From Cnet: Intel: Initial Larrabee graphics chip canceled This was the INtel CPU + GPU device.

Somehow I missed this one, too. Cilk is also now a part of Intel: Intel now has Cilk inside.

From the EE Times: Multiprocessor debug startup raises seed funding

Some comments from Gartner on the future of multicore:
Gartner explores reality of x86 parallelism An interesting quote on the software vs. hardware mismatch:

The impact is akin to putting a Ferrari engine in a go-cart; the power may be there, but design mismatches severely limit the ability to exploit it.

Xilinx announces its dual PowerPC core FPGA (from Electrionics Weekly):  Xilinx targets multicore processor design

Electronics Weekly reports that a Dublin, Ireland based video processor for handset use from Movidia receives $14M in series A funding:  Dublin-based ‘Facebook’ Processor Firm Gets $14m

An article from Investor’s Business Daily on IBM’s ongoing efforts to get the Cell B.E. into the broader high performance computing market: IBM Hopes To Spark Cell Sales By Targeting Medical, Graphics

CNN Money has an article on multicore called “A Chip Too Far?” with the subtitle “The latest microchips have gotten so complicated that companies from Microsoft to Apple to Intel say software writers can’t keep up. The result could hurt computer sales.”

More from the EE Times on Freescale’s committment to embedded multicore:  Freescale bets heavy on embedded

The Freescale press release on its 8-core embedded device:  Eight-Core Microprocessor from Freescale Redefines State-of-the-Art for Embedded Multicore Processing