D&R Headline News (November 2013)

Headlines for Friday Nov. 29, 2013

• Dolphin Integration Announces the Significant Upswing of Results for the Fiscal Year Ended on September 30, 2013
• ARM Partners with SZICC to Nurture Shenzhen's Electronics Engineers

Headlines for Thursday Nov. 28, 2013

• InterDigital and Teltronic Sign Patent License to Cover 4G Technologies

Headlines for Wednesday Nov. 27, 2013

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Processor Market Set for Strong Growth in 2013, Courtesy of Smartphones and Tablets

The global market for processor microchips is set to rise by a hefty 24 percent in 2013, propelled by the strong sales growth of smartphones and tablets, according to a new report from IHS Inc.

• Microsemi Successfully Completes Acquisition of Symmetricom
• HomePlug Alliance Applauds Approval of IEEE 1901.2 Standard

Headlines for Tuesday Nov. 26, 2013

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Creonic Reinforces Activities in Satellite Communication with New IP Cores

Creonic, a leading and ISO 9001:2008 certified IP core provider for communications, announced today two new IP cores for satellite communication. The IP cores are a DVB-S2 demodulator as well as a DVB-CID (Carrier ID) modulator.

• Sidense Enjoys Record Fiscal Year 2013
• Hyperstone Selects Synopsys VCS for Verification of Leading Safety-Critical Industrial Memory Card Controller SoCs
• WiLAN Acquires Semiconductor Patents from IXYS
• Intel CEO Pledges Renewed Innovation, Pragmatism
• Xilinx's Comprehensive Functional Safety Design Package Enables Smarter Factories and Medical Equipment
• Former Apple and Broadcom Executive, Dr. Edward H. Frank, Joins eASIC Board of Directors
• NEC Corporation Adopts Aldec ALINT for Communication Systems LSI Design

Headlines for Monday Nov. 25, 2013

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Xilinx Accelerates Machine Vision Application Design Productivity for Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs

Xilinx today announced accelerated design productivity for machine vision applications, leveraging HALCON and VisualApplets development platforms to create an end-to-end Smarter Vision development environment for the Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC.

• MagnaChip and YMC to Offer 0.35um and 0.18um Embedded Multiple-Time Programmable (MTP) IP Solutions
• Altera Demonstrates Integrated PLC and HMI System on a Single Chip
• Digital Blocks Celebrates 16 Years of Offering 82xx Peripheral Replacements
• Intel Nears Foundry Inflection Point
• WiLAN and InfoSonics Sign Wireless License
• Cadence Receives Two TSMC Customers' Choice Awards

Headlines for Friday Nov. 22, 2013

• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Demonstrates Collaborative Model for Next-Generation Chip Packaging Technologies
• Open-Silicon and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Demonstrate Custom 28nm SoC Using 2.5D Technology

Headlines for Thursday Nov. 21, 2013

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Semiconductor market could grow 15% in 2014

The global semiconductor market has grown 4% for the first three quarters of 2013 compared to a year ago, according to World Semiconductor Trades Statistics (WSTS). Guidance for 4Q 2013 revenue change versus 3Q 2013 varies widely for key semiconductor companies.

• MoSys Announces Tabula Support of GigaChip Interface
• Blu Wireless appoints CSR co-founder as non-exec director
• Intel to Customize High-End Processors
• Intel and Nvidia raised shipments levels for the quarter Quarter-to-quarter total graphics up 1.6%, Desktop graphics sales up 4.5%
• Gartner Bullish on Network-on-Chip Technology, Names Arteris as the Leader

Headlines for Wednesday Nov. 20, 2013

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MediaTek Licenses Memoir's Multiport Memories

Memoir Systems announced today that MediaTek, the fourth largest fabless semiconductor company in the world, has licensed Memoir's Renaissance multiport memory IP. MediaTek will gain design flexibility and breakthrough memory performance with multiport functionality.

• MediaTek Launches MT6592 True Octa-Core Mobile Platform
• Synopsys New Ultra Low-Power Non-Volatile Memory IP Cuts Power by 90 Percent and Size in Half
• Inside Secure and Intrinsic-ID Team to Bring a New Level of Security to Cloud-Based Transactions
• ARM's Got Leverage in Intel Battle
• North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts October 2013 Book-to-Bill Ratio of 1.05
• Amlogic Answers the UHD Challenge with Landmark Implementation of ARM Mali-450 MP6 GPU
• Microsemi Announces PCI Express 2.0 SIG Certification for the Industry's Lowest Power SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs
• Intrinsic-ID Brings New Level of Data Security to Dropbox with its Saturnus Secure Cloud Product

Headlines for Tuesday Nov. 19, 2013

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Faraday Announces the Availability of Dual-core Cortex A9-based SoC Platform

Faraday Technology today announced the availability of its ARM-based SoCreative! IV™ evaluation platform with A380 SoC chip in 40nm LP (Low power) process. This latest extendable SoC platform integrates powerful processors and high-performance interfaces to address the fast growing demand of cloud infrastructure market, targeting the networking, computing, and storage applications.

