D&R Headline News (Last 14 Days)

Headlines for Friday Sep. 25, 2020

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Efabless Expands support for Cloud-based Design Platform

The new offering, which includes digital design and low cost ASIC development based on configurable design templates, provides a full “semiconductor ecosystem in a box” that brings the power of GF’s 130G solution to a network of previously unserved OEMs, IC designers and IP providers. New capabilities are available on GF’s 130nm platform now.

Headlines for Thursday Sep. 24, 2020

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Vidatronic Launches New 22 nm Analog IP For Ultra-Low-Power, System-On-Chip Physical Attack Mitigation In Internet Of Things (IoT) Applications

Vidatronic today announced an addition to its low-power analog IP portfolio, the 22 nm Series for integration into application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and systems on a chip (SoCs).

• Opinion: Nvidia's bad deal is not yet done
• Synopsys and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Collaborate to Develop Broad Portfolio of DesignWare IP for 12LP+ FinFET Solution
• Allegro DVT Extends Leadership in 8K Video Decoding IP
• Chipus Annouces new power management IP for hearables and wearables
• Analog Bits Announces Foundation Analog IP Availability on GLOBALFOUNDRIES 12LP FinFET Platform
• Xilinx and Continental Collaborate to Create Auto Industry's First Production-Ready 4D Imaging Radar for Autonomous Driving
• Synopsys and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Collaborate to Expand Fusion Compiler Benefits for Latest Platforms
• BrainChip Confirms Validation of the Akida Neural Processor
• PLDA announce the 2nd topic of their Webinar Series: "Building Smart Scalable Storage SoC With Embedded PCIe Switching"
• NSITEXE selects Imperas RISC-V and Vectors Reference Model

Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 23, 2020

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Silex Insight's Public Key Cryptography Selected for Fungible's Groundbreaking DPU

Silex Insight, a leading provider of embedded security IP cores, has entered into an agreement with Fungible Inc., a leading developer of hardware and software solutions to improve the performance, economics, reliability and security of data centers, to deliver asymmetric key acceleration IP for the industry’s first DPU.

• CEVA and VisiSonics Bring 3D Spatial Audio to True Wireless Earbuds and Headphones for the Ultimate Hearing Experience
• Spectral Design & Test Inc. Announces 3rd Generation 45RFSOI Low Power SRAM Targeted at the 5G Mobile Device SoC Market

Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 22, 2020

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ARC: from 3D Game Chips to Licensable RISC Processor

Today marks the 20th anniversary of a landmark in my career, and probably a handful of others. On 21st September 2000, the 32-bit configurable RISC processor company ARC International, now an integral part of Synopsys, completed a major milestone in its history: an IPO (initial public offering) on the London Stock Exchange, at a first day market valuation of around £1.1 billion.

• CEVA Enhances the User Experience and Extends the Use Cases for TWS Earbuds and Hearables with New MotionEngine Hear Sensor Fusion Software
• Accelerating the next generation cloud-to-edge infrastructure
• Arteris IP FlexNoC & Resilience Package Support SemiDrive ISO 26262-Compliant Chip Production
• SmartDV Delivers First-to-Market MIPI A-PHY v1.0 Verification IP
• Imagination launches Ray Tracing Levels System
• Pure-Play Foundry Market On Pace For Strongest Growth Since 2014
• Rianta Releases 400G/800G Optimized Single Channel PCS/FEC IP Core for Ethernet ASICs and SoCs
• PUFsecurity Opens North American Office to Tap Chip Security Market
• Toshiba Information Systems (Japan) Integrates Verimatrix's Whitebox Cryptographic Key Technology Into Customer's Main Control Function to Safeguard Consumer Printers

Headlines for Monday Sep. 21, 2020

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AccelerComm secures $7.5m Series A funding from IQ Capital, Bloc Ventures and IP Group

AccelerComm - The Southampton University spinout supercharging 5G, satellite and other wireless communications with IP which increases spectrum efficiency and reduces latency - has raised £5.8m in Series A funding in a round led by IQ Capital alongside existing investors Bloc Ventures and the IP Group.

