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Andrew Grove, the co-founder of Intel Corp., doesn't buy the again-fashionable argument that startups, preferably technology startups, are the best way to create new American jobs.
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Renesas Electronics today introduced a three-pronged business strategy including (1) formulation of growth strategies by optimizing business portfolios, (2) realization of merger synergies, such as the integration of development environments, technology platforms and various infrastructures, and (3) implementation of structural reforms to create a business structure with stable profitability and resistance to changing market conditions.
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Synopsys today announced the addition of the DesignWare® 96 dB Hi-Fi Audio IP in the 40-nanometer (nm) and 55-nm process technologies to its broad portfolio of high-quality audio IP solutions. Synopsys is the first IP provider to offer audio codecs, digital-to-analog converters (DACs) and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) in these advanced processes.
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ARM Holdings plc announces its unaudited financial results for the second quarter and half year ended 30 June 2010, demonstrating continuing progress in executing its strategy with multiple design wins taking ARM further into new markets.
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NXP Semiconductors today announced its acquisition of Jennic, a leading developer of low power RF solutions for wireless applications in smart energy, environment, logistics and consumer markets. The acquisition will see Jennic’s state-of-the-art portfolio of 802.15.4 and Zigbee low power RF solutions integrated across a wide range of NXP’s High Performance Mixed Signal products.
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ARM and Microsoft today announced that they have signed a new licensing agreement for the ARM® architecture. The agreement extends the collaborative relationship between the two companies. Since 1997 Microsoft and ARM have worked together.
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Xilinx, Inc. today announced first quarter fiscal 2011 sales of $594.7 million, up 12% sequentially and up 58% from the first quarter of the prior fiscal year. First quarter fiscal 2011 net income was $158.6 million, or $0.58 per diluted share.
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Posedge has announced the availability of soft IP core that performs Secure Digital IO (SDIO) device functionality. The PE-SDIOD3.0 is highly configurable and is fully compliant with the latest SDIO specification version 3.0. The Core supports SPI, SD1, and SD4 bit transfer modes for Non-embedded applications and 8bit transfer mode for embedded applications.
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ARM and TSMC today jointly announced a long-term agreement that provides TSMC with access to a broad range of ARM processors and enables the development of ARM physical IP across TSMC technology nodes. This agreement supports the companies’ mutual customers to achieve optimized Systems-On-Chip (SoC) based on ARM processors and covers a wide range of process nodes extending down to 20nm.
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Actel today announced the first fully qualified flash based FPGAs for space flight applications. Actel's RT ProASIC®3 family successfully passed the extensive testing required for MIL-STD-883 Class B qualification.
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Aeroflex Gaisler AB, a leader in System on Chip (SoC) design, today announces the availability of a MIL-STD-1553B IP-core. The MIL-STD-1553B IP-core includes Bus Controller (BC), Remote Terminal (RT) and Monitor (MT) and configures as either a BC/RT/MT or RT only. The MIL-STD-1553B is available for licensing either as a part of the GRLIB IP library or as a separate IP-core in VHDL source code.
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TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, and Kilopass Technology, a leading provider of semiconductor logic non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP), today announced that TowerJazz has licensed Kilopass’ one-time programmable (OTP) memory intellectual property (IP) for its 0.13μm CMOS process.
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Silicon Image today announced the availability of a new IP core based on its SteelVine (R) Series 3 Core technology for SATA storage processors. The IP core is a low-cost solution supporting RAID0, RAID1 and JBOD for consumer electronics (CE) storage applications.
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Altera today announced it has enhanced its Arria® II GX FPGA variant with 6.375-Gbps transceivers and up to 1.25-Gbps LVDS support, while broadening the reach of the family with the addition of the new Arria II GZ FPGA variant.
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It's that time again: we have a shortage of some IC types, as opposed to a glut, yet why do we never have the "just right" balance?
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Synopsys today announced that Open-Silicon has licensed and integrated 50 high-speed DesignWare® IP products into customers' chips with 100 percent first-pass silicon success.
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The "actual" global market for chips was $24.02 billion in May, as calculated from the three-month average of $24.65 billion given out by the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA).
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