3plus1 Technology announces its multicore family for mobile applications (3Plus1 Technology Announces Availability of CoolEngine Multicore IP Family for Mobile SoC Products). 3plus1 founders are veterans of heterogeneous multicore pioneer Quicksilver Technology.
Addendum:Â EE Times also has a story on 3plus1:Â Startup spins novel core strategy.
Military and Areospace Electronics discuses the future of embedded multicore: Bright future seen for multicore embedded microprocessors
EE Times reports that Toshiba will be producing a version of the Cell processor (Toshiba tips stream processor for Cell). This version will be aimed at multimedia and will have fewer cores than the Cell processor used in the Sony PS3.
The EE Times reports that Samsung has participated in the “D” round of funding for picoChip (Samsung invests in picoChip). It isn’t clear, however, how much of the $27 million funding round was contributed by Samsung. PicoChip has raised over $70 million since its founding and is using its multicore DSP in WiMax and femtoCell reference designs.