D&R Headline News (Last 14 Days)

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

Headlines for Wednesday Jan. 08, 2020

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Synopsys to Acquire Certain IP Assets of INVECAS

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain IP assets of INVECAS, headquartered in Santa Clara, California. This acquisition will broaden Synopsys' DesignWare® Logic Library, General Purpose I/O, Embedded Memory, Interface and Analog IP portfolio.

• Qualcomm Accelerates Autonomous Driving with New Platform - Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride

Headlines for Tuesday Jan. 07, 2020

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Synopsys Releases Industry's First Bluetooth LE Audio Codec for Power-Sensitive Audio and Voice Applications

New Low-Power Codec Optimized for Synopsys' ARC Processor IP Enables High-Quality Audio and Voice Streaming from Smart Home, Mobile, and Wearable Devices

• Omni Design Joins TSMC IP Alliance Program
• ESD Alliance Reports EDA Industry Revenue Increase for Q3 2019
• SHA IP Core with native SHA2-256 HMAC support
• CEVA Speeds the Development of True Wireless Stereo Earbuds with its Support of Bluetooth LE Audio
• SiFive and CEVA Partner to Bring Machine Learning Processors to Mainstream Markets
• LC3 for Bluetooth LE Audio Now Available for Cadence Tensilica HiFi DSPs
• Bluespec, Inc. to Open Source Its Proven BSV High-level HDL Tools
• Siemens partners with Arm to accelerate the future of mobility by redefining design capabilities for complex electronic systems

Headlines for Monday Jan. 06, 2020

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CEVA Debuts SenslinQ Platform to Streamline Development of Contextually Aware IoT Devices

CEVA today unveiled SenslinQ™, its first integrated hardware IP and software platform that aggregates sensor fusion, sound and connectivity technologies to enable contextually aware IoT devices.

• GUC Monthly Sales Report - Dec 2019
• Novatek Adopts CEVA Audio/Voice DSP and Software for Smart TV SoCs
• Gowin Semiconductor Takes Leadership Position in Always-on Low Power FPGAs with GW1NZ-ZV Device Production
• zGlue Launches ChipBuilder Pro to Quickly and Easily Enable the Next Generation of Consumer Experiences on IoT and AI-Powered Devices

Headlines for Friday Jan. 03, 2020

• Wi-Fi Alliance brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz

Headlines for Thursday Jan. 02, 2020

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Imagination and Apple Sign New Agreement

Imagination Technologies (“Imagination”) announces that it has replaced the multi-year, multi-use license agreement with Apple, first announced on February 6, 2014, with a new multi-year license agreement under which Apple has access to a wider range of Imagination’s intellectual property in exchange for license fees.

• OmniVision Announces 4K Video Processor with Industry's Lowest Power Consumption and HEVC Compression Capability for Battery-Powered Security and Surveillance Applications
• HiSilicon No Longer Huawei's Captive Chipmaker