San Francisco, CA –(press release excerpt) — Red Hat, Inc. today announced a partnership with Sanyo to provide a GNUPro port to Sanyo's Xstormy16 processor. (more…)

San Francisco, CA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corporation today announced that it is broadening its support for PowerPC and MIPS architecture based processors with the release of two new board support packages (BSPs). One is for Force Computer's PowerCore-6750 VME board, based on the Motorola PowerPC 750 processor; the other supports Matsushita's Komatsu VR4122… (more…)

Empower Technologies reports that they have just begun shipping the PowerPlay V, a new Linux-based PDA with the look and feel of a Palm Vx.

The PowerPlay V is based on a 16 MHz Motorola Dragonball system-on-chip processor with 8MB of system RAM memory plus 2MB Flash (upgradeable), and… (more…)

Rob Wehrli compares eCos (Red Hat's “un-Linux” OS for devices and embedded systems) to uClinux (a version of Linux for MMU-less microprocessors), in terms of functionality, resource utilization, tools, and support, from a developer perspective. Wehrli writes . . . (more…)

Core Internet bandwidth grows at triple the rate of CPU power, but the promise of high-value applications can only be realized by managing much more data traffic at the network's edge. This requires rapid evolution of the fundamental edge infrastructure device, the IP router. To keep pace, routing table management (RTM) software within routers must respond quickly to changing protocol and provisioning… (more…)

San Francisco, CA and Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — The first quarter of 2002 represented the most successful and active period in TimeSys' history and sets the stage for more changes in the industry during the months ahead. (more…)

Rob Wehrli of Arizona Cooperative Power, LLC will be giving a demo of uClinux running on the new Hitachi H8S-2148AF platform in Hitachi's booth at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco this week, and has invited the LinuxDevices.com community to drop by for a demo and a free t-shirt (while they last). Here is his announcement . . . (more…)

Reuters news agency reports that Lineo launched its operations in India this week . . .

“Privately-held Lineo aims to closely work with Indian computer hardware manufacturers and offer a suite of embedded software solutions, Ishrat Hakim, vice-president, Asia-Pacific sales at Lineo, told a news conference in Bangalore.” (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corporation today announced that it has secured $15.5 Million in equity financing. Adams Capital Management led the round with participation from The Hillman Company, Sun Microsystems, Philips Electronics, a division of Royal Philips Electronics, and Nissin Systems. (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — on the eve of the Embedded Systems Conference, IBM introduced two new fast, flexible, low-power PowerPC processors that will give chip designers a richer mix of features for embedded applications. The new chips — the IBM PowerPC 440GP and the… (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software announced that it has received an equity investment from Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (MEI) through its subsidiary, Panasonic Digital Concepts Center (PDCC). (more…)

Palo Alto, CA — (press release excerpt) — Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) today announced formation of the GELATO Federation, a worldwide consortium focused on enabling open source computing solutions for academic, government and industrial research based on the combination of the Linux operating system running on Intel's Itanium processors. (more…)

Delivering on a promise made in November 1999, LynuxWorks today unveiled a major upgrade to its LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS), which the company claims is now the first hard real-time operating system to provide binary compatibility with Linux — meaning that Linux applications can run unmodified… (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Red Hat, Inc. today announced a strategic agreement with Motorola, Inc. to develop a GNUPro Linux toolchain and cross compiler for Motorola's AltiVec-enabled host processors based on the PowerPC instruction set architecture. (more…)

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