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Apps on the x86 architecture have mostly been limited to desktop processors - until now. At the 2016 WinHEC Conference in China, Microsoft announced that ARM processors will soon be able to run the full desktop experience of Windows.
During the Windows 8 time frame, as The Verge recounted, Microsoft implemented Windows on ARM under Windows RT, which proved to be unpopular since RT was only capable of running apps from the Windows store - that meant no x86 apps.
This has been rectified with the software giant's partnership with Qualcomm. Through emulation that is built into Windows 10, ARM processors will be able to run x86 win32 programs.
Executive Vice President Terry Myerson noted on Windows Blog: "For the first time ever, our customers will be able to experience the Windows they know with all the apps, peripherals, and enterprise capabilities they require, on a truly mobile, power efficient, always-connected cellular PC."
With a Snapdragon chipset, Microsoft demoed Windows 10 on ARM running the desktop Office suite, Adobe Photoshop, and Halo Spartan Assault. This showed how easily desktop apps might be handled on laptops and tablets by hardware partners, and even phones with Continuum, all the while taking advantage of the light footprint that mobile processors provide.
Lumia 950 XL release with Continuum, a feature of Windows 10 Mobile that let's phone act like computers when connected to a display. While Microsoft did not discuss Continuum in relation to this x86 emulation, this ARM implementation of Windows 10 could make Continuum that much more potent.
As it stands, Continuum for Windows 10 Mobile can only be taken advantage of using apps specifically design under the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) architecture, but Windows 10 on ARM can bring desktop apps to phones.
Windows 10's support for ARM processors is set to release next year. Stay tuned for more exciting updates!
Microsoft has been already in the news for the latest upcoming devices that are reported to be waiting in the pipeline to be released once 2017 sets in. And it’s back in the headline yet again but this time for a completely different reason. It is reported that Microsoft will be tying up with Qualcomm to enable the availability of Windows 10 desktops apps on ARM chipsets.
The news has come in that Windows 10 will be able to support ARM chipsets and the announcement has been made by the officials of both Microsoft and Qualcomm. This means that the desktop windows app will be available on the mobile devices like smartphones, laptops and tablets. And such compatible devices might come out “as early as next year” as the company officials have suggested.
It is also reported that the new Windows 10 which is going to support ARM chipsets from Qualcomm will be able to run desktop x86 Win32 apps besides the Universal Windows apps. This will surely make things much better particularly after the discontinuation of the Windows RT platform which did not feature any desktop apps. But it remains to be seen how well the apps perform because it is expected that the apps will still run better on the x86 chipsets made by Intel.
However, the latest developments have put under the scrutiny the relationship between Microsoft and Intel which many believe that might just have fallen out. But Terry Myerson, Executive Vice President of Microsoft, absolutely dismissed such possibilities. He has been quoted telling The Verge, “We’re working closer with Intel than we ever have before. The collaboration is better than ever before. It’s just the case where Qualcomm does have these chips with integrated connectivity and better idle power performance which enables new devices to get built.” Thus the speculations that the collaboration between Microsoft and Intel might come to an end in distant future should die down for the time being.
Regarding the availability of the PCs which would be coming out after such collaboration between Microsoft and Qualcomm, it is speculated that it might be very early in 2017. Qualcomm has been quoted saying that the Windows 10 based on Qualcomm Snapdragon processors are “expected to be available as early as next year.” so the tech enthusiasts across the world would be eager to watch out how these new devices perform when they are brought out in the market.
A video demonstrating Windows 10 and Adobe Photoshop running on an ARM-based device is reproduced below, with Qualcomm and Microsoft promising to launch the first units some time next year.
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Dec. 8, 2016 – NEXCOM DNA 1520 network platform fills the hardware gap to a service-centric network environment. Built with the Cavium OCTEON TX™ 64-bit ARM®-based SOC family, the DNA 1520 delivers excellent performance, bandwidth, security, and ruggedness all at once, helping telecommunications companies serve a broad range of network applications including networking, security, and storage services to industrial, transport, and enterprise clients in ubiquitous network environments.
