Electronic Business Magazine Picks Tensilica
as One of 30 Best Small Electronic Companies
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., April 7, 2003 – Electronic
Business Magazine picked Tensilica as one of the
30 best small electronic companies according to
their April 1, 2003, issue, available at www.eb-mag.com.
According to the Reed Research Group, the list
of possible companies was narrowed down by profitability
as well as qualitative factors including innovation,
leadership and technology.
“Being named to this group is a particular
honor, since we were one of only eight private
companies that were listed,” stated Chris
Rowen, president and CEO of Tensilica. “The
selection underscores Electronic Business’s
clear understanding of the combination of innovation
and toughness required for success in today’s
environment. It also reflects their recognition
of configurable processors as a critical technology
for the future of system-on-chip electronics.”
Licensed by over 55 of the industry’s leading
semiconductor and systems companies, Tensilica’s
patented Xtensa microprocessor technology enables
designers to deliver a wide variety of optimized
SoCs for applications ranging from low-cost, low-power
consumer electronics devices to high performance,
multi-processor communications systems. The Xtensa
architecture provides a powerful, integrated hardware
and software development environment with thousands
of configuration options and an unlimited range
of customer-specific extensions. Because these
instructions are recognized as “native” by
a complete set of software development tools, developers
can simultaneously tune both application software
and processor hardware to meet specific speed,
power and feature goals.
About Tensilica
Tensilica was founded in July 1997
to address the growing need for optimized, application-specific
microprocessor solutions in high-volume embedded
applications. With a configurable and extensible
microprocessor core called Xtensa, Tensilica
is the only company that has automated and
patented the time-consuming process of generating
a customized microprocessor core along with a complete
software development tool environment, producing
new configurations in a matter of hours. For more
information, visit www.tensilica.com.
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Editors’ Notes:
- The
Electronic Business listing of the Top 30 Small
Electronics Companies is available here.
- “Tensilica” and “Xtensa” are
registered trademarks belonging to Tensilica
Inc. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective holders.
- Tensilica’s announced
licensees are Agilent, Astute Networks, Avision,
Bay Microsystems, Berkeley Wireless Research
Center, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Conexant Systems,
Cypress, ETRI, FUJIFILM Microdevices, Fujitsu
Ltd., Hudson Soft, Hughes Network Systems, IC4IC,
Ikanos Communications, JNI Corporation, Marvell,
Mindspeed Technologies, National Semiconductor,
NEC Networks, NEC Solutions, Nippon Telephone
and Telegraph (NTT), Olympus Optical Co. Ltd.,
ONEX Communications, OptiX Networks, Osaka & Kyoto
Universities, Sony, TranSwitch Corporation,
Trebia Networks, Victor Company of Japan
(JVC) and ZiLOG.
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