D&R Headline News (December 2011)

Headlines for Friday Dec. 30, 2011

• Invensas Purchases 73 MoSys Patents
• UMC Pushes 8" Manufacturing Limit with A+ Technology Solution

Headlines for Wednesday Dec. 28, 2011

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Global Mixed Signal System-on-a-Chip Market worth $212.69 Billion by 2016

The global System-on-a-Chip (SoC) market is expected to grow from $85.9 billion in 2011 to $225 billion in 2016 at a CAGR of 21.24% from 2011 to 2016. The Mixed Signal System-on-a-Chip (MxSoC) market is expected to be $72.16 billion in 2011 (a percentage share of 84% in SoC market)

Headlines for Tuesday Dec. 27, 2011

• Genesys Logic Announced the World's First USB 3.0 Webcam Controller GL3620
• IP Cores, Inc. Ships More True Random IP Cores
• eMemory grasps the developing trend in technology and expands into the advanced technology

Headlines for Friday Dec. 23, 2011

• Rambus and Broadcom Sign Patent License Agreement

Headlines for Thursday Dec. 22, 2011

• LSI Announces Industry's First 28nm Read Channel for Hard Disk Drive Manufacturers
• Software Porting to Tensilica-based Multicore SOC Designs now aided by PolyCore Software's Poly-Platform
• Onkyo and Silicon Image Announce the World's First A/V Receivers Featuring InstaPrevue and MHL Technologies

Headlines for Wednesday Dec. 21, 2011

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Vivante Records Explosive Growth with Worldwide Product Shipments Including the Majority of China Mobile’s TD Smartphones

Vivante announced mass market product shipments on China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA network. Products incorporating Vivante technologies are based on the Marvell® PXA920 communications processor and ship in China Mobile OMS and Android TD smartphones from ASUS, Huawei, Lenovo, Samsung, ZTE and many others.

• Test and Verification Solutions creates strategic presence in Asia Pacific market
• Latest Release of Android "Ice Cream Sandwich" Comes to the MIPS Architecture
• Rambus Settles Stockholder Suit Related to Past Stock Option Backdating
• DMP Establish US Subsidiary and Appoints New Head to Run US Operations and Sales
• Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Grew 1 Percent to Reach $302 Billion in 2011
• Broadcom Announces Industry's First CMOS 40G PHY for Long Haul Optical Transport

Headlines for Tuesday Dec. 20, 2011

• Smart Grid System on Chip Innovator, EnVerv Raises $12M Round of Financing
• Xylon's logiSDHC SD Card Controller IP core now includes the File System
• Nuvoton Introduces First Audio SoC with ARM Technology
• BIOS AP Designs Spartan-6 FPGAs into RAID Motherboard for Surveillance & Storage System Applications

Headlines for Monday Dec. 19, 2011

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Microsemi and INVIA First to Deliver DPA-resistant Cryptographic Software on SmartFusion

Microsemi today announced the immediate availability of INVIA's differential power analysis (DPA)-resistant products on Microsemi's flash-based FPGA devices and SmartFusion®, the industry's only customizable system-on-chip (cSoC) solution which integrates an FPGA with analog functions and a hard ARM microcontroller core.

• MOSAID Technologies' Shareholders Approve Acquisition by Sterling Partners
• Cryptography Research and INVIA Sign Developer Agreement for Differential Power Analysis Countermeasures
• Mentor Graphics Delivers Emulation-Ready Transactors for the Accelerated Verification of SoCs
• Xilinx Updates December Quarter Sales Guidance
• Recore Systems and CRC partner to port high velocity digital radio L-band listening to Recore's DSP application platform
• SP Devices announces latest collaboration with LeCroy
• ECC Tek Announces Ultra-High-Performance Binary BCH Encoders and Decoders

Headlines for Friday Dec. 16, 2011

• Dolphin Integration unveils an sRAM architecture for Cost Sensitive Devices at 90 nm LP
• GSA Reports a Resurgence of Semiconductor IPO Activity in November
• Global Unichip Named Outstanding Asia-Pacific Semiconductor Company

Headlines for Thursday Dec. 15, 2011

• Alvand Technologies announces availability of next-generation Compact Video DAC in 40 nm
• ARM Forecast to Accelerate Lead in the Automotive Sector Over the next Five Years
• CAST Full Hardware UDP/IP Stack Core Simplifies Streaming Media Over IP Networks
• CEVA and Idea! Electronic Systems Partner to Deliver Software-Based ISDB-T Solution for DTV Demodulation
• Test and Verification Solutions Collaborates with Partners to Promote its Offerings in China mainland and Taiwan market
• Qualcomm becomes Imagination Technologies licensee
• Rambus and ITRI Collaborate to Develop Interconnect and Advanced 3D Packaging Technologies
• Cosmic Circuits ships 12 Million ICs
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES and ARM Deliver Optimized SoC Solution based on ARM Cortex-A Series Processors
• Synopsys Enables Silicon Success for GLOBALFOUNDRIES' First Complex 20-nm Design

