Date: 08/06/2010

Semicon leaders form Linaro to promote Linux based embedded system development

ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have joined hands to form a new non-profit company called Linaro to make the widely used open-source OS Linux even more popular in developing Linux based smart phones and tablet PCs and any such digital devices. Linaro to deliver free and validated Linux kernel and tools that focuses on providing a common software foundation to the embedded system developers.

Linaro website reads "Linaro brings together the open source community and the electronics industry to work on key projects, deliver great tools, reduce industry wide fragmentation and provide common foundations for Linux software distributions and stacks to land on."

Linaro to support embedded system developers with the necessary resources to speed the development of what called "always-connected, always-on" devices. Linaro to provide software development tools and standardized software stacks for implementing protocols, particularly for loading linux into the advance semiconductor chips such as SoCs.

The release from Linaro states it's outputs will accelerate the abundance of new consumer products that use Linux-based distributions such as Android, LiMo, MeeGo, Ubuntu and webOS in conjunction with advanced semiconductor SoCs to provide the new features consumers desire at the lowest possible power consumption.

The first release to provide performance optimizations for SoCs based on the ARM Cortex-A processor family and is slate to be released by November 2010.

To know more visit www.linaro.org