• Sonics Fortifies Sales Leadership Team to Target Emerging Markets For SoCs
• Microchip Announces First Embedded Firmware Development Framework With Internal and 3rd Party Support, Licensing and Resale
• Khronos Releases OpenVX 1.0 Specification for Computer Vision Acceleration
• Lattice Semiconductor and Helion Demonstrate New FPGA-Based Machine Vision Camera Solutions
• Altera Releases New 100G Ethernet and Interlaken IP Cores To Drive High-Capacity Transmission and Backhaul Applications
• Khronos Finalizes OpenCL 2.0 Specification for Heterogeneous Computing
• KALRAY today announces world’s first hyper-scalable 1000+ cores MIMD processor architecture for next generation exaflop supercomputers.
• IAR Systems updates its popular development tools for 8051-based microcontrollers

Headlines for Monday Nov. 18, 2013

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Imagination shares positive MIPS progress

Since Imagination’s acquisition of MIPS Technologies in February 2013, the company has closed 22 MIPS related deals says Imagination Technologies (IMG.L). This includes the first licensee for a multi-core P5600, the first MIPS Series5 ‘Warrior P-class’ CPU, which was announced just last month.

• Imagination unveils industry's most scalable Image Signal Processing architecture
• Imagination announces world's first Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM combo IP
• Altera Brings FPGA-based Acceleration to IBM Power Systems and Announces Support for OpenPOWER Consortium
• Faraday Increases Performance of Its Largest SoC by Utilizing Cadence Digital Implementation and Verification Solutions
• EnSilica launches Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) IP for automotive driver-assist applications
• Microsoft to Become One of World's Leading Chip Buyers on Nokia Acquisition

Headlines for Friday Nov. 15, 2013

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CAST Begins 21st Year in the Semiconductor IP Market

CAST, Inc. has reached a rare milestone for companies providing intellectual property for electronic design automation: its twentieth anniversary.

• Microsemi Releases Industry-leading EnforcIT Security Monitor; Advanced Security IP for Its SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs
• Altera Accelerates Performance of Suricata Network Security Monitoring Engine with Stratix V FPGAs and OpenCL
• Microsoft Will Up Semiconductor Spending Next Year, While Dell Continues Flat
• Athena Vice President to Speak at 2013 SemIsrael Conference Pat Rugg to Present High Performance Security and Signal Processing
• Athena Showcases Security Technology at MILCOM 2013

Headlines for Thursday Nov. 14, 2013

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PLDA and Fastor Systems Announce implementation of PLDA's industry leading PCIe IP with DMA into upcoming NVMe Solid State Drive from Fastor Systems

PLDA and Fastor Systems today announced the incorporation of PLDA’s PCIe IP with advanced built-in DMA into an upcoming Fastor Systems’ NVMe Solid State Drive.

• NEC Chooses Altera's 28 nm FPGAs to Differentiate in Competitive LTE Marketplace
• intoPIX and Comprimato announce their collaboration
• Global Processor Market on Track to Grow Shipments
• INSIDE Secure Extends Leadership in Protecting Connected Devices with New Generation of Authentication Chips
• Arteris Ranked Number 144th Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte's 2013 Technology Fast 500

Headlines for Wednesday Nov. 13, 2013

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Elliptic Technologies Secures $4 Million in Growth Capital to Bolster Market Reach

Elliptic Technologies today announced the company has secured $4 million of additional funding from existing and new investors including BDC Venture Capital and Anges Quebec members.

• Globalfoundries Gets Slice of Apple Pie
• Cryptography Research and Tiempo SAS Sign License Agreement for DPA Countermeasures
• Slight Decline in Third Quarter 2013 Silicon Wafer Shipments
• Eutecus Multi-core Video Analytics Engine enables traffic management solution
• UFS Set to Eclipse e-MMC
• TI's multicore software development kit extended to low-power DSP + ARM devices

Headlines for Tuesday Nov. 12, 2013

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Chip Firms and OEMs to Enjoy Strong Revenue Growth as Year Finishes

Semiconductor companies as well as original equipment manufacturers (OEM) will finish 2013 enjoying significantly higher revenue than when they started out at the beginning of the year, with third- and fourth-quarter inventories anticipated to move briskly for the busy holiday season, according to a Supply Chain Inventory market brief from IHS Inc.

• Digital Blocks Releases 2nd Gen UDP/IP Hardware Stack / UDP/IP Off-Load Engine (UOE) Targeting High-Frequency Trading Systems
• Schneider Electric Leverages Arteris FlexNoC for Industrial Control Applications
• Sidense OTP Helps Novatek Provide Customers with Cost-Effective and Reliable Display Drivers
• Synopsys and CEVA Deliver Superior Performance, Power and Area for CEVA DSP Cores with DesignWare HPC Design Kit
• MorethanIP and Nine Ways Announce AMBA DMA Solution for MorethanIP 10/100, Geth, 10Geth MAC and Switch Ethernet Cores
• Chinese Vendors Set to Rise in 2013 Smartphone Supplier Ranking

Headlines for Monday Nov. 11, 2013

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CoinTerra and Open-Silicon Announce Tape Out of GoldStrike1 ASIC

CoinTerra and design partner Open-Silicon today announce the tape out of GoldStrike1™ 28nm ASIC Chip. The ASIC is expected to exceed 500 Gh/s in hash performance, packing around 1.5 GH/s per mm2 while consuming less than 0.6 W per Gh/s.

