From EDN:  Multicore: the future of SOCs?

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

David May, architect of the Inmos Transputer has a new multicore venture called Xmos.  In this Electronics Weekly article he discussed software issues for multicore:  Multicore Programming Explained

Threads and partioning issues, from an EE Times article:  Multicore partitioning is a threads and comms problem

An article in EE Times from Freescale: Multicore SoCs change interconnect requirements

From the EE Times: Toshiba licenses processor architecture, multiprocessor tools from IMEC

A three part article from the Intel web site:  Developing for Terascale-on-a-Chip