D&R Headline News (Last 14 Days)

Headlines for Monday Nov. 28, 2022

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Cortus announces the launch of LOTUS family with two new RISC-V microcontrollers (MCUs)

Cortus, an innovative French fabless semiconductor manufacturing group today announces two new RISC-V microcontrollers (MCUs). They are designed for ease of use, and to simplify migration from existing MCUs with maximal software reuse to minimize development cost.

• DMP Launches "ZIA SV" Stereo Vision IP for AMD Xilinx Adaptive Computing Devices
• Tiempo Secure gears for further expansion with Mikael Dubreucq and Frederic Heitzmann hired in newly created key positions
• Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Growth to Decline 3.6% in 2023
• CAN 2.0 and LIN 2.2 Controller IP Cores with ASIL B, C and D packages for High-End Automotive and Consumer Applications

Headlines for Thursday Nov. 24, 2022

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EU edges closer to Chips Act

Yesterday the EU moved a step closer to securing its own Chips Act when member states agreed to a $46.6 billion proposal to subsidise chip production in Europe.

• IPrium releases CCSDS TM Telemetry AR4JA LDPC Encoder and Decoder
• Global NAND Flash Revenue Fell by 24.3% QoQ for 3Q23 as Suppliers Made Large Price Concessions That in Turn Impacted Their Results, Says TrendForce
• GPU Q3'22 biggest quarter-to-quarter drop since the 2009 recession
• Defacto's SoC Compiler Certified ISO26262

Headlines for Wednesday Nov. 23, 2022

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2023 Semi Capex Forecast Sees Largest Decline Since 2008-09

A weak memory market and U.S. sanctions on China semiconductor producers are two driving factors behind the expected -19% drop in semiconductor capital spending in 2023.

• SkyWater CEO Expands "Technology Foundry" Model

Headlines for Tuesday Nov. 22, 2022

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Arm public offer likely to be postponed beyond Q123

The Arm IPO, expected in Q123, looks like being postponed.

• Aniah raises €6 million to speed up the deployment of its verification and design support software for semiconductors
• Faraday FPGA-Go-ASIC™ Succeeds in Penetrating the Market
• Intel foundry boss to leave

Headlines for Monday Nov. 21, 2022

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Imagination partners with MulticoreWare Inc. and demonstrates superior performance of its GPUs

Imagination Technologies has announced a new partnership with MulticoreWare Inc. as a preferred software development partner to optimise algorithms on Imagination GPUs.

• CAES Supports NASA's Return to the Moon
• BrainChip Names Former Arm Executive Nandan Nayampally as Chief Marketing Officer
• Embrace the new age of ultra-high-definition multimedia with HDMI 2.0 Rx PHY IP Cores in 12FFC process technology with matching controller

Headlines for Friday Nov. 18, 2022

• Synopsys Wins Six Partner of the Year Awards at TSMC 2022 OIP Ecosystem Forum

Headlines for Thursday Nov. 17, 2022

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Truechip Announces First Customer Shipment of MIPI A-PHY Verification IP

Truechip, the Verification IP Specialist, announced that it has shipped MIPI A-PHY Verification IP to its customers. This addition of MIPI A-PHY strengthens the MIPI Verification portfolio of Truechip along with other protocols such as I3C, DSI, CSI, C-PHY, D-PHY, M-PHY , UNIPRO .

• Stellantis Accelerates Autonomous Driving Journey with Acquisition of aiMotive, a Leading Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Driving Start-up
• Vidatronic Named to the 18th Annual Aggie 100™, Honored as Fastest-Growing Company
• Alphawave IP announced as one of Deloitte's Technology Fast 50™ and North American Technology Fast 500™ 2022 award winners
• Secure-IC and Unseenlabs Partner to Retrofit Satellites already in Mission Mode with the Capability to Secure and Authenticate Data using Post-Quantum Cryptography
• intoPIX enables JPEG XS high frame rates real-time encoding from 120fps to more than 1000fps with the TicoXS FPGA IP-cores

Headlines for Wednesday Nov. 16, 2022

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intoPIX extends the FastTicoRAW SDK capabilities with lossless RAW coding for measurement and analysis

intoPIX, the leading provider of innovative image processing solutions, has released today a new version of its FastTicoRAW software development kit on CPU and GPU supporting lossless quality coding, including a new mathematically lossless profile.

• Infineon plans €5bn 300mm fab in Dresden
• eMemory Collaborates with Renesas on the Development of its Pure 5V OTP IP Using 130nm BCD Plus Process for Automotive Applications
• Cadence Introduces Industry's Leading-Performance, Silicon-Proven 22Gbps GDDR6 IP at TSMC N5
• Efinix Releases TinyML Platform for Highly Accelerated AI Workloads on Its Efficient FPGAs
• Silicon Frontline Accepted as Partner in Samsung Foundry SAFE™ Program
• CAES GR712RC Microprocessor Selected by Argotec for Multiple Space Missions
• DSP Concepts and Analog Devices Collaborate on Solution for Rapid Design of In-Vehicle Audio Entertainment Systems
• Small code, high performance: Latest IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V leverages CoDense™ from Andes

Headlines for Tuesday Nov. 15, 2022

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CEVA Introduces Voice User Interface Solution for TI SimpleLink™ Wi-Fi® Wireless MCUs

CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies and co-creation solutions, announced today the availability of its WhisPro™ speech recognition and control software to support designs using the Texas Instruments (TI) SimpleLink™ Wi-Fi® CC3235x wireless MCU family.

• EASii IC announces first silicon for its DVB-S2X satellite Modem ASIC
• TSMC Expansion in Arizona to Target 3-nm Node
• StarFive Releases StarFive StarStudio IDE, which supports both Linux and Baremetal Development

Headlines for Monday Nov. 14, 2022

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Arasan announces MIPI CSI IP for FPGA supporting full C-PHY 2.0 speeds

Arasan has released an all new version of its MIPI CSI IP compliant with the CSI-2 v3.0 specifications supporting C-PHY v2.0 speeds of up to 54.72Gbps operating at 8 Gsps (for 1channel) for FPGA designs.

• Consortium forms Rapidus to get Japan back into chip race at 2nm
• Nexperia invests in sustainable alternatives to batteries by acquiring Delft-based Nowi
• Ultra-high-speed 14-bit at 4.32Gbps ADC IP Cores are available for licensing, with increased accuracy and high sampling rate for a variety of applications
• ZeroPoint Technologies can reduce data center energy consumption by 25%
• JEDEC Announces Publication of the SPD5118 Hub and Serial Presence Detect Device and the DDR5 SPD Contents Specifications
• SiPearl and AMD collaborate to address exascale supercomputing in Europe
• Marvell Announces Innovative CXL Development Platform for Multi-Host Memory Pooling
• QuickLogic Inks eFPGA Sales Rep Agreement with CHIP-gogo in Japan
• Signing of a Large Contract with an Industry Leader for Kalray's DPU Processor
• Fraunhofer IPMS combines latest hardware in microsensor and actuator technology with artificial intelligence