D&R Headline News (Last 14 Days)

Headlines for Thursday Aug. 05, 2021

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CAST IP Helps Socionext Develop Advanced Autonomous Driving Systems

IP cores and related support services from intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. have significantly facilitated the development of advanced automobile driving solutions by leading Systems-on-Chip provider Socionext, Inc.

• SMIC Reports 2021 Second Quarter Results
• AccelerComm joins DARPA Toolbox initiative for advanced communications research projects
• Robust Growth Rates Expected For Nearly All IC Products in 2021
• Chips&Media Expects a Supercycle in Semiconductors This Year
• UMC Reports Sales for July 2021
• GUC Monthly Sales Report - July 2021

Headlines for Wednesday Aug. 04, 2021

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Arasan Announces the Industry's First ONFI v5.0 Compliant NAND Flash IP

Arasan Chip Systems, a leading provider of semiconductor IP for the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile and automobile SoCs announces the immediate availability of their Total IP Solution for Nand Flash compliant to the Open Nand Flash Interface (ONFI) 5.0 Specification.

• StarFive to release open source single board platform Q3 2021

Headlines for Tuesday Aug. 03, 2021

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Omni Design Announces Silicon Validated Gigasample+ Low Power ADC and DAC on TSMC 28nm Technology

Omni Design Technologies today announced the availability of the Quark family of silicon validated Analog-to-Digital (ADC) and Digital-to-Analog (DAC) Converters sampling at greater than 1Gsps on TSMC 28nm HPC+ process

• Rambus Reports Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results
• Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 29.2% Year-to-Year in June; Q2 Sales Up 8.3% Over Q1
• CEO interview: Globalfoundries' Tom Caulfield on the European project
• Intrinsic ID Partners with DARPA to Provide Streamlined Access to Industry-Leading PUF Technology
• DVB-S2X/S2/S Demodulator IP Core licensed to a Major Chinese Semiconductor company for integration into an 8K TV SOC
• Marvell to acquire Innovium for $1.1 Billion

Headlines for Monday Aug. 02, 2021

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NSITEXE Announces a RISC-V 32bit CPU supporting ISO26262 ASIL D

NSITEXE commences sales of RISC-V based 32bit general purpose CPU “NS31A”, which supports ISO 26262 ASIL D level functional safety.

• NSITEXE achieves world's first RISC-V processor with vector extension certified for ISO 26262 ASIL D ready product
• Imagination opens Cambridge office
• IAR Systems collaborates with NSITEXE to accelerate functional safety development for RISC-V

Headlines for Friday Jul. 30, 2021

• Efabless & OpenROAD Advance Commercial Open Source Chip Design

Headlines for Thursday Jul. 29, 2021

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SmartDV Leads Industry with Greatest Number of Design and Verification MIPI Protocol Standards Solutions for Mobile Applications

SmartDV™ Technologies, the leader in Design and Verification Intellectual Property (IP), today announced the greatest number of commercially available Design and Verification IP solutions to support the MIPI protocol standards for mobile and other critical applications.

• Silicon Wafer Shipments Reach New High in Second Quarter 2021, SEMI Reports
• IC Insights Forecasts a 21% Surge in IC Unit Shipments This Year
• Ampere to Acquire OnSpecta to Accelerate AI Inference on Cloud-Native Applications
• Optima Design Automation Announces TUV Certification of its Entire Safety Platform for ISO 26262 ASIL-D Functional Safety Verification

Headlines for Wednesday Jul. 28, 2021

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PUFsecurity's PUFiot Helps IoT Devices Meet FIDO Device Onboard Specification

For the trillions of connected devices worldwide, FIDO Alliance proposed a specification agreement in April of this year—FIDO Device Onboard (FDO), which defines how IoT devices are connected to the cloud simply and securely.

• JEDEC Publishes New and Updated Standards for Low Power Memory Devices Used in 5G and AI Applications
• Cadence Tensilica Xtensa Processors Address Most Stringent Automotive Functional Safety Requirements with Full ISO 26262 Compliance to ASIL-D

Headlines for Tuesday Jul. 27, 2021

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CAST And Avery Design Systems Expand IP Partnership to Support Next Generation High-Bandwidth Automotive Networking And Control Systems

Avery Design Systems and CAST announced today they have expanded their partnership to offer joint solutions supporting the design and verification of automotive SoCs that utilize the emerging CAN XL and TSN Ethernet 1/10G networking and control protocols.

• TU Dresden, University of Manchester and GlobalFoundries Announce SpiNNaker2, a Breakthrough in AI Cloud Systems, Bringing Real-Time AI with below Millisecond Latency and high Energy Efficiency to Cloud Scale
• Cadence Announces Anirudh Devgan to Become CEO in December 2021; Lip-Bu Tan to Transition to Role of Executive Chairman at That Time
• Blaize, leading AI Solution for Edge Computing, Announces $71M Series D Financing to Further Accelerate Growth
• IoT Pioneer Wiliot Secures $200 Million Investment Round Led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2

Headlines for Monday Jul. 26, 2021

• Bankrupt Tsinghua Unigroup advertises for investors
• TSMC considers German fab
• TSMC Shareholders Elect Board of Directors; Board of Directors Unanimously Re-elects Dr. Mark Liu as Chairman and Dr. C.C. Wei as CEO and Vice Chairman
• DDR Combo PHY & Controller IP Core Silicon Proven in 12nm & 28nm available for immediate licensing

Headlines for Friday Jul. 23, 2021

• Cadence Extends Digital Design Leadership with Revolutionary ML-based Cerebrus, Delivering Best-in-class Productivity and Quality of Results

Headlines for Thursday Jul. 22, 2021

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CEVA Continues to Lead the Way in Wireless Connectivity with Bluetooth 5.3 IP

CEVA today announced the general release of its RivieraWaves Bluetooth 5.3 IP. Supporting a multitude of features to further enhance security, robustness and low power operation, the RivieraWaves Bluetooth 5.3 IP is now available as a complete hardware/software solution for new designs and as a software-only upgrade for compatible existing designs.

• DVB-S2X Wideband Demodulator IP Core from Creonic Now Available with Time-Slicing Support (Annex M)
• Winbond's Successful Interoperability of OctalNAND Flash with Synopsys DesignWare AMBA IP Delivers Complete High-Density NAND Flash Memory Solution
• Kameleon Security Adds Investment from Xilinx to Deliver Hardware Cybersecurity for Servers
• Agile Analog brings analog IP to RISC-V International
• European Commission forms processor, semiconductor alliance
• Is TSMC-Sony A Sign Of Things To Come?
• NovaSparks Unveil the First FPGA Market Data Aggregator
• Moschip Continues to Soar Consecutively for the 6th Quarter
• Achronix Announces Record Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results and Business Highlights

Headlines for Wednesday Jul. 21, 2021

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Attopsemi's I-fuse OTP IP Now Qualified on a Japanese Wafer Fab's 130nm BCD and Embedded into ABLIC's IC Product

Attopsemi™ Technology, innovator of the revolutionary I-fuse™ OTP IP, together with ABLIC Inc., the IC vendor of best analog semiconductor solutions, have a successful collaboration. The companies jointly announced that I-fuse™ OTP IP is now qualified on a Japanese Wafer Fab’s 130nm BCD process, and embedded into ABLIC’s IC Products.