Freescale Technology Forum 2011 anyone?

Anyone going next week?

Not going but hoping they announce some new PPC products!

I won't attend the Freescale Technology Forum 2011 in America, that is too far and I don't even know if there is an interest for non-professional people.
But I will follow the news, of course !

Aah, could be interesting news comming up.

I am gonna follow them via the facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/freescale

First press release is out and it's looking good!

Link: Freescale Drives Embedded Multicore Innovation with New QorIQ Advanced Multiprocessing Series

In summary:
- announces new E6500 64bit core
- multithreaded (2 threads per core)
- up to 2.5Ghz clock rate
- 28nm process
- Altivec
- first chip is 12 core/24thread beast, T4240
- availability "early 2012" - typical Freescale

Looks like a good next-generation candidate for the X1000 series. By the time these are mature the timing should be about right.

Quoting directly from press release:

The AMP series consists of three levels of products within a scalable portfolio, initially spanning from ultra-high-performance processors featuring 24 virtual cores down to single-core products.

Control plane processors (service provider routers, storage networks)
Up to 6 cores running at up to 2.5 GHz
Greater than 6 MB L2 cache

High-end data plane processors (routers, switches, access gateways, mil/aero applications)
Up to 24 virtual cores running at up to 2.0 GHz
50 Gbps IP forwarding capability
Advanced application acceleration

Low-end data plane processors (media gateways, network attached storage, integrated services router) Up to 8 virtual cores running up to 1.6 GHz
Advanced application acceleration
Less than 10W power

Freescale's first product in the QorIQ AMP series, the T4240 device, integrates a host of hardware accelerators with 12 dual-threaded e6500 cores, providing 24 threads to address high-end data plane processing applications. Dual-threaded efficiency, improved DMIPs per thread and higher frequency deliver 4x performance gain and more than 2x power efficiency gain over the previous-generation QorIQ P4080 device. Advanced capabilities allow for intelligent sharing and duplication of resources between threads and a larger amount of on-die cache per core. Application examples for the T4240 device include metro carrier edge routers, access gateways and aerospace/defense products. Freescale will provide more details regarding the T4240 product later this year. The device is planned for initial availability in early 2012.

Quote:
Kippie-i-ay, MF! Finally military-grade Amigas for everybody .

Best regards,

Niels

The AMP chips sound awesome. I wish they'd say when others will come out. Sounds like one annoucnement/quarter, but will next one be higher or lower on the performance scale?

I saw one Amiga T-shirt on Monday but was rushing back to a class in progress and didn't get to chat or find out who it was.

I hear Genesi is in the vendor room but I haven't had time to go check them out.

Family tagged along for vacation, my baby boy grabbed, threw, and broke the ipod touch they lent out as a schedule and document information device. Booooo. :( Wonder what that will cost me.

I'm mostly here for the 4 big PCB design classes, but hope to check out the battery charging class tomorrow. Missed the one this morning from a combination of sleeping in and a flat tire on the way there. Another boooo.... Cool stuff here.