The Hot 100 products of 2006: Processors

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- O; ~  n% c" [Built by and for electronics engineers, this list distills the most innovative and significant products of the year, including process technologies, power sources, processor cores, communication controllers, test instruments, embedded boards, EDA tools, and more.
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AMD
! k- M6 `4 A# i) mTurion 64 X2 mobile CPUs
More information: Turion 64 X2: A Credible Choice?

Altera
Nios II V6.0 and C2H (C-to-hardware-acceleration) compiler
More information: Upgrade adds floating-point support and a C2H compiler

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AT91SAM7SE512/256/32 ARM7-based microcontrollers
More information: Microcontrollers build in support for off-chip SDRAM and flash
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Cavium Networks
CN31XX and CN30XX MIPS64-based processors
More information: Networking processors decrease cost, increase integration
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Freescale
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More information: Quad-core DSP packs performance and features
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Intel
Core Microarchitecture CPUs (Merom, Conroe, Woodcrest)
, \) G1 ~4 p# N! JMore information: IDF debriefing: Pendulum swings from AMD to Intel
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  B! y1 t5 w5 A8 ^) jCore 2 Extreme QX6700 Quad-Core CPU
4 K/ Y$ \" Y! `1 T8 e) |: ^More information: Benchmarking a Quad-Core Beast
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Luminary Micro
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More information: $1 microcontroller features ARM Cortex core

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PIC18F97J60 8-bit micro controllers
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5 M/ i. x( O' Q& C! cVRS51L2070 8051 microcontroller
& W1 j" v6 f7 P# `' U- oMore information: 8051 core sports hardware arithmetic extensions
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/ n" R% Y! i! u& CSH7785 microcontroller with multimedia support
More information: Microcontroller vendors further encroach on SOCs

STMicroelectronics
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Tensilica
Diamond Standard family of Xtensa processors
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