http://www.ubicom.com is porting an arch that we call ubicom32.
This is really good news !
Since quite a time I got the opinion that this is really a prefect way to create a huge class of embedded devices: using a multithreadded CPU and dedicate some of the threads to low-latency and high security tasks, while the others drive an SMP enabled Linux for "standard" stuff.
With such a system you can do "virtual peripherals" (bit banging quite fast interfaces that otherwise would need dedicated hardware) and thus use the same chip in a lot of different applications. The 5000 / 7000 which I know runs some 500 MHz and a very effective instruction set (CISC-alike, but one instruction each cycle and very few hazards if decently multitasked) seems like perfectly suited for this.
Hopefully _finally_ Unicom will see the many industrial applications as a valid target and not just router application ;).
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