Agere Packs 8 ARM Cores into a Single Chip

Agere Systems has integrated eight ARM966E-S processor cores into a single chip thereby offering four times the processing performance of current generation technology. Agere designed and verified each ARM core on the 0.16 micron device as a subsystem, which was integrated into a customer's proprietary ASIC architecture. The company said the primary technical challenge for the design team to solve was working out how the eight cores talk to each other across the device.
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