Detroit, MI; Convergence 2000 conference — (press release excerpt) — Hitachi Semiconductor announced the SH7760 'Camelot', a low-cost and high-integration system-on-chip processor targeting next generation automotive telematics products. The Camelot is based on 32-bit superscaler SH-4 RISC CPU core and operates at CPU clock rates of up to 200 MHz. (more…)

Opera for Linux has released a new beta, version 6.10 . . .

The new software is based on the Qt3 library and offers improved font support — especially Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, font anti-aliasing, Java support without using a plug-in and other features. (more…)

New York, NY — (press release excerpt) — NetBSD 1.6 is today being made available on a new CDROM distribution from Wasabi Systems. The new release improves the performance and stability of applications, file-systems and networking; adds support for eleven new platforms and many new devices; incorporates various security enhancements; and updates many third-party programs. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — LynuxWorks today announced support for the specifications of the Open Source Development Lab's Carrier Grade Linux specification (CGL) v1.0. LynuxWorks also announced plans to integrate the feature set of CGL v1.0 into next-generation versions of LynuxWorks' embedded Linux operating system, BlueCat Linux, in early 2003. (more…)

Salt Lake City, Utah — (press release excerpt) — SnapGear Inc. has announced a strategic move into the embedded control marketplace by launching a series of versatile and secure control platforms at the Chicago Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Conference. (more…)

An announcement from the GNU Bayonne project . . .

We are exhibiting a functional GNU Bayonne key telephone system running under GNU/Linux and using the VoiceTronix OpenSwitch12 matrix card, for the first time, this week at the Free Software Business Demo being held at the LaGuarida Queens campus of the City University of New York City (CUNY) on October 23rd. (more…)

Ottawa, Canada — (press release excerpt) — Espial announced that Prodac Media of Cologne Germany is using the Espial Escape Java browser running on a Linux operating system for their latest in-room interactive entertainment and information systems. Prodac Media's devices provide a wide range of Internet and information systems services for the hospitality industry in Europe, including video on demand,… (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — PMC-Sierra announced that it is sampling its highly integrated RM9000x2 64-bit MIPS-based dual processor. The RM9000x2 device is running the Linux operating system at 1.0 GHz, and draws less than 10 watts of total device power with each processor running at 1 GHz and all of the memory and I/O interfaces running at maximum frequency. (more…)

San Jose, CA and Stockholm, Sweden — (press release excerpt) — This week, in connection with the Microprocessor Forum (San Jose) and the Smart Networks Developer Forum (Stockholm), Motorola made two embedded processor announcements: a next generation superscalar 32-bit ColdFire microprocessor core, and the next generation of its PowerQUICC II processor family. (more…)

Capping off a week rife with embedded processor news, EETimes editor-at-large Rick Merritt, reporting from San Jose, pulls together a nice internal look at the ARM cores described by ARM Ltd. and by Samsung Electronics Corp. this past Wednesday at the annual Microprocessor Forum. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com is pleased to announce a major update to our highly popular Linux PDAs Quick Reference Guide. The guide provides a comprehensive survey of Linux-based handheld computers and PDAs for both general purpose and specialized mobile computing applications, that are either newly released or in various stages of development. (more…)

This LinuxDevices.com 'device profile' introduces Sharp's Linux-based Zaurus SL-A300 Personal Mobile Tool, currently exclusive to the Japanese market. Introduced in June, 2002, the SL-A200 is claimed to be the world's smallest and lightest PDA among QVGA color LCD-equipped handhelds (as of June 2002). (more…)

This LinuxDevices.com 'device profile' introduces a Linux-based handheld wireless data collection terminal. Data scanned or keyed into the device by the user is transferred in real-time over an IEEE 802.11b WLAN network to a database located on a back-end server. (more…)

SSV Embedded Systems announced that they have turned their recently introduced DIL/NetPC PNP/1110 into a Linux-based open platform for high performance embedded graphical user interface (GUI) applications. Starting from today the PNP/1110 is available with pre-installed GUI driven by a Linux-based X11 server (X-Server). (more…)

Psyco is a Python specializing compiler and is an external module, but it could someday be included in Python itself. With only a tiny amount of extra programming, Psyco can often be used to increase the speed of Python code by orders of magnitude. This online article at IBM's developerWorks website looks at what Psyco is, and tests it in various applications. (more…)