TechInsights' Multicore Virtual Conference Extremely Successful

More than 1200 attended the 'live' event

SAN FRANCISCO, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Last week, TechInsights hosted its
first virtual event since 2002 focused on multicore processors which attracted
more than 3,500 registrants. The virtual event, "Multicore is Coming: Are You
Ready" brought together the design engineering community from over 90
countries as well as leading technology vendors to demonstrate products, view
live presentations and virtually meet potential business partners, without
ever having to leave the office. The event covered the challenges and
competing approaches designers face when adopting multicore solutions and its
implications on the software and tools as well as available products and
services from leading vendors.

"The virtual event was packed with valuable multicore-focused content from
conference sessions to exhibits - we had it all," said David Blaza, Vice
President, Events and Embedded Systems, TechInsights. "It was an unrivaled
experience for attendees and vendors alike."

The virtual conference, which took place June 18, at 11:00a.m. EDT, was seven
hours in length. The Stanford University professor, Kunle Olukotun presented
the opening keynote. Kunle has been a major figure in multicore technology
since the mid 90's and is well known for leading the Stanford Hydra research
project which developed one of the first chip multiprocessors with support for
thread-level speculation (TLS).

Attendees were able to chat with other event goers in real-time inside virtual
booths in the Exhibit Hall as well as participate in scheduled chat
discussions. EE Times offered a variety of resources - white papers, articles,
and webinars - in its Resource Center. In addition, attendees were able to
network with peers and others, and exchange virtual business cards in the
Networking Lounge and extend their relationships beyond the virtual tradeshow
environment.

Attendance figures and other success metrics for the EE Times Multicore
Virtual Conference include:

-- Registered attendees: 3,595 engineers, executives, vendors and
industry
analysts attended the event.
-- Live attendees: 1,220 attendees came to the live event.
-- Average time spent: Attendees spent, on average, 2 hours and 6 minutes
[126 minutes] in the Multicore virtual environment.
-- Number of webinars launched: Over 3,000 conference specific and vendor
webinars were launched and viewed during the event.

-- Number of documents opened: Over 6,200 documents were opened and
viewed
in the event environment.

Frank Schirrmeister, Director, Product Marketing, System-Level Solutions was a
participant for Synopsys, a gold sponsor, and wrote several short pieces about
it on his blog that relate his experience as a vendor rep and participant in a
panel. "We had constantly between 10 and 15 people at the booth, I logged
about 40 or so interesting conversations," blogged Schirrmeister. "That's
pretty good for a morning's 3 hours of work from my office." Read more
comments on "A View from the Top" Schirrmeister's blog dedicated to
system-level design and embedded software.

Platinum sponsors included, Intel and Wind River, gold sponsors included
Freescale, Synopsys and Tilera and silver sponsors included 6Wind and
MontaVista. The virtual trade show will be available for 6 months on demand
and can be found at www.eetimes.com/multicore.

About TechInsights (http://www.techinsights.com/)
TechInsights, a division of United Business Media, is the global leader in
media, marketing, and professional services for the electronics industry. We
deliver results for the key influencers and decision makers involved in the
definition, development, protection, and commercialization of technology and
related intellectual property. More than 1.1 million engineering professionals
engage with the EE Times Network - EE Times, TechOnline, DesignLines, and
Embedded.com - across Europe, India, Japan, Taiwan, mainland China and North
America. As well, the technology community comes to our events to share,
learn, discuss, and advance the critical issues and challenges facing the
electronics industry. Finally, for those clients with a specific technology,
or intellectual property objective we engage on a custom basis through our
TechInsights Technology and Intellectual Property services team -
Portelligent, Sanguine Microelectronics, and Semiconductor Insights.

For more information on TechInsights please contact:
Felicia Hamerman, Group Marketing Director
T: 516.562.5652, email: fhamerman@techinsights.com

Related links:
EE Times Multicore Virtual Conference
"A View from the Top"

SOURCE TechInsights

Felicia Hamerman, Group Marketing Director of TechInsights, +1-516-562-5652,
fhamerman@techinsights.com