Coming up with a 750-mhz dual-core blackfin digital signal processor (DSP) is no easy task. But Analog Devices was forward-looking enough to partner with Express Logic to develop a real-time operating ...

TL;DR: Ubitium is developing a Universal Processor that combines CPU, GPU, DSP, and FPGA into a single chip, aiming to revolutionize the market by reusing every transistor for multiple functions.

Royalty free and capable of being implemented in as few as 20,000 gates, the company has paired its XPA2 16-bit RISC core with the APE2 DSP coprocessor to provide a time saving solution for ASIC and ...

Why it matters: Devices like smartphones rely on a fragmented array of CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, DSPs, and other accelerators to handle various tasks. However, these specialized cores often remain idle, ...