5 575
supercomputing system to double its computing power, allowing research and
experiments which before were not possible - in the areas of nanotechnology
and environmental protection as well as other innovative research projects
envisioned by the Society. 

 

*        Xilinx - Xilinx, Inc. today announced significant momentum with
integrated PowerPC(tm) cores in XilinxÒ Virtex(tm)-II Pro Platform FPGAs.
The milestone underscores industry traction and continued success achieved
with the Virtex-II Pro PowerPC solution for customers worldwide.

 

*        Synopsys - Announced today announced the availability of fully
synthesizable versions of IBM's PowerPC® 405 and 440 processors as part of
the DesignWare® Star IP (intellectual property) program. The IBM PowerPC
processors will be distributed as fully soft register transfer level (RTL)
cores which can be easily implemented in any foundry process and configured
to product design requirements including low power, high performance, or
small silicon area. 

 

"Emerging companies and innovators in today's business environment face
challenges of flexibility, time-to-market and time-to-volume," said Pierre
Martini, Director, 3i Venture.  "The Power.org initiative can address these
challenges head-on, providing a true catalyst of innovation and a force
behind the very type of emerging business opportunities we look to support."

 

Power microprocessors are the heartbeat of products ranging from video
gaming systems and telematics to supercomputers. 

 

New companies announced today join existing companies such as AMCC, Bull,
Cadence Design Systems, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Culturecom,
IBM, Jabil Circuit, Novell, Red Hat, Sony Corporation, Shanghai Belling,
Synopsys, Thales, Tundra Semiconductor and Wistron in forming Power.org.  

 

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Power Receives Widespread Partner Support

 

Green Hills Software
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software ( <http://www.ghs.com/>> www.ghs.com)
is the technology leader in real-time operating systems and software
development tools for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Green Hills
Software's royalty-free INTEGRITY RTOS and velOSity microkernel; C, C++ and
Ada compilers; MULTI and AdaMULTI integrated development environments; and
TimeMachine debugger offer a complete development solution that addresses
everything from resource-constrained, deeply embedded applications through
mission-critical systems with the highest reliability and security
requirements.

"The POWER architecture offers high-end capabilities tailored to the needs
of high-performance embedded networking, communications and storage
applications," said Robert Redfield, Director of Partner Business
Development, Green Hills Software, Inc.  "We look forward to expanding our
portfolio of solutions to include our embedded systems on the PowerPC 970
Architecture. Customers using this highly scalable platform will see
immediate results including reduced development costs and time to market
opportunities." 

 

 

LynuxWorks, Inc.

LynuxWorks(tm), Inc. (www.linuxworks.com) is a pioneer and a proven leader
in the embedded-systems industry with more than 16 years experience. 

"IBM's strategy and commitment to driving openness with the Power
Architecture is good for us and the industry as we work together to advance
the design of products in markets such as communications, aerospace and
defense, said Bob Morris, Vice President, Marketing, LynuxWorks, Inc.
"Running BlueCat Linux or the safety critical operating system, LynxOS-178
on the PowerPC 970 gives customers a highly scalable and robust 64-bit
computing platform that is unmatched in the industry, offering customers an
even wider array of solutions based on open standards."

 

 

MontaVista Software

MontaVista Software (www.mvista.com) is a leading global supplier of systems
software for intelligent connected devices and associated infrastructure.
MontaVista powers the embedded revolution by providing Linux based software
solutions. Founded in 1999 by real-time operating system (RTOS) pioneer
James Ready, MontaVista offers a family of products that address broad-based
software developer needs encompassing applications from networking,
communications infrastructure to consumer electronics. 

"MontaVista Software is committed to offering open source carrier-grade
solutions that are compatible with the highest standards in the industry,"
said Peder Ulander, VP of Marketing, MontaVista Software. "The openness of
Power is in line with our strategy to lead innovation efforts through open
standards. By working together with the open source community, we continue
to pioneer efforts to create next generation telecommunications and consumer
electronics.

 

 

Terra Soft Solutions

Terra Soft Solutions(R), Inc. (www.terrasoft.com), a developer of integrated
Power Architecture Linux solutions, recently launches the Terra Soft Board
Support Package for the IBM 970FX Evaluation Platform.  The Terra Soft Board
Support Package (BSP) addresses the on-board features and functions of the
IBM 970FX Evaluation Platform ('Maple-D' system board). Built upon Terra
Soft's 64-bit Yellow Dog Linux v4.0.90 the BSP offers installation
instructions, a full-featured installer, and a complete tool set for both
32- and 64-bit, self-hosted code development. 

"IBM's Power Architecture, with a definitive focus on the Linux OS, is
building a dynamic offering in the HPC space," states Kai Staats, CEO Terra
Soft Solutions, "We are pleased to play an integral part in this growing
solution base with our 970FX Board Support Package."

 

 

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