D&R Headline News (December 2014)

Headlines for Wednesday Dec. 31, 2014

• IoT Perspectives' Top 10 Reasons Why 2014 Was the Foundational Year for the Internet of Things

Headlines for Monday Dec. 29, 2014

• eInfochips IdeaLab Designs Solution to make Automobiles Safer
• 10 Top Challenges Industrial IoT Must Overcome in 2015

Headlines for Tuesday Dec. 23, 2014

• Global Semiconductor Market Set for Strongest Growth in Four Years in 2014
• Peraso Releases World's Highest Performance WiGig Radio for Consumer Electronics Applications

Headlines for Monday Dec. 22, 2014

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Foxconn, ARM, and AtGames buy Calxeda assets

In news that will send shivers up the spine of many in the server world, a group that includes Foxconn just bought Calxeda’s assets. More interestingly this consortium that also includes ARM and AtGames Cloud Holdings will keep going with their products.

• A CTO's View of Comms 2015
• North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts November 2014 Book-to-Bill Ratio of 1.02
• Sibridge Technologies to showcase Internet of Things (IoT) products at VLSI Design Conference
• SMIC Announces Co-investment Agreement and Investment Exit Agreement in Relation to Proposed Acquisition
• Memory Design Trends in 2014

Headlines for Friday Dec. 19, 2014

• Think Silicon Ltd. Welcomes Former MIPS and NETLOGIC Executives to Advisory Board
• Semiconductor Capacity Utilization Rising
• Xilinx First to Move 20nm FPGAs into Volume Production

Headlines for Thursday Dec. 18, 2014

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BeyondStudio IDE for NXP ZigBee IoT solutions provides breakthrough in programming experience

NXP Semiconductors today unveiled the new BeyondStudioTM IDE for the JN516x range of wireless microcontrollers for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The comprehensive software development environment, developed by Beyond Semiconductor, dramatically simplifies the development of software on the JN516x family – improving code density, reducing development time and improving code quality.

• CSR unlocks the Internet of Things with ARM mbed OS connectivity
• Nexell Licenses SonicsGN On-Chip Network To Integrate Customer-Specific Application Processor Design
• Silicon Image Cautions on Mobile Outlook
• Altera Demonstrates Industry's Highest Performance DDR4 Memory Data Rates in an FPGA
• SMIC Successfully Produces Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor in 28nm Process
• Mindtree Becomes the World's First Bluetooth Smart 4.2 IP Provider
• S. Korean and Taiwanese Companies Control 56% of Global 300mm Fab Capacity

Headlines for Wednesday Dec. 17, 2014

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Cadence Deliver First SoC Enablement Solution Featuring ARM Cortex-A17 Processor in 28nm-SLP Process

Cadence and GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced the delivery of quad-core silicon built around the ARM® Cortex®-A17 processor implemented using GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 28nm Super Low Power (28nm-SLP) process with High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) technology.

• Synopsys' PrimeTime ADV Achieves Rapid Adoption for Fastest Timing Closure
• Fujitsu Kansai-Chubu Net-Tech Shortens Design Time by 40 Percent on 100G Transport System with Cadence High-Level Synthesis Solution
• Sansa Security Announces Membership in the Thread Group
• eASIC and Xelic Deliver CPRI to OTN Reference Design For SFP+ to Enable Fast C-RAN Deployment
• SMIC's Shenzhen Fab Goes into Operation

Headlines for Tuesday Dec. 16, 2014

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Mobiveil Announces Fully Compliant RapidIO 10xN (Gen 3) Digital Controller IP Supporting Multi-Channel DMA, Data Message and Data Streaming at 40Gbps

Mobiveil today announced a fully compliant RapidIO 10xN (Gen 3) Digital controller IP supporting multi-channel DMA, data message and data streaming at 40Gbps. Besides supporting ASIC and standard cell design flows for designers building wireless network infrastructure and aerospace solutions, where RapidIO has long been the interface of choice, Mobiveil will be targeting ARM® based server and heterogeneous compute (HPC) platforms with this release.