"Pushed by burgeoning IoT
applications across industries, the demand for network services is springing
up. As the demand varies by industry, building network services on a united
network platform can save service and maintenance efforts and cost for
telecommunications companies; however, a network platform suitable for all
network services is hard to find. To solve this problem, the DNA 1520 taking
advantage of the Cavium OCTEON TX SOCs is equipped with enhanced performance to
support 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections while providing configuration flexibility
and industrial grade reliability to adapt to application-specific requirements
for applications including industrial firewall and VPN, IDS and IPS, SDN
infrastructure, vCPE, and NAS," said Hadwin Liu, Chief Architect of NEXCOM
Network and Communication Solutions Business Group.
"We are pleased to partner with
NEXCOM to deliver the DNA 1520 platform. The Cavium OCTEON TX 64-bit quad-core
ARM SOC family is built from ground-up for robust, enterprise class networking,
security and storage applications. Its high data plane throughput, rich
software ecosystem and server-class virtualization features enables DNA 1520
platform to dynamically support various network applications in the
fast-growing industrial IoT networking infrastructure." said Venkat Sundaresan,
Director of Product Line Marketing, Infrastructure Processor Group, Cavium,
Inc.
The DNA 1520 is powered by the OCTEON
TX CN80XX and CN81XX families with up to four 64-bit ARM v8.1 cores.
The DNA 1520 supports 10 Gbps connections, DMZ implementation, LAN bypass, and
expansion of wireless, PoE, I/O, and storage. The DNA 1520 features the
extended temperature range from -20 degree Celsius to 70 degree Celsius, dual
power support of 12V and 9 to 36V power supplies, fanless design, and
vibration-proof connectors.
The DNA 1520 can ensure factory
productivity by protecting industrial networks against unauthorized access,
enhance public safety by keeping surveillance recording on public transport
services, and increase client satisfaction by hosting network services in vCPE
for dynamic service adjustment according to clients' needs.
Main Features
- - Cavium OCTEON TX ARM 64-bit CN80xx and 81xx SOC family with 64-bit ARM v8.1 cores
- - Onboard 1~4GB DDR4 ECC memory
- - Up to 2GB of onboard SLC NAND flash
- - 802.3bz 10Gbps connections with backward compatibility with 1/2.5/5Gbps
- - Support 1-pair bypass feature
- - Support expansion of Wi-Fi/3G/LTE, 802.3at/802.3af PoE, industrial management, and storage
- - Dual DC power input : 9V~36V DC or 12V DC
About NEXCOM:Founded in 1992,
NEXCOM integrates its capabilities and operates six global businesses, which
are IoT Automation Solutions, Intelligent Digital Security, Internet of Things,
Interactive Signage Platform, Mobile Computing Solutions, and Network and
Communication Solutions. NEXCOM serves its customers worldwide through its
subsidiaries in five major industrial countries. Under the IoT megatrend,
NEXCOM expands its offerings with solutions in emerging applications including
IoT, robot, connected cars, Industry 4.0, and industrial security. www.nexcom.com.
About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbp that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband/Consumer, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, China and Taiwan. For more information, please visit : http://www.cavium.com.
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbp that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband/Consumer, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, China and Taiwan. For more information, please visit : http://www.cavium.com.
Media Contact:
Liyin Lin
Marketing Director
Tel: +886 2 8226 7786 ext. 2110
Email: liyinlin@nexcom.com.tw
Cavium Media Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com
Liyin Lin
Marketing Director
Tel: +886 2 8226 7786 ext. 2110
Email: liyinlin@nexcom.com.tw
Cavium Media Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com
Packet.net strong-ARMs cloud for $0.005 per core per hour
CEO
Zachary Smith told The Register that the company's cooked up the cloud for a
few reasons. Price is one: Packet will offer ARM cores at a tenth of the price
it charges for Intel cores, at US$0.50 per hour per server, or $0.005 per core
per hour. Smith thinks that will be a head-turner by itself.
Packet.net,
a bare-metal cloud aimed at developers, has flicked the switch on cloud-running
servers powered by a pair of Cavium's 48-core ARMv8-A ThunderX processors.
He
also thinks developers will appreciate the chance to try native Docker on
many-cored machines and appreciate the opportunity an ARM-powered cloud
represents as they pursue 100 per cent portable software. He believes open
source folk will see the arrival of an ARM-powered cloud as incentive to
accelerate cross-platform versions of their pet projects.
