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The worldwide semiconductor foundry market totaled $29.8 billion in 2011, a 5.1 percent increase from 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. Analysts said the semiconductor supply chain experienced some impact from the Japanese disasters and Thailand flooding. However, without the steep depreciation of U.S. currency, analysts said that foundry growth in 2011 would have been just 0.7 percent.
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Cosmic Circuits today announced the development of MIPI D-PHY, MIPI M-PHY, USB2.0, USB3.0, PCI Express and HDMI IPs in 28 and 20nm. Cosmic Circuits is also developing the controller solutions for these standards in order to provide customers with a complete solution.
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Synopsys today announced the availability of the DesignWare® SoundWave Audio Subsystem, a complete, integrated hardware and software audio IP subsystem for system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Synopsys' SoundWave Audio Subsystem is fully configurable and supports 2.0 to 7.1 audio streams with 24-bit precision to meet the requirements of a broad range of audio applications such as digital TVs, set-top boxes, Blu-ray Discs, portable audio devices and tablets.
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Avery Design Systems Inc., an innovator in functional verification productivity solutions, today announced availability of its DDR-Xactor verification IP providing DDR and LPDDR memory models and a complete DFI-PHY verification solution
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Synopsys today announced availability of verification IP (VIP) for Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe), an emerging storage protocol for connecting solid state drives (SSDs) directly to the PCI Express® interface.
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Designed to provide the high bandwidth and low power consumption required by smartphones and tablets, the Cadence LPDDR3 memory IP solution includes integrated controller and PHY support, virtual prototyping, verification IP and Allegro(R) design-in kits to accelerate implementation and reduce design risk.
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The ASIC Design Start landscape has changed since 2006 to accommodate increasing design costs, rising design complexity and lengthening design cycle times, especially in the System-on-a-Chip (SoC) market. These changes are having an impact on the ASIC Design Start market as the broader semiconductor market has mostly recovered from the financial meltdown that occurred in the 3rd quarter of 2008 and into the first part of 2009.
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Adapteva, a small and lean fabless startup that has developed a series of multicore floating-point processors, claims its latest device, a 28-nm 64-core processor is close to sampling.
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Kilopass today announced it has licensed its 1T patent coverage license (PCL) to a Sidense customer. This is the first in an expected series of customers to license the 1T PCL. With the 1T PCL, Kilopass is enabling direct resolution with Sidense customers on their existing products using 1T technology before the U.S. District Court trial begins on September 30, 2012.
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Europe's largest chip company STMicroelectronics NV should persuade Ericsson AB that they sell off their mobile chip joint venture ST-Ericsson, but probably to some aspiring Chinese company.
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Vivante today announced that it has worked with Cadence to qualify the Cadence double data rate (DDR) Memory controller on-chip intellectual property (IP) solution for use with Vivante's graphics processing unit (GPU) IP solution
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ARM today announced the ARM® Cortex™-M0+ processor, the world's most energy-efficient microprocessor. The Cortex-M0+ processor has been optimized to deliver ultra low-power, low-cost MCUs for intelligent sensors and smart control systems in a broad range of applications including home appliances, white goods, medical monitoring, metering, lighting and power and motor control devices.
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Posedge has expanded its portfolio by announcing the availability of Posedge Wireless Packet Processor (PE WPP). The highly integrated PE WPP enables high throughput and flexible packet processing including layer 2-4 header modifications, switching, IPv4/IPv6 routing and inline flow classification. The PE WPP’s integrated traffic management provides Quality of Service (QoS), with hierarchical per-flow/per-class rate control, traffic shaping, and congestion management at 1.4 Gbps data rates.
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Mixel and Graphin announced today that they have achieved the world’s first end-to-end video transmission over a MIPI® M-PHY link
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Arasan's MIPI D-PHY 1.1 implementation, with full 1.5Gbps data rates on each lane, allows tablet designers to go to 2560x2048 resolution at 30 fps and 2048x1536 resolution at 60fps
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CEVA today announced the availability of its low energy CEVA-Bluetooth 4.0 IP, for both single mode and dual mode applications. CEVA-Bluetooth 4.0 incorporates Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) functionality, significantly expanding the addressable market for Bluetooth connectivity to include a wide range of smaller, cost-efficient applications previously limited by the power consumption of older Bluetooth standards.
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Fastec Imaging Corporation has incorporated a JPEG Encoder IP Core from CAST, Inc. in its groundbreaking TS3™ line of handheld, high-speed digital cameras.
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S3 Group, a global provider of Mixed Signal, Analog, RF and Power Management semiconductor IP solutions, today confirmed that fabless semiconductor vendor ADTechnology Co. Ltd. has licensed its Baseband ADC and Power Management IP. S3 Group customized IP from its portfolio, using its skilled engineers, to deliver the solution.
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MTI Mobile – a world-leading developer of radio network technology for 3G and LTE - is launching a range of next generation of high-speed Intellectual Property Core (IPC) solutions allowing mobile & wireless equipment providers to develop faster and more powerful radio network solutions.
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