NetLogic Microsystems announced a new scaled-down member of its MIPS64-based XLP family, aimed at LTE mobile infrastructure. The XLP316 system-on-chip (SoC) offers four cores clocked to up to 2.0GHz, features a 16-issue, 16-threaded, superscalar processor architecture with out-of-order execution, and supplies 4MB of L3 cache and over 6MB of fully coherent on-chip cache for demanding control-plane processing, says the company.

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AMD announced the availability of a faster, more feature-rich embedded-oriented graphics processor unit (GPU) fabricated with 40-nanometer technology. The AMD Radeon E6760 GPU offers OpenCL compatibility, 576 GFLOPs of peak floating point performance, support for six independent displays, and five-year lifecycle support, says AMD.

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