Even
ARM will benefit, he says, because having a working cloud on the market will
give both it and licensees more reason to innovate for the data centre.
ARM's
recent purchaser, SoftBank, recently tipped some money into Packet.net, but Smith
swears he's had a long-term ambition to offer an ARM-powered cloud, if only
because he enjoys having multiple ARM server CPU vendors willing to do deals.
That kind of competition is not currently possible in the x86 world, at least
until AMD returns to servers in 2017.
Smith
also feels that ARM clouds are inevitable, probably thanks to telcos looking to
offer cores to rent at the edge of their networks. The CEO feels that telcos
will build edge clouds because they're sick of over-the-top players having all
the fun and profits: this time telcos want to build a revenue-generating
platform beyond mere carriage.
For
now, Packet's ARM cloud offers 64-bit Ubuntu 16.04, but promises that CoreOS,
FreeBSD and CentOS are in the pipeline. Four different ARM server
configurations are also in the works.
The
cloud will have an API, a portal, and will also be accessible from DevOps
favourites likes Terraform and Ansible. Four of the company's bit barns – in
Parsippany New Jersey, Sunnyvale California, Amsterdam and Tokyo – will offer
the service as of Tuesday.
"We
want to offer a super-cheap, 'you would be stupid not to try it'
offering," Smith told The Register. "If we can get the open source
ecosystem rebooted, I think Intel's grip on the data centre will be
shattered." ®
Cavium to Showcase ARMv8 Processor Solutions to Accelerate Next Generation Infrastructure at ARM TechCon 2016
Cloud scale deployment on ThunderX® with OpenStack, Secure IoT platform on OCTEON TX™ and MontaVista's CGX 2.0
SAN JOSE, CA – Oct. 26,
2016 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor
products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud,
wired and wireless networking, will exhibit ThunderX and OCTEON TX ARM-based
solutions for next-generation Infrastructure deployments in booth# 603 at ARM
TechCon 2016 from October 26-27 in Santa Clara, California.
Cavium's ThunderX ARMv8 based
workload optimized processor integrates key capabilities that are critical for
the most demanding Public and Private Cloud workloads. The OpenStack cloud
infrastructure enables end users to fully utilize ThunderX's features for
critical cloud workloads. These workloads include CEPH for cloud storage,
Apache Hadoop for Big Data Analytics, MySQL and Cassandra for distributed
databases, and NGNIX for secure web servers. ThunderX is also optimized for
networking specific workloads such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
and Load-Balancing for Telco applications.
Cavium's OCTEON TX is
a complete line of 64-bit ARM-based SoCs for control plane and data plane
applications in networking, security, and storage. The OCTEON TX expands the
addressability of Cavium's embedded products into control plane application
areas within enterprise, service provider, data center networking and storage
that need support of extensive software ecosystem and virtualization features.
This product line is also optimized to run multiple concurrent data and control
planes simultaneously for security and router appliances, NFV and SDN
infrastructure, service provider CPE, wireless transport, NAS, storage controllers,
IOT gateways, printer and industrial applications.
Cavium will present its
ThunderX and OCTEON TX products, along with its partner MontaVista's CGX 2.0,
in booth #603:
- Live demonstration of Openstack solution (Autopilot, JuJu Charms, MAAS) on ThunderX SoC.
- Live demonstration of Secure IoT Gateway solution based on OCTEON TX CN81xx 4-core SoC and MontaVista CGX 2.0.
- Showcase its latest OCTEON TX CN83xx, 24-core SoC for Service Centric Networks.
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About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbp that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband/Consumer, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, China and Taiwan. For more information, please visit : http://www.cavium.com.
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbp that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband/Consumer, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, China and Taiwan. For more information, please visit : http://www.cavium.com.
Media Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com
Suwanee, GA, October 24, 2016 - SoC Solutions is teaming with asicNorth as part of a complete development ecosystem for custom Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Joining SoC Solutions and asicNorth are Faraday Technology, Silicon Creations, and UMC. Each company offers valuable expertise in key areas such as system design, semiconductor design, and process technology areas. “By bringing together the unique expertise of the companies, asicNorth is able to offer IoT customers a streamlined platform for the creation of fully integrated devices for the IoT chip marketplace,” commented Mike Slattery, President of asicNorth.
