D&R Headline News (Last 14 Days)

Headlines for Thursday Feb. 20, 2020

• Movellus Names Semiconductor Industry Veteran Ken Wagner to Lead Engineering Team
• Gowin Semiconductor Adds Ubuntu Support to their Gowin EDA FPGA Software for Improved Artificial Intelligence and IoT Development Toolchain Integration
• Weebit Nano and Silvaco Develop New Simulation Capabilities to Increase ReRAM Adoption

Headlines for Wednesday Feb. 19, 2020

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Imagination announces new iEB110 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) v5.2 IP

Imagination Technologies announces its latest Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) IP, supporting the latest Bluetooth SIG version 5.2 specification. iEB110 is a complete BLE solution, including RF, controller software and Bluetooth Low Energy host stack.

• Synopsys' Fusion Compiler Adopted by AMD
• Mixel MIPI C-PHY/D-PHY Combo IP Integrated into Compound Photonics CP1080p26 Microdisplay
• CEVA NB-IoT IP Completes Release 14 GCF Certification with Rohde & Schwarz
• Imagination's RF IP included in Autotalks' PLUTON2 Chipset

Headlines for Tuesday Feb. 18, 2020

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Vintage Investment Partners, Verizon Ventures, Maersk Growth, PepsiCo and NTT DOCOMO Ventures Join Top Tier Investors Backing Wiliot's Postage Stamp Sized Computer

This latest investment round brings Wiliot’s B Round of funding total up to $70m as Wiliot preps for mass production of its battery-free Bluetooth sensor tags, powered by recycling radio waves.

• Adesto and MikroElektronika Introduce mikroBUS- compatible FT Click to Speed Industrial IoT Development
• Accellera Forms Functional Safety Working Group to Standardize Data for Interoperability & Traceability in the Functional Safety Lifecycle
• CEA-Leti Presents High-Performance Processor Breakthrough With Active Interposer and 3D Stacked Chiplets at ISSCC 2020
• Covid-19 Is Crimping the Electronics Industry
• CEVA, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Year End 2019 Financial Results
• SmartDV Offers New Design IP for DDR5 and LPDDR5
• SiPearl launches its development with 6.2m euros of European funds
• SMIC Reports 2019 Fourth Quarter Result
• OmniVision Announces Its First 64 Megapixel, 0.8 Micron Image Sensor

Headlines for Monday Feb. 17, 2020

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Gen-Z Core Specification 1.1 now available for public download

The Gen-Z Consortium is pleased to announce the public release of the Gen-Z Core Specification 1.1, which is now available for public download on the Consortium’s website..

• Launch of SiPearl, designing the microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer

Headlines for Friday Feb. 14, 2020

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Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Certain IP Assets from INVECAS

Synopsys today announced that it has completed its acquisition of certain IP assets from INVECAS. This acquisition broadens Synopsys' DesignWare® Logic Library, Embedded Memory, General Purpose I/O, Analog, and Interface IP portfolio.

• Cadence Furthers Expansion in 5G RF Communications with Acquisition of Integrand

Headlines for Thursday Feb. 13, 2020

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Socionext Introduces Time-Sensitive Network (TSN) IP to Realize Smart Factories

Socionext Inc. has developed a Time-Sensitive Network (TSN) IP for FPGA and ASIC implementation. The IP, which provides true deterministic Ethernet for industrial applications, is compliant with the next-generation Ethernet TSN (communication standard IEEE 802.1 Subset) and its evaluation environment.

