Electronic News sat down to discuss the future of the microprocessor with Mark Aldering, VP of IP cores and the embedded processing division of Xilinx; Jeff Jussel, VP of marketing at Celoxica; Drew Wingard, CTO at Sonics; Thomas Peterson, director of product marketing at MIPS Technologies; and Malachy Devlin, CTO of Nallatech. What follows are excerpts of that conversation.