With the emergence of STMicroelectronics' powerful STM32F42X/43X microcontrollers (MCUs), the topic of running Linux, in its uClinux form, on the STM32 devices is as hot as ever. In the MCU world, ...

Microsoft continued its unexpected push into the chip business by announcing “Azure Sphere,” combining a chip design, a cloud security service, and even a Linux (!) kernel to better secure billions of ...

Well, that didn't take too long. Dave Miller, the lead programmer for Linux on Sun Microsystems' Sparc processors, said on his blog Friday he has fired up the open-source operating system on Sun's new ...

LONDON — A modestly performing 32-bit RISC processor with a pedigree dating back to the early 1990s is quietly gaining momentum in the marketplace, having hitched its star to the Linux platform. Axis ...

Qualcomm isn’t the only company working on ARM-based chips that will support Windows 8. But while Qualcomm has announced that chips that were already in the pipeline will be able to run Microsoft’s ...

TAIPEI — Two Taiwanese makers of graphics chips stepped up their support for Linux-based PCs this week by releasing the source code for some of their drivers to the open source community. Via ...

Chipmaker has released information on its next-generation Atom processor and the beta of the Moblin 2.0 Linux operating system. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, ...

Macraigor Systems has ported its OCDemon on-chip debug technology to Linux using its usb2Demon and debug interface. The port gives engineers who develop on Linux the high speed and flexibility of ...

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