By Kelly Gillilan, Product Marketing Manager for AMD Embedded Solutions

In wandering the busy halls at Embedded World in Nuremberg a few weeks ago, it was plain to see how the evolution in the embedded market is really shaping up.

Over the past few years, I’ve heard end-users asking for more complete solutions. And at events like this, it is apparent that system integrators, hardware vendors, and software developers are consolidating efforts to meet their needs.

It’s April again. So it’s time for silly jokes, warmer weather and the annual NAB show in Las Vegas. If you are headed to the desert for the show next week (April 8-11, 2013) be sure to check out the AMD action.

The cryptography benchmark suite was internally
developed by Oracle to measure
the maximum throughput of in-memory,
on-chip encryption operations that a
system can perform. Multiple threads are used to achieve the maximum
throughput.
Systems powered by Oracle's SPARC T5 processor show outstanding
performance on the tested encryption operations, beating
Intel processor based systems.

My all-time high post with the most pageviews is the one on Linux disk alignment: How to set disk alignment in Linux. In that post I showed an easy method on how to set and check disk alignment under linux.