Headlines for Wednesday Dec. 14, 2011

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Mobile SoC TAM to Exceed 3.1 Billion Devices in 2015

Driven by consumer's desire to be connected anywhere and anytime and the ever increasing access to any and every type of content, the electronics industry continues to change rapidly.

• Mixel's Interface Technology Deployed in the World's FIRST Wide Viewing Glasses-free 3D Laptop
• MoSys Opens China Office and Partners with RTI Technology China Limited to Bring Local Representation for its Bandwidth Engine(R) Family of ICs to the Region
• SMIC Receives Supplier Award from Qualcomm
• Blu-Wireless Technology Selects Sonics' On-chip Networks to Develop New Class of High-Speed Wireless Communications
• TSMC goes it alone with 3-D IC process
• K-micro samples new Frame Rate Converter LCD Timing Controller for large-size LCD TV market
• Renesas Electronics Develops Industry's First 40nm Embedded Flash Memory Technology IP for Automotive Real-Time Applications
• Global Unichip Achieves Gigahertz+ Frequency on ARM Cortex-A9 Processor with Synopsys IC Compiler

Headlines for Tuesday Dec. 13, 2011

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CSR guts Zoran DTV chip business in re-org

Chip maker CSR plc said Monday (Dec. 12) it would discontinue investment in the digital TV and silicon tuner product lines it recently acquired when it bought Zoran Corp. and lay off about 800 employees by the end of the second quarter of 2012.

• Cadence Palladium XP Verification Computing Platform Speeds Deployment of Panasonic Systems-on-Chip for Digital Consumer Products
• Cosmic Circuits' MIPI Alliance M-PHY-DigRFv4 licensed by multiple customers
• HiSilicon Licenses eSilicon's 40nm Silicon-Proven TCAMs for High-Performance Network Chips
• Mojy Chian Appointed New Chair of Socle Technology
• Xilinx Underscores Commitment to Growth in China at Grand Opening of Expanded Beijing Site, New R&D Center
• Cree Licenses Key Doherty Amplifier Patents to RFHIC
• e2v and SP Devices working together to deliver the ultimate in high-performance ADC solutions
• Imagination Technologies Group plc - Interim Results for the six months to 31 October 2011
• Altera Interoperates First 28-nm FPGA with PLX Technology's PCIe Gen3 Switch

Headlines for Monday Dec. 12, 2011

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SiliconGate Awarded First Prize at IP-SOC 2011

SILICONGATE announced that It received the Best Paper Award at IP-SOC 2011 for its high performance Power Management IP. SiliconGate brought to the exhibition two of its high performance IPs, allowing conference participants to see the performance and to change the test setup conditions.

• Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Spending to Reach $309 billion in 2012, a 2.2 Percent Increase from 2011
• The Process of FPGA Design Takes Giant Leap Forward With the New Stellar IP Tool from 4DSP
• InnoRoute announces the availability of its FlowEngine packet flow processor family
• WiLAN Acquires Portfolio of More Than 1400 Digital TV and Display Patents
• Samsung Takes Record Share of Global DRAM in Q3
• Lattice Announces New Version Of Mixed Signal Design Software
• New Release Of Lattice Diamond Design Software Accelerates FPGA Design Optimization For Low Power And Cost Sensitive Applications
• SmartPlay Technologies sets up design center in Hyderabad
• Crocus and SMIC Sign Technology Development and Wafer Manufacturing Agreements

Headlines for Friday Dec. 09, 2011

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Lattice Semiconductor to Acquire SiliconBlue

Lattice today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SiliconBlue Technologies, a pioneer and leader in Custom Mobile Device(TM) solutions for the consumer handheld market.

• TSMC Expands Investment in Taiwan with New Milestone for Taichung GigaFab
• TSMC November 2011 Sales Report
• Dolphin Integration announces the availability at 40 nm of low-power audio codec with SNR of 100 dB
• SMIC Reaches Settlement With Elpida
• Arasan Chip Systems Announces 3rd Generation Hardware Validation Platform Family for Mobile Interface Standards

Headlines for Thursday Dec. 08, 2011

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Xilinx Ships First Zynq-7000 Devices, the World's First Extensible Processing Platform

Xilinx today announced its first Zynq(TM)-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) shipments to customers, a major milestone in the roll-out of a complete embedded processing platform that for the first time offers developers ASIC levels of performance and power consumption, the flexibility of an FPGA and the programmability of a microprocessor.

