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Intel Corporation
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies. Intel products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Intel is the current market leaders in processor making Intel Corporation has recently unveiled a new brand identity that represents a significant milestone in the company's history and further signifies the company's evolution to a market-driving platform solutions company. The key technologies behind Intel's platform focus include the microprocessor, chipset and software that together enhance system performance and improve the overall user experience.
Intel has been driving a fundamental shift in its approach to the market that began with the development of the Intel Centrino mobile technology platform. The company reorganized itself around the platform model last year, and is now focused on four key market segment opportunities: mobile, digital home, enterprise and health. The company is expected to deliver a new platform for the digital home - Intel Viiv technology - in early 2006.
The way people view entertainment and share information is transforming as increasingly digital content is delivered on-demand through the Internet. Working with the respective leaders in the computing, communications and entertainment industries, Intel is expected to deliver most advanced consumer-related technologies and platforms along with a wide range of digital movies, TV, music, games and photographs that are arriving on Intel-based PCs, laptops and hand-held devices.
AMD
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (AMD) is the second market leader in the CPU making industry, and holds a position not too far below Intel Corporation. AMD is a manufacturer of integrated circuits based in Sunnyvale, California. It is the second-largest supplier of x86-compatible processors, and a leading supplier of non-volatile flash memory. It was founded in 1969 by a group of defectors from Fairchild Semiconductor, including Jerry Sanders. AMD's current president and CEO is Dr. Hector Ruiz.
AMD is best known for the Athlon, Opteron, Turion64, Sempron and Duron lines of x86-compatible processors. Their more general components have been found in early and current (Mac mini) Apple computers and numerous other electronic devices.
AMD has recently announced the availability of the AMD Geode GX Single Board Computer Reference Design Kit (AMD Geode GX SBC RDK), an adaptable design that addresses a broad range of embedded devices such as network appliances, kiosks, point-of-sale terminals and corporate thin clients. The AMD Geode GX SBC RDK provides customers a platform for low cost, high impact designs by providing an affordable, integrated suite of support and development capabilities. The utility of these designs help reduce development cost and time-to-market for Single Board Computer (SBC) applications.
The AMD Geode GX SBC reference design kit is based on 4th-generation RDK technology and provides a complete system design package, giving designers flexibility, versatility and enhanced capabilities - all in a small package (approximate dimensions 5.5" x 5"). An AMD Geode GX 466@0.9W processor provides the flexibility of the x86 instruction set with the power to run popular operating systems. The Geode GX processor is paired with the new CS5536 companion chip, which enables USB 2.0 and ATA100.
The AMD Geode GX SBC RDK provides a complete solution, including schematics, layout and full documentation. Full integration with AMD Geode Solutions technologies, low-power requirements and design flexibility help to reduce costly time-to-market and enable more effective, efficient SBC designs.