• UltraSoC collaborates with PDF Solutions to prevent in-life product failures using end-to-end analytics and advanced machine learning techniques
• Synopsys Launches New ARC Communications IP Subsystem for Wireless Narrowband IoT Designs
• Five Semiconductor Companies Hold 53% of Global Wafer Capacity
• Faraday's AIoT Platform ASIC Solution Escalates System Accomplishment
• Eta Compute Announces Production Silicon of the World's Most Energy-efficient Edge AI Processor
• Cadence Reports Fourth Quarter 2019 Financial Results
• XMOS announces world's lowest cost, most flexible AI processor

Headlines for Wednesday Feb. 12, 2020

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New Mathematically Lossless Video Compression IP Cores Announced by Hardent

Hardent today announced the forthcoming availability of its new mathematically lossless video compression IP cores. Hardent’s lossless video compression (HLVC) technology offers mathematically lossless compression specifically designed to facilitate the challenges associated with capturing, processing, storing, and playing back large amounts of raw data from automotive image sensors.

• BrainChip's Akida Development Environment Now Freely Available for Use
• Mythic adopts Mentor's Analog FastSPICE and Symphony platforms for AI processor design
• SmartDV Adds Support for MIPI I3C 1.1 Across Entire IP Portfolio
• UMC Reports Sales for January 2020
• TSMC Board of Directors Meeting Resolutions
• Synopsys Announces First Application Security Testing Solution to Analyze Both Open Source and Proprietary Code on the Developer's Desktop

Headlines for Tuesday Feb. 11, 2020

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Low-Latency Ethernet MAC IP Core from CAST now ASIL-D Certified

Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. today announced that the Low-Latency Ethernet Media Access Controller IP core it offers is now certified to conform to the ISO-26262 safety standard and is available ASIL-D ready.

Headlines for Monday Feb. 10, 2020

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New AI technology from Arm delivers unprecedented on-device intelligence for IoT

Today, Arm announced significant additions to its artificial intelligence (AI) platform, including new machine learning (ML) IP, the Arm® Cortex®-M55 processor and Arm Ethos™-U55 NPU, the industry’s first microNPU (Neural Processing Unit) for Cortex-M, designed to deliver a combined 480x leap in ML performance to microcontrollers.

• EnSilica to Develop Next-Generation Ka Band Satellite Transceivers for the European Space Agency
• Xilinx Adds Advanced Machine Learning Capabilities for Pro AV and Broadcast Platforms
• TSMC January 2020 Revenue Report
• Powering the future: Smallest all-digital circuit opens doors to 5 nm next-gen semiconductor
• SEGGER releases Floating-Point Library for RISC-V
• BrainChip Showcases Vision and Learning Capabilities of its Akida Neural Processing IP and Device at tinyML Summit 2020

Headlines for Friday Feb. 07, 2020

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Silex Insight launches True 4K Multiview using AV over IP

Silex Insight, a leading provider of video codec & AV over IP solutions, announces their AV over IP board (called VIPER) now offers True 4K Multiview supporting up to 12 simultaneous streams of 4K60 4:4:4 resolution, with ultra-low latency.

Headlines for Thursday Feb. 06, 2020

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Presto Engineering Acquires DELTA Microelectronics Business from FORCE Technology

Presto Engineering, an outsourced operations provider to semiconductor and Internet of Things (IoT) device manufacturers, announced today that it has acquired the DELTA Microelectronics business unit of FORCE Technology, the European leader in ASIC supply chain services.

• Acquisition Rebound Lifts 2019 to Third-Largest M&A Year

Headlines for Wednesday Feb. 05, 2020

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Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Spending Declined in 2019 Due to Slowing Macroeconomy and Falling Memory Prices

Apple reclaimed the No. 1 position among global semiconductor chip buyers in 2019, representing 8.6% of the total worldwide market, according to Gartner, Inc. Samsung dropped to the second spot with 8% market share.

• UMC Announces 14nm certification on Mentor's Calibre Eco Fill Flow
• 2019 Global Silicon Shipments Dip From 2018 Record High But Revenue Remained Stable Above $11 Billion, SEMI Reports
• GUC Monthly Sales Report - Jan 2020
• GigaDevice Launches the New GD32E232 Series of MCU's Featuring the Arm Cortex-M23 core for Embedded Systems