• RISC-V embedded variant RV32E now fully supported by SEGGER's Floating-Point library
• North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts August 2020 Billings
• Gowin Semiconductor Launches GOAI 2.0 For Embedded Machine Learning Inference
• Visit Vidatronic at the Virtual GLOBALFOUNDRIES Technology Conference (GTC) - North America on September 24th
• New Moortec Webinar - Addressing the Challenges of Hyper-scaling within Data Centers with Advanced Node Embedded Sensing Fabrics

Headlines for Friday Sep. 18, 2020

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Analog Bits Provides Enabling IP for Graphcore IPU-Machine M2000

Analog Bits’ low power, wide-range integer/fractional, ultra-low jitter PLL and small footprint, integrated sensor for PVT and power supply monitoring, both in 7nm were key IP for the design to deliver reliable clocking and power management

Headlines for Thursday Sep. 17, 2020

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Nvidia's $40 Billion ARM Purchase Will Test Current M&A "Ceiling"

The acquisition, which is expected to take 18 months to complete (around March 2022), would top Avago’s 2015 deal to buy Broadcom for $37 billion, and SoftBank’s $32 billion purchase of ARM in 2016.

• Xylon Announces Rebranding in Celebration of Its 25-Year Anniversary
• Imagination and Packetcraft announce partnership for low energy audio
• NSITEXE Successfully Develops Multiple Custom Processors for Automotive Applications in Half the Time with Synopsys ASIP Designer Tool
• Lattice Extends Industry-leading Security and System Control to Automotive Applications
• Cobham Gaisler Awarded ESA Contract for Development and Validation of New LEON3FT Microcontroller for Space Applications
• SiFive Appoints Patrick Little as President and Chief Executive Officer
• videantis appoints Stephan Janouch as marketing director
• SOT-MRAM Pioneer Antaios Secures 11 Million Dollars in Funding

Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 16, 2020

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CEVA Partners with Fluent.ai to Offer Multilingual Speech Understanding Solutions for Intelligent Edge Devices

Fluent.ai’s suite of technologies for neural network-based speech-to-intent applications optimized for CEVA’s latest generation of low power audio and sensor hub DSPs targeting wearables, consumer devices and IoT

• The Industry's First SoC FPGA Development Kit Based on the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture is Now Available
• proteanTecs Granted US Patent for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Signal Quality and Reliability Monitoring
• Xilinx Ships Multi-Function Telco Accelerator Card for Growing 5G O-RAN Virtual Baseband Unit Markets
• Gyrfalcon Showcases New Tech at 2020 Embedded Vision Summit
• MIPI Alliance Releases A-PHY SerDes Interface for Automotive

Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 15, 2020

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Mixel Announces Availability of the World's First MIPI C-PHY/D-PHY Combo IP Supporting 30 Gbps

Mixel®, a leading provider of mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), announced today that its MIPI® C-PHYSM/D-PHYSM IP compliant with the MIPI C-PHY v2.0 and MIPI D-PHY v2.5 specifications is now available.

• Arteris IP FlexNoC Interconnect Licensed by VITEC for High Resolution Video Encoder and Decoder Chips
• Nvidia Begins Campaign to Close Arm Acquisition
• HDMI 2.1 Rx PHY (TSMC 12FFC) & Controller Semiconductor IP licensed to a Tier1 Chinese Semiconductor company for integration into a TV SOC by T2MIP

Headlines for Monday Sep. 14, 2020

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NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion, Creating World's Premier Computing Company for the Age of AI

NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG) today announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank Vision Fund (together, “SoftBank”) in a transaction valued at $40 billion.

• New IP for wearables and hearables at IP SoC Shanghai 2020
• SiFive To Introduce New RISC-V Processor Architecture and RISC-V PC at Linley Fall Virtual Processor Conference
• Imagination appoints Sir Peter Bonfield to board as non-executive director
• Total Microprocessor Sales to Edge Slightly Higher in 2020
• Technology Analyzer transforms analog IP reuse
• Qeexo AutoML Enables Machine Learning on Arm Cortex-M0 and Cortex-M0+

Headlines for Thursday Sep. 10, 2020

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Silex Insight and Faraday Extend Strategic Partnership to Deliver Secure IoT and AI Solutions

Silex Insight, a leading provider for flexible security IP cores, and Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, announce their collaboration for delivering secure IoT solutions for a wide range of ASIC applications.

• DSP Group Selects Synopsys' ARC EM Processor IP for Adaptive Processing Smart Codecs
• TSMC August 2020 Revenue Report
• Rambus Advances HBM2E Performance to 4.0 Gbps for AI/ML Training Applications
• Kushagra Vaid Joins Flex Logix's Board of Directors
• BrainChip Demonstrates Company's Event-Based AI Neural Processor at Embedded Vision Summit
• Lattice Shrinks Design Footprint and Cost, Boosts Reliability in Embedded Systems with Single Wire Aggregation IP Solution
• SkyWater Begins Domestic Fab Expansion Tool Installation to Support DOD Investment of up to $170M