the super pipelined TM5250 CPU core was announced and won the Best Media Processor of 2003 award from Microprocessor Report. This processor was made available in the PNX1700 Media Processor SoC. These two CPU cores were designed by Jan-Willem van de Waerdt in close cooperation with Gerrit Slavenburg. In 2005, the TM3270 was announced as a low-power H.264 capable incarnation of the TriMedia architecture (see external links to papers below), first released in the PNX4103 SoC. In 2006, Philips Semiconductors as a whole was spun off from Philips and was renamed to NXP. In 2009, the PNX1005 became available, using the latest TM3282 CPU core. This CPU is the first TriMedia to have 8 issue slots. It also adds more operations for H.264 and video optimization, data-cache pre-allocating and a bit-stream coprocessor for entropy en/de-coding. It is also the first TriMedia to have a real-time trace block. In 2010, the TriMedia group at NXP was terminated. Cores The TriMedia cores are typically used in home, mobile and automotive products (see as an example Philips' Streamium networked multi-media products). They are used as deeply embedded CPUs in SoCs as well as general purpose DSPs. Some SoCs even have multiple TriMedia cores such as the PNX5100 that contains three TM3271 cores. See also pSOS for TriMedia References External links http://www.philips.com http://www.nxp.com Trident’s acquisition of NXP’s television systems and set-top box business lines paper: The TM3270 Media-Processor (pdf for IEEE members only) paper: The TM3270 Media-Processor (open to anyone) paper: The TM3270 Media-Processor Data Cache (pdf) paper: Motion Estimation Performance of the TM3270 Processor (pdf) EEMBC Consumer benchmark scores-- EEMBC, the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, is a non-profit corporation Press release for TM3282 EEMBC benchmark scores BDTi Video encoder and decoder benchmarks Digital signal processors NXP Semiconductors Very long instruction word computing