“SoC Solutions is very excited to become a partner of the asicNorth ‘IoT Design EcoSystem’”, says Jim Bruister President/CEO. “Our more than 25 years of experience developing ARM based subsystems and software combined with asicNorth’s excellence in producing quality mixed signal designs is perfect for servicing the IoT market.” “asicNorth is pleased to offer this new capability to our customers” says Steve Stratz, VP. “By aligning ourselves with such strong players in the system design, semiconductor design and manufacturing community, we can collectively help our customers to bring better IoT device solutions to market.”
ARM TechCon 2016 Exhibiting Announcement
In an effort to showcase the newly created asicNorth’s “IoT Design EcoSystem”, Soc Solutions will be joining asicNorth at the ARM TechCon October 26th and October 27th, 2016 in Santa Clara, CA. ARM TechCon’s conference program is built to ignite understanding and innovation across the embedded systems industry, connecting thought leaders and professionals from around the country in order to push tomorrow’s industry today. It’s an unmatched opportunity to share ideas, gather insight, and discover inspiration for your next project. By offering three full days of technical tracks, demonstrations, and industry insight from broad and deep levels of industry-leading companies and innovative start-ups, ARM TechCon remains more than a tradeshow; it is a comprehensive learning environment for the entire embedded community, uniting the software and hardware communities. The conference also hosts a large commercial exhibition featuring over 100 companies.
Come visit us at booth #917.
About ASIC North:
ASIC North, INC was founded in January 2000 with one purpose in mind; to deliver the highest quality design services possible. In an industry that can be quite volatile at times, it is important to have a design partner that you can depend upon to deliver the skills you need when you need them. Today, asicNorth is enabling high-tech industry leaders and startups alike with a combination of design services in digital, analog, mixed-signal, and RF design. These capabilities, along with our focus on IP Design, Circuit Characterization; Supply Chain Management; and Turnkey Products allow us to support the needs of our clients at any point in the IC product development cycle. asicNorth is “Bringing Analog / Mixed-Signal to ASIC Design”. To learn more about asicNorth, visit us at www.asicNorth.com.
“SoC Solutions is very excited to become a partner of the asicNorth ‘IoT Design EcoSystem’”, says Jim Bruister President/CEO. “Our more than 25 years of experience developing ARM based subsystems and software combined with asicNorth’s excellence in producing quality mixed signal designs is perfect for servicing the IoT market.” “asicNorth is pleased to offer this new capability to our customers” says Steve Stratz, VP. “By aligning ourselves with such strong players in the system design, semiconductor design and manufacturing community, we can collectively help our customers to bring better IoT device solutions to market.”
ARM TechCon 2016 Exhibiting Announcement
In an effort to showcase the newly created asicNorth’s “IoT Design EcoSystem”, Soc Solutions will be joining asicNorth at the ARM TechCon October 26th and October 27th, 2016 in Santa Clara, CA. ARM TechCon’s conference program is built to ignite understanding and innovation across the embedded systems industry, connecting thought leaders and professionals from around the country in order to push tomorrow’s industry today. It’s an unmatched opportunity to share ideas, gather insight, and discover inspiration for your next project. By offering three full days of technical tracks, demonstrations, and industry insight from broad and deep levels of industry-leading companies and innovative start-ups, ARM TechCon remains more than a tradeshow; it is a comprehensive learning environment for the entire embedded community, uniting the software and hardware communities. The conference also hosts a large commercial exhibition featuring over 100 companies.
Come visit us at booth #917.
About ASIC North:
ASIC North, INC was founded in January 2000 with one purpose in mind; to deliver the highest quality design services possible. In an industry that can be quite volatile at times, it is important to have a design partner that you can depend upon to deliver the skills you need when you need them. Today, asicNorth is enabling high-tech industry leaders and startups alike with a combination of design services in digital, analog, mixed-signal, and RF design. These capabilities, along with our focus on IP Design, Circuit Characterization; Supply Chain Management; and Turnkey Products allow us to support the needs of our clients at any point in the IC product development cycle. asicNorth is “Bringing Analog / Mixed-Signal to ASIC Design”. To learn more about asicNorth, visit us at www.asicNorth.com.
