An innovative paper is set to come from Wayne Luk and a team of researchers from Imperial College, London, who have written a paper titled "Towards Optimal Custom Instruction Processors". The lone U.S. representative in the embedded session is MIPS Technologies Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) for which company Ryan Kinter is due to present on the MIPS32 34K processor cores.

The European nature of the session on embedded processors at HotChips stands in contrast to the two sessions on microprocessors at the same event which are dominated by U.S. companies.