Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Intel Announces Tiny ‘Quark’ Chip News

In September, Intel showed off its new Quark system-on-chip (SoC), which is one- fifth the size of Atom SoCs and will use one-tenth the power; Intel claims it’s the smallest chip of its kind. The company didn’t reveal too many details of the new SoC, but said it would be open architecture, offer industry-standard software support, and be fully synthenseziable, licences would be able to customize the design with their own intellectual property. However, CEO Brian Krzanich says that licenses will not be able to customize the core itself.
Fully sythesizable chips also allow the chips to the fab-agnotic and could technically be made by foundries that Intel does not own.

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