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Aug. 29, 2019 -
According to the newest statistics by TrendForce , the global top ten IC design companies for 2Q19 ranked by revenue have just been released, in which we see revenues of the top five all falling YoY.
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Aug. 28, 2019 -
The legal tiff that GlobalFoundries (GF) initiated with TSMC yesterday is yet another factor likely to impede growth and profitability in the semiconductor industry during the foreseeable future, according to analysts.
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Aug. 21, 2019 -
In total, the top-15 semiconductor companies’ sales dropped by 18% in 1H19 compared to 1H18, four points worse than the total worldwide semiconductor industry 1H19/1H18 decline of 14%.
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Jun. 17, 2019 -
Suppliers' revenues generally exhibited a dropping trend YoY, and 2Q total revenue for foundries worldwide is expected to drop by about 8% compared to the same period 2018, arriving at US$15.4 billion. The top three in market shares are TSMC, Samsung and GlobalFoundries.
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Jun. 04, 2019 -
Cadence today announced the Cadence® Spectre® X Simulator, a massively parallel circuit simulator designed to provide up to 10X performance gains, while maintaining the golden accuracy customers have come to expect from 25 years of Spectre industry leadership in analog, mixed-signal and RF applications. ...
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May. 23, 2019 -
New ZeBu Power Analyzer Enables Emulation-based Power Analysis for Billion-cycle Software Workloads Not Feasible with Traditional Methods
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May. 17, 2019 -
Intel replaced Samsung as the number one quarterly semiconductor supplier in 4Q18 after losing the lead spot to Samsung in 2Q17. While Samsung held the full-year number one ranking in 2017 and 2018, Intel is forecast to easily recapture the number one ranking for the full-year of 2019, a position it ...
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Apr. 11, 2019 -
Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $474.6 billion in 2018, a 12.5 percent increase from 2017, according to final results by Gartner, Inc. 2018 growth was weaker than the previous year (21.9 percent) due to memory growth slowing to 24.9 percent versus 2017 growth of 61.8 percent.
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Mar. 19, 2019 -
Imagination announces new and enhanced tools to help developers optimise Android™ graphics performance for devices with PowerVR GPUs.These are: PVRMonitor for real-time GPU and CPU performance statistics; PVRTune for profiling and analysing applications; and PVRStudio for seamless CPU/GPU debugging ...
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Jan. 09, 2019 -
The company, which creates and licenses technologies used in many leading consumer electronics products, will highlight at CES three new IP families which target key consumer technology product categories: automotive, drones, DTV, mobile devices, and other IoT edge devices.
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Jan. 07, 2019 -
Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $476.7 billion in 2018, a 13.4 percent increase from 2017, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. Memory strengthened its position as the largest semiconductor category, accounting for 34.8 percent of total semiconductor revenue, up from 31 percent ...
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Nov. 26, 2018 -
TrendForce announced the ranking of top 10 fabless IC design houses worldwide based on their revenues for 3Q18, among which Qualcomm was the only one to post a slight decline. The other nine companies all registered year-on-year growth in their revenue, driven by segments like networking, data center, ...
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Nov. 13, 2018 -
IC Insights’ November Update to the 2018 McClean Report, released later this month, includes a discussion of the forecasted top-25 semiconductor suppliers in 2018
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Oct. 10, 2018 -
Truechip - The Verification IP Specialist successfully, hosted its 2nd Annual Technical Conference, TrueConnect 2018 Enriching Collaboration for Innovative Excellence, at Hotel Radisson Blu, Bengaluru on September 19, 2018.
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Oct. 03, 2018 -
Wi-Fi Alliance® introduces Wi-Fi 6 as the industry designation for products and networks that support the next generation of Wi-Fi®, based on 802.11ax technology.
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Sep. 18, 2018 -
Sonics announced that it has licensed both SonicsGN® and MemMax to ZCAN Microelectronics Technology, based in Shanghai, China. ZCAN plans to incorporate Sonics’ NoC and memory scheduling IP into its new cryptocurrency system-on-chip (SoC) design.
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Aug. 13, 2018 -
Argon Design Ltd announced today that it has released Argon Streams AV1. This release coincides with the formal release of the AV1 Bitstream and Decoding Process Specification by the industry wide consortium Alliance for Open Media.
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Aug. 02, 2018 -
The MIPI® Alliance, today announced it has mapped a course to address the automotive industry’s needs for high-speed data interface specifications. With development of the MIPI A-PHY physical layer specification already underway to meet 12-24 gigabits per second (Gbps), requirements gathering has ...
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Jul. 24, 2018 -
The demand for talent and the talent’s demand for interesting challenges will never let up, especially in Silicon Valley. One such example is Dr. Chien-Ping Lu, or CP as he’s known among his friends.
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Jul. 02, 2018 -
Sonics, Inc., the world's foremost supplier of on-chip network (NoC) and power management technologies and services, announced a partnership with SiFive, the leading provider of market-ready processor core IP based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture.
