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Markus is founder and president of EEMBC (www.eembc.org), the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium. EEMBC is chartered with the task of developing and evolving application-level benchmarks for embedded processors with a membership comprised of more than 50 of the world's leading semiconductor, intellectual property, compiler, and Java Virtual Machine vendors. Markus is also president of the Multicore Association (www.multicore-association.org), an organization that supports the multicore ecosystem and includes vendors of processors, operating systems, compilers, development tools, debuggers, ESL/EDA tools, simulators, as well as application and system developers. Its members are working together to develop industry-standard solutions that speed time to market for products that involve multicore implementations. In addition, Markus is chairman of the international conference series called the Multicore Expo, as well as chairman of the annual ARM Developer's Conference. Markus has more than nine years of experience working with EDN Magazine and Instat/MDR, and as a result, is a very seasoned editor and analyst with a proven record of processor and development tool analysis, article writing, and the delivery of countless technical seminars. Beginning in 1987, Markus worked for Intel Corporation as both a senior applications engineer and customer training specialist for Intel's microprocessor and flash memory products. While at Intel, Markus received several patents for his ideas related to flash memory architecture and usage as a disk drive alternative. Markus is also co-author of "Designing with Flash Memory", the only technical book on this subject. | 