Goke Licenses SonicsGN and MemMax Products for STB SoC Platform

San Jose, Calif. – February 23, 2017 – Sonics, Inc., the world’s foremost supplier of on-chip network (NoC) and power management technologies and services, today announced that Goke Microelectronics, a leading Chinese provider of IP camera, STB, SSD, and IoT chips, has licensed the flagship SonicsGN® NoC along with the MemMax® memory scheduler IP. Goke will use Sonics’ IP products in development of an SoC platform targeted for STB designs.

“Goke is the largest provider of digital ICs in China with strong leadership in broadcast, video, and display processing technologies,” said Grant Pierce, CEO of Sonics. “We are excited they have chosen our IP as the integration fabric for their STB SoC platform and next STB chip design.”

“Sonics is the leader in high performance NoCs and memory scheduler IP with a 20-year track record of design success,” said Jeffery Jiang, CTO of Goke. “We selected Sonics as our supplier for this STB platform due to the company’s longevity in the NoC marketplace, history of SoC tape outs, technology and product platform evolution, and also its outstanding customer service and technical support.”

About Sonics, Inc.
Sonics, Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) is the trusted leader in on-chip network (NoC) and power-management technologies used by the world’s top semiconductor and electronics product companies, including Broadcom®, Intel®, Marvell®, MediaTek, and Microchip®. Sonics was the first company to develop and commercialize NoCs, accelerating volume production of complex systems-on-chip (SoC) that contain multiple processor cores. Based on the ICE-Grain™ Power Architecture, Sonics’ ICE-G1™ is the industry’s first complete Energy Processing Unit (EPU), which enables rapid development of SoC power management subsystems. Sonics is also a catalyst for ongoing discussions about design methodology change via the Agile IC Methodology LinkedIn group. Sonics holds approximately 150 patent properties supporting customer products that have shipped more than four billion SoCs. For more information, visit sonicsinc.com