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22 Oct 2007

8-core e500 Processors

Freescale has announced two e500-based SoCs (system-on-a-chips): the 4-core 8574 and the 8-core 8578. Both will be manufactured with a 45nm process by IBM and Chartered Semiconductor. The chips will be built around Freescale's CoreNet interconnect, which will support up to 32 cores on a chip.

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