Santa Clara, California – May 19, 2009 – In conjunction with Interop 2009, MontaVista® Software, Inc., the leader in embedded Linux® commercialization, today announced its plans to support RMI’s newest generation multi-core processor family, the XLP® Processor. RMI Corporation, a leading provider of high-performance processors for communication and media-rich applications, announced earlier today the industry’s highest performing processor core and multi-core processor family, driving unmatched system and performance scalability.
The superscalar XLP Processor family drives performance levels at greater than 2.0 GHz and offers a 3x performance per watt improvement over previous generation processors. This latest offering will bring about the most advanced and most highly integrated multi-core processor in the industry while maintaining the innovative multi-threading capabilities of RMI’s existing processor families. The XLP Processor family, much like the XLR® and XLS® Processors, combined with MontaVista’s Professional Edition (Pro) is the ideal platform for developers who want all the benefits of an open source development platform, as well as the ability to achieve rapid time to market. Pro enables state-of-the-art development across a wide array of intelligent device markets, including networking and communications, and SOHO devices.
“MontaVista is pleased to be part of RMI’s announcement of the XLP Processor family as they expand their success in the networking and communications markets,” said Patrick MacCartee, Director of Product Management, MontaVista Software. “The combination of our commercial grade open source Linux[
] that offers real-time performance and RMI’s multi-threading capabilities brings a truly customizable platform for the next generation of intelligent networking systems.”
The XLP Processor is targeted at expanding the overall opportunity for RMI’s multi-core product offerings and enables a broad set of applications, specific features for customer use in security appliances, L4-L7 switching, storage networking, 3G/4G wireless and small business networks, as well as several new untapped markets. Early development work with the world’s leading storage, networking, telecom, wireless and enterprise customers has been in place for over two years.
About MontaVista Software
MontaVista Software, Inc. is the leader in embedded Linux commercialization. For over 10 years, MontaVista has been helping embedded developers get the most out of open source by adding commercial quality, integration, hardware enablement, expert support, and the resources of the MontaVista development community. Because MontaVista customers enjoy faster time to market, more competitive device functionality, and lower total cost, more devices have been deployed with MontaVista than with any other Linux. To learn more, please visit www.mvista.com
About RMI
RMI Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company providing High-Performance Super System-on-a-Chip (SuperSoC™) Processor solutions for the Infrastructure, Enterprise, and Consumer Media markets. Applications include Wireless, Networking Security, Thin Clients, and Connected Multi-Media. RMI offers a broad platform of advanced MIPS-compatible processor solutions with both 32/64-bit architectures supporting frequencies from 300MHz to greater than 2.4 GHz. RMI is headquartered in Cupertino, CA with branch and subsidiary operations in Texas, France, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. More information about RMI can be found on the company’s website at www.RMICorp.com.
