P.A. Semi - Power to Perform

"Emerging from more than two years of stealth development, P.A. Semi today unveiled the PWRficientTM processor family a 64-bit multicore, scalable processor line based on the Power ArchitectureTM from IBM that delivers high performance at very low power consumption, offering up to a tenfold advantage in performance per watt over the industry. P.A. Semi is headed by Dan Dobberpuhl, the acclaimed lead designer of the DEC Alpha series of microprocessors, the ultra-power-efficient StrongARM microprocessors, and the first commercial multicore processors including the SiByte 1250. The 150-strong processor, ASIC, software and systems engineering team also includes key designers of other defining processor architectures, such as Opteron, Itanium, and UltraSPARC."