Today during lunch, I gave a talk at Appsterdam where I spoke about what’s inside your phone. We start with an overview of the semiconductor industry, and take a deeper look at what makes your phone do all the things it can do: the chips inside. I made the slides available through slideshare, and Erik Romijn did a quick writeup which you can find on his website.
Intel acquires ZiiLabs from Creative Technology for $50M
From bit-tech:
Creative Technology, best known for its audio-related products, has announced the sale of a chunk of its ZiiLabs subsidiary to Intel – bringing the latter company’s decision to abandon its partnership with Imagination Technology and its PowerVR GPUs into sharp focus. The deal is split across the two product areas: the UK engineering resources of ZiiLabs are being purchased for $30 million, while Creative’s GPU technology is being licensed – not purchased – for $20 million.
Ten luminary quotes on parallel programming
Over the past few months I´ve read lots of great articles on multicore software development. In this blog I share a list of my top 10 favorite quotes.
”For over a decade prophets have voiced the contention that the organization of a single computer has reached its limits and that truly significant advances can be made only by interconnection of a multiplicity of computers.” Gene Amdahl in 1967.