January 2005 – Raleigh, NC and Toulon, France – Continuing its commitment to offer customers the latest technology and fullest array of VME and embedded system solutions, Thales’ computers business group announces that it is joining forces with IBM and other industry-leading companies to form Power Organization (Power.org), an open standards community that will define open specifications related to Power Architecture technology.
Power Architecture is a hardware development platform and instruction set that enables different components on the same microprocessor to work together. It is highly scalable, flexible and innovative, allowing long-term technology consistency.
Alain Albarello, General Manager of Thales’ computers business, remarked, “Power Architecture will help optimize engineering and design relative to performance and power dissipation. We can offer our customers upwardly compatible products, stability and technology insertion.”
Thales will participate in establishing a reference platform for the VME industry and offer Power Architecture products, building blocks and systems to the military and aerospace markets.
“Power Architecture products will reduce time-to-market and increase access to new market opportunities,” stated Robert Nègre, Vice President of Engineering. “We anticipate faster systems integration and better long-term support which will increase customer satisfaction.”
Other Power.Org members include AMCC, Bull, Cadence Design Systems, Chartered Semiconductor, Culturecom, IBM, Jabil Circuits, Novell, Red Hat, Shanghai Belling, Sony, Synopsys, Tundra Semiconductor and Wistron.
For more information about Thales’ integrated system solutions, hardware and software products and support, please visit our web site at www.thalescomputers.com, or contact Thales Computers at 1-800-848-2330.
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About Thales: Thales is an international electronics and systems group serving the
defense, aerospace, services and security markets. The group employs 61,500 people worldwide and generated revenues of €10.6 billion in 2003.
Thales’ computers activities include development of commercial and ruggedized VMEbus systems solutions based on PowerPC and Pentium microprocessors. Thales’ products are optimized for a wide variety of applications in the military, aerospace, transportation, communications, and industrial markets and are used by customers worldwide, including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, Bombardier, Toshiba, BAE, British Aerospace, Ericsson, Alcatel, Thales Group and others.
