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To: Bruce Byall who wrote (714)	6/16/2003 3:43:28 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 912

ARM's AXI without TI & Nokia? >> ARM's AXI Takes AMBA-bus Symmetric Peter Clarke Semiconductor Business News 06/16/03 siliconstrategies.com <snip> AMBA, which originally stood for Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture, is a two-tier on-chip bus developed by ARM and made available under a royalty-free license. One argument used against AMBA in the past, and in favor of such initiatives as Open Core protocol (OCP) is the performance of the AMBA bus.<snip> >> Where are Texas Instruments, Nokia in ARM's AXI Deal? Peter Clarke Semiconductor Business News 16 June 2003 eetuk.com <snip> ARM Holdings plc., disclosed 27 major companies as collaborators in its AXI technology, which is meant to soup-up ARM's AMBA bus and make it suitable for high-performance communications on future system-on-chip (SOC) designs. <snip> Conspicuous by their absence from the list are two companies that have historically been two of ARM's biggest partners which could potentially signal a split in the normally tightly-knit and harmonious world of ARM. The two names are: leading DSP and mobile phone SOC vendor Texas Instruments Inc. and Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker. .... Does this signify a falling out among the triumvirate involved in the OMAP platform? OMAP is Texas Instruments SOC architecture for mobile communications and it, or its successors, might seem to be a natural candidate to take benefit from the a high-performance on-chip interconnect standard. That is unless Texas Instruments and Nokia have other ideas. It is noticeable that Texas Instruments and Nokia are members of the Open Core Protocol consortium ... ocpip.org ... a grouping in which ARM is conspicuous by its own absence and which many of its own prestigious AXI collaborators have not joined. << - Eric -

To: Bruce Byall who wrote (714)	6/23/2003 9:29:51 AM
From: Bruce Byall	Respond to of 912

Mediatek Licenses ARM Core For Consumer Entertainment Products CAMBRIDGE, UK AND TAIPEI, TAIWAN – June 23, 2003 – ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor solutions, and MediaTek Inc., today announced that MediaTek has licensed the ARM926EJ-S™ microprocessor core for use in future integrated circuits (ICs) targeted at the consumer entertainment market. MediaTek is an existing ARM® Partner having licensed the ARM7TDMI® core in March 2002, and this licensing agreement extends the technology relationship between the two companies. By licensing this core, MediaTek now has the opportunity to add improved Java functionality to its next generation of products targeted at applications such as DVD players and home audio systems. ARM now has a total of 14 Partners in Taiwan, with eight of these taking a license for an additional core. "The designs we have produced based on the industry-leading ARM7TDMI core have been very well received by our customers and we look forward to extending our range of ARM core-based products," said M.K. Tsai, chairman, MediaTek. "The ARM926EJ-S core will enable us to continue to develop our product range and add support for the Java functionality that our customers, particularly in the consumer space, are demanding." "The market for consumer entertainment products is advancing rapidly and the need to run Java applications within these products is taking on more and more importance," said Philip Lu, president, ARM Taiwan. "The Java functionality that the ARM926EJ-S core offers will enable MediaTek to bring enriched media content to home entertainment devices in a world where advanced, feature-rich services are becoming prevalent." The ARM926EJ-S core contains ARM Jazelle® technology that accelerates Java execution, as measured by Embedded Caffeine Mark, by up to 8 times compared to a fully software-based JVM. It can also run diverse platform operating systems, such as Linux, Palm OS, Windows CE and Symbian OS, in mobile phones or other applications. The ARM926EJ-S core is fully synthesizable, enabling it to be applied to several generations of process technology. It also features selectable size instruction and data caches, and instruction and data tightly-coupled memory interfaces. To further ease development of a complex SoC an Embedded Trace Macrocell (ETM) interface, and an AMBA™AHB (Advanced High-Performance Bus) on-chip interconnect interface are also provided.