D&R Headline News (Last 14 Days)

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 02, 2020

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Silex Insight launches Chinese OSCCA high performance (400 Gbps) SM4 Crypto Core

Silex Insight, a leading provider for flexible security IP cores, announces the launch of the SM4-XTS Multi-Booster (BA425), a high performance, small size symmetric cryptographic core, compliant to Chinese National Standard GBT.32907-2016. This OSCCA security IP is available as of today.

• Leading Industry Veteran Joins SiFive as Chief Financial Officer
• Allegro DVT AV1 Encoder and Decoder Hardware IPs Embedded in Products by End of 2020
• Synopsys Expands Collaboration with Broadcom for 7nm and 5nm Designs
• Compact Model Developed at CEA-Leti for FD-SOI Technologies Designated as a Chip-Industry Standard
• BrainChip Introduces Company's Event-Based Neural-Network IP and NSoC Device at Linley Processor Virtual Conference

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 01, 2020

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Intel shines amidst the carnage of the 2019 semiconductor market

It was a year when global semiconductor revenue fell by the greatest percentage in at least two decades, when eight of the top-10 chip suppliers suffered revenue declines and when sales fell for every application market and for every global region.

• MagnaChip Semiconductor Announces Definitive Agreement To Sell Foundry Business and Fab 4
• Hardent Joins Forces with Maojet & Fujisoft To Expand Presence in Asia
• SEGGER announces comprehensive support for SiFive Insight debug/trace platform

Headlines for Tuesday Mar. 31, 2020

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Synopsys Expands DesignWare MIPI IP Portfolio with Silicon-Proven, Integrated C-PHY/D-PHY IP Solution in FinFET Processes

Synopsys, Inc. today announced it is expanding its MIPI camera and display IP portfolio with the DesignWare® MIPI C-PHY℠/D-PHY℠ IP for a range of FinFET processes.

• Global Semiconductor Materials Market Revenues Slip 1.1 Percent in 2019, SEMI Reports
• Imagination announces new mobile graphics teaching course for 2020
• Andes Technology Announces over 5 Billion Cumulative Shipments of SoCs Embedded with Its CPU IP since Company Inception

Headlines for Monday Mar. 30, 2020

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Silvaco Delivers New Generation of MIPI I3C Sensor Connectivity IP

ilvaco, Inc. today announced it is building on its existing collaboration and development efforts with NXP® Semiconductors to bring a new generation of MIPI I3C semiconductor intellectual property (IP) to market.

• TrendForce Presents Latest Analysis (Updated March 2020) of COVID-19 Pandemic's Impact on Global High-Tech Industries
• Dolphin Design attacks the Taiwanese and Japanese markets with an exclusive sales representative
• 5G Rollout Will Slow as Standards Work is Suspended

Headlines for Friday Mar. 27, 2020

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Vervesemi Data converters for 5G applications Now Available on 8nm Process

Vervesemi Microelectronics, a leading fabless company for providing ASIC and Analog IPs, today announced availability of 5G ADC and DAC in 8nm process node. Vervesemi has developed 12b 4Gsps ADC and 14b 4Gsps DAC catering to upcoming market for 5G application.

• 100 IC Wafer Fabs Closed or Repurposed Since 2009

Headlines for Thursday Mar. 26, 2020

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Software-Based Encryption at Hardware Level for IoT Security delivered by IKV, based on Intrinsic ID's BroadKey

Intrinsic ID, the world’s leading PUF company for security in IoT, Banking and Government, and IKV, a leading company in embedded security in Taiwan, today announced IKV has launched its software-based security solution equalling hardware level for IoT security.

• Vidatronic and Everest Sales and Solutions Join Forces to Expand Sales Coverage Through Mexico and Central America
• Achronix Selects Synopsys' Leading DesignWare IP Solutions to Accelerate Development of High-Performance Data Acceleration FPGA
• Rambus Licenses DPA Countermeasures to Utimaco

Headlines for Wednesday Mar. 25, 2020

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Synopsys above ARM in IP licensing revenue in 2019

In terms of revenues for up-front technology licensing for semiconductor intellectual property (IP) Synopsys outperformed ARM in 2019, according to figures from market analysis firm IPnest.

• ESD Alliance Reports EDA Industry Revenue Increase for Q4 2019
• SiFive Selects Synopsys Fusion Design Platform and Verification Continuum Platform to Enable Rapid SoC Design
• Stop, Cut or Maintain European Chip Production Amid Covid-19

Headlines for Tuesday Mar. 24, 2020

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CEVA Announces DSP and Voice Neural Networks Integration with TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers

CEVA today announced that its CEVA-BX DSP cores and WhisPro™ speech recognition software targeting conversational AI and contextual awareness applications now also support TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers, a production ready, cross-platform framework for deploying tiny machine learning on power-efficient processors in edge devices.

• Arteris IP FlexNoC Interconnect Again Licensed by NETINT Technologies for Codensity Enterprise SSD Controllers
• InterMotion Technology boosts IP verification productivity for Lattice Semiconductor's CrossLink FPGA family using Aldec's Active-HDL
• Enea and Ampere Partner on Arm-based uCPE Solution for Telco Edge

Headlines for Monday Mar. 23, 2020

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Synopsys Delivers Industry's First Ethernet 800G Verification IP for Next-Generation Networking and Communications Systems

Synopsys today announced the availability of the industry's first verification IP (VIP) and Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) source code test suite for Ethernet 800G.

• BrainChip and Socionext Provide a New Low-Power Artificial Intelligence Platform for AI Edge Applications
• India Doesn't Need Its Own Fab
• Foundry Revenue Estimated to Grow by 30% YoY in 1Q20, while COVID-19 Pandemic May Hinder Future Market Demand, Says TrendForce
• Global Top 10 IC Designers' 2019 Revenues Drop by 4.1% YoY, as Industry Growth to Face Challenges from COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020, Says TrendForce
• Faraday's 28Gbps SerDes IP Now Available on UMC's 28HPC Process
• Intel Scales Neuromorphic Computer to 100 Million Neurons

Headlines for Thursday Mar. 19, 2020

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Inomize Selects Synopsys' Silicon-Proven 56G Ethernet PHY IP for High-Performance Computing and Communications SoC Design

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that Inomize selected its silicon-proven DesignWare® 56G Ethernet PHY IP to accelerate development of Inomize's high-performance computing, software-defined radio (SDR), and power-efficient communications System-on-Chip (SoC).

• COVID-19 To Have Significant Effect on Worldwide Semiconductor Market in 2020, According to IDC
• Data Demands Drive Co-Packaged Silicon and Optics for Switch Fabrics