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    • According to the latest research of the embedded graphics market by Jon Peddie Research (JPR), Imagination Technologies supplies more GPU IP then all other suppliers combined.

    • Embedded systems developers are looking to improve how many of their projects hit their deadlines by increasing the skill levels of their engineering teams.

    • If not attending ESC/DESIGN West, spend time at UBMDesign.com and Embedded.com.

    • The Intel Industrial Computer in Concert is a robotic orchestra, synchronizing a host of plastic and metal percussion instruments that ping, pong, bong and blink blue-hued light each time a nearby paint gun strikes them with a tiny rubber ball.

    • Freescale Semiconductor is to demonstrate its Kinetis L series microcontrollers (MCUs) built on the ARM Cortex-M0+ processor at DESIGN West in San Jose, California, with alpha sampling ofdue to start in the second quarter of 2012.

    • The ARM Cortex-M0+ processor is the latest addition to the ARM Cortex processor family and consumes 9µA/MHz on a 90nm LP process. Early licensees of the processor include Freescale and NXP Semiconductor.

    • At the recent Embedded World in Nuremberg, three universities - the University of Applied Sciences Landshut, the University of Applied Sciences Deggendorf and the Czech Technology University - ran demonstrations which showed the implementation of the Freescale technology.

    • Microsoft has posted the community technology preview for its forthcoming Windows Embedded Standard 8 operating system.

    • Freescale Semiconductor is to increasingly work with its ecosystem of board vendors to broaden availability of its processors based on Power Architecture and ARM technologies in standardized, off-the-shelf single board computing (SBC) and system-on-module (SOM) form factors.