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Ambric Announces Sale of Company and Assets
November 18, 2008
Source: Ambric
Pioneer
in Massively Parallel Processor Arrays Seeking Corporate Acquisition
of IP and Assets
Ambric, an award winning leader in Massively Parallel Processor
Arrays (MPPAs), has announced plans to sell the company including
its product line, patents and other assets. Ambric's programming
model and silicon architecture provided the industry's first
platform capable of delivering high performance media processing
solutions several times faster than what is currently possible
on DSPs and FPGAs. Each Ambric MPPA chip has 336 32-bit processors
delivering over one TeraOPS of performance. One of Ambric's
customers has developed an extremely high performance imaging
system utilizing 36 Ambric chips - an array of over 12,000
processors managed under one software platform.
Ambric revolutionized the industry with the introduction of
its Structured Object Programming Model (SOPM). The Ambric
SOPM is so intuitive and easy to use, that it has enabled
many customers to go to production in less than nine months
with just one day of training. The time required from concept
to launch for an Ambric based design is one-third the time
of a DSP- or FPGA-based design. This time savings can cut
millions of dollars in development costs and yield huge time-to-market
advantages. Other processor-based alternatives employ software
models so complex, they require the supplier to do the programming
for the customer. With Ambric's SOPM, customers are able to
develop solutions by themselves.
Ambric is the only MPPA to have successfully attained design
wins in four distinct markets – video, wireless base
stations, medical, and military/defense. Ambric's software
development tools have been successfully used by this wide
set of developers and by participants in Ambric's global university
program to create software solutions that address: video codecs,
protein docking, baseband processing for LTE and WiMax, medical
ultrasound, complex tomography, and real-time 2D and 3D imaging
applications for defense. The results of this work are a broad
set of software library objects such as: broadcast video codecs
including AVC-Intra, Avid DNxHD, Apple ProRes, DVCProHD, and
DSP library objects including FFTs, IIRs, filters, convolutions,
and Turbo Coders.
Ambric was unable to secure additional financing in the current
economic environment and has suspended all operations not
associated with the sale of the company or fulfillment of
existing customer production requests through its long term
supply agreements. Ambric also has suspended R&D of its
future product – Avocet, targeted to launch in 2009 with
3.4 TeraOPS of processing power. Several companies to date
have expressed interest in acquiring Ambric's products, technologies
and software solutions. The company plans to keep servicing
its customers after concluding the sale.
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