Amberwave Systems
   Produces high-speed, high-transconductance devices that are optimized to perform in digital, analog, or mixed signal systems.
   http://www.amberwave.com/

Atmel Wireless and Microcontrollers
   ICs for innovative solutions in RF, automotive and communications.
   http://www.atmel-wm.com/

BOPS, Inc.
   Develops and licenses scalable, broadband DSP cores used in communications, mobile multimedia, and wireless SOCs.
   http://www.bops.com/

ClearSpeed
   Floating point accelerator, coprocessor and data parallel processing for HPC, scientific and embedded computer chips. Programmed easily in C language.
   http://www.clearspeed.com/

Great Microprocessors
   Past and present v11.4.3.
   http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~bayko/cpu.html

Hyperstone Electronics GmbH
   RISC/DSP processors, flash memory controllers and cards (and compact cards), ASIC design, IP hardware, biometric devices, digital still cameras.
   http://www.hyperstone-electronics.com/

IBM PowerPC Microprocessors
   Family of PPC processors with low power and high speed CPUs.
   http://www.chips.ibm.com/products/powerpc/

IBM Research: VLIW
   Very-Long Instruction Word architectures: an alternative way to organize processors. Instead of the trend toward hardware making complex decisions for scheduling machine-level instructions in programs, VLIW systems do scheduling at compile time.
   http://www.research.ibm.com/vliw/

IDT
   Silicon design company involved in MIPS technologies.
   http://www.idt.com/

Improv Systems Inc.
   Supplier of configurable DSPs for communications and consumer products including VoIP, wireless, media processing, DSL, MPEG4 and audio engines.
   http://www.improvsys.com

MIPS Technologies, Inc.
   Makes popular RISC CPU used in consumer electronics, SONY Playstations, some SGI workstations. Initiated MIPS instruction set. Now an independent company developing microprocessor cores and intellectual property to license to other firms.
   http://www.mips.com/

MicroDesign Resources
   An information services company focused on enabling technology for personal computers and the high-performance microprocessor industry. Our work is aimed at engineers and others who need to understand and select new technologies.
   http://www.mdronline.com/

Mitsubishi Semiconductors
   Provides chip, chipset and system-on-chip solutions for computers, communications, consumer, industrial, Internet-enabled, automotive, and visual applications.
   http://www.mitsubishichips.com/

Motorola ColdFire Development Resources
   Dedicated to the Motorola ColdFire series of Processors with info on how to use GNU C, RTEMS and other free tools to assist embedded development.
   http://fiddes.net/coldfire/

Motorola Semiconductor Products
   Producer of embedded processors. SPS processor products are based on PowerPC, M-CORE, ColdFire, M68k, or M68HC cores.
   http://www.mot-sps.com/

PiSMA
   Parallel computer architecture, called PiSMA: Parallel vIrtually Shared Memory Architecture. Article about securing confidential communication using authentication from ACM Crossroads site.
   http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-3/pisma.html

Powerleap Products
   CPU upgrade expert with product briefs, support, discussion forums and compatibility database.
   http://www.powerleap.com

Rabbit Semiconductor
   Fabless semiconductor firm. Focus: microprocessors and development tools for embedded controls. Rabbit is low power, high performance 8-bit microprocessor, clock speed to 30 MHz, integrated development tools support remote coding.
   http://www.rabbitsemiconductor.com/

Synergy Microsystems, Inc.
   Manufacturers of VME and CompactPCI SBCs with dual or single PowerPC 750 or G4 microprocessors. Produces the powerful quad processor, VME DSP with Linux Symmetric Multiprocessing.
   http://www.synergymicro.com

Synopsys Synthesizable VHDL LC-2 Model
   Simple programmable processor defined in the popular introductory textbook.
   http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~vahid/sproj/lc2/index.html

The Processor-Memory Bottleneck
   Problems and Solutions. From Crossroads site.
   http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-3/pmgap.html

TriMedia Technologies
   Products include high performance VLIW architecture IP cores, embedded media processors, video processors, audio processors, system on chip solutions, an MPEG-2 decoder and MPEG-4 encoder, and application libraries.
   http://www.trimedia.com/

Upgradeware Technology
   Manufacturer of CPU upgrade products.
   http://www.upgradeware.com/

VipLibrary
   Explore architectures and solutions, to move from prototype to final product with the same code.
   http://www.viplibrary.com/viplibrary/index.jsp

WWW Computer Architecture
   Houses computer architecture and microprocessor information on conferences, benchmarks and tools, group projects, publications, books and newsgroups.
   http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www/