Linaro announces MediaTek as member

Linaro announces MediaTek as member

Press release; Rodney Chan, DIGITIMES[Monday 17 March 2014]

Linaro, the not-for-profit engineering organization developing open source software for the ARM architecture, has announced that MediaTek has joined Linaro as a member.

MediaTek is a designer of systems on chips (SOCs) for mobile and home entertainment products. ARM-based processors are widely used in MediaTek platforms, including the company's new 64-bit octa-core MT6752 with LTE.

Linaro membership will allow MediaTek to further accelerate the time-to-market for its technology partners. MediaTek brings a wealth of experience to Linaro, both from its long history of developing highly integrated SOCs for a range of applications as well as its expertise in cross-platform solutions, Linaro said.

"MediaTek is an innovative and exciting company in the ARM ecosystem" said George Grey, Linaro CEO. "We are very pleased that MediaTek has decided to join Linaro, and we look forward to working closely with them on accelerating open source support for new ARM technologies, such as the 64-bit ARMv8 processor architecture."

"MediaTek has been a long-time partner of ARM and is supportive of open source communities like Linaro. We're delighted to have this opportunity to collaborate with other industry leaders to drive open source innovations," said Kevin Jou, MediaTek's chief technology officer.

MediaTek engineers fully participated last week in Linaro Connect Asia 2014 (LCA14) in Macau. This event, held twice each year, brings together Linaro members and community engineers from around the world to discuss, define and agree on Linaro's roadmaps across its work in core ARM enablement, as well as on the software ecosystem for mobile, networking and server market segments.

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