D&R Headline News (April 2025)

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 17, 2025

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VeriSilicon Launches Ultra-Low Power OpenGL ES GPU with Hybrid 3D/2.5D Rendering for Wearables

VeriSilicon’s GCNano3DVG IP combines optimized hardware pipelines with a lightweight and configurable software stack to deliver efficient, low-power graphics processing. It features separate rendering pipelines for 3D and 2.5D graphics, accelerating the rendering of complex scenes composed of 3D objects and vector graphics.

• JEDEC® and Industry Leaders Collaborate to Release JESD270-4 HBM4 Standard: Advancing Bandwidth, Efficiency, and Capacity for AI and HPC
• BrainChip Gives the Edge to Search and Rescue Operations
• ASML targeted in latest round of US tariffs
• Andes Technology Celebrates 20 Years with New Logo and Headquarters Expansion
• Creonic Unveils Bold Rebrand to Drive Innovation in Communication Technologies
• Secafy selects Siemens' EDA tools for innovative hardware security development

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 16, 2025

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Cadence to Acquire Arm Artisan Foundation IP Business

The transaction will augment Cadence’s expanding design IP offerings, anchored by a leading portfolio of protocol and interface IP, memory interface IP, SerDes IP at the most advanced nodes, and embedded security IP from the pending Secure-IC acquisition.

• Orthogone Technologies and Blackcore® Technologies Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Ultra-Low Latency Solutions for High-Frequency Trading
• Intel Announces Strategic Investment by Silver Lake in Altera
• AMD Achieves First TSMC N2 Product Silicon Milestone

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 15, 2025

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Vertex Growth commits €10M in Dolphin Semiconductor

Vertex Growth is a growth-stage venture capital fund anchored by Vertex Holdings, a subsidiary of global investment firm Temasek. The fund is dedicated to investing in high potential companies on the cusp of scaling-up.

• New TSN-MACsec IP core for secure data transmission in 5G/6G communication networks
• Doteck Integrates intoPIX JPEG XS for High-Performance ST 2110 8K & 4K Encoding
• Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Grew 21% in 2024
• eDP/DP 1.4 Tx PHY & Controller IP Cores Now Available to Meet Rising Demand for High-Performance Display Solutions with Next-Gen Visual Connectivity

Headlines for Monday Apr. 14, 2025

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Omni Design Technologies Offers 3nm, Single Core-voltage Supply Rail Process, Voltage and Temperature (PVT) Monitor

The ODT-PVT-ULP-001C-3 provides simple and seamless integration, requiring just a single core-voltage supply and a digital interface, removing the need for added supply voltage complexity, while maintaining precision and highly-localized monitoring next to critical digital subsystems.

• EnSilica - Ongoing Investment in Space Industry Fuelling Silicon Chip Demand
• Why Do Hyperscalers Design Their Own CPUs?
• Beware of the Open-Source Licensing Gap
• Expedera Achieves ISO 9001:2015 Certification for Quality Management Systems
• Defacto Technologies Automates Front-End SoC Integration for Large RISC-V Designs
• Arm Powers Software-Defined Vehicle Revolution

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 10, 2025

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VeriSilicon Unveils a High-Efficiency LCEVC Video Decoder Supporting 8K Ultra HD

Designed for high-performance and energy-efficient video processing, VC9000D_LCEVC is used in conjunction with VeriSilicon’s VC9000D base video decoder to deliver up to 8K Ultra HD decoding, making it ideal for advanced multimedia applications such as smart TVs, set-top boxes (STBs), and mobile devices.