A sprinkling of Internet of Things ... and ... it's alive: Startup
Igneous Systems has re-discovered and re-imagined the idea of customers renting
an externally managed system on their premises, giving it an Internet of Things
(IoT) and public cloud make-over.
Customers
start with a 2x1 system of two dataRouters and one dataBox at a usable capacity
of 212TB. The dataRouters and dataBoxes can scale independently.
The
new angles are that IoT devices can generate vast amounts of data which is
difficult to send to a set of on-premises servers or the public cloud because
transmission is too slow and/or the data is sensitive and needs to be retained
on site.
Igneous's
answer is to store it locally in a public cloud-like, scale-out,
hyper-converged system that can run some compute processes on the data, and be
managed through the cloud. Example compute workloads are auto-tagging, metadata
extraction, image processing, and text analysis.
Igneous
owns and operates the on-premises equipment and the customer has a
capacity-based subscription pricing scheme. The systems are remotely managed
and monitored through a cloud service, and there is automated cloud management
processes for upgrades, troubleshooting, and failure management. Igneous claims
that these functions can be performed on a mirror of incoming and outgoing data
streams without slowing down low-level system functions.
The
Igneous architecture utilises a microservices approach and incorporates stream
processing, an event-driven framework, and container services.
The
equipment is based on ARM-powered nano-servers, with each being a disk drive,
ARM processor and Ethernet link. Igneous calls this a JBOND - Just a Bunch of
Networked Drives. There is a SoC (System On Chip) with a Linux-running Marvell
32-bit Armada 370 processor, with two Cortex-A9 cores running at up to 1 GHz.
Networking is via two 1 GbitE ports, and the nanoservers operate in a kind of
mesh.
It
reminds El Reg of Seagate's Ethernet-addressed Kinetic disk drives, except that
Igneous has had its own nanoservers built and the JBOND is accessed as an S3
data store. Any processing capabilities to operate on the stored data need
adding. Data is stored using erasure coding and failed nanoserver disks have
data rebuilt using other nanoservers.
We
also think 32-bit ARM CPUs look a bit light in compute power terms and 64-bit
ones will need to be used if any serious compute is going to be done on the
data.
Access
is via Amazon's S3 API across a customer's 10Gbit Ethernet infrastructure.
Other public cloud service access protocols will probably be added in the
future.
A
dataBox has 60 drives (nano-servers with 6TB disks) in a 4U enclosure and is a
capacity store. A dataRouter is a stateless 1U server used for protocol
endpoints and keeping track of data in the nanoserver mesh.
There
is some existing third-party software support. For example, Commvault Virtual
Server Protection (VSP) enables users to back up to an Igneous System and
Infinite IO works with Igneous.
This
Igneous nanoserver kit is an interesting start in what we might ultimately call
micro or nano hyper-converged systems. Getting involved with it means
leading/bleeding edge work for Linux and S3 buffs.
Get
a datasheet here. The Igneous Data Service is available immediately to
customers in North America. Customers can purchase annual subscriptions in
increments of 212TB of usable capacity, starting at under $40,000 (equivalent
to 1.5 cents/GB/month). This is claimed to be lower than the cost of S3 (3
cents/GB/month). Volume discounts are available, based on installed capacity or
contract duration. ®
From Google Cars to Apple and McLaren to Daimler Benz and in-car voice activated Microsoft office to specially designed safety chips – the journey is only starting
So it appears that whatever else you will be
doing in your car in the future, you won’t be driving it
The
ever tightening integration of the car industry and the digital tech industry
appears to be accelerating if the number of deals, technology announcements and
rumours is anything to go by.
Cars
and digital technology are suddenly everywhere. In the period of just a couple
of days.
Apple
to buy a British supercar maker reported the FT.
This
was denied by McLaren, the UK sports car manufacturer and owner of McLaren F1
racing team. But it didn’t stop the spread of comment about why this would be
logical.
In
another breaking news story, the electric car maker Tesla is reportedly being
sued for being low on horsepower.
A
group of Norwegians is has filed a lawsuit claiming that Tesla’s Model S P85D
only reached horsepower of 469 and not 700 as had been marketed as an ‘insane’
mode. Tesla rejected the claims. The case is due to begin in Oslo in December.
In China Tesla is facing a lawsuit which centres around its autopilot function
following a fatal crash.
