Peter Clarke

EE Times

(10/24/2005 8:02 AM EDT)

LONDON — Two veterans of the microelectronics industry have formed a startup company to develop and manufacture multicore processors for power efficient embedded applications.

The company, Intelasys Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.), is a subsidiary of TPL Group, a patent licensing company, where Intelasys cofounder Charles “Chuck” Moore was involved in the creation of the Alliacense microprocessor patent portfolio after TPL Group merged its microprocessor patent interests with those of Patriot Scientific Corp. (San Diego). TPL Group claimed to have Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. as licenses of the Alliacense patent portfolio, although terms and conditions were not disclosed at the time.

Intelasys cofounder Chester “Chet” Brown, an executive with more than 30 years of industry experience, takes the role of president and chief executive officer while Chuck Moore, perhaps best known for inventing the Forth software language, serves as chief technology officer for both Intelasys and the TPL Group.

Brown said that product design and development at Intelasys is making progress with demonstrations of Intelasys’ first chip expected to be demonstrated in the first quarter of 2006. It was not clear whether this would comprise advanced simulations or physical semiconductor circuit demonstrations. Brown said that his company’s “Sea of Processors Platform” would improve performance-per-watt for many embedded applications. “We are currently interviewing candidates to fill new engineering and manufacturing positions, and expect to demonstrate beta versions of our first chip to key customers in the first quarter of 2006,” Brown said in a statement.