D&R Headline News (Last 14 Days)

Headlines for Friday Jan. 24, 2020

• Lattice Diamond FPGA Development Tool Receives Key Industrial and Automotive Functional Safety Certifications
• North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts December 2019 Billings

Headlines for Thursday Jan. 23, 2020

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Synopsys Announces New ARC HS4x/4xD Development Kit to Speed Software Development

Synopsys, Inc., today announced availability of the DesignWare® ARC® HS4x/4xD Development Kit to accelerate software development for the ARC HS4x/4xD family of high-performance processor IP.

• Groq Hardware Now Available on Nimbix Cloud
• 26 of 33 IC Products Forecast to Demonstrate Positive Growth in 2020
• Intel joins CHIPS Alliance to promote Advanced Interface Bus (AIB) as an open standard
• Ciaran Kennedy and Himesh Soneji join Enyx
• Apple, Huawei Use TSMC, But Their 7nm SoCs Are Different

Headlines for Wednesday Jan. 22, 2020

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Silex Insight and Argo collaborate on ensuring the complete security for smart meters in South-Korea

Silex Insight and Argo announce their collaboration for delivering a solution for security-conscious smart meters designers incorporating security IP from Silex Insight into the ASIC chip from Argo.

• Synopsys and Finastra Partner to Secure Financial Services App Ecosystem

Headlines for Tuesday Jan. 21, 2020

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Xilinx Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Analog Devices

Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today announced that it has filed claims against Analog Devices, Inc., asserting infringement of eight United States patents in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.

• Allegro DVT Unveils the Industry's First VVC Compliance Test Bitstreams
• Arteris IP FlexNoC Interconnect and AI Package Licensed by Vastai Technologies for Artificial Intelligence Chips
• sureCore Opens Low Power Memory Compiler Access

Headlines for Monday Jan. 20, 2020

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eMemory and UMC Qualify NeoFuse IP on the Foundry's 28nm High Voltage Process

eMemory, the leading provider of non-volatile memory intellectual property, and United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC; TWSE: 2303) ("UMC"), a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that eMemory’s NeoFuse IP has been qualified on UMC’s 28nm High Voltage (HV) platform to target the fast-growing OLED market.

• Arm Mali-G77 GPU named Best Processor IP in The Linley Group's Analysts' Choice Awards
• Global GDP Growth An Increasingly Important Driver of IC Market Growth
• Palma Ceia SemiDesign Signs Agreement with BLRLABS for Expansion to India
• TSMC Announces Winners of First IC Layout Contest

Headlines for Friday Jan. 17, 2020

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CAST Adds Switched TSN Endpoint Controller to Time-Sensitive Networking Ethernet IP Cores Family

CAST, Inc. today announced the availability of a new IP core implementing a switched endpoint controller supporting the Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) Ethernet standards.

• Apple Reportedly Acquires Xnor
• Erwan Menard, Director of Infrastructure and Applications Modernization Solutions at Google Cloud, Joins Kalray Board of Directors
• JEDEC Publishes Update to LPDDR5 Standard for Low Power Memory Devices
• Synopsys Joins New Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium

Headlines for Thursday Jan. 16, 2020

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AI Chips: What Will 2020 Bring?

2020 is set to be the most important year yet when it comes to the evolution of the nascent AI accelerator chip industry. Here are a few ideas about what we might see happening this year, in no particular order…

• Mercury Systems Selects Tortuga Logic's Radix for DARPA Program
• Is ReRAM Ready to Leave the R&D Phase?
• Imagination Technologies expands with new design centre in Romania
• TSMC Reports Fourth Quarter EPS of NT$4.47
• Cadence Completes Acquisition of AWR Corporation from National Instruments

Headlines for Wednesday Jan. 15, 2020

• MIPI I3C v1.1 Utility and Control Bus Strengthens Upgrade Path for I2C Implementers

Headlines for Tuesday Jan. 14, 2020

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Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Declined 11.9% in 2019

Intel regained the No. 1 position in the market as the downturn in the memory market negatively impacted many of the top vendors, including Samsung Electronics, the No. 1 vendor by revenue in 2018 and 2017.

• Cadence Expands Collaboration with Broadcom for 5nm and 7nm Designs
• M31 Technology Wins Customers' Choice Award for Automotive IP Paper at TSMC Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum
• Inphi Completes Acquisition of eSilicon

Headlines for Monday Jan. 13, 2020

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PLDA Announces Successful PCIe 4.0 Technology Compliance for its XpressRICH-AXI Controller IP

PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express® (PCIe®) IP and data interconnect solutions, today announced that their XpressRICH-AXI™ PCIe Controller IP passed all Gold and Interoperability tests at the PCI-SIG® Compliance Workshop, held in December 2019 in Burlingame, CA.

• Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Certain IP Assets from eSilicon
• TSMC December 2019 Revenue Report
• The BSC coordinates the manufacture of the first open source chip developed in Spain

Headlines for Friday Jan. 10, 2020

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CSEM Bluetooth 5.1 IP icyTRX is ready for LE Audio on multiple processes

January 2020 marks the beginning of a new era for wireless audio, with the arrival of audio streaming over Bluetooth Low Energy (LE Audio), as announced this week by the Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group). CSEM anticipated this new feature in the latest iterations of its silicon-proven icyTRX Bluetooth LE IP, which is already fully compatible

• Synopsys Acquires Tinfoil Security to Expand DAST and Add API Security Testing

Headlines for Thursday Jan. 09, 2020

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China Only Region to Register Pure-Play Foundry Market Growth in 2019

With the rise of the fabless IC companies in China (e.g., HiSilicon) over the past 10 years, the demand for foundry services has also risen in that country. China market was the only major region that showed an increase in pure-play foundry sales last year.

• Xiaomi and MPEG LA Announce Xiaomi's Signing of MPEG LA's HEVC License
• Synopsys Expands Portfolio of Automotive VDKs with Support for NXP S32G Vehicle Network Processor
• Andes Technology Takes the Lead in Launching RISC-V Total Solutions and Driving Industry-Academia Collaboration with over 120 Projects
• UMC Reports Sales for December 2019
• UK Judge Finds Conversant Wireless' European Standard-Essential Patents Infringed by Huawei and ZTE