• Microsemi Announces Successful Completion of Nine NIST Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program Certifications
• Synopsys and Imec Expand TCAD Collaboration to 5 nm and Beyond
• Imagination Technologies - Half Yearly Report
• Guillaume d'Eyssautier Named sureCore Ltd. Executive Chairman
• Truechip Partners with EGDS to Market Verification IP Products in Israel

Headlines for Monday Dec. 15, 2014

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Altera Quartus II Software v14.1 Enables TFLOPS Performance in Industry's First FPGA with Hardened Floating Point DSP Blocks

Altera today released its Quartus® II software v14.1 featuring expanded support for Arria® 10 FPGAs and SoCs, the FPGA industry’s only devices with hardened floating point DSP blocks and the industry’s only 20 nm SoC FPGAs that integrate ARM processors.

• Crossbar Unveils Another Breakthrough Innovation Behind its Ultra-High Density 3D RRAM Solutions
• Emerging NVM Express Spec Has Busy Year
• PLDA ultra-compact System-on-Module Enables Lighthouse Imaging to Speed Up Design Turn-around for Image Acquisition and Processing
• Sequans: The Startup That Started Over
• 7 Questions With Broadcom's CTO
• Synopsys Surpasses Milestone of 100 VC Apps on the Verdi Debug Solution
• eASIC Announces 12.5Gbps JESD204B Interoperability Testing With Texas Instruments
• Infineon and UMC Announce Manufacturing Agreement for Automotive Applications
• Hardent to Showcase the Industry's First VESA DSC Encoder/Decoder IPs at CES 2015
• Dolphin Integration launches a series of webinars on design services

Headlines for Friday Dec. 12, 2014

• Murata Completes Acquisition of Peregrine Semiconductor
• Internet of Things Boosts Embedded Systems Growth

Headlines for Thursday Dec. 11, 2014

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VLSI Plus Announces Multiplexing CSI2 Transceiver IP core

VLSI Plus today announced the availability of the CSI2-MUX-A1-F – a MIPI® CSI2 transceiver, connecting to up to 4 CSI2 camera inputs, and outputting a multiplexed CSI2 stream with 4 data lanes, at up to 1.5Gbps per lane.

• STMicroelectronics and Politecnico di Milano Build FASTER 3D Graphics Application using FPGAs
• Cadence Perspec System Verifier Delivers Up to 10X Productivity Improvement in System-on-Chip Verification
• OKI Signs Agreement with Xylon for Exclusive Usage Rigts of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Technology

Headlines for Wednesday Dec. 10, 2014

• Latest S2C Xilinx SingleE Virtex-7 FPGA Prototyping Solution Boasts Smallest Form-Factor, All-Purpose, Stand-Alone System
• IDT Launches RapidIO 40-100 Gbps Interface Portfolio, Reducing Latency and Boosting Bandwidth for Communications and Computing
• IAR Systems partners up with IP provider CAST to boost 8051 development
• TSMC November 2014 Revenue Report
• TowerJazz Announces Successful Transfer of Fairchild Semiconductor’s Discrete Devices to TowerJazz Panasonic Semiconductor’s Japan Fab
• Cadence to Showcase Audio and Video IP at CES 2015

Headlines for Tuesday Dec. 09, 2014

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CloudWave Licenses Mobiveil's Universal NVM Express Controller IP to Accelerate Design for Database Management System Acceleration

Mobiveil today announced that CloudWave has licensed Mobiveil's Universal NVM Express Controller (UNEX™) IP to build a hardware solution that will accelerate database management system accesses.

• Microsemi Announces Collaboration with New Wave DV to Develop Innovative Networking Products and IP Cores for Ethernet and Fibre Channel Solutions
• Sansa Security Reveals 2015 IoT Predictions
• Synopsys' New LPDDR4 Verification IP Accelerates Verification Closure for High-Performance Low Power Designs
• CEVA at CES 2015: Powering the Next Wave of Intelligent Connected Devices
• Mentor Graphics Announces New Verification IP for PCIe 4.0
• Foundry Sales Growing Faster Than Chip Market
• IEC and USB-IF Expand Cooperation to Support Next-Generation High-Speed Data Delivery and Device Charging Applications
• SEMI Reports Third Quarter 2014 Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Figures; Billings US$8.8 Billion
• UMC Reports Sales for November 2014
• Sonics, Inc. to participate at the 2014 ICCAD Conference

Headlines for Monday Dec. 08, 2014

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Allegro DVT unveils its hardware dual-format (HEVC/H.265 and AVC/H.264) encoder IP

Allegro DVT announces its dual-format encoder IP core, implementing the two mainstream video compression formats: HEVC/H.265 and AVC/H.264. With this new IP, Allegro DVT enlarges its video encoding IP offering with the first hardware encoder supporting both standards.

