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ARM announced the new ARM® Cortex™-A50 processor series based upon the ARMv8 architecture, extending ARM’s leadership in performance and low power.
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In a bold strategic move, AMD announced that it will design 64-bit ARM® technology-based processors in addition to its x86 processors for multiple markets, starting with cloud and data center servers. AMD’s first ARM technology-based processor will be a highly-integrated, 64-bit multicore System-on-a-Chip (SoC) optimized for the dense, energy-efficient servers that now dominate the largest data centers and power the modern computing experience.
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Rick Clemmer, who took the reins as CEO of debt-ridden NXP Semiconductors nearly four years ago, expects to complete the Dutch chip maker's transition to NXP 2.0 by the end of 2013.
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ARM, Red Hat, Inc. and AppliedMicro today announced a collaboration that aims to develop a disruptive 64-bit server design platform to dramatically lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) of cloud computing, data centers and enterprises.
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Cadence today announced multiple successful verification projects using Cadence® Verification IP for ARM® AMBA® protocols, one of the industry’s most widely used verification solutions for the AMBA protocol family.
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Sonics today unveiled the next generation of its SonicsGN™ (SGN) NoC – the latest product in the company’s broad portfolio of System IP that includes on-chip networks, memory and security subsystems, as well as SoC performance analysis tools.
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VLSI Plus today announced the availability of the SVRPlus-CSI2-F a 64 bit serial video receiver, supporting MIPI® CSI2 and extensions to CSI2 with up to 8 data lanes and two clock lanes, and outputting 1, 2 or 4 pixels per clock.
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On a conference call with analysts to discuss AMD's third quarter financial results the company's CEO Rory Read has outlined a change of business model that will see the company "building reusable IP blocks" to reduce development costs and improve speed of execution.
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Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced second quarter fiscal 2013 sales of $543.9 million, down 7% sequentially and down 2% from the second quarter of the prior fiscal year. Second quarter fiscal 2013 net income was $123.4 million, or $0.46 per diluted share.
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Moortec Semiconductor announces the Moortec Embedded Die Sensor (MEDS) range of IP targeting Process, Voltage and Temperature (PVT) sensing applications for 40-nanometer (nm) and 28-nm CMOS technologies.
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Analog Bits today announced the successful completion of a tape-out in TSMC’s 20nm manufacturing process and the corresponding availability of a Mixed Signal Design Kit (MSDK) for this advanced node.
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Retail giant and tablet maker Amazon is reportedly showing interest in picking up Texas Instruments' mobile chip business, according to reports.
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Cosmic Circuits and GDA Technologies today announced asuccessful partnership on the MIPI UniPro/M-PHY solution.
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The word on the street in Bratislava, Slovakia, is that Intel's foundry operation has started or will start to make chips for Cisco. What is more the deal could be worth as much as $1 billion.
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To address the significant increase in data over the next 10-15 years, and the demand for more energy-efficient network infrastructure and servers, ARM has announced the ARM® CoreLink™ CCN-504 cache coherent network.
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Calxeda today announced $55 million in additional funding, one of the largest semiconductor capital deals this year. Calxeda will use the funding to accelerate adoption and innovation in the emerging market for ultra-low power scalable computing.
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Altera today announced it has expanded its 28 nm portfolio with the introduction of the Arria® V GZ variant, incorporating the company’s industry-leading transceiver technology and delivering an overall core performance boost of more than two speed grades, or 30 percent.
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Fabless FPGA vendor Achronix Semiconductor Corp. has jumped into the SoC market by offering to license its FPGA technology to chip companies.
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Synopsys today completed the acquisition of EVE, a leading supplier of emulation platforms for SoC verification.
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Cosmic Circuits today announced the availability of its DigRFv4 solution. The DigRFv4 solution includes the DigRFv4 controller along with the MIPI M-PHY.
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WiLAN today announced it has initiated two separate litigations claiming patent infringement in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. and against Ericsson, Inc., among other parties.
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Memoir Systems today announced the availability of the second offering of its revolutionary commercial products: Renaissance™4X. Renaissance 4X increases the memory performance of existing embedded memory macros by delivering up to a 4X increase in memory operations per second (MOPS).