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

More on OpenCL from the EE Times: Apple submits OpenCL for parallel C role

From the announcement:  Apple Previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Developers

Snow Leopard delivers unrivaled support for multi-core processors with a new technology code-named “Grand Central,” making it easy for developers to create programs that take full advantage of the power of multi-core Macs. Snow Leopard further extends support for modern hardware with Open Computing Language (OpenCL), which lets any application tap into the vast gigaflops of GPU computing power previously available only to graphics applications. OpenCL is based on the C programming language and has been proposed as an open standard.

Well, it is sort of technical.  If you haven’t heard of Engineers Without Borders, give their web site a look.  From their ‘About us’ link:

Engineers Without Borders – USA (EWB-USA) is a non-profit humanitarian organization established to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life. This partnership involves the implementation of sustainable engineering projects, while involving and training internationally responsible engineers and engineering students.

Dave Stewart of CriticalBlue writes in Embedded.com about new languages and tools:  Attack the parallel worlds of parallel programming

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

Some interesting notes from DAC from Steve Lebison’s always-interesting blog:  Field Notes from DAC 2008: Multi-Processor SOCs—The Next Generation

EE Times reports on the new embedded multicore chips from Freescale: Freescale rolls new multicore processors

EE Times reports on the new generation of GPUs:  AMD, Nvidia roll TFlops graphics chips

The Intel Software Network pages have some interesting new multicore articles, includng Is the free lunch really over? Scalability in Many-core Systems (part 1 in a multipart series).