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AuthenTec, a leading provider of smart fingerprint sensors and solutions, announced today that it has acquired SafeNet, Inc.'s Embedded Security Solutions Division in a cash and stock transaction which further strengthens AuthenTec's offering of security and identity management solutions.
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At the TSMC Japan Executive Forum in Yokohama this week, Shang-Yi Chiang, senior vice president of R&D at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), addressed several issues about the silicon foundry giant. Chiang discussed TSMC's 40-nm capacity, yield issues, high-k and lithography.
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The success of ARM Holdings plc with its series of low-power processing cores, and its relatively small-scale success - so far - with its Mali graphics processing cores puts ARM in a potentially dangerous position.
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Xilinx said it will use TSMC as one of two foundry suppliers for its 28-nm FPGAs, a major strategy shift that has been the subject of industry rumors and analyst speculation for weeks.
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ARM today announced the launch of the innovative Cortex™-M4 processor to provide a highly efficient solution for digital signal control (DSC) applications, while maintaining the industry leading capabilities of the ARM® Cortex-M family of processors for advanced microcontroller (MCU) applications.
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SILICONGATE today announced the availability of silicon-proven SGC67120, the first in a family of synchronous step-down DC/DC converters designed to operate from a 1.8V to 5.5V input and deliver up to 3A to 0.6V to 3.6V outputs. With an extremely fast 1.5µs response time, this new converter promises to reduce the external capacitor size and overall solution cost for portable applications.
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Denali today announced the industry's first PureSpec-Ethernet verification intellectual property (VIP) product to support the preliminary 40/100 Gigabit(Gb) specification from the IEEE Ethernet Task Force and delivery to current networking and communication customers for use in deploying next-generation Ethernet products.
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CEVA today announced that Samsung Electronics has deployed CEVA DSP core technology in their first generation commercial Long Term Evolution (LTE) modem. The Kalmia modem chipset supports download speed up to 100Mbps and upload speed of 50Mbps within the 20MHz frequency bandwidth.
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Silicon Hive B.V. announced a technology collaboration with Intel to apply its parallel processing technology across mobile and embedded segments based on the Intel Atom Processor roadmap. Previously, Intel Capital had led a $7M investment round in Silicon Hive.
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES and ARM today unveiled new details on their leading-edge System-on-Chip (SoC) platform technology for powering the next generation of wireless products and applications. The new chip manufacturing platform is projected to enable a 40 percent increase in computing performance, a 30 percent decrease in power consumption, and a 100 percent increase in standby battery life.
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Blue Wonder has integrated its LTE baseband solution with the 4M Wireless LTE protocol as part of a complete LTE terminal reference platform.
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Silicon Hive announces HiveFlex CSP2500 Digital RF Processor. The silicon-proven CSP2500 processor enables fully C-programmable, multi-standard smart phone transceiver platforms targeting EDGE, UMTS, LTE, cdma2000, WiFi and WiMAX technologies.
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Researchers from ARM and the University of Michigan have demonstrated a 52 percent reduction in power on a 65-nm ARM processor running at more than 1 GHz, using a hybrid technique for dynamic detection and correction of timing errors, according to a paper scheduled to be presented at the International Solid State Circuits Conference.
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Synopsys today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CoWare. When completed, the acquisition will expand Synopsys' portfolio of system-level design and verification products used in wireless, consumer and automotive design.
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Rambus today unveiled its Mobile XDR(TM) memory architecture for next-generation mobile products. Mobile XDR memory offers a high-bandwidth, low-power memory architecture to enable devices that exceed the power and performance targets for next-generation mobile products.
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Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation, today announced it will add the Virtutech product line to its embedded software product portfolio after the completion of Intel Corporation's acquisition of Virtutech signed earlier this week.
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Company Surpasses 750 Million Unit Milestone as Customer Demand for On-Chip Network IP Increases
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Synopsys today announced it has acquired VaST Systems Technology to extend its virtual prototyping solutions into the automotive and consumer application space. The acquisition adds a comprehensive set of processor sub-system models frequently found in automotive and consumer applications to Synopsys' virtual prototyping portfolio.
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ARM Holdings plans to launch three processor cores during 2010. The cores, codenamed Eagle, Heron and Merlin, all have lead licensing customers and deliveries of intellectual property will start either in 2010 or early in 2011 depending on the core, said ARM CEO Warren East.
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Altera announced today new innovations that will be incorporated into upcoming 28-nm FPGAs. Embedded HardCopy® Blocks, a new method for partial reconfiguration and embedded 28-Gbps transceivers will dramatically improve the density and I/O performance of next-generation Altera® FPGAs and further strengthen their competitive position versus ASICs and ASSPs.