The Multicore Association membership has added four new
members. EADS will be the newest member of its executive
board whereas Argon Design, Cavium Networks, and Qualcomm
will be the newest working group members.
EADS provides aerospace, defense, and related services.
The company develops and markets civil and military aircraft,
as well as communications systems, missiles, space rockets,
satellites, and related systems. Its divisions include Airbus,
Military Transport Aircraft Division, Eurocopter, EADS Astrium,
and EADS Defence & Security.
Argon Design is a UK based company and provides product
design and development services in market sectors such as
embedded systems, industrial control, multicore and parallel
processing systems, multimedia consumer products, and semiconductors.
Cavium Networks is a company that delivers semiconductor
for networking, communications, and digital home applications.
Its portfolio includes processors ranging from 100 Mbps
to 40 Gbps.
Qualcomm provides technologies for mobile communications
and consumer electronics.
"Adding these four companies to our membership is
a big step toward fulfilling the ultimate goal of the Multicore
Association: to have a very wide range of companies participating
in our working groups to help ensure sufficiently balanced
industry standards," said Markus Levy, president of
the Multicore Association. "The diversity of these
new members reflects the breadth and scope of the multicore
ecosystem and will do much to strengthen our organization's
efforts toward developing standards and best practices for
multicore processor implementations."
Multicore Association says that Multicore represents a
significant trend in processor technology and is being adopted
by the majority of system developers seeking higher-performance
capabilities and lower power consumption. The Multicore
Association is working to enable the widespread adoption
of multicore processor implementations by setting standards
and guidelines for how systems will be utilized and programmed.
The Multicore Association provides three levels of membership,
with executive board, working group, and university members.
The executive board helps determine the overall direction
of the organization. Working group members are eligible
to work on any of the working groups. University members
may participate in any of the Multicore Association's ongoing
development work, for which current projects include multicore
virtual machine interface standardization, multicore resource
management and communication APIs, and multicore programming
practices.