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Power.org -- a movement dedicated to accelerating collaborative innovation on the Power microprocessor technology -- today announced eleven new members supporting the group's formation, demonstrated breakthrough products and detailed momentum on the European continent for Power Architecture technology. The Power.org movement aims to collaborate globally on industry standards for microprocessor technology. Joining the seventeen companies that announced in December 2004 their intention to form Power.org are eleven leading global organizations, including: -- AboveMicro -- AboveMicro Technologies Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of IPCore Technologies, is a startup company that provides world-class IC design and turnkey subcontracting services serving International ASIC design demands. It is an international company headquartered in Shanghai, China, with sites also in U.S., Taiwan, and Japan, and has core competancies in Design Optimization for low power, high performance, and low cost and has comprehensive deep submicron solutions support for processes down through 90nm process generation. More information can be found at www.abovemicro.com. -- Anyka Cayman -- Anyka Cayman Corporation is a fabless design house that currently focuses on designing, marketing and sales of VLSI chips for mobile multimedia handheld devices. It also provides customers with end-to- end solutions based on Anyka's application processor. Anyka has filed many patents on its innovations in mobile multimedia encoding/decoding algorithms and protocols. It is also one of the key content producers and providers of mobile multimedia applications in China. -- Barcelona Supercomputing Center -- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) joins Power.org as a formal participant in order to more effectively drive future design and standards based on Power Architecture technologies. The intention is for BSC to help contribute to any sub-groups in Power.org that focus on Supercomputing. Overall, the goal is to promote the delivery of advanced Power-based technology to the market place sooner. -- Celestica -- Celestica is a world leader in the delivery of innovative electronics manufacturing services (EMS). Celestica operates a highly sophisticated global manufacturing network with operations in Asia, Europe and the Americas, providing a broad range of integrated services and solutions to leading OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). Celestica's expertise in quality, technology and supply chain management, and leadership in the global deployment of Lean principles, enables the company to provide competitive advantage to its customers by improving time-to- market, scalability and manufacturing efficiency. -- DAFCA -- DAFCA is an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software company located in Framingham, Massachusetts. It is focused on in-silicon discovery, rapid root-cause analysis and error fix of sophisticated SoCs. -- Forte Design Automation -- Forte Design Systems is a leading provider of software products that enable design at a higher-level of abstraction. Forte's innovative Cynthesizer product provides an automated path from C- algorithms to high-performance hardware significantly reducing time-to- market and improving the design performance characteristics. -- Rapport Incorporated -- Rapport Incorporated is a premier source of configurable embedded chips, offering the most advanced dynamic architecture available today in working silicon. Rapport addresses the shortcomings of conventional chips by putting thousands of flexibly connected parallel processors on a single chip. Chips based on Rapport's unique Kilocore technology can be configured to provide a wide variety of compute-intensive application, providing unprecedented computing energy by optimizing high performance and low power consumption as needed. Kilocore is highly scalable and can accelerate Power-based applications while maximizing their computing energy, from embedded cores to mobile supercomputers. -- Teak Technologies, Inc. -- Teak Technologies is a pioneer in the commercialization of its patented, standards-compliant switching technology to deliver guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) in high-performance server/networking applications. -- TimeLab -- TimeLab produces highly integrated digital semiconductors that can replace the expensive analog circuits currently found in clocking, synchronization and data conversion applications. Major benefits can include reduced bill-of-material costs, extended battery life in portable systems, increased performance of desktop systems, lower electromagnetic interference and cooler operation in systems constrained by space. -- Universal Scientific Industrial -- Universal Scientific Industrial is a leading global company in the Design and Manufacturing Services (DMS) industry. USI is a provider of turn-key and value-added engineering and manufacturing services to Power Architecture-based solutions in the Home Network Attached-Storage and Home Media center solutions. USI has numerous Power Architecture-based solutions under development, including storage and server technology with broadband and wireless applications. -- Venture Corporation Limited -- Ranked among the best in value chain management, Venture provides strategic outsourcing services for leading electronics companies worldwide. The company is highly regarded for its superior technical expertise and flawless execution, and has built its reputation upon delivering innovative design solutions, manufacturing technology and world-class testing capabilities which leading Fortune 500 companies, depend on for their long-term needs. "We welcome these innovative companies as they embark on groundbreaking research and development on Power Architecture technology," said Nigel Beck, vice president technology marketing, IBM. The next wave of innovation in electronics, in areas such as consumer devices, require a highly optimizable microprocessor technology -- one able to be quickly tuned to create entire new products for growing market segments." New Products and Systems Momentum Companies involved in forming Power.org unveiled new products and deployments based on Power Architecture technology, while others announced significant industry momentum on Power Architecture-based products already brought to market: -- Thales -- Introduced today the EasyG5 -- the world's first Dual-G5 VME system on the market. The EasyG5 system is built from the Power Architecture technology and designed specifically for use in cutting-edge avionics environments and military embedded applications. -- Max Planck Society -- Announced today, the Max Planck Society will use a cutting-edge, POWER5 processor-based IBM eServer p5 575 supercomputing system to double its computing power, allowing research and experiments which before were not possible -- in the areas of nanotechnology and environmental protection as well as other innovative research projects envisioned by the Society. -- Xilinx -- Xilinx, Inc. today announced significant momentum with integrated PowerPC cores in Xilinx Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGAs. The milestone underscores industry traction and continued success achieved with the Virtex-II Pro PowerPC solution for customers worldwide. -- Synopsys -- Announced today announced the availability of fully synthesizable versions of IBM's PowerPC 405 and 440 processors as part of the DesignWare Star IP (intellectual property) program. The IBM PowerPC processors will be distributed as fully soft register transfer level (RTL) cores which can be easily implemented in any foundry process and configured to product design requirements including low power, high performance, or small silicon area. "Emerging companies and innovators in today's business environment face challenges of flexibility, time-to-market and time-to-volume," said Pierre Martini, Director, 3i Venture. "The Power.org initiative can address these challenges head-on, providing a true catalyst of innovation and a force behind the very type of emerging business opportunities we look to support." Power microprocessors are the heartbeat of products ranging from video gaming systems and telematics to supercomputers. New companies announced today join existing companies such as AMCC, Bull, Cadence Design Systems, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Culturecom, IBM, Jabil Circuit, Novell, Red Hat, Sony Corporation, Shanghai Belling, Synopsys, Thales, Tundra Semiconductor and Wistron in forming Power.org.