Telecom Lead America: The Embedded Microprocessor
Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) has announced that Dell is the consortium’s newest
member.
Dell has joined the association’s Consumer Subcommittee,
which includes the working groups focusing on developing mobile device
benchmarks, especially in the area of smartphone and tablet benchmarking.
“As a member of the Consumer Subcommittee, Dell will
utilize EEMBC benchmark standards to help select the processing solutions for
our next generation of tablets and mobile devices, as well as contributing to
EEMBC BrowsingBench, AndEBench, and other relevant benchmark suites. Benchmarks
such as BrowsingBench benefit users by enabling industry standard performance
measurements for key user activities like web browsing,” said Brian
Zucker, director of performance engineering at Dell.
Formed in 1997, EEMBC develops meaningful performance
benchmarks for the hardware and software used in embedded systems.
EEMBC benchmarks help predict the performance of embedded
processors and systems in a range of applications (i.e. automotive/industrial,
digital imaging and entertainment, networking, office automation,
telecommunications, and connected devices) and disciplines (processor core
functionality, floating-point, Java, multicore, and energy consumption).
“We welcome Dell to the consortium and look forward
to the insight that they can offer to help EEMBC define and create our next
generation AndEBench and BrowsingBench benchmark suites. Dell involvement in
our working groups will ensure a fair and equitable benchmark for the
industry,” said Markus Levy, president of EEMBC.
The new EEMBC BrowsingBench and AndEBench provide
unbiased measurement of the browsing and Android experience of smartphones and
other connected devices.
Recently, Dell announced that it is going to acquire SonicWALL, a provider of advanced network
security and data protection.
The company did not disclose the size of the deal.
SonicWALL has 130 patents, registered and pending, and develops all of its own
key security gateway intellectual property.
