Mindspeed 26-core basestation DSP

By Rick Merritt - Mindspeed announced a new family of system-on-chip processors for cellular basestations. The first member of the Transcede family uses as many as 26 processor cores including four ARM Cortex-A9 cores, 10 CEVA DSP cores and nine DSP accelerators to compete with a host of basestation chip makers including Texas Instruments and Freescale.