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Updated: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:00:01 +0100

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	1	1	Semiconductor Industry at Most Profitable Level in a Decade The global semiconductor business now is more profitable than it has been at any time in the last decade, reflecting the industry’s increasingly aggressive management of costs, capacity and competitive positioning, according to iSuppli Corp.
	2	10	ARM to Reshape the Smartcard Market with Industry's Smallest and Most Energy-Efficient Securcore SC000 Processor ARM today announced the launch of the highly compact and energy-efficient ARM® SecurCore™ SC000™ processor, designed specifically for the highest volume smartcard and embedded security applications.
	3	11	NEC Electronics and Renesas Announce the New Organizational Structure and Personnel Changes Following Merger NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology today announced the new organizational structure and personnel changes of Renesas Electronics, the new integrated company that will be formed on April 1, 2010 when the business integration of the two entities is completed.
	4	2	IC Insights Raises Worldwide 2010 IC Market Growth Forecast to +27% Worldwide IC market is now expected to jump 27% in 2010 to $253 billion and another 15% in 2011 to $290 billion. At $253 billion, the 2010 IC market would exceed by 8% the previous high of $234 billion reached in 2007.
	5	14	Imagination Announces Quarter of a Billion POWERVR Devices Shipped Imagination Technologies reports that POWERVR, its hardware graphics acceleration technology, has become the standard for mobile and embedded gaming. POWERVR now has an installed base of over 250 million devices across the mobile phone, media player and embedded markets.
	6	4	Tier Logic announces innovative 3D-FPGA technology: low-cost FPGAs & no-risk, timing-exact ASICs Tier Logic, Inc., a privately held fabless semiconductor company, today introduced its new 3D-based technology for FPGAs and ASICs, known respectively as its TierFPGA™ and TierASIC™ devices. Tier Logic separates user circuits and configuration circuits into three-dimensional (3D) stacked layers. Reducing the configuration overhead from the base-layers of silicon allows Tier Logic to produce smaller, denser, faster, lower-power, and more reliable FPGAs.
	7	New!!!	Aldi Nord, Aldi Sud and Lidl Sued for MPEG-2 Patent Infringement MPEG LA today announced that several patent holders in MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License have filed separate patent enforcement actions in Landgericht Düsseldorf, Germany against Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd, as well as Lidl Lidl, for infringing patents essential to the MPEG-2 digital video compression standard used worldwide in digital television broadcasting and DVD.
	8	17	Mentor Graphics to Extend Cooperation with STMicroelectronics for Advanced Chip-Development Design Solutions Mentor Graphics and STMicroelectronics today announced a broad-scoped collaboration to develop advanced design solutions at the 32-nm technology node and down to 20-nm node.
	9	20	ARM Releases AAC, MP3, MPEG-4, H.264 and FFT OpenMAX DL Libraries, Highly Optimized for Cortex-A8/NEON and ARM11 Processors These functions can be downloaded free-of-charge from the ARM website, and the license granted to these functions entitles the user to integrate them into their own products at no cost.
	10	5	Tabula Launches ABAX Family of 3-D Programmable Logic Devices Delivering Unprecedented Capabilities at Volume Price Points Tabula today launched the ABAX family of 3-D Programmable Logic Devices (3PLD). Based on the revolutionary Spacetime architecture that delivers the benefits of 3-D by using time as a third dimension, ABAX enables high-performance, compute-intensive applications on a programmable platform at volume price points.
	11	9	Topscomm Selects Accent for China Smart Grid Powerline Communication Applications Accent and Topscomm today announced that Accent will provide a highly-integrated SoC device featuring a complete solution for China Smart Grid. The mixed-signal design will integrate a number of key functions, such as a powerful PLC engine, providing Topscomm a cost-effective solution for their Single,Three Phase Power Module products
	12	New!!!	CoWare Announces Software Development Solution for ARM Cortex-A5 and ARM Cortex-M4 Processor-Based Designs CoWare today announced support for Fast Models from ARM for Cortex™-A5 and Cortex-M4 processor IP in CoWare’s SystemC-based software development solution. Customers around the world have already successfully deployed CoWare virtual platforms using Fast Models from ARM.
	13	New!!!	MindTree Releases ONVIF 1.01 Software Stack MindTree today announced that its Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) Software Stack 1.01 i.e. the Network Video Transmitter (NVT) Agent and the Network Video Client (NVC) is available for licensing.
	14	New!!!	Jungo Provides Infineon with its OpenRG Software: Software Enables Complete VoIP Solutions for IP Phones, ATAs and Voice Gateways Jungo Provides Infineon with its OpenRG Software: Software Enables Complete VoIP Solutions for IP Phones, ATAs and Voice Gateways
	15	New!!!	MindTree's Q2 Revenue Grows 5.1% QoQ in Dollar Terms; 3.4% in Rupee Terms MindTree today announced its results today for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. Revenues were Rs 3,149.8 Million, indicating a growth of 3.4% Quarter over Quarter (QoQ) and 1% Year over Year (YoY).
	16	New!!!	ASIC pioneer reinvents 3-D FPGAs By building a three-dimensional field-programmable FPGA with an ultra-dense anti-fuse interconnect, NuPGA claims to be able to achieve the density of an ASIC at a fraction of the cost.
	17	New!!!	SoftJin announces High Performance JPEG Encoder and Decoder IP SoftJin announces JPEG Encoder and Decoder IP. SoftJin’s JPEG encoder IP is a high performance RTL solution and capable of encoding Still Images as well as Video stream with SD, VGA and HD resolution.
	18	3	Samsung Electronics Licenses Kilopass' Embedded Non-Volatile Memory Technology for its Foundry Business Kilopass Technology today announced that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. will support Kilopass’ one-time programmable (OTP) antifuse memory, XPM™, in its foundry business’ advanced logic processes.
	19	New!!!	Xilinx Demonstrates Cost and Power Reductions for 40G OTN Muxponder With Partial Reconfiguration Technology Xilinx today announced it will demonstrate the latest breakthrough 40-Gigabit OTN developments for muxponder applications. The demonstration combines proven partial reconfiguration technology from Xilinx with OTN IP solutions from Avalon to significantly reduce downtime and lower the bill of materials (BOM) cost and power consumption of multi-port (channel) networks.
	20	New!!!	Fluence Technology Announces TDS WaveBridge Support for Credence Quartet Series of Mixed-Signal Test Systems Fluence Technology Announces TDS WaveBridge Support for Credence Quartet Series of Mixed-Signal Test Systems