MontaVista Takes TI's DaVinci

Posted by VISITOR on Dec 5, 2005 3:17 PM CST
InternetNews.com; By Sean Michael Kerner
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Linux is coming to a consumer electronics device near you soon, thanks to Texas Instruments's (TI) new DaVinci chip.

"TI understands that there is a larger number of Linux programmers than there are DSP programmers," "What [DaVinci] does in partnership with MontaVista is enables the Linux developer to use the DSP without needing to understand the complexity of programming the DSP."

TI's DaVinci digital signal processor (DSP) (define) based system on a chip is now shipping as part of an integrated offering together with MontaVista Linux. The move could potentially bring Linux into hundreds of millions of devices, as the consumer electronics chip market continues to grow.

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