Fortune Magazine Names Tensilica One of “Cool Companies 2004”
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – May 17, 2004 – Today’s issue of Fortune Magazine lists Tensilica, Inc. among the “14 High-Tech Companies We Love” in their “Cool Companies 2004” series. According to Fortune,
“Tensilica…offers a solution: an innovative architecture around which specialized chips can be designed, plus tools to design them. Companies incorporate only the features they need, squeezing years from design time and making the resulting chips ten to 100 times faster, smaller, or less power-hungry than standard chips.”
Fortune continued,
“Renowned innovation professor Clayton Christensen at Harvard Business School regularly hails Tensilica as a ‘disruptive technology,’ along the lines of Linux, eBay, and Amazon.”
See listing in Fortune (for subscribers only).
About Tensilica
Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address the growing need for optimized, application-specific microprocessors for high-volume embedded applications. With the Xtensa and Xtensa LX configurable and extensible microprocessor cores, 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. These customized processors rival hand-coded RTL in performance and add a needed level of programmability. For more information, visit www.tensilica.com.
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Editors’ Notes:
- Tensilica and Xtensa are registered trademarks belonging to Tensilica Inc.
- Tensilica’s announced licensees include Agilent, ALPS, AMCC (JNI Corporation), Astute Networks, Avision, Bay Microsystems, Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Conexant Systems, Cypress, Crimson Microsystems, ETRI, FUJIFILM Microdevices, Fujitsu Ltd., Hudson Soft, Hughes Network Systems, Ikanos Communications, LG Electronics, Marvell, MediaWorks, NEC Laboratories America, NEC Corporation, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), Olympus Optical Co. Ltd., S2io, Solid State Systems, Sony, STMicroelectronics, Stretch Inc., TranSwitch Corporation, and Victor Company of Japan (JVC)
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