D&R Headline News (Last 14 Days)

Headlines for Friday Sep. 20, 2019

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CAST CAN 2.0/FD Bus IP is Safety-Ready with ISO 26262 Certification

CAST, Inc. today announced that its CAN 2.0 and CAN FD Bus Controller IP Core is certified as ISO 26262 ASIL-B ready. The company believes this is the first such CAN IP core to receive ISO 26262 certification.

• Intel Ships Stratix 10 DX FPGAs; VMware Among Early Partners
• Xilinx Announces Chief Financial Officer Transition
• Attopsemi Technology Presented "I-fuse: Dream OTP Finally Comes True" and won the best Innovative IP award on IP SoC 2019 China

Headlines for Thursday Sep. 19, 2019

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Semiconductor Acquisitions Regain Momentum in 2019

This year’s merger and acquisition announcements are driven by deals in networking and wireless connectivity ICs and by suppliers adding products for automotive systems and other strong-growth markets into the next decade.

• Intensivate Engages SiFive's RISC-V Expertise to Develop Leading Accelerator
• ECOC 2019: eSilicon to Demonstrate 7nm 58G DSP-Based SerDes Over Seven-Meter and Three-Meter Samtec Cable Assemblies
• SEGGER Makes Its Entire Ecosystem of Tools Available for AndesCores

Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 18, 2019

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Faraday's SoC Projects Doubled for Three Consecutive Years

Faraday Technology today announced the number of its SoC design service projects has doubled for three consecutive years. These projects are mainly on 28nm and 40nm nodes featuring lower business entry barrier and competitive production cost compared with the advance processes.

• Veriest kick-starts Formal Verification methodology at Valens
• Compute Express Link Consortium (CXL) Officially Incorporates; Announces Expanded Board of Directors

Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 17, 2019

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Mixel's MIPI D-PHY IP Integrated into Microsoft's Azure Kinect DK Depth Camera

Mixel®, a leading provider of mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) announced today that Mixel's MIPI® IP has been successfully integrated into the Microsoft Azure Kinect developer kit, which is now in volume production.

• ESD Alliance Reports EDA Industry Revenue Increase for Q2 2019
• SmartDV Announces Availability of Ethernet TSN Design IP
• CEVA Introduces New AI Inference Processor Architecture for Edge Devices with Co-processing Support for Custom Neural Network Engines
• Infineon and Synopsys Collaborate to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence in Automotive Applications
• Alphawave IP Announces Industry Veteran and Marvell Founder Dr. Sehat Sutardja Has Joined Its Board of Directors

Headlines for Monday Sep. 16, 2019

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Synopsys' New Embedded Vision Processor IP Delivers Industry-Leading 35 TOPS Performance for Artificial Intelligence SoCs

DesignWare ARC EV7x Vision Processors with Deep Neural Network Accelerator Provide More Than 4X Performance Increase for AI-intensive Edge Applications

• Arm Flexible Access for Research to accelerate innovation for academia and research
• Synopsys Simplifies Automotive SoC Development with New ARC Functional Safety Processor IP
• UltraSoC opens engineering center in Poland and accelerates its global expansion
• Silvaco Partners with HDL Design House for Analog and Digital IC Design Services
• Moortec Announces Lee Vick as their New VP of North America Sales
• India Branching Out into Chip Design
• Fabs Valued at Nearly $50 Billion to Start Construction in 2020
• GOWIN Semiconductor Announces their GoAI Solution for AI Acceleration at the Edge
• Sri Lanka Telecom Selects Proven Partner Ecosystem to Deploy Large Scale TV Everywhere Experience in Island Nation
• Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 delivers new Wi-Fi era
• Socionext Adds 8K Encoding Feature to M820L Media Accelerator Card
• Advantech accelerates the move to IP with Adeas/Nextera ST2110/NMOS Core
• SiTune Passes Milestone of Shipping Two Million 8K TV Silicon Tuners (STN6528)

Headlines for Friday Sep. 13, 2019

• AI Hardware Summit 2019: Booth-to-Booth eSilicon 58G DSP-Based SerDes Demonstration Over a Five-Meter Samtec Copper Cable

Headlines for Thursday Sep. 12, 2019

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Silex Insight releases ARIA crypto engine for the Korean market

Silex Insight, the leading provider of embedded Security IP, extends its broad range of Cryptographic IP cores with the release of the ARIA crypto engine, the block cipher standard in Korea.

