Declaring twin summit meetings held by Microsoft Corp. over the winter months with ARM Holdings plc and MIPS Technologies Inc. a success that would be repeated, Scott Horn, director of the embedded devices group at Microsoft, said the company would have an increasing level of input into the companies' processor architectures.
In particular Microsoft is developing a wish list of hardware support that it wants from ARM and MIPS. This includes such things as security features, biometric identification, chip-level identification, multimedia playback support, including support for specific instructions and cache sizes to be included in processor architectures for embedded applications.
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