The Multicore Association(TM), a global non-profit organization focused on developing standards that help speed time to market for products that involve multicore implementations, announced today that Samsung Electronics has joined the consortium as an executive board member. The Multicore Association is working to enable the widespread adoption of multicore processor-based implementations by setting standards for how systems will be utilized and programmed. As a provider of semiconductors, mobile phones, DTVs and many other consumer electronics products, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. will help the Multicore Association drive standards for deploying multicore solutions in the consumer electronics sector.

"Samsung is a leader in advanced semiconductor solutions representing many processor architectures and many applications," said Multicore Association President Markus Levy. "Their involvement with the Multicore Association will provide very well-rounded guidance and a practical perspective on designing with multicore technology."

"As the computing power required by CE devices is increasing, multicore is becoming increasingly relevant to consumer electronics, especially for mobile internet devices, which require low power consumption as well as high performance," said Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology Senior Vice President, Banghun Chun. "We hope our contribution to MCA will accelerate the development of multicore solutions for CE devices and strengthen multicore programming practices. We are excited about the potential of the Multicore Association and we look forward to working with our partners to move the technology forward."

The Multicore Association provides three levels of membership, with executive board, working group, and university members. The executive board helps determine the overall direction of the organization. Working group members are eligible to work on any of the working groups. University members may participate in any of the Multicore Association's ongoing development work, for which current projects include multicore virtual machine standardization, multicore resource management, multicore programming practices, and debug functionality to support the recently released Multicore Communication API (MCAPI).

About Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2007 consolidated sales of US$103.4 billion. Employing approximately 150,000 people in 134 offices in 62 countries, the company consists of four main business units: Digital Media Business, LCD Business, Semiconductor Business and Telecommunication. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit .

About The Multicore Association

The Multicore Association provides a neutral forum for vendors who are interested in, working with, and/or proliferating multicore-related products, including processors, infrastructure, devices, software, and applications. The consortium has made available its Multicore Communications API (MCAPI) specification through its website. Currently, the organization is set up with four working groups: Hypervisors, Multicore Resource Management, and Multicore Programming Practices (MPP). Members include Carnegie Mellon University, CAPS entreprise, Codeplay, CriticalBlue, EEMBC, Enea, eSOL, Freescale Semiconductor, IMEC, Intel, LSI, Mentor Graphics, MIPS Technologies, Multicore-Association, National Instruments, NEC Electronics America, Nokia Siemens Networks, Plurality, PolyCore Software, QNX, Samsung Electronics, Texas Instruments, Tilera, Trango Virtual Processors, University of Utah, VirtualLogix, Virtutech, and Wind River. Further information is available at .