Over
in Germany, Daimler Benz said it would extend its deal with T-Systems, the
business arm of Deutsche Telekom which included its connected car platform.
T-Systems connects over two million Daimler vehicles across the globe via
Daimler’s proprietary connected car platform, and it will continue to operate the
existing "Mercedes me connect" services for the next generation of
vehicles as well. The services include live traffic information, safety
functions such as emergency call, convenience services such as remote control,
and infotainment apps like Internet radio and hotel/parking search functions.
Microsoft
this week said in a blog that it was working with Daimler and other auto makers
to bring voice activated Office365 to the car.
It
said: “Many of us love our cars, but we don’t necessarily love spending time in
them during the work week if it means inching forward on the freeway or being
stuck in stop-and-go traffic. When we’re behind the wheel during those long
commutes, we often end up behind the curve by the time we get to work.”
"To
help make time in the car more productive, Microsoft is working with auto
companies to bring to the car the same Office 365 communication and
collaboration services you’ve come to rely on at work. Office 365 in the car
includes Microsoft Exchange support, which integrates your work calendar, to-do
list and contacts, with all of them using your car’s voice and navigation
systems."
Daimler
AG recently announced it will start using what it calls, “In Car Office” in
some of its Mercedes models beginning in mid-2017.
“Microsoft
is working with auto companies to make time spent in vehicles more efficient
and connected to people’s daily lives,” said Kevin Dallas, corporate vice
president of Business Development at Microsoft. “This collaboration with
Daimler represents a new emphasis on consumer productivity within the car as we
look forward to autonomous driving in the future.”
The
system, “knows about your next phone conferences and dials you in automatically
while you’re in the car,” said Dieter Zetsche, chairman of the board of
management of Daimler AG and head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, speaking at IFA 2016
in Berlin earlier this month.
The
service can also tap into your calendar data and auto-populate your car’s
navigation unit with driving directions for an upcoming meeting. In the future,
when autonomous vehicles become a reality, the service will become a platform
for more extensive tasks like Skype video chats.
Here
the in the UK and deep down at the technology level ARM Holdings, announced a
‘safety’ chip for autonomous vehicles.
ARM
has launched a new real-time processor with advanced safety features for
autonomous vehicles and medical and industrial robots. The ARM Cortex-R52 was
designed to address functional safety in systems that must comply with ISO
26262 ASIL D and IEC 61508 SIL 3, the most stringent safety standards in the
automotive and industrial markets
STMicroelectronics
is the first ARM partner to announce it has licensed the high performance
processor to enable it to create highly integrated SoCs for the automotive
market.
The
Cortex-R52 is the first processor built on the ARMv8-R architecture and it was
designed from the ground up to address functional safety," said James
McNiven, general manager for CPU and media processing groups, ARM. "We are
helping partners to meet particular market opportunities, especially in fully
autonomous vehicles and robotics systems where specific functionality is
required for safety-critical tasks. By documenting the strict development
process, fault modelling and supporting software isolation, ARM is enabling a
faster route to market for partners addressing these applications
The
Cortex-R52 offers hardware-enforced separation of software tasks to ensure
safety-critical code is fully isolated. This allows the hardware to be managed
by a software hypervisor policing the execution and resourcing of tasks. By
enabling the precise and robust separation of software, the Cortex-R52
decreases the amount of code that must be safety-certified, so speeding up
development as software integration, maintenance and validation is easier. The
processor also deals with increased software complexity while delivering the
determinism and fast context switching that real-time systems demand
The
Cortex-R52 supports our Smart Driving vision by enabling a new range of
high-performance, power-efficient SoCs for any in-vehicle application demanding
real-time operation and the highest levels of functional safety, including
powertrain, chassis and ADAS," said Fabio Marchiò, Automotive &
Discrete Group Vice President and GM at the Automotive Digital Division, STM
Microelectronics. The ability to compartmentalise software provides our users
with the best solution for safety without loss of determinism. Its
virtualisation support simplifies the consolidation of applications and
functions into a single processor, delivering a shorter integration time. DENSO,
a leading global supplier of advanced automotive technology, systems and
components is supporting the launch.
ARM
was sold to Japan's Softbank back in July. Read Why did Softbank buy ARM
