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• Zoran Announces SupraHD 660 HDTV Processor Now Shipping in Volume Production to Flat Panel Makers (Tuesday Oct. 25, 2005)
  Highly Integrated Solution Delivers Advanced Features and Complete Digital TV Software Stack
  
  
• Genesys Logic's low power consumption USB 2.0 PC Digital TV Controller has obtained certification, and officially on sale in the market (Monday Oct. 24, 2005)
  GL861 USB 2.0 PC-DTV digital TV control chip, with low power consumption, supports Microsoft Media Center Edition 2005 operation system(MCE2005), and the latest BDA digital frame, which can provide high resolution(1920 x 1080)digital TV of European standa
  
  
• P.A. Semi Unveils Game-Changing Multicore Processor Family (Monday Oct. 24, 2005)
  Industry Veterans Launch New Company and PWRficientTM Processor Family; Announce Power ArchitectureTM License from IBM.
  
  
• Broadcom Announces New Security Processors That Combine Protocol Processing, Cryptographic Acceleration, and Hardware-Based Identity Management and Authentication in a Single-Chip Design (Monday Oct. 24, 2005)
  New CryptoNetX™ Product Family Integrates Next-Generation Security Features to Optimize Network Security and Performance
  
  
• Freescale acquires CommASIC (Friday Oct. 21, 2005)
  Company brings ultra-low power embedded Wi-Fi to Freescale's connectivity offerings
  
  
• LSI Logic First to Sample PCI Express Serial Attached SCSI Controllers (Friday Oct. 21, 2005)
  Key OEM customers now receiving PCI Express to 4- and 8-port SAS controllers optimized for system performance
  
  
• SafeNet Announces Security Processor for SME Networking Equipment (Wednesday Oct. 19, 2005)
  SafeXcel-5150 is the First Security Processor Purpose-built for Fast Ethernet Bandwidth
  
  
• Zoran's Quatro 4100 Processor Deployed In Samsung's SPP-2020 and SPP-2040 Consumer Photo Printers (Monday Oct. 17, 2005)
  Quatro 4100 Optimizes Performance for Dye Sublimation Photo Printers
  
  
• SEQUANS Communications Announces Availability of Its First System-on-Chips for WiMAX Subscriber Stations and Base Stations (Monday Oct. 17, 2005)
  Solutions to Enable Mass Market Adoption of WiMAX
  
  
• Samsung Electronics Develops World's First 512-Megabit DDR2 with 70nm Process Technology (Thursday Oct. 13, 2005)
  After completing the first sub-micron DRAM process in 2002, Samsung introduced an 80nm version in 2003 and today has set another industry milestone with the new 70nm version for DRAM fabrication.
  
  
• SafeNet to Launch New Enterprise Security Processor at Network Systems Design Conference (Thursday Oct. 13, 2005)
  New SafeXcel-5150 Enterprise Security Processor Targets 100 Megabits per Second Fast Ethernet Bandwidth
  
  
• Tamper-Resistant Dual 8051 Multi-Controller Mates With Freescale 4-MBit (256K x 16) MRAMs (Wednesday Oct. 12, 2005)
  Tamper-Resistant Dual 8051 Multi-Controller Mates With Freescale 4-MBit (256K x 16) MRAMs
  
  
• Micrel Rolls Out Two LVPECL and LVDS Clock Synthesizer Timing System-On-a-Chip IC Solutions (Wednesday Oct. 12, 2005)
  Synthesizers Ideal Clock Source for Interface Cards Requiring Legacy Compatibility or Interface Card Timing Options
  
  
• Cypress Introduces Next Generation Of 2.4-GHz WirelessUSB(TM) Radio-on-a-Chip With Low Power Consumption (Monday Oct. 10, 2005)
  New WirelessUSB LP Offers Reliable High-Data-Rate Transmission at Low Cost For Human Interface Devices and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Applications
  
  
• STMicroelectronics Launches World's First Industrial Microcontrollers Based on ARM7 Core (Tuesday Oct. 04, 2005)
  The devices deliver very high performance via a 32MIPS ARM7TDMI RISC processor core, full-speed (zero wait state) access to up to 256Kbytes of embedded Flash program memory, and a 16-channel DMA facility that significantly reduces the CPU load in complex
  
