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Founding Open Source Zone Members OIN, The Linux Foundation, and Microsoft Mark Five Years of Successes in Protecting Open Source Software from Patent Assertion Entities

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Since their initial founding of the OS Zone in 2019, OIN, The Linux Foundation, and Microsoft have invested substantially to protect open-source software (OSS) from Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) – sometimes referred to as patent trolls.

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  • Since their initial founding of the OS Zone in 2019, OIN, The Linux Foundation, and Microsoft have invested substantially to protect open-source software (OSS) from Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) – sometimes referred to as patent trolls.
  • Additional support for OS Zone funding comes from Amazon, Apple, CableLabs (Cable Companies Trade Organization), Mercedes-Benz, Meta, ServiceNow, and Twilio.
  • “As open source technology continues its inexorable growth into new markets, PAEs have increasingly targeted the OSS community,” said Keith Bergelt, CEO of Open Invention Network.
  • “We see significant value in partnering again with The Linux Foundation and Microsoft, to support the Unified Patents OS Zone.

Unveiling the Latest Edge-AI Enabled LIPSedge 3D Cameras and 3DxAI Edge Accelerators at Embedded World 2024

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

TAIPEI, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- LIPS Corporation , a global leader in 3DxAI solutions, is thrilled to introduce its groundbreaking edge-AI enabled 3D cameras and 3DxAI edge accelerators at Embedded World 2024 .

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  • TAIPEI, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- LIPS Corporation , a global leader in 3DxAI solutions, is thrilled to introduce its groundbreaking edge-AI enabled 3D cameras and 3DxAI edge accelerators at Embedded World 2024 .
  • The newest lineup of edge-AI enabled 3D cameras, including the LIPSedge S205p , LIPSedge AE430 , and LIPSedge AE470 , are active stereo cameras integrating embedded AI System-on-Chip (SoC) technology.
  • The LIPSedge S205p is the winner in Embedded World's Embedded Award 2024 program, in the Embedded Vision category.
  • Introducing the LIPSedge F110 3DxAI Edge Accelerator , the world's premier NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier-based PCIe endpoint-mode edge accelerator.

Imagination’s New Catapult CPU Is Driving RISC-V Device Adoption

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Monday, April 8, 2024

“One fifth of all consumer devices will have a RISC-V based CPU by the end of this decade.

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  • “One fifth of all consumer devices will have a RISC-V based CPU by the end of this decade.
  • Imagination is set to be a force in RISC-V with a strategy that prioritises quality and ease of adoption.
  • Now, any Visual Studio user can visit the Marketplace and install the Catapult extension into their regular development environment.
  • Its GPU, CPU, and AI technologies enable outstanding power, performance, and area (PPA), fast time-to-market, and lower total cost of ownership.

Stellantis, BlackBerry QNX and AWS Launch Virtual Cockpit, Transforming In-Vehicle Software Engineering

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

The new platform uses the QNX® Hypervisor in the cloud from BlackBerry , which is now on early access release via AWS Marketplace within the QNX Accelerate portfolio of cloud-based tools.

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  • The new platform uses the QNX® Hypervisor in the cloud from BlackBerry , which is now on early access release via AWS Marketplace within the QNX Accelerate portfolio of cloud-based tools.
  • Accessing QNX Hypervisor via AWS Marketplace enables Stellantis to include a virtual cockpit high-performance computing (HPC) simulation into a cloud environment.
  • “Software is becoming increasingly crucial in vehicles, leading us to innovate in how we develop and validate it,” said Yves Bonnefont, Chief Software Officer at Stellantis.
  • BlackBerry QNX launched QNX Accelerate in January 2023 with its portfolio initially featuring QNX® Neutrino® RTOS 7.1 and the QNX® OS for Safety 2.2.3, each provided as Amazon Machine Images allowing QNX customers to run a QNX OS natively on AWS cloud hardware.

Stellantis, BlackBerry QNX and AWS Launch Virtual Cockpit, Transforming In-Vehicle Software Engineering

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

The new platform uses the QNX® Hypervisor in the cloud from BlackBerry , which is now on early access release via AWS Marketplace within the QNX Accelerate portfolio of cloud-based tools.

Key Points: 
  • The new platform uses the QNX® Hypervisor in the cloud from BlackBerry , which is now on early access release via AWS Marketplace within the QNX Accelerate portfolio of cloud-based tools.
  • Accessing QNX Hypervisor via AWS Marketplace enables Stellantis to include a virtual cockpit high-performance computing (HPC) simulation into a cloud environment.
  • In 2022, Stellantis selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider for vehicle platforms and the companies began work on Stellantis' purpose-built, in-house VEW.
  • BlackBerry QNX launched QNX Accelerate in January 2023 with its portfolio initially featuring QNX® Neutrino® RTOS 7.1 and the QNX® OS for Safety 2.2.3, each provided as Amazon Machine Images allowing QNX customers to run a QNX OS natively on AWS cloud hardware.

BlackBerry Launches QNX Sound, the Complete Audio and Acoustics Innovation Platform for Software-Defined Vehicles

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Monday, January 8, 2024

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CES -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced the launch of QNX® Sound, an innovative development platform that decouples audio and acoustics software from the vehicle hardware to give audio designers and engineers complete creative freedom to deliver new and exciting in-vehicle sound experiences.

