Reducing Power in Next-Gen Processors and IP

By Jessica Davis -- 5/16/2006
Electronic News

Even as the need to reduce power and heat has become a driving priority for processor designers and manufacturers, better processor performance is the force that continues to push processor evolution.
 
Getting both of these at the same time has seemed almost contradictory to an industry that has often relied on higher frequencies for higher performance.
 
But this week at the In-Stat Spring Processor Forum, MIPS Technologies, ARM and LSI Logic offered up their answers to the challenge of delivering both lower power and higher performance during the session: Next-Generation Licensable Processors and IP.