  
• eSilicon Expands Global Operations (Monday Oct. 03, 2005)
  Chip Design Center in Bucharest, Romania to Grow to 50 Engineers
  
  
• Aspex launches Accelera HD Encoder (Tuesday Sep. 27, 2005)
  Providing plug and play encoding acceleration for post houses
  
  
• FSA Releases Analysis of Q2 2005 for the Fabless Sector (Tuesday Sep. 27, 2005)
  Public fabless revenue totaled $9.3 billion in Q2 2005, which equates to 7.9% sequential growth and 4.2% growth over the same quarter the previous year
  
  
• Philips offers industry s fastest ARM7-based microcontroller (Monday Sep. 26, 2005)
  New high-performance LPC210x series can operate at up to 70Mhz
  
  
• Mobilygen Launches the Industry's Lowest Power Single-Chip H.264 CODEC Chip Providing TV-Quality Video for Mobile Products (Monday Sep. 19, 2005)
  Mobilygen’s patented MG1264 requires less than 185mW total chip power for VGA 30fps H.264 video and 2-channel AAC audio encoding enabling battery powered mobile products to capture and playback TV-quality video
  
  
• Impinj's RFID Tag Chip and Reader Receive EPCglobal Gen 2 Certification Marks (Wednesday Sep. 14, 2005)
  Introduced in April 2005 and now in volume production, Monza is the first silicon chip to achieve certification
  
  
• LSI Logic Adopts Fabless Manufacturing Strategy (Wednesday Sep. 14, 2005)
  Company To Expand Leading-Edge Foundry Relationships; Pursue 65-nm Process Technology Roadmap; Sell Gresham Manufacturing Facility
  
  
• Nordic Semiconductor Launches the nRF24L01 - an Industry First Single Chip 2.4GHz 2Mbit/s Ultra-low Power and Ultra-low Cost MultiCeiver Solution with Embedded Link Layer Logic (Tuesday Sep. 13, 2005)
  The chip is a perfect fit for advanced multimedia solutions like Voice over IP (VoIP)
  
  
• Chipcon Delivers on World's First True System-on-Chip (SoC) ZigBee(TM) Solution (Monday Sep. 12, 2005)
  Three New System-on-Chip Products Form Chipcon's Second Generation ZigBee(TM) Solution and Allows More OEMs to Quickly Bring Cost Effective ZigBee(TM) Solutions to Market
  
  
• SafeNet Announces Groundbreaking Enterprise Security Processor for SME Networking Equipment (Monday Sep. 12, 2005)
  SafeXcel-5140 is the First High-performance Security Processor Purpose-built for SME Market
  
  
• Microsoft and Sigma Designs Pave the Way for Low-Cost IPTV Devices (Monday Sep. 12, 2005)
  System-on-chip technology stimulates market opportunity for high-definition IPTV services
  
  
• Silicon Image Announces Industry's First Receiver to Incorporate Features of HDMI 1.2 Specification (Friday Sep. 09, 2005)
  SiI 9033 enables AV Receivers to support all high end audio standards for purest all-digital multimedia experience for consumers
  
  
• WISchip Launches Networked Personal Video Recorder and IP Camera Reference Designs (Thursday Sep. 08, 2005)
  New Reference Designs Based on WISchip's Cypher 7108 SoC Encoder
  
  
• Impinj Gen 2 Silicon Shipments to Eclipse 50 Million Units in 2005 (Thursday Sep. 08, 2005)
  Customers Avery Dennison, Hana RFID, IER, KSW Microtec AG, Precisia, RF IDentics, RSI ID Technologies and UPM Rafsec Support Monza With High Volume Inlay Capacity
  
  
• Impinj and Alien Technology Announce Supply Agreement for RFID Chips (Thursday Sep. 08, 2005)
  Impinj’s Monza Chips to Power Alien’s High Performance EPC Gen 2 Inlays and Straps