D&R Headline News (Last 14 Days)

Headlines for Friday Apr. 19, 2019

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Mercury Systems Announces Acquisitions of The Athena Group and Syntonic Microwave

Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com) today announced the acquisitions of The Athena Group, Inc. (Athena) and Syntonic Microwave LLC (Syntonic). The all cash purchase price for both transactions was $46 million in total.

• Arm China selects Mentor's Questa Verification Solution to enhance power efficiency and speed development of MCU designs

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 18, 2019

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Allegro DVT Introduces the Industry First Real-Time AV1 Video Encoder Hardware IP for 4K/UHD Video Encoding Applications

Allegro DVT, a leading provider of video semiconductor IP solutions, today announced the availability of its AL-E210 multi-format video encoder hardware IP which adds support for the new AV1 video format developed by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia).

• Synopsys Establishes Center of Excellence with STMicroelectronics to Speed Development of Automotive Electronic Systems
• Intel to Exit 5G Smartphone Modem Business, Focus 5G Efforts on Network Infrastructure and Other Data-Centric Opportunities
• Globalfoundries' Morgenstern: Diversity is key in Dresden
• TSMC Reports First Quarter EPS of NT$2.37
• Safety, cybersecurity and cost delaying mass deployment of autonomous cars
• Rambus Announces Tapeout and Availability of 112G Long Reach SerDes PHY on Leading-edge 7nm Node for High-Performance Communications and Data Centers

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 17, 2019

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M31 Technology Develops SRAM Compiler IP on TSMC's 28nm Embedded Flash Process Technology Providing High Performance and Low Power Solutions

M31's SRAM Compiler IP solutions on TSMC's 28nm Embedded Flash process technology will enhance SoC designs on power and performance for mobile, power management, IoT, and automotive electronics applications.

• Cadence LPDDR4/4X Memory IP Subsystem Achieves ISO 26262 ASIL C Certification from SGS-TUV Saar Using TSMC 16FFC Process Technology
• Moortec to Showcase its PVT Monitoring IP at TSMC 2019 Technology Symposium
• Qualcomm and Apple agree to drop all litigation
• Exablaze and Algo-Logic partner to deliver ultra-low latency trading solutions

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 16, 2019

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Intel Acquires Omnitek, Strengthens FPGA Video and Vision Offering

Intel Corporation today announced the acquisition of Omnitek, a leading provider of optimized video and vision FPGA IP solutions. Omnitek’s technology enables customized high-performance vision and artificial intelligence (AI) inferencing capabilities on FPGAs for customers across a range of end markets.

• Omnitek achieves world-leading CNN performance per watt in a midrange programmable device.
• Arteris IP FlexNoC Interconnect Licensed by DisplayLink for Systems-on-Chip
• Fujitsu Begins Production of Post-K
• TSMC Unveils 6-nanometer Process
• Samsung Successfully Completes 5nm EUV Development to Allow Greater Area Scaling and Ultra-low Power Benefits

Headlines for Monday Apr. 15, 2019

• EDA Industry Revenue Grows for Full Year 2018 but Slows for Fourth Quarter

Headlines for Friday Apr. 12, 2019

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Cobham Processor Technology Powers Commercial NanoSatellite

SSTL, a UK based company specialising in agile space platforms, has recently confirmed the successful commissioning and operation of VESTA-1, a 3U nanosatellite technology demonstration mission that will test a new two-way VHF Data Exchange System (VDES) payload developed by Honeywell for the ExactEARTH advanced maritime satellite constellation.

• DynapCNN - the World's First 1M Neuron, Event-Driven Neuromorphic AI Processor for Vision Processing
• Countdown: How Close is China to 40% Chip Self-Sufficiency?
• Ampere Computing raises new round of capital, including new investor Arm

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 11, 2019

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Wave Computing Unveils New Licensable 64-Bit AI IP Platform to Enable High-Speed Inferencing and Training in Edge Applications

Wave’s TritonAI 64 platform delivers 8-to-32-bit integer-based support for high-performance AI inferencing at the edge now, with bfloat16 and 32-bit floating point-based support for edge training in the future.

• SiFive Tapes Out First in a Series of 7nm IP Enablement Platforms
• Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Grew 12.5 Percent in 2018
• CEVA Wins 2018 CEM Editor's Choice Award for its NB-IoT IP Solution
• Qorvo to Acquire Active-Semi International

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 10, 2019

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Flex Logix Launches InferX X1 Edge Inference Co-Processor That Delivers Near-Data Center Throughput at a Fraction of the Power and Cost

Flex Logix® Technologies, Inc. today announced that it has leveraged its core patent-protected interconnect technology from its embedded FPGA (eFPGA) line of business combined with inference-optimized nnMAX™ clusters to develop the InferX X1 edge inference co-processor.

• 2018 Global Semiconductor Equipment Sales Jump to Record $64.5 Billion
• TSMC March 2019 Revenue Report
• Creonic Shows 100 Gbps Polar Decoder in International SENDATE-TANDEM Research Project
• Michael Boukaya Promoted to Chief Operating Officer of CEVA, Inc.
• SiFive Launches the World's Smallest Commercial 64-bit Embedded Core
• SmartDV's DVCon China Exhibit to Showcase Extensive Verification IP Portfolio

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 09, 2019

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Faraday Unveils RISC-V ASIC Solution to Support Edge AI and IoT SoCs

Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today revealed that its RISC-V based ASIC platform solution has been successful in the design and mass production of next-generation edge AI and IoT system-on-chips (SoCs).

• Synaptics Selects and Designs SiFive Custom E2 Series Core IP in Record Time
• First software-driven JPEG XS solutions demonstrated by intoPIX at NAB Show 2019.
• UMC Reports Sales for March 2019
• Vidatronic Announces Series of 40 nm Integrated Power Management Unit (PMU) IP Cores Optimized for Wireless and NB-IoT Applications
• Numem Inc. Exhibits at IP-SoC Santa Clara 2019

Headlines for Monday Apr. 08, 2019

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intoPIX announces availability of TICO-XS IP-cores supporting HD and 4K with a low FPGA footprint at NAB 2019

intoPIX, leading provider of innovative compression technol-ogies, announced today the release of their first TICO-XS IP-cores for Intel and Xilinx FPGAs. TICO-XS is the next generation of popular TICO lightweight compression, being standardized as JPEG XS at the ISO JPEG committee.

• GUC Monthly Sales Report - March 2019
• Sofics Releases Analog IO's and ESD protection clamps for Advanced Applications using TSMC 7nm FinFET process
• intoPIX TICO-RAW technology to simplify and improve image signal processing of next-gen 4K & 8K cameras at NAB Show 2019
• Andes Records a Rapid Growth of Design Wins in 2018 For Its New Family of RISC-V Processor Cores
• Intrinsic ID's BroadKey Delivers Hardware Root-of-Trust Security at Core of Authentico's New Password Security System
• Sankalp Semiconductor to Exhibit & Present at Design & Reuse IPSoC Santa Clara 2019

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 04, 2019

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PLDA Announces Two Innovative vDMA Engine IP Solutions, Delivering Robust Performance and Scalability across a PCIe link or AMBA AXI fabric

PLDA today announced two innovative DMA engine solutions designed to manage large and heterogeneous data traffic across a PCIe link or across an AMBA AXI fabric solution. PLDA’s new IP products are an elegant and streamlined solution that delivers high-end performance and is easy to integrate into design planning.

• V-Nova and NGCodec ship industry's lowest cost real-time UHD encoding
• Silvaco CTO, Babak Taheri, to Present at IP-SoC Santa Clara, April 9