• TSMC March 2025 Revenue Report
• EnSilica Signs MoU with European Satellite Operator
• Ubuntu developer images now available for OrangePi RV2: a low-cost RISC-V SBC
• Hailo Selects Avnet ASIC as Channel Partner for TSMC Silicon Production
• ZeroPoint and Rebellions Forge Strategic Alliance to Revolutionize AI Accelerator Performance and Efficiency

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 09, 2025

• Kandou AI Appoints Srujan Linga as CEO and Amin Shokrollahi as CTO
• Blumind Secures Series A Funding to Accelerate Analog AI Revolution
• Cyient Announces the Launch of Semiconductor Subsidiary
• UMC Reports Sales for March 2025

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 08, 2025

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Infineon further strengthens its number one position in automotive microcontrollers and boosts systems capabilities for software-defined vehicles with acquisition of Marvell's Automotive Ethernet business

Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) is accelerating the build-up of its system capabilities for software-defined vehicles with the acquisition of Marvell Technology’s Automotive Ethernet business, complementing and expanding its own market-leading microcontroller business

• JPEG XS Technology Integrated by Cobalt Digital with intoPIX TicoXS FIP Codec, supporting High Profile and new TDC Profile
• GUC Monthly Sales Report - March 2025

Headlines for Monday Apr. 07, 2025

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Analysts question TSMC-Intel JV plan

Financial analysts have poured cold water on the proposal for TSMC to run Intel’s fabs in a jv.

• GUC Monthly Sales Report - March 2025
• Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 17.1% Year-to-Year in February
• Will RISC-V reduce auto MCU's future risk?
• Silicon Photonics and Co-Packaged Optics Shine a Light at OFC 2025
• Altera Starts Production Shipments of Industry's Highest Memory Bandwidth FPGA

Headlines for Friday Apr. 04, 2025

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Frontgrade Gaisler and wolfSSL Collaborate to Enhance Cybersecurity in Space Applications

This joint effort will combine Frontgrade Gaisler's radiation-hardened electronics with wolfSSL's security software libraries.

• 2025 RISC-V CON: Andes Technology Celebrates 20 Years, Bringing Together Innovators, Engineers, and Ecosystem Leaders
• Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution (CV-QKD) system demonstration
• HCLTech joins Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem as a Design Solution Partner
• Matrox Video and intoPIX Expand Interoperable IPMX & ST 2110 Solutions with JPEG XS Innovation at NAB 2025

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 03, 2025

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Alphawave IP Response to announcement from Qualcomm

Alphawave is confident in its strategy to become a leading semiconductor company and the value this will deliver for shareholders. There can be no certainty that any firm offer will be made nor as to the terms on which any offer might be made and accordingly shareholders are advised to take no action.

• Qualcomm considers buying Alphawave Semi
• Arteris Opens New Engineering Hub in Poland
• GUC Announces Tape-Out of the World's First HBM4 IP on TSMC N3P
• VeriSilicon Launches ISP9000: The Next-Generation AI-Embedded ISP for Intelligent Vision Applications
• Frontgrade Gaisler Launches New GRAIN Line and Wins SNSA Contract to Commercialize First Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic AI for Space Applications
• Latest intoPIX JPEG XS Codec Powers FOR-A's FA-1616 for Efficient IP Production at NAB 2025

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 02, 2025

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BrainChip Partners with RTX's Raytheon for AFRL Radar Contract

BrainChip, the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, event-based, neuromorphic AI, today announced that it is partnering with Raytheon Company, an RTX business, to service a contract for $1.8M from the Air Force Research Laboratory on neuromorphic radar signaling processing.

• Digital Core Design Unveils DPSI5 - The Next-Generation IP Core for PSI5 Communication

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 01, 2025

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Movellus and RTX's SEAKR Engineering Collaborate on Advancing Mission-Critical ASICs

Movellus announced today that RTX’s, SEAKR Engineering, LLC, selected the Aeonic™ Generate Intellectual Property (IP) Platform for its next-generation radiation-tolerant ASIC designs.

• Village Island Enhances its AI100 with intoPIX's JPEG XS Technology for Advanced Real-Time Analysis
• QuickLogic Announces $1.4 Million Incremental Funding Modification for its Strategic Radiation Hardened Program
• Silicon-Proven MIPI CSI-2 & DSI-2 Tx/Rx IP Cores for your Camera & Display SoCs