Ambric Announces Its Technical Advisory Board; Veterans of IC Architecture, Software and Applications Help Guide Ambric to Innovative and Practical Massively-Parallel Solutions for Embedded Computing.BEAVERTON, Ore. -- Ambric(R) , Inc., a privately-held fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. that is developing a new type of software-programmable, high-performance IC platform based on the first practical programming model for massively-parallel embedded computing, announced its technical advisory board. The board includes luminaries in the fields of processor architecture, programming models, languages, and applications. Coming partially out of stealth mode Taking place in secret. It often refers to the position that startup companies take when developing a product they feel will be very competitive in the marketplace. They swear everyone to secrecy and keep a very low profile until they are ready to launch. on August 21, the company is also publicly revealing its programming model and IC architecture for the first time at the HOT CHIPS conference in Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. Ambric will announce its first products and business strategy later this year. "The extensive knowledge of our technical advisory board and their active involvement adds considerably to that of our internal team," said Howard Bubb, Ambric CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and chairman. "Ambric's patented innovations, plus the advisory board's experience, have enabled us to create a practical programming model and the breakthrough silicon architecture that avoid the past pitfalls of parallel processing parallel processing, the concurrent or simultaneous execution of two or more parts of a single computer program, at speeds far exceeding those of a conventional computer. . Ambric's structural object programming model and teraOPS-class parallel-processing platform provide ease of development, high performance, and scalability for even the most complex embedded applications." About the Technical Advisory Board The Ambric technical advisory board has been meeting quarterly at Ambric since its inception in 2004 to give regular feedback on the development of Ambric's programming model, chip, and software development tools. Members of the advisory board apply their expertise, which includes network processing, processor architecture, computer science, video infrastructure, and functional programming languages (language) functional programming language - A language that supports and encourages functional programming. , to give advice to Ambric technologists and management. The mission of the group is to accelerate Ambric's technology vision of practical massively-parallel programming models and IC architectures. The board also advises on product direction, promising applications, potential research collaborations, and offers insights into technology trends. The board is composed of seven members including Robert Colwell, Ph.D., consultant, and formerly IA32 Pentium chief architect; Stephen Dukes, president and CEO of Imaginary Universes and consultant for network technologies focused on delivery of broadband applications and services; Gordon Hoffman, managing director, Northwest Technology Ventures, with over 30 years experience in semiconductors and design tools; Serge Leef, general manager of the system-level engineering division at Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc (NASDAQ: MENT) is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create. and an expert in hardware-software co-verification; Erik Meijer
Erik Meijer , Ph.D., a senior software architect at Microsoft with broad and deep computer science expertise; Jothy Rosenberg, Ph.D., software CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. at Ambric responsible for development tools and application libraries; and Steve Sheafor, Ph.D., chief technical advisor for VizionWare and a veteran IC architect and entrepreneur in network processing. For more information on the Ambric technology advisory board and its members visit www.ambric.com. About Ambric, Inc. Ambric, Inc. is a privately-held fabless semiconductor company that is developing a new type of software-programmable, high-performance IC platform based on the first practical programming model for massively-parallel, teraOPS-class embedded computing. Ambric's products will help electronics companies accelerate time to market for their products while slashing development costs. Established in 2003, Ambric's investors include ComVentures, OVP OVP Originalverpackt (German: original packaging) OVP Over Voltage Protection OVP Ostvorpommern (German number plate area code) OVP Originalverpackung (German) Venture Partners, and Northwest Technology Ventures. Ambric is headquartered in Beaverton, Ore. For more information, visit www.ambric.com. Note: Ambric is a registered trademark of Ambric, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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