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To address the market need for highly customized devices, Freescale Semiconductor has launched a Customer Specific Products (CSP) business that provides custom system-on-chip (SoC) solutions based on its industry-leading SoC platforms – Power Architecture® processors, ColdFire® controllers and i.MX platforms based on ARM® technology
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Next generation 28nm process provides first comprehensive manufacturing platform featuring both high-k metal gate and silicon oxynitride
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At the GSA IP conference here this week, two chip makers--Intel Corp. and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Pte. Ltd.--took turns in separate presentations and landed some pot shots at the semiconductor IP industry for those and other reasons.
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Transmeta announced today that, with the assistance of its independent financial advisors Piper Jaffray & Co., it has initiated a process to seek a potential sale of the Company.
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The DVPB-HD features TI’s TMS320DM6467 digital media processor based on DaVinci technology and provides all commonly used video system peripheral interfaces.
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Silicon Hive and Acutelogic Enter Into Partnership Enabling SoC Makers To Buy One Stop Camera Imaging Solutions Which Combine Silicon Hive’s Efficient Programmable Processors With Acutelogic’s Ultra-High Quality And Robust Image Processing and Camera Control Algorithms.
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ARC today announced its plan to reorganise operations, enhancing and accelerating the deployment of its new multimedia product range to high-growth consumer electronics markets, while benefiting from recent strategic investments in new lower cost development capabilities.
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The District Court Düsseldorf, Germany pronounced last week 12 verdicts on the merits finding that DVD disc manufacturers Dicentia have infringed certain patents in the MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License offered by MPEG LA as a result of Dicentia’s manufacture of DVD video discs.
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The next-generation Frontier product will offer enhanced security capability for multi-scheme digital rights management (DRM) including support for Microsoft Certified for Windows Vista® DRM (formerly known as PlaysForSure).
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An entry at the public social-networking site LinkedIn has added weight to what has previously been the subject of speculation; that Apple is developing its own line of system-chips for the iPhone and has taken an ARM architecture license to do so, according to a New York Times report.
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Achronix Semiconductor today announced that it has already begun shipping the world's fastest FPGAs. The Speedster family, with the SPD60 as its initial member, delivers speeds up to 1.5 GHz, which represents a three-fold increase in performance over existing FPGAs.
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The Hantro 7280 enables real-time video encoding up to 1280 x 1024 resolution for low-power chipsets
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Nvidia is not getting the 55-nm capacity it needs from silicon foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., a problem likely to worsen as the graphics chip maker moves to the 40-nm node, according to Doug Freedman, an analyst at American Technology Research.
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Under the agreement, NEC Electronics will participate in a joint development project for the next-generation core CMOS process, at the 32-nm node, and in advanced fundamental research for leading-edge semiconductor technologies of the future.
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ATEME’s Gen3 H.264 codec, for the Kyrion series of real-time video encoders, is based on a number of ATEME patent-pending innovations enabling bandwidth efficiency gains and video quality enhancements over the previous generation of H.264 codecs.
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The AEON product line, acquired by Virage Logic as part of its recent purchase of the NVM IP business of Seattle-based Impinj, Inc., is part of the company's comprehensive portfolio of embedded NVM solutions.
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Eureka’s DDR3 SDRAM controller is designed specifically to harness the performance advantage of the DDR3 SDRAM. It employs high speed design techniques such as fast page access, pipeline design and smart arbitration. The controller supports both DDR2 and DDR3 SDRAMs to enable a smooth transition between the two SDRAM technologies.
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Imagination Technologies Group plc, licensor of graphics processor cores, has said it has concluded a multi-year, multi-use license agreement with an international electronics systems company. Imagination did not name the company or indicate how much money the deal might be worth.
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Denali Software today announced the availability of PureSpec™ PCI Express™ (PCIe) verification intellectual property (VIP) product which now supports the latest version of the Gen 3 specifications from the PCI-Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG®), allowing chip designers to begin early Gen 3 development.
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AXI Bridge was added to GDA's GRIO Serial RIO IP and to enhance designs demanding high performance, low latency, low pin count, reliability and scalability.
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Texas Instruments, a key contributor to the development of the IEEE 1149.7 standard, collaborates with IPextreme to bring compact JTAG (cJTAG) IP to market
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The new sROMet AURIGA demonstrates an outstanding architectural property for a single metal programmable solution. Indeed it reuses the same architecture as its twin spRAM URANUS.