Top Story
Cosmic Circuits today announced the availability of a silicon-proven platform of mixed-signal IP cores in TSMC 40nm for wireless communications applications, resulting from its collaboration with TSMC.
Top Story
Uni-Pixel today announced that Rambus has acquired a portion of Uni-Pixel's IP portfolio relating to dynamic backlighting, field sequential color displays, and Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter (TMOS(TM)) display technology.
Top Story
The probability that the semiconductor industry will one day use 450-mm silicon wafers in manufacturing has increased significantly, though the chance of achieving volume production by the original target date of 2012 is remote, according to a new report by analysts at Semico Research.
Top Story
STMicroelectronics today announced full availability of a 32-nm technology platform for the design and development of leading-edge ASICs for networking applications. Central to the new 32nm SoC design platform, which implements ST's 32LPH (Low-Power High-performance) process technology, is the industry's first Serializer-Deserializer (SerDes) IP available in 32nm 'bulk' silicon.
Top Story
Cadence Design today announced a joint development agreement with IBM to create high-performance integration-optimized IP. Under the agreement, the companies will develop DDR PHYs, memory controllers, and protocols such as PCIe and Ethernet under 32-nanometer silicon-on-insulator.
Top Story
videantis today announced that the WebM project and the open source VP8 video codec released by Google, Inc., will be supported on the videantis v-MPx programmable processor platform.
Top Story
EDA and IP vendor Synopsys reported revenue gains on a sequential and year-over-year basis for the three months ended April 30, as the company beat consensus analyst expectations for revenue and profit for the period.
Top Story
Kilopass and SMSC today announced that Kilopass’ XPM™ NVM has passed SMSC’s TrueAuto automotive quality process, and will be embedded in many of SMSC’s TrueAuto ICs.
Top Story
MoSys and PLDA have partnered to deliver complete PCI Express 2.0 and 3.0 PHY and controller IP solutions. The first integrated offering will combine MoSys' PCI Express 2.0 PHY with PLDA's XpressRich2 controller. The companies are also working together to provide an integrated PCI Express 3.0 solution
Top Story
Kilopass Technology announced today it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Sidense Corp. in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on May 14, 2010, for infringement of Kilopass’ 1T antifuse technology.
Top Story
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, and Denali Software, Inc., a leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP), today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Cadence will acquire Denali for $315 million in cash.
Top Story
Intel Corp. sees no threat to its business from ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) and has no intention in participating in any alternative processor architectures to its own, according to CEO Paul Otellini.
Top Story
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. aims to supply silicon for ARM-based servers with 40-nm multicore processors it will ship this year and is working with multiple partners including one that hopes to port a server version of Microsoft Windows to ARM.
Top Story
VeriSilicon and On2 Finland today announced a wide-ranging partnership that adds the multi-format video encode/decode solutions from On2 Finland to VeriSilicon's expanding, system level star IP portfolio. The agreement gives VeriSilicon access to On2 Finland’s silicon proven IP, with support for a variety of video formats such as Real Video (RV), Divx, VP6, VP7, VP8 and AVS, for customer SoC designs targeting mobile and home entertainment consumer applications with varied market requirements.
Top Story
An analysis by UBM TechInsights shows the Apple A4 processor in the iPad is a single-core ARM Cortex A8 made by Samsung.
Top Story
IP house MIPS Technologies Inc. recently revealed that it had landed a major cellular baseband/application processor licensee based in Asia.
Top Story
Synopsys today announced the immediate availability of the DesignWare® Ethernet Quality-of-Service (QoS) Controller IP which implements the new IEEE specifications for audio video bridging (AVB) features.
Top Story
SuperSpeed USB, which offers a tenfold bandwidth improvement over high-speed USB, will grow to just under 30 percent of the USB interface technology market by 2014, according to In-Stat forecasts. The success of SuperSpeed USB will be limited initially, however.
Top Story
Synopsys today announced the immediate availability of the DesignWare® MIPI® 4G DigRF(SM) Master Controller IP. By complementing its current silicon-proven DesignWare MIPI 3G DigRF Controller and PHY IP, Synopsys becomes the first vendor to offer a comprehensive IP portfolio for both the MIPI DigRF v3 and v4 standards.
Talk to us
Add your Products