Kontron announced a 3U CompactPCI single-board computer (SBC) based on an Intel 1.6 GHz Pentium M processor. Although the board performs comparably to one with a 2.4 GHz desktop-class Intel Pentium 4, it requires roughly 50 percent less power and can be cooled passively, the company said. (more…)

Motorola announced a new low-power PowerPC processor aimed at a broad range of embedded applications including gateways, industrial controllers, automative telematics and GPS, instrumentation, and image processing. The MPC5200 is based on a 400MHz PowerPC 603e core (with Floating Point Unit) that performs at 760 MIPS (million instruction per second) while consuming less than 850 milliwatts of power,… (more…)

TimeSys Corp. announced several customers in networking, datacom, and broadband server applications, today. The company said its “carrier-grade embedded Linux real-time operating system (RTOS)” and associated development tools have been selected for new projects by Astrodesign, Memotec, Panasonic, Sanyo, and SeaChange International. (more…)

The O'Reilly Open Source Convention provided the following summary from the just-completed event . . . (more…)

M-Systems, the company that achieved notoriety in the embedded market through its invention of the chip-like “DiskOnChip” embedded Flash-disk, has announced a next-generation modular embedded Flash module standard — one that plugs into embedded boards via a USB 2.0 signal interface implemented on a dual-inline connector. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com recently contacted Red Flag Software to learn about the company's embedded Linux business activities in China. We received replies to our questions from Danny Huang, Vice President and General Manager of Red Flag's “Embedded Product Division,” and are pleased to share the following short interview with the Embedded Linux community . . . (more…)

Marvell Semiconductor announced embedded Linux software support for its secure gateway reference design based on its “Link Street 88E6318” single-chip gateway/router system-on-chip (SOC) processor. (more…)

O'Reilly publishing announced the release of a new book, Learning UML, about the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a visual language which is used for modeling and communicating about software systems. (more…)

This article published by the San Jose Mercury News takes a look at the growing impact of Linux on the embedded software market, and provides market analyst data on the overall market size, MontaVista Software's market share, and Wind River's recent performance. (more…)

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. unveiled a new system-on-chip (SOC) processor for handheld devices today, calling it “the world's fastest mobile CPU.” The chip boasts a processor clock rate of 533MHz, and is aimed at enabling new services, functions, and multimedia capabilities for mobile handheld devices such as PDAs and smartphones, the company said. (more…)

The DirectFB project has released version 0.9.19 with initial Radeon support and many other improvements. According to the project's announcement . . . (more…)

LinuxDevices.com recently contacted Red Flag Software to learn about the company's embedded Linux business activities in China. We received replies to our questions from Danny Huang, Vice President and General Manager of Red Flag's “Embedded Product Division,” and are pleased to share the following short interview with the Embedded Linux community . . . (more…)

Octagon Systems announced a rugged, compact (5 x 7.5 in.) single-board computer (SBC) that combines dual-Ethernet, quad-serial, PCMCIA, and industrial I/O and can optionally be supplied with a version of embedded Linux. The PCS-620 is designed for transportation, automation, medical, and other applications requiring high reliability or resistance to harsh environments, the company said. (more…)

Simtec Electronics has announced a thirty percent speed increase for its ATX motherboard form-factor, StrongARM-based single-board computer (SBC). The SBC is intended to be used as a development platform for prototyping applications such as set-top boxes, routers, CD duplicators, MP3 juke boxes, and NAS appliances, and server devices, and is supplied together with a full Debian GNU/Linux operating system,… (more…)

Following AOL's layoff of its browser development team, the Mozilla browser suite has now been placed under the care of its own nonprofit corporation, the Mozilla Foundation. (more…)