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TSMC today announced that its 0.25-micron One-Time-Programmable (OTP) IP now meets Automotive Electronics Council (AEC) standard AEC-Q100 specification.
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Renesas today announced the development of new technology that realizes a close proximity wireless communication over very short distances of a few centimeters, in which a compact antenna only a few square millimeters in area (about one-hundredth the area of conventional antennas) can be integrated with the transmitter and receiver circuit blocks in a single chip.
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Semiconductor fabs in China produced 40 billion ICs in 2009, accounting for 25.1 percent of domestic demand, up from 20.9 percent in 2004, according to a new report that concludes that massive investments in China's semiconductor industry are paying dividends.
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Processor IP licensor MIPS Technologies Inc. has announced a restructuring plan that will see it reduce headcount and incur a $1 million restructuring charge. The changes are expected to save company between $2 million and $2.4 million in annual expense, including the current financial year.
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Virage Logic today announced it is investing in its ARC processor product portfolio by releasing the ARC GNU 2.3 Toolchain for its complete range of ARC processor cores and the ARC Linux 1.3 Operating System for its ARC® 750D processor.
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Sonics today announced the company plans to expand its presence in China and Taiwan, naming James Mac Hale as vice president of Asia Operations. Sonics has opened a branch office in Taipei and has established a local team in both Taipei and Shanghai.
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ARM today announced it is leading a Green Cloud Services project called EuroCloud. The research project aims to validate the value proposition of constructing data center platforms using a combination of low power processing and 3D chip packaging solutions to deliver a significant improvement in cost- and energy-efficiency compared to the approach utilized in incumbent server platforms.
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A team of experts reviews the evidence on Apple's A4 processor in an attempt to determine its origins and the influence of chip design houses recently acquired by Apple.
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Magillem raises US$ 1 500 000 on Euronext Paris Free Market in secondary offering led by ARKEON FINANCE. Proceeds will be used to accelerate international deployment and advanced R&D projects with selected IDM customers. Company closes fourth fiscal exercise on June 30 and is profitable for fourth year in a row.
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ARM, IBM, Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Synopsys today announced the delivery of the industry’s first complete vertically optimized 32/28 nanometer (nm) design platform. The solution consists of optimized high performance, low-power processor and physical IP from ARM; tool enablement, connectivity IP and integrated design flow from Synopsys; and 32/28nm low-power process technology from the Common Platform alliance of IBM, Samsung and GLOBALFOUNDRIES.
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Coresonic AB, a leading provider of baseband processor technology, has raised € 2 million (SEK 20m) in an issue of new shares. The capital will enable Coresonic to drive the international sales expansion and continue building a strong technology platform.
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Recent acquisition activity by large EDA vendors represents the most recent and perhaps boldest evidence of a broadening focus that steps away from a "myopic view of what EDA is that was killing the industry," according to a prominent EDA analyst.
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Synopsys and Virage Logic today announced they have signed a definitive agreement for Synopsys to acquire Virage Logic. Virage Logic's offering will complement Synopsys' DesignWare® interface and analog IP portfolio by adding embedded memories with test and repair, non-volatile memories (NVMs), standard cell libraries, and programmable cores for control and multimedia sub-systems.
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ARM today announced the availability of the ARM® VSTREAM™ virtual debug interface; a fast and flexible virtual link that connects software debuggers to hardware assisted verification systems. VSTREAM enables more efficient software development in the early stages of system design, improving the utilization of hardware resources and reducing project risk and time-to-market for new ARM processor-based devices.
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TSMC today introduced Reference Flow 11.0 and Analog/Mixed Signal (AMS) Reference Flow 1.0. Both are key collaborative components of TSMC's recently-announced extension of its Open Innovation Platform™.
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PLDA today announced the immediate availability of XpressRich3 - the world’s first IP core for leading FPGAs and ASICs based on the forthcoming PCIe® 3.0 specification, currently under development within the PCI-SIG®. The PLDA XpressRich3 core features an innovative architecture that seamlessly allows both ASIC and FPGA implementations, an extensive list of configurable features and a broad range of user interface options to easily achieve simple to more complex design requirements.
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Worldwide semiconductor revenue in 2010 is forecast to reach $290 billion in 2010, a 27.1 percent increase from 2009 revenue of $228 billion, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, Inc.
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Kilopass Technology unveiled a one-time programmable 4-Mb non-volatile memory IP product large enough to store the firmware and boot code that is traditionally stored in external serial-flash EEPROM chips.
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A surge in announcements of increased chip making capital expenditure is not going to make an impact any time soon. But when the spending does hit it will almost certainly produce an oversupply bust sometime as consolidation amongsts the pure-play IDMs exacerbates the boom-bust cycle.
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