Private company
Ambric
Defunct American technology company
Ambric, Inc. was a designer of computer processors that developed the Ambric architecture. Its Am2045 Massively Parallel Processor Array (MPPA) chips were primarily used in high-performance embedded systems such as medical imaging, video, and signal-processing. Ambric was founded in 2003 in Beaverton, Oregon by Jay Eisenlohr and Anthony Mark Jones.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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Ambric, Inc. was a designer of computer processors that developed the Ambric architecture. Its Am2045 Massively Parallel Processor Array (MPPA) chips were primarily used in high-performance embedded systems such as medical imaging, video, and signal-processing.2
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The Am2045 device has 336 32-bit RISC-DSP fixed-point processors and 336 2-kibibyte memories, which run at up to 300 MHz. It has an Eclipse-based integrated development environment including editor, compiler, assemblers, simulator, configuration generator, source-code debugger and video/image-processing, signal-processing, and video-codec libraries.
From Wikipedia’s article on Ambric, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
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- 1WikidataAmbric on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaAmbric on Wikipedia
- 3WikipediaAmbric on Wikipedia (revision used)