The Linley Tech Processor Conference returns to San Jose on Sep 27-28. This two-day event will focus on the newest chips and technologies used in networking and communications applications. For further information, visit the conference page.

Linley Gwennap, principal analyst at The Linley Group, moderated a "Processor Shootout" panel at the Netbook Summit on May 25 in San Francisco. Panelists included Yiwan Wong, VP mobile SoCs, Samsung Electronics; Dave Ragones, director of product marketing, Nvidia; and Sandeep Shah, director of marketing and applications, Marvell.

The inaugural Linley Tech Spring Conference was held on May 18-19 in San Jose. This two-day event focused on processors, components, and interconnects for data-center networking and security processing. Proceedings from the event are available.

Joe Byrne, senior analyst at The Linley Group, co-moderated the panel "It's (Almost) 5pm. Time for a Multicore?" at Multicore Expo on April 29 in San Jose. He joined Markus Levy, Multicore Expo Chairman, and and panelists Alex Bachmutsky, Chief Architect, Nokia Siemens Networks; Sven Brehmer, CEO, PolyCore Software; Alex Gatherer, CTO Baseband SoC, Huawei; and David Stewart, CEO, CriticalBlue.

Linley Gwennap and Joe Byrne at Embedded Systems Conference

Linley Gwennap, principal analyst at The Linley Group, moderatde the panel "Processing Architectures for Deep Pack Inspection" at ESC on April 27 in San Jose. Panelists included Anant Agarwal, CTO, Tilera; Muhammad Hussain, VP of software engineering and CTO, Cavium Networks; Eric Carmes, CEO, 6Wind; and Vidya Rajagopalan, VP processing solutions, Xilinx.

Joe Byrne Hosted Webinar: Architecting a 10X Performance Breakthrough for LTE Core Networking

On April 20, Joe Byrne, senior analyst at The Linley Group, hosted a webinar on the reasons for, and steps taken to achieve, optimized telecom software within the "Fast Path" environment on a multi-core packet processing blade. The technical discussion included Deepak Wadhwa, chief architect, Continuous Computing; Eric Carmes.

Jag Bolaria at Ethernet Technology Summit

On February 25, The Linley Group's senior analyst Jag Bolaria, chaired a session on the "Future of Ethernet Networks" at the Ethernet Technology Summit in Santa Clara. He also served as a panelist in the "Market Research" session.

Jag Bolaria at DesignCon

On February 3, Jag Bolaria, senior analyst at The Linley Group, chaired the technical panel "Meeting Chip to Chip I/O Demands of 100G and Beyond" at DesignCon 2010 in Santa Clara.

Jag Bolaria at Technology Expoloration Forum

On February 2, Jag Bolaria, senior analyst at The Linley Group, moderated the session "Convergence in Data Centers" at the Ethernet Alliance's Technology Exploration Forum on Next Generation Ethernet Data Center in Santa Clara.