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alan.varghese
It will be a tough time for another processor-type of company. And the claim of ...
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The XMOS company product is an interesting one quad 400MHz processors with ...
XMOS names CEO
Mark LaPedus
7/20/2010 10:37 AM EDT
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- XMOS Semiconductor Ltd. (Bristol, England) has announced the appointment of Terry Leeder as CEO. He replaces interim CEO Charles Cotton, who remains as a board member.
Earlier this year, XMOS, a vendor of event-driven multicore processor chips, announced the appointment of Cotton as a board member and interim chief executive officer. He took over from James Foster, who continues as an advisor to the company.
Leeder has held CEO positions at MediaPhy Corporation and Medianix Semiconductor.
Earlier this year, XMOS, a vendor of event-driven multicore processor chips, announced the appointment of Cotton as a board member and interim chief executive officer. He took over from James Foster, who continues as an advisor to the company.
Leeder has held CEO positions at MediaPhy Corporation and Medianix Semiconductor.
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Robotics Developer
7/20/2010 5:14 PM EDT
The XMOS company product is an interesting one quad 400MHz processors with switch fabric support logic built in. I wonder what the next step will be for this company. Will they expand their offerings or add to the programming languages supported on the chipset? I look forward to hearing from the new CEO his thoughts and future direction for the company.
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alan.varghese
7/23/2010 8:24 AM EDT
It will be a tough time for another processor-type of company. And the claim of having the software upgradeability of a DSP, and high-level programming, with the hardware performance of an FPGA is nothing new. XMOS will have to compete with the industry IP and processor stalwarts such as CEVA, Tensilica, ARM, MIPS as well as Silicon Hive, Coresonic, Bluewonder. And at the high end, there are many new entrants such as Coherent Logix, ElementCXI, Nethra, Tabula, Tilera, etc.
Somewhere in the space of processors for Handsets, Infrastructure, Audio/Video/Multimedia processing, Network processing, and Defense - XMOS needs to find a unique niche, and build up an ecosystem and market segment. In this business and technology climate, that is easier said than done.
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