D&R Headline News (Last 14 Days)

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

Headlines for Monday Mar. 31, 2025

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Intel brings 3nm production to Europe in 2025

Intel is shifting high volume production of 3nm chips to Europe at its Fab34 in Ireland later this year.

• RISC-V in Space Workshop 2025 in Gothenburg
• VeriSilicon introduces AcuityPercept: an AI-powered automatic ISP tuning system
• Avant Technology Partners with COSEDA Technologies to Enhance System-Level Software Solutions
• Tower Semiconductor and Alcyon Photonics Announce Collaboration to Accelerate Integrated Photonics Innovation
• SEALSQ and IC'ALPS Join Forces to Advance Post-Quantum Secure ASICs for Automotive Functional Safety
• X-FAB, SMART Photonics and Epiphany Design demonstrate InP-on-Silicon design flow for next-generation optical transceivers at OFC

Headlines for Friday Mar. 28, 2025

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intoPIX Powers Ikegami's New IPX-100 with JPEG XS for Seamless & Low-Latency IP Production

Leveraging intoPIX’s SMPTE ST 2110-22 JPEG XS technology, the IPX-100 now supports visually lossless video compression with imperceptible latency, making remote production over IP more efficient than ever. With selectable compression levels, users can optimize bandwidth usage while preserving image quality, allowing for seamless 4K/UHD transport over 1GbE or 10GbE networks.

Headlines for Thursday Mar. 27, 2025

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Qualcomm initiates global anti-trust complaint about Arm

Qualcomm has initiated anti-competitive complaints against Arm in the US, Korea and Europe, reports Bloomberg.

• Tower Semiconductor and Alcyon Photonics Announce Collaboration to Accelerate Integrated Photonics Innovation
• EnSilica Agrees $18m 7 Year Design and Supply ASIC Contract
• SiliconIntervention Announces Availability of Silicon Based Fractal-D Audio Amplifier Evaluation Board
• Rapidus Announces Strategic Partnership with Quest Global to Enable Advanced 2nm Solutions for the AI Chip Era
• Faraday Technology Selects Silvaco FlexCAN IP for Advanced Automotive ASIC Design

Headlines for Wednesday Mar. 26, 2025

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intoPIX JPEG XS Cores Power Delta Video's IP Video Transmission Solutions

intoPIX has integrated its JPEG XS technology into Delta Digital Video’s 5480 Series Encoder and Decoder, enabling ultra-low latency and bandwidth-efficient IP video transmission.

• Siemens acquires Altair to create most complete AI-powered portfolio of industrial software
• EnSilica Opens Second Brazilian Design Centre Following Multimillion Pound Design and Manufacturing Contract Win
• Alphawave Semi Reveals Suite of Optoelectronics Silicon Products addressing Hyperscaler Datacenter and AI Interconnect Market
• PolarFire® SoC FPGAs Achieve AEC-Q100 Qualification

Headlines for Tuesday Mar. 25, 2025

• Sarcina Technology launches AI platform to enable cost-effective customizable AI packaging solutions

Headlines for Monday Mar. 24, 2025

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EnSilica Agrees a Multimillion Pound Design and Manufacturing Services Contract

EnSilica is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a multimillion-pound design and manufacturing services contract by a well-funded pioneering optical computing systems company. The Contract includes substantial design services engagement and additional manufacturing services.

• Strategies for Addressing More Complex Custom Chip Design
• M31 Technology - AI-Powered Automotive Dual Engines and 2nm Technology Boost Revenue to Record Highs
• Brite Semiconductor Releases DDR3/4, LPDDR3/4 Combo IP
• SoCs Get a Helping Hand from AI Platform FlexGen
• Accellera Announces IEEE Standard 1801™-2024 is Available Through IEEE GET Program

Headlines for Thursday Mar. 20, 2025

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SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing

SoftBank Group Corp. today announced that it will acquire Ampere® Computing, a leading independent silicon design company, in an all-cash transaction valued at $6.5 billion.

• Zero ASIC launches world's first open standard eFPGA product
• Global Top 10 IC Design Houses See 49% YoY Growth in 2024, NVIDIA Commands Half the Market, Says TrendForce
• Omni Design Technologies Delivers Multi-Gigahertz SWIFT™ Data Converter Solutions for Satellite Communications
• Synopsys Accelerates Chip Design with NVIDIA Grace Blackwell and AI to Speed Electronic Design Automation
• Cycuity Collaborates with SiFive and BAE Systems to Demonstrate Advanced Microelectronics Design Supply Chain Security
• Menta Unveils 'Launch Pad' Low-Cost Embedded FPGA (eFPGA) Technology Access Program For Defense And Aerospace Customers

Headlines for Wednesday Mar. 19, 2025

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Sofics and Dolphin Semiconductor Announce Strategic Partnership

Sofics, a leading provider of specialty I/O and on-chip electrostatic discharge (ESD) solutions, and Dolphin Semiconductor, a leading provider of semiconductor IP solutions specializing in mixed signal IP design, today announced a strategic partnership aimed at enhancing integrated circuit (IC) designs for customers in key sectors such as IoT, wireless, and automotive.

• Comcores is now a member of the OPEN Alliance
• KiviCore and CAST Release Post-Quantum Cryptographic Key Encapsulation IP Core