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After a decade of research on embedded DRAM, IBM Corp. disclosed last week it will be able to pack as much as 48 Mbytes of eDRAM on a processor or ASIC when its 45-nanometer process technology comes online in 2008. The milestone could mark a shift toward using DRAM for cache in some chips. Details... more...

Making its new .Net Micro Framework accessible to embedded-system developers, Microsoft Corp. rolled out a software development kit (SDK) for the framework last week at Embedded World 2007 in NГјrnberg, Germany. Details... more...

Asia-based hardware developers who got an early peek at the next spin of Serial RapidIO seemed as interested in flow control and quality-of-service mechanisms as they were in the speed improvement to 6.125 Gbits/second. Tom Cox, executive director of the RapidIO Trade Association, said this indicates that SRIO is moving beyond a single line or switch card to backplane and even box-to-box interconnect in telecom equipment design. Details... more...