• Second Quarter 2019 Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Billings of $13.3 Billion Down 20 Percent from 2018, 3 Percent from Prior Quarter
• AI Chip Market to More than Double in 5 Years
• MIT engineers build advanced microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes
• Verimatrix signs a binding agreement to sell its Silicon IP business unit to Rambus
• Rambus Signs Agreement to Acquire Silicon IP and Secure Protocols Business from Verimatrix
• AGIC C-Fuse OTP High-Temperature-Immunity Tailored for AEC-Q100 Grade 0 Applications

Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 11, 2019

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Synopsys Delivers Industry's First Compute Express Link (CXL) IP Solution for Breakthrough Performance in Data-Intensive SoCs

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced availability of its complete DesignWare® Compute Express Link (CXL) IP solution consisting of controller, PHY, and verification IP for AI, memory expansion, and high-end cloud computing system-on-chips (SoCs).

• MIPI Alliance Opens Access to its Debug and Trace Specifications
• Western Digital Accelerates Leadership in Next-Generation Data Center Architectures With Acquisition of Kazan Networks
• JEDEC Announces Publication of Serial Presence Detect Support and Module Labels Specifications to Support New Hybrid Memory (NVDIMM)
• SmartDV to Demonstrate TileLink Verification IP for RISC-V Based Systems, Smart ViPDebug Protocol Debugger at DVCon India

Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 10, 2019

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HCL Technologies to acquire Sankalp Semiconductor to enhance leadership in the semiconductors and industrial IoT spaces

HCL Technologies Limited (HCL), a leading global technology company, today announced the acquisition of Sankalp Semiconductor (Sankalp), an advanced technology design services provider offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions from concept to prototype, in the semiconductor space.

• TSMC August 2019 Revenue Report
• Agile Analog welcomes Sir Hossein Yassaie, former Imagination Technologies Founder and CEO, to its Board
• WiSig Networks License CEVA's Cellular IoT Technology to Serve the India Market
• Memory Forecast to Account for 43% of Total 2019 Semi Spending
• Swift Media Reinvests in Verimatrix with VCAS Ultra Upgrade and Expansion
• Swift Navigation Partners with Arm to Bring Precise Positioning Technology to Autonomous Vehicle Compute Platforms

Headlines for Monday Sep. 09, 2019

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Synopsys Collaborates with Google Cloud to Broadly Scale Cloud-based Functional Verification

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to provide a full end-to-end solution to perform functional verification workloads in the cloud.

• Kandou Announces Development of USB4 Retimer
• PLDA Achieves PCI Express 4.0 Compliance for its XpressRICH PCIe Controller IP During the First Official PCI-SIG PCIe 4.0 Compliance Workshop
• UMC Reports Sales for August 2019
• eMemory IP Garners Most Stringent Level of Certification for Automotive Applications
• Apple Will Be Hard-Pressed to Build a Rock Star 5G Modem
• Huawei, Qualcomm, Samsung Reveal Integrated 5G Chips
• Rambus Reports Inducement Grants under NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635(c)(4)

Headlines for Friday Sep. 06, 2019

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PUFsecurity Leverages NeoPUF to Lead Hardware Security Technology

Charles Hsu, the chairman of eMemory, the world’s seventh largest supplier of semiconductor-based intellectual property (IP), believes that his company has found the solution to an expensive and urgent cybersecurity problem. His company is spinning off PUFsecurity to popularize PUF technology in the marketplace.

• Imagination launches game-changing IMG Edge services platform for design verification and validation

Headlines for Thursday Sep. 05, 2019

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Silex Insight and Wave Computing Collaborate to Deliver Security-Conscious Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platforms Across Enterprise and Automotive Markets

• Edgewater Expands into Licensing of Breakthrough IP
• Veriest collaborates with MINRES on RISC-V development
• CacheQ Debuts Heterogeneous Compute Development Environment
• GUC Monthly Sales Report - Aug 2019
• Vidatronic and IP-Semantics Join Forces in California's Silicon Valley
• Palma Ceia SemiDesign Receives "Excellent Solution Award" at Internet of Things and Smart City Exhibition in Shenzhen