Processors

AmberWave Systems Corp.
Makes strained silicon, high-speed, high-transconductance devices optimized to work 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/

CAPS Research Group
Computer Architecture and Power Aware Systems Research Group, Binghamton, State University of New York. Researches means, at microarchitecture, system, and circuit levels, to improve performance, energy-efficiency, and reliability of processors and memory.
http://caps.cs.binghamton.edu/

Central Processing Unit
Explains how a central processing unit in a computer works, for students and teachers; text, diagrams, photographs, links.
http://www.geocities.com/cfleri/

Central Processing Unit
Growing article, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit

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/

Computer Architecture
IBM researchers have made seminal contributions to this field. Lists some current work. [IBM Research]
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research.nsf/pages/r.arch.html

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing
Was Synergy Microsystems, Inc. Makes VME and CompactPCI SBCs with dual or single PowerPC 750, G4, or Pentium processors; powerful quad processor, VME DSP with Linux Symmetric Multiprocessing; VxWorks Integrity.
http://www.cwcembedded.com/P/6/3/75.html

IDT: Integrated Device Technology, Inc.
Silicon design company involved in MIPS technologies, and wide range of electronics.
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

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/

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

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

Rabbit Semiconductor
Fabless semiconductor firm. Low cost, low power, high performance 8-bit embedded processors, clock speeds to 30 MHz. Integrated development tools for embedded control, communications, Ethernet connectivity; support remote coding.
http://www.rabbitsemiconductor.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

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

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

Prototype Glass Sheet Computer Unveiled
Transparent computer processor was printed on to a flat plate of continuous grain silicon glass by researchers at Sharp Japan laboratory; suggests very thin computers and televisions might be built fully on one sheet of glass. [New Scientist] <small>(October 22, 2002)</small>
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2954