Fawzi Behmann, Director, Strategic Marketing, Freescale
Jeff Timbs, Director of Marketing, Freescale Semiconductor
Nina Wilner, Software Architect, IBM
Johan Fornaeus, Director Engineering Systems, Wind River
Ross Dickson, Principal Technology Specialist, Virtutech Inc.

This panel will discuss the need of multicore in response to future requirements of high performance and in support of enabling next-generation class of applications and services with rich multimedia content. A special panel of experts will explore the needs of multicore enablement at different stages from instruction set architecture (ISA) compilers, OS, debugging, simulation, and IPs. The session will link with the technical initiatives undertaken by Power.org technical committee and capture proposed items in advancing multicore/virtualization based on power architecture.