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December 2010 Issue - EE Times Confidential

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Multi-screen wars: MediaTek/Mstar vs. Qualcomm, Marvell, Nvidia
The larger significance of the merging of Taiwan’s “M Brothers” may have escaped the notice of some western observers.

EET ON THE QT



December 2010

Processor Guru Rethinks Multicore

There was no shortage of engineers who made meaningful contributions to the electronics industry in 2010. Our admittedly subjective Innovators lineup profiles a handful of people who we believe stood out this year across the many industries we track. We begin with Chuck Moore, who led the work on Advanced Micro Devices’ Bulldozer, an X86 core announced this year. Bulldozer and the companion Bobcat core were the first new AMD X86 entries to be designed from the ground up in a decade, and the cores will likely be key ingredients in AMD processors for the next 10 years.

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