• Industry View: Addressing Datacom Memory Pain Points
• DecaWave Launches Industry's Most Precise Indoor Location and Communication CMOS Chip
• IAR Systems launches starter kits for new high-performance ARM Cortex-M4 series from STMicroelectronics
• Xilinx Ships Industry's First 20nm All Programmable Product
• NEC Adopts Real Intent Automatic Verification to Improve Design Quality

Headlines for Friday Nov. 08, 2013

• UMC Reports Sales for October 2013
• China Local Design Chip Industry to Grow 4 Percent by Year-End
• PRO DESIGN Launches New Modular Virtex 7 Duo System For High Performance ASIC & SoC Prototyping
• TSMC October 2013 Revenue Report

Headlines for Thursday Nov. 07, 2013

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PLDA Announces QuickPCIe Lite IP, Enabling the Industry's First True "Plug and Play" PCIe IP Solution

PLDA today announced QuickPCIe Lite IP for FPGA, offering the industry’s only solution for a plug and play PCIe experience. PLDA’s innovative QuickPCIe Lite product is designed to work directly “out of the box” and does not require a customer to manipulate PCIe concepts, whether at the hardware or software level.

• GUC Monthly Sales Report - October 2013
• CMT Multiple Time Programming Solution Qualified in Silterra 110nm High Voltage Technology
• IC Insights Expects Big Changes to 2013 Top 20 Semi Supplier Ranking
• STMicroelectronics and Memoir Systems Combine Breakthrough Memory and Semiconductor Process Technologies

Headlines for Wednesday Nov. 06, 2013

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Synopsys Surpasses 3000th USB IP Design Win and 1000th PCI Express IP Design Win

Synopsys today announced that its DesignWare® USB PHY and Controller IP has surpassed 3,000 design wins, and that its DesignWare PHY and Controller IP for PCI Express® has surpassed 1,000 design wins.

• MIPI Alliance Forms Sensor Working Group
• Arteris Names Rich Yeon Senior General Manager
• Vivante Vega IP Enables Full GPU Hardware Virtualization on Mobile and Home Entertainment Devices
• Creonic Joins Xilinx Alliance Program
• Open-Silicon To Present Technical Papers On SoC Architecture and Verification at IP-SOC 2013
• Interview: Harry Luan, Kilopass' CTO and VP of R&D, Addresses SoC Design Challenges
• Design & Reuse to Host TLMCentral Web Portal
• Toshiba Ushers in UFS, Compares and Contrasts to e-MMC
• Altera Quartus II Software v13.1 Delivers Up to 70 Percent Reduction in Compile Times
• Intel, ARM Do Server Wrestling at ISSCC

Headlines for Tuesday Nov. 05, 2013

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CAST Enters Graphics Acceleration IP Market with New Cores that Complement GPUs and System Processors

CAST is answering systems designers’ needs for faster graphics processing with the first of a new series of IP cores for graphics acceleration and display. Available immediately are a 2D/2.5D Graphics Accelerator and a Multilayer Display Controller, both sourced from new technology partner Think Silicon.

• Tabula and Titan IC Systems Partner to Offer High-Speed Content Analysis Products
• Aquantia Solidifies Market Leadership With World's First 28nm 10GBASE-T PHY
• Synopsys Announces DesignWare ARC HS Processors for Next-Generation Embedded Data and Signal Processing Systems
• Xylon Announces A Real-Time Low Latency Video Rotation Reference Design for Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC
• Spreadtrum Licenses CEVA-TeakLite-4 Audio/Voice DSP
• Rockchip Extends Partnership With ARM by Subscription License of ARM Processor and GPU Technologies
• Faraday Announces Its Silicon Proven & Seamless Integrated MIPI CSI-2, DSI Controller & PHY IPs
• Global Semiconductor Industry Posts Highest-Ever Monthly and Quarterly Sales
• Artel Video Systems integrates JPEG2000 Compression capabilities into DigiLink utilizing intoPIX high performance IP-cores
• Inside Secure Embedded Security Expert to Speak at the IP-SOC 2013 Conference and Exhibition

Headlines for Monday Nov. 04, 2013

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Imagination announces major new update to PowerVR Graphics SDK

Imagination Technologies announces availability of the latest version of its industry-leading PowerVR Graphics SDK (Software Development Kit) v3.2.

• Telenor Connexion partners with ARM to bring the Internet of Things to global customers

Headlines for Friday Nov. 01, 2013

• Vivante Corporation Joins the drawElements Quality Program
• Certain Arteris Technology Assets Acquired