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Servers based on ARM multicore processors should arrive in the next 12 months, according to Warren East, chief executive officer of processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England).
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Xilinx today introduced the architecture for a new Extensible Processing Platform. The ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-A9 MPCore(TM) processor-based platform enables system architects and embedded software developers to apply a combination of serial and parallel processing to address the challenging system requirements presented by the global demand for embedded systems to perform increasingly complex functions.
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ARM Holdings plc announces its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2010, demonstrating continuing progress against its strategy with highest ever unit shipments leading to record royalty revenues, profits and net cash generation.
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MIPS Technologies announced that MIPS and Imagination Technologies have formed a strategic alliance to ensure the optimum system solution and support for customers combining IP from both companies. Together the companies are working to help SoC developers get to market quickly with optimized solutions combining processor IP from MIPS and graphics, video and other IP from Imagination.
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The latest real-time debugging solution from Dolphin Integration now applies the technique of Property Checkers to locate program bugs. It drastically speeds-up the iterative debug-correction process.
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London's financial district was full of rumors on Wednesday (April 21) that Apple is considering a takeover of processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England), according to the London Evening Standard newspaper.
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Virage Logic Corporation (NASDAQ:VIRL), the semiconductor industry's trusted IP partner, today announced that its AEON® MTP (Multiple Time Programmable) NVM (non-volatile memory) EEPROM IP has been qualified for a million cycles at an elevated temperature of 105°C in a standard 250-nanometer (nm), 5V CMOS process.
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Blue Wonder Communications has entered into the interoperability testing phase with its recently announced LTE IP product BWC200. During this test session against ZTE’s test environment the BWC200 has successfully passed uplink, downlink and synchronization tests via antenna over the air at up to 20 MHz bandwidth.
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Altera today announced its next-generation 28-nm Stratix(R) V FPGA family, the industry's highest bandwidth FPGA. Offering up to 1.6 Tbps of serial switching capability, Stratix V FPGAs leverage a myriad of new technologies and a leading-edge 28-nm process to reduce the cost and power of high-bandwidth applications.
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Two Intel executives today outlined the latest Intel SoC products for embedded applications and described new research to allow homes and small businesses to better use and manage energy. The forthcoming SoC product features an Intel® Atom™ processor core that, for the first time, will let other companies create PCI Express*-compliant devices that directly connect to the chip, which offers new flexibility for embedded applications.
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CoreEL Technologies today announced the availability of three new video decoding IP solutions that include, an integrated Broadcast grade H.264 and MPEG-2 HD decoder solution on a single Xilinx® Virtex®-6FPGA., a MPEG-2 4:2:2@HL 1080p60 decoding IP Core working on the high performance Virtex-6 FPGA and a H264/MPEG2 decoding solution working on a low-cost Spartan®-6 FPGA.
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Virage Logic extends its leadership position by announcing a full suite of 28-nanometer (nm) memory compilers and logic libraries on TSMC’s High-K Metal Gate (28nm HP) process. Following on the early success of their 40nm-node design, two of the company’s longstanding customers have already adopted the 28nm SiWare Memory technology.
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NXP Semiconductors today announced that it will demonstrate working silicon of its newest microcontrollers based on the ARM® Cortex™-M4 processor at ESC Silicon Valley 2010. NXP is one of the first ARM partners to license the Cortex-M4 processor, a highly efficient solution for digital signal control applications, and is the first to demonstrate working silicon.
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eSilicon today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Silicon Design Solutions (SDS), a privately held supplier of niche semiconductor memory intellectual property (IP) cores.
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Synopsys today announced availability of the DesignWare™ DDR multiPHY which is designed to support a broad range of DDR SDRAM standards in a single PHY without sacrificing power consumption or silicon area.
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Sonics today announced a Windows version of SNAP™ (Sonics Network for AMBA® Protocol) - making the product accessible to a greater number of SoC designers and developers.
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The inevitability of semiconductor industry consolidation seems to be widely accepted, but data shows that the semiconductor industry has been slowly "deconsolidating" since the 1960s.
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Synopsys today announced that its DesignWare® SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) Solution including Controller and PHY IP successfully passed the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) SuperSpeed USB certification.