Intrinsity

Intrinsity is a Austin, Texas based fabless semiconductor company was founded in 1997 as "EVSX" on the remnants of Exponential Technology, but changed its name to Intrinsity in 2000. It has around 100 employees and is supplying tools and services for highly efficient semiconductor logic design, enabling high performance microprocessors with fewer transistors and low power consumtion.

Products

FastMATH

A MIPS based DSP like processor reaching 2 GHz in 2002. Awarded "Best Extreme Processor" in 2003 by Microprocessor Report. [http://www.intrinsity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=41]

Fast14

A mix of static and dynamic logic used in 90 nm and 65 nm process technology to double processor speeds and provide accurate timing and noise immunity.

FastCores

Intrinsity licenses ARM, MIPS and Power Architecture cores based on Fast14 circuitry technology.

Customers

* ATI – for reducing transistor count in GPUs. [http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1518127,00.asp]
* AMCC – for Power Architecture based designs reaching 3 GHz. [http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181401627]
* LSI Corporation (then Agere Systems) – for high performance and low power macrocell design. [http://www.networksystemsdesignline.com/news/193104594]
* Samsung - for high-speed, low power processor cores. [http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Intrinsity-897850.html]

External links

* [http://www.intrinsity.com/ Intrinsity homepage]
* [http://www.intrinsity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=1&id=21&Itemid=28 Intrinsity's Fast14 page]
* [http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=255717 Intrinsity Nets 2 GHz, 4000 DMIPS PowerPC FastCore - Market Wire]
* [http://www.mdronline.com/mpr_public/editorials/edit21_39.html Intrinsity Turns a Corner – Microprocessor Report]
* [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/EVSX+Announces+Name+Change+and+Technology+Focus.-a062211121 EVSX Announces Name Change and Technology Focus. – Business Wire]