• Synopsys' IC Validator Certified by GLOBALFOUNDRIES for 28-nm, 40-nm and 65-nm Design
• Ikanos Communications Selects eSilicon For Manufacturing Operations and Logistics
• Altera Updates Fourth Quarter Revenue Guidance
• Mark Horowitz to Step Down From Rambus Board of Directors
• Triad Semiconductor Introduces the World's Smallest High Voltage Via Configurable Array

Headlines for Wednesday Dec. 07, 2011

• GainSpan Closes $18 Million Series C Financing
• Apache Design's Totem Software Adopted by Fujitsu Semiconductor for Power Noise and Reliability Analysis
• eSilicon adds Wim Roelandts and Timothy Chen to its Board; Appoints Seth Neiman as Chairman
• Marvell chipset for 3DTVs integrates SENSIO Hi-Fi 3D
• In search of new chip startup funding models
• Intel, Micron Extend NAND Flash Technology Leadership With Introduction of World's First 128Gb NAND Device and Mass Production of 64Gb 20nm NAND

Headlines for Tuesday Dec. 06, 2011

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Worldwide Semiconductor Sales Projected to Top $300 Billion in 2011

SIA has endorsed the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization’s Autumn 2011 global semiconductor sales forecast which has projected semiconductor sales to grow to $302 Billion for 2011, reaching the $300 Billion mark for the first time and representing a 1.3 percent growth rate over the record-breaking year in 2010.

• Nvidia: ARM supercomputer to be more efficient than x86
• AuthenTec Acquires PeerSec Networks to Strengthen Leadership in Embedded Security
• Revere Security and Evigia Team Up to Provide World's First Standards-based Secure RFID Solution
• Sibridge Technologies USB 3.0 Verification IP offers predictable success for comprehensive verification
• Arteris Collaborates on Interposer Test Chip Projects With TSMC
• Open-Silicon's Interlaken IP Core Chosen for ALAXALA's Advanced Networking Infrastructure Device
• Renesas Electronics Receives USB-IF Certification for its USB 3.0-SATA3 Bridge System-on-Chip
• IPextreme Introduces Xena

Headlines for Monday Dec. 05, 2011

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Intel Reasserts Semiconductor Market Leadership in 2011

After three years of seeing its dominant position in the global semiconductor market whittled away by aggressive competition from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Intel Corp. is set to reverse the trend in 2011, with a combination of strong sales and an acquisition allowing the company to rebuild its margin of market leadership.

• Tabula selects D&R IP Management Platform
• PLX Technology Expands 10GBase-T PHY Family; Lowers Power, Cost; Adds Powerful Features
• SiliconBlue Chips Selected for New Citizen Eco-Drive Watch
• Leading-edge demonstration of Application Hardware Modeling for SoC Integrators and Application Engineers of Fabless suppliers by Dolphin Integration
• NXP Ships World's Fastest ARM Cortex-M4 and Cortex-M3 Microcontrollers
• Accellera and Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) Approve Merger, Unite to Form Accellera Systems Initiative
• MIPS Technologies and Ingenic Semiconductor Announce Availability of World's First Android "Ice Cream Sandwich" Tablet
• ZTE Licenses Mentor Graphics Inflexion UI Technology to Develop Advanced 3D Smartphone User Interfaces
• Industry Leaders Achieve Significant Power and Performance Gains With Synopsys' Low Power Solution
• Lattice Ships 75 Million MachXO Programmable Logic Devices
• CEVA to Showcase Latest IP for Digital Home and Mobile Products at CES 2012
• Imagination Technologies licenses PowerVR IP cores to Ricoh
• SpringSoft Names Software Industry Veteran Milligan as New VP Corporate Marketing

Headlines for Friday Dec. 02, 2011

• Agilent Technologies Signs Acquisition Agreement with Accelicon Technologies, a Leading Provider of Semiconductor Device-Modeling Software

Headlines for Thursday Dec. 01, 2011

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Synopsys to Acquire Magma Design Automation

Synopsys has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Magma® Design Automation

• Noesis Technologies L.P. becomes a full member of Hellenic Semiconductor Industry Association
• Vivante announces extension of GPU IP Licensing Agreement with Freescale For High Performance Multi-Core Graphics
• Samsung Announces Industry First ARM Cortex-A15 Processor Samples for Tablet Computers