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  • This includes a complete out-of-the-box library of automotive acoustics functional modules for telephony, safety alerting, noise reduction, sound enhancement, media playback, etc.
  • "In the software-defined vehicle age, audio becomes a new playing field for innovation and differentiation," said John Wall, Senior Vice President, and Head of QNX at BlackBerry.
  • "QNX Sound is the ultimate digital audio platform for the automotive industry and the most comprehensive foundation available for innovation.
  • Working hand in hand with the team at BlackBerry QNX, we've integrated a fully scalable Dirac plug-in featuring all our technologies that seamlessly integrate with the QNX Sound platform.

Tachyum Adds LLVM for AI and Linux Rust Support

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Tachyum ® today announced the expansion of its Prodigy software ecosystem with the addition of LLVM for AI and Linux Rust support.

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  • Tachyum ® today announced the expansion of its Prodigy software ecosystem with the addition of LLVM for AI and Linux Rust support.
  • Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language with an emphasis on performance, type safety and concurrency, and has become the second language officially accepted for Linux kernel development.
  • LLVM plays a large role in every major AI framework, including PyTorch and Tensorflow, with their AI compilers based on LLVM for native instruction generation.
  • Additionally, standalone AI compilers, like Apache TVM, are also based on the LLVM compiler infrastructure.

MemVerge and SK hynix Accelerate Memory Pooling and Sharing Software Development with CXL Flight Simulator

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Wednesday, August 2, 2023

MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MemVerge®, pioneers of Big Memory software, today introduced QEMU-based CXL Flight Simulator, a virtual CXL hardware environment that allows software engineers to kick off development without CXL memory expansion and pooling systems. The memory ecosystem is at a critical juncture where software is needed to facilitate integration of new CXL-compatible hardware. In response, MemVerge is hosting a curated collection of pre-built virtual machines that take the complexity out of configuring QEMU and bleeding edge kernels, enabling software developers to take CXL-enabled instances for an easy "test flight." Click here for a CXL Flight Simulator technical overview and download instructions.

Key Points: 
  • MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MemVerge ®, pioneers of Big Memory software, today introduced QEMU-based CXL Flight Simulator, a virtual CXL hardware environment that allows software engineers to kick off development without CXL memory expansion and pooling systems.
  • The pre-built CXL Flight Simulator virtual machines are the result of a collaboration between MemVerge and SK hynix to contribute to the QEMU project, a model of the SK hynix "Niagara" Pooled Memory platform, a multi-headed single logical device (MHSLD).
  • "The market opportunity for CXL memory expansion and pooling is huge because the technology delivers significant cost and performance benefits," said Hoshik Kim, Vice President and Fellow of Memory Forest x&D at SK hynix.
  • This QEMU-based CXL Flight Simulator project will help software developers create an edge for their organizations by enabling early development for composability and feature development ahead of general availability of hardware pooling platforms.

MemVerge and SK hynix Accelerate Memory Pooling and Sharing Software Development with CXL Flight Simulator

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, August 2, 2023

MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MemVerge®, pioneers of Big Memory software, today introduced QEMU-based CXL Flight Simulator, a virtual CXL hardware environment that allows software engineers to kick off development without CXL memory expansion and pooling systems. The memory ecosystem is at a critical juncture where software is needed to facilitate integration of new CXL-compatible hardware. In response, MemVerge is hosting a curated collection of pre-built virtual machines that take the complexity out of configuring QEMU and bleeding edge kernels, enabling software developers to take CXL-enabled instances for an easy "test flight." Click here for a CXL Flight Simulator technical overview and download instructions: www.memverge.com/cxl/qemu.

Key Points: 
  • MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MemVerge ®, pioneers of Big Memory software, today introduced QEMU-based CXL Flight Simulator, a virtual CXL hardware environment that allows software engineers to kick off development without CXL memory expansion and pooling systems.
  • The pre-built CXL Flight Simulator virtual machines are the result of a collaboration between MemVerge and SK hynix to contribute to the QEMU project, a model of the SK hynix "Niagara" Pooled Memory platform, a multi-headed single logical device (MHSLD).
  • "The market opportunity for CXL memory expansion and pooling is huge because the technology delivers significant cost and performance benefits," said Hoshik Kim, Vice President and Fellow of Memory Forest x&D at SK hynix.
  • This QEMU-based CXL Flight Simulator project will help software developers create an edge for their organizations by enabling early development for composability and feature development ahead of general availability of hardware pooling platforms.

Tachyum Demonstrates Support for Xen Hypervisor

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Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Xen is a type-1 hypervisor providing services that allow multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical host system, sharing resources such as memory, processing and devices.

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  • Xen is a type-1 hypervisor providing services that allow multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical host system, sharing resources such as memory, processing and devices.
  • Its bare metal capabilities allow the Xen hypervisor to communicate directly from the host’s hardware, acting like a lightweight operating system.
  • Tachyum demonstrated its support of XEN running in three different modes:
    Standard “dom0” mode – the most privileged domain and the only virtual machine that has direct access to hardware by default.
  • Dom0less – a set of Xen features that enable the deployment of a Xen system without a control domain (dom0).