USB V3.1 Power Delivery Type-C Port Evaluation board for OTI9108 IP
ARM licenses core to Taiwan-based Faraday
ARM licenses core to Taiwan-based Faraday
By Faith Hung, EBN
January 22, 2002 (10:01 a.m. EST)
URL: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20020118S0057
HSINCHU, Taiwan -- As part of an effort to spread out its reach in Asia, ARM Ltd. has licensed Faraday Technology Corp. its architecture for wireless applications. Cambridge, England-based ARM has licensed Faraday, one of Asia's biggest providers of IC designs and intellectual properties outside Japan, to develop a full range of solutions based on the ARMv4 platform, the companies said in a press conference held in Taiwan. "ARM has been working in the Asia-Pacific market for some time and believes that Taiwan's IC design industry will play an important role in the global semiconductor market," said Jamie Urquhart, chief strategy officer of ARM, which offers 16-bit and 32-bit embedded RISC processor designs. "We see Faraday as an important partner in helping ARM to further penetrate the Asia-Pacific market." In Asia, ARM currently has an office each in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. The agreement is important for ARM as Taiwan is the world 's second-largest IC designer after the U.S. In addition, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and United Microelectronics Corp., both based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, together control about two-thirds of the pure-play silicon foundry market worldwide. For Faraday -- a spin-off from UMC -- the partnership helps it gain a bigger exposure in its systems-on-chip (SoC) designs for wireless applications. "The importance of RISC CPUs in a wide spectrum of portable applications such as mobile phones, PDAs, wireless communications and multimedia is equivalent to the significance of the CISC CPU in the PC market, and the potential for RISC CPUs for mass production is much greater," said H.P. Lin, president of Faraday. "In the near future, we expect that with the help of RISC-based solutions jointly promoted by ARM and Faraday, many new SoC design customers will be able to devise creative niche products in new territories." The agreement also suggested one of ARM's strategies is to "work with Faraday to he lp boost the volume of ARM-based solutions," said Eric Chen, an analyst with SG Securities in Taipei. Faraday and ARM had similar agreements last year. Designs based on Faraday's implementation FA500 will be available in the third quarter of 2002, the companies said. FA500 customers will be able to take advantage of the ARM development environment.
Related News
- Authorized As the Distributor of ARM Keil Tools, Faraday Provides the Complete Family of ARM Development Tools
- Faraday Expands Commitment to ARM with V5TEJ and 926EJS Licenses
- Taiwan's Chip Implementation Center Licenses ARM Core For Academic Research Projects
- Taiwan's Macronix licenses ARM's 16/32-bit RISC processor cores
- Taiwan's Macronix licenses ARM's 16/32-bit RISC processor cores
Breaking News
- Cadence Announces Most Comprehensive True Hybrid Cloud Solution to Provide Seamless Data Access and Management
- Dolphin Design expands GoAsic partnership to enhance the semiconductor Industry's Supply Chain
- Cadence Collaborates with MemVerge to Increase Resiliency and Cost-Optimization of Long-Running High-Memory EDA Jobs on AWS Spot Instances
- M31 Successfully Validates 5nm IP Solution to Empower Global AI Applications
- Cadence Unveils Palladium Z3 and Protium X3 Systems to Usher in a New Era of Accelerated Verification, Software Development and Digital Twins
Most Popular
- Rivos Raises More Than $250M Targeting Data Analytics and Generative AI Markets
- Semiconductor Capacity Is Up, But Mind the Talent Gap
- Zhuhai Chuangfeixin: OTP IP Based on 90nm CMOS Image Sensor Process Technology Successfully Mass Production
- CMC Microsystems and AIoT Canada Sign Memorandum of Understanding to support IoT and semiconductor ecosystem growth in Canada
- Microchip Technology Acquires Neuronix AI Labs
E-mail This Article | Printer-Friendly Page |