D&R News Alert
August 21st, 2025


Welcome to the issue of August 21st, 2025 of D&R SoC News Alert, our email update to provide you with the latest news and information in the System-On-Chip Community.

Foundry News
■ Samsung to set up chip packaging R&D center in Yokohama, raise stakes vs TSMC
■ Cirrus Logic and GlobalFoundries Expand Strategic Investment to Advance Next-Generation Mixed-Signal Semiconductor Manufacturing in the U.S.
■ India’s First Compound Semiconductor Wafer Fab Gets Approval
Chiplets and Interconnect
■ Embracing the Chiplet Journey
■ UCIe 3.0 Supports Full Backward Compatibility, Boosts Data Rate for 2D Chiplets
■ Feature-packed smart ring modules integrate Nordic’s nRF54L15 SoC delivering next level processing and power consumption performance
■ Evolution of CXL PBR Switch in the CXL Fabric - By Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Design and Simulation Platform
■ Ansys Announces Agreement to Offer Access to NVIDIA Omniverse Technology from within Simulation Solutions
Interface IP
■ MIPI I3C/I3C Basic Implementers Collaborate to Test, Improve Innovations at Recent Plugfest
■ New Renesas USB-C Power Solution with Innovative Three-Level Topology Improves Performance and Reduces System Size
Audio/Video IP
■ Chips&Media Launches Cframe60: A Lossless & Lossy frame Compression Standalone HW IP
Artificial Intelligence
■ The Future of the Edge: The Rising Tide for Better AI Performance, Scalability, and Security
■ UK needs 7000 AI chip designers over the next five years says report
Partner News
■ Arteris Wins Gold Stevie® Award for Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year
■ Nordic Semiconductor continues to power ahead
■ Siemens empowers Europe’s next generation of semiconductor innovators with Open Higher Education Program
■ Silvaco’s CEO, Babak Taheri, to Attend the Jefferies’ Semis, IT Hardware & Comm Tech Summit in Chicago
■ Keysight Technologies Reports Third Quarter 2025 Results
Business News
■ Softbank backs Intel in $2bn deal






CFrame60, lossy, lossless compresion, decompression IP
• Performance: 4K60fps @250~450MHz with single core (depending on supported formats)
• Supports multi cores: up to 8k30/60/120 with dual/quad/octa core

New IP
• Clock Management IP by Moschip
• TSMC XTAL(Crystal) Oscillator in various frequency by Arkchips
• TSMC 25Gbps SerDes IP with Equalizer by Key ASIC

What they said at
IP SoC Silicon Valley 25

Interview with Ook Kim - CEO - 4lynx, Inc.

Interview with Hoyeon Jeon - CEO - ITDA Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

Welcome to the IP soc community
Gabrièle Saucier, CEO & Founder, Design and Reuse

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