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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CAST, Inc. has reached a rare milestone for companies providing intellectual property for electronic design automation: its twentieth anniversary.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Imagination Technologies announces availability of the latest version of its industry-leading PowerVR Graphics SDK (Software Development Kit) v3.2.