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Jun. 06, 2018 -
Sonics announced a partnership with Synkom, a leading electronic design services firm in Japan, that incorporates NoC and Energy Processing Unit (EPU) IP into Synkom’s design flow for companies creating complex chips using Synkom’s services.
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May. 16, 2018 -
The top-15 worldwide semiconductor sales ranking for 1Q18 includes eight suppliers headquartered in the U.S., three in Europe, two in South Korea, and one each in Taiwan and Japan.
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May. 01, 2018 -
MIPS, provider of the widely used MIPS processor architecture and IP cores for licensing, today announced the I7200 multi-threaded multi-core processor, a new high performance licensable IP core in their midrange 32-bit product lineup.
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Apr. 12, 2018 -
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. might have found the secret recipe for success in an increasingly hot AI processing-core market by promoting a suite of DSP cores that accelerate both embedded vision and artificial intelligence.
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Mar. 23, 2018 -
Research included in the March Update to the 2018 edition of IC Insights’ McClean Report shows that fabless IC suppliers accounted for 27% of the world’s IC sales in 2017—an increase from 18% ten years earlier in 2007.
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Feb. 27, 2018 -
Arteris IP today announced that Chinese automotive semiconductor vendor AutoChips has licensed Arteris FlexNoC interconnect IP as the on-chip communications backbone of its next-generation automotive SoC chip.
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Feb. 27, 2018 -
Sonics announced a partnership with Inomize (Netanya, Israel) that enables chip designs to comply with the ISO 26262 automotive functional safety standard using Sonics’ NoCs with Inomize’s ASIC design platforms and services.
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Feb. 19, 2018 -
Intel far surpasses others with R&D spending of $13.1 billion in 2017 and accounts for 36% of expenditures among Top R&D spenders.
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Feb. 06, 2018 -
Sonics announced that its Chinese customer, Starblaze Technology, has reached volume production in TSMC’s 28HPC process technology with the STAR1000 solid state storage device (SSD) controller system-on-chip (SoC).
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Jan. 25, 2018 -
Imagination Technologies announces the first PowerVR CLDNN SDK for developing neural network applications on PowerVR GPUs. The neural network SDK makes it easy for developers to create Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) using PowerVR hardware.
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Dec. 14, 2017 -
Sonics upgraded its ICE-P3™ Energy Processing Unit (EPU), the flagship member of the ICE-Grain™ Family of EPU products, to add a new programmable Sequencer. The Sequencer enables designers of power-sensitive chips like systems-on-chip (SoC) and microcontrollers (MCU) to significantly improve control ...
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Dec. 13, 2017 -
Truechip - The Verification IP Specialist successfully hosted its 1st Annual Technical Conference, TrueConnect 2017- Enriching Collaboration For Innovative Excellence, at Hotel Park Plaza, Bengaluru on December 7, 2017.
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Nov. 20, 2017 -
For the first time since 1993, the semiconductor industry is expected to witness a new number 1 supplier. Samsung first charged into the top spot in 2Q17 and displaced Intel, which had held the number 1 ranking since 1993. In 1Q16, Intel’s sales were 40% greater than Samsung’s, but in just over ...
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Oct. 25, 2017 -
Sonics, Inc., the world's foremost supplier of on-chip network (NoC) and power management technologies and services, and Moortec, specialists in embedded in-chip sensing, today announced their partnership that integrates the companies' products to provide advanced power management techniques to system-on-chip ...
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Jul. 13, 2017 -
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has recognized its first revenue from 10nm products, trailing Samsung, its main rival in the foundry business, by nearly four months.
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Jul. 06, 2017 -
Two of China’s Web giants tapped domestic and U.S. chip partners for embedded voice software and services competing with Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Their efforts mark a new front in the war over an emerging market for natural-language and machine-learning services targeting everything from cars ...
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Jun. 26, 2017 -
Sonics today introduced ICE-P3™, the IP industry's first product to automate implementation of dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS). ICE-P3 is the newest member of the ICE-Grain™ Family of Energy Processing Units (EPU) that identifies, sequences, and controls power state transitions in hardware ...
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Jun. 19, 2017 -
ANSYS and Synopsys will enable customers to accelerate the next generation of high-performance computing, mobile and automotive products thanks to a new partnership that will tightly integrate ANSYS' power integrity and reliability signoff technologies with Synopsys' physical implementation solution ...
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May. 31, 2017 -
today announced that Altair Semiconductor, a Sony company, used Sonics’ NoC as the integration fabric for the baseband IC of its new ALT1250, which is the most integrated LTE CAT-M1 and NB1 chipset available.
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May. 24, 2017 -
Sonics, Inc., the world’s foremost supplier of on-chip network (NoC) and power management technologies and services, today announced that Vayyar Imaging (Tel Aviv, Israel) has licensed SonicsSX® and SonicsExpress™ for use in its 3D sensor chips.