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        Microsoft discusses goals of recent MIPS and ARM "summits"

        Staff | Date: Jun 18, 2003 | Comments: 1


        Peter Clarke of CMP's Semiconductor Business News reports on Microsoft's recent "summit" meetings with ARM and MIPS processor chipmakers, and its efforts to nudge specific features of future embedded processor implementations in desired directions. Microsoft has been promoting a "wish list" that includes "security features, biometric identification, chip-level identification, [and] multimedia...

        playback support," and that occasionally suggests "specific instructions and cache sizes . . . for embedded applications," Clarke notes. The story is primarily based on comments from Scott Horn, director Microsoft's embedded devices group.

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