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SiByte, a company lead by former Alpha and StrongARM designers, is targeting the networking infrastructure SOC market.
64-bit processor performance is a key enabler of next-generation high-performance communications systems. The additional bandwidth of 64-bit registers, 64-bit execution units, and 64-bit data paths accelerate important functions such as moving large data packets, stripping headers and re-inserting routing and control information, and executing encoding and decoding algorithms.
Are these guys trying to create something like Intel's IXA? SiByte's homepage says very little about what it does.
iByte, Inc. seeks to be a leading provider of microprocessor solutions to the Internet Infrastructure Provider market targeting devices on the core and the edge of the Internet.
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SiByte, Inc. President and CEO, Dan Dobberpuhl, has played a leading role in designing the world's fastest commercial microprocessors - Alpha(tm)- as well as one that offers the most MIPS/watt - StrongARM(tm). Most recently, EE Times picked Dan as one of forty forces that will shape the semiconductor industry.
With such a CEO, SiByte is certainly credible. While it is not very clear what they are trying to do, SiByte may turn into a major competitor to Intel and IBM. Just think about what they did to ARM, a 32 bit architecture, in creating the StrongARM. If they can top that, this "Strong"-MIPS may be SCREAMING. Probably more amazing will the final SOC that contains this screamer. I guess we will have to wait till the end of next year to find out.
Khan |
