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UMC and Fujitsu Semiconductor today announced an agreement for UMC to become a minority shareholder of a newly formed subsidiary of Fujitsu Semiconductor that will include its 300mm wafer manufacturing facility located in Kuwana, Mie, Japan. UMC’s advanced 40nm technology will be also licensed to Fujitsu Semiconductor.
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The Board of CSR plc ("CSR") notes recent press speculation and confirms that it has received an approach regarding a possible offer for the company from Microchip.
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Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe (FSEU) today introduced its newest addition to the Fujitsu H6x decoder series: the MB8AL2030 nicknamed HD62. The System on Chip (SoC) supports HEVC (H.265) decoding in HD resolution for multimedia applications in in-car infotainment and home entertainment systems.
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Rambus and Northwest Logic today announced they have validated interoperability of the Rambus R+™ DDR4/3 PHY with the Northwest Logic DDR4/3 SDRAM Controller Core. The combined solution provides customers with a differentiated memory subsystem that brings together the superior signal integrity offered by the Rambus R+ PHY along with the robust Northwest Logic controller core for a proven and easy-to-integrate solution.
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The battle between today's leading video codecs -- HEVC and VP9 -- will be a closer fight than we saw between the leaders in the prior generation, VP8 and AVC. There may be room in the market for both – at least in the short term.
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Synopsys today announced that its DesignWare® USB 3.0 Controller and PHY IP has shipped in more than 100 million production system-on-chips (SoCs) used in mobile computing, digital home and cloud computing applications such as smartphones, tablets, set-top boxes, digital TVs, gaming systems and servers.
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ARM-based servers are coming, but even more slowly and perhaps more narrowly than once thought, according to companies that expect to build and use them.
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Last week I had the opportunity to talk to David Maidment, mobile segment marketing manager at ARM, who is now focusing on the wearable market. He shared his views on this new exciting market for the company.
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Northwest Logic and S2C, Inc. announced today that Northwest Logic’s PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 solution, including the Expresso 3.0 Core (PCI Express 3.0 Controller Core) and family of DMA Cores has been validated on S2C’s ASIC prototyping platforms. These cores are now the latest addition to S2C’s Prototype Ready™ IP suite.
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Nvidia has opened the hood on its custom 64-bit ARM core first announced in January 2011. "Denver" is an ARM processor that uses microcode to enable a novel execution optimizer.
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Ittiam Systems announced the addition of 422 12-bit support to its Pristine Quality H.265/HEVC Main 10 encoder SDK making it one of the industry's first commercially licensable encoders with range extension.
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The USB 3.0 Promoter Group today announced the completion of the USB Type-C specification that defines the next generation USB connector. The USB Type-C specification establishes a new cable and connector scheme tailored to fit mobile device product designs, yet robust enough for laptops and tablets.
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Dolphin Integration offer an audio CODEC targeting automotive infotainment applications, sCODS100-N.11-Xenon, providing optimal voice command and in-cabin phone conversation performances for best-in-class listening sound system.
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Swiss u-blox (SIX:UBXN), a leading provider of wireless and positioning semiconductors and modules for the automotive, industrial and consumer markets, has acquired the company Antcor, a developer of Wi-Fi baseband intellectual property (IP).
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Vidatronic announces the VBUCK400T110, a Buck DC-DC switching converter IP core in the TSMC 110nm CMOS process. The VBUCK400T110 is optimized for microprocessor, application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and system-on-a-chip (SOC) integration. The Buck IP core can be used to implement dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) for modern microchips.
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The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and design, today announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $82.7 billion during the second quarter of 2014, an increase of 5.4 percent over the previous quarter and a jump of 10.8 percent compared to the second quarter of 2013.
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Moortec Semiconductor, provider of high accuracy on-chip temperature sensors for advanced-node CMOS technologies, announces its Voltage Transient Monitor (VTM) IP which is a part of its Moortec Embedded Die Sensor (MEDS) family. The VTM is a self-contained IP block specially designed to monitor dynamic supply voltage conditions at a continuous sample rate of 1MHz.
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ARM has concluded its acquisition of Duolog Technologies, a leader in design configuration and integration technology for the semiconductor industry. The acquisition strengthens ARM's IP configuration and integration capability, helping ARM partners design and deploy system IP and manage increasing SoC integration complexity.