• Synopsys Ships Over 5000 HAPS Prototyping Systems for Software Development, HW/SW Integration and System Validation
• eASIC Demonstrates 10Gbps JEDEC JESD204B
• Sckipio Raises $17M in Series B
• Dolphin Integration, provider of IP components for Smartcard applications with focus on security and low power
• GUC Monthly Sales Report - November 2014
• Allwinner H3 Quad-Core Announced: a Full 4K OTT Box Solution
• Synopsys' Latest Release of IC Compiler II Ready for Broad Availability of the Power of 10X
• Crossbar to Demonstrate Breakthrough Resistive RRAM Innovation at IEDM 2014

Headlines for Friday Dec. 05, 2014

• New Wave Design and Verification Acquires Advanced IO's Assets
• Silicon Image Launches New Subsidiary To Focus On Internet Of Everything Services, Qualcomm Participates With Strategic Investment
• Uniquify to Present High-Performance DDR3 Memory System in Low-Cost Wire Bond Package, Fastest DDR4 Memory IP at CSIA-ICCAD 2014 in Hong Kong

Headlines for Thursday Dec. 04, 2014

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Arasan Chip Systems Announces Successful InterOp Testing of SD 4.1 and UHS-II Total IP Solution

Arasan announced results of successful compatibility testing of Arasan’s Total SD 4.1 IP Solution, including Host interface, software stack and UHS-II interface card at the SDA InterOp in Tokyo, November 2014.

• Imagination takes open and accessible micro-computing to the next level
• Mobile Devices and the GPUs inside
• Faraday Technology Corporation Selects Synopsys Virtualizer to Accelerate Software Development for SoC Designs
• Barco Silex' FIPS-compliant DRBG IP integrated in innovative short-range wireless ICs of Dialog Semiconductors
• Synopsys Posts Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2014
• Cellphones Continue to be the Largest Driver of IC Sales
• What Fascinations Will 2015 Hold for FPGAs?

Headlines for Wednesday Dec. 03, 2014

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Global Semiconductor Sales Increase in October; Substantial Growth Projected for 2014

SIA today announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $29.7 billion for the month of October 2014, an increase of 9.6 percent from the October 2013 total of $27.1 billion and an uptick of 1.5 percent compared to last month’s total of $29.2 billion.

• New Bluetooth Specifications Enable IP Connectivity and Deliver Industry-Leading Privacy and Increased Speed
• NetSpeed Systems to Bring its Next-Generation Cache Coherency to Enterprise Market with Extended ARM License
• Freescale Acquires Zenverge and Its Market-Leading Transcoding Technology
• Algo-Logic Systems Launches Datacenter Rack Solutions with Scalable Search and Switch for 10G/40G/100G Networks
• Semiconductor Equipment Sales Forecast: $38 Billion in 2014 to Nearly $44 Billion in 2015
• Calypto Launches the Catapult 8 Platform: Third Generation High-Level Synthesis Technology
• S2C Leads FPGA Prototyping with Support for Xilinx Next Generation Virtex UltraScale 440 FPGA
• TVS ranked 26th fastest growing UK technology company in the 2014 Deloitte Technology Fast 50

Headlines for Tuesday Dec. 02, 2014

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Cypress and Spansion to Merge in $4 Billion All-Stock Transaction

Cypress and Spansion today announced a definitive agreement to merge in an all-stock, tax-free transaction valued at approximately $4 billion. The post-merger company will generate more than $2 billion in revenue annually and create a leading global provider of microcontrollers and specialized memories needed in today’s embedded systems.

• Arteris Completes Hiring of World-Class Engineering Team to Deliver the Next Wave of On-chip SoC Communications Products
• Open Industry Alliance and IEEE to Bring 2.5G and 5G Ethernet Speeds to Enterprise Access Points
• Truechip announces first customer shipment of DDR3 and DDR4 Verification IPs
• D6811E - 4 times faster architecture for HC11
• IPrium releases DVB-CID Demodulator
• sureCore Ltd Attracts New Capital Funding
• Kilopass to Demonstrate Ultra Low-Power, High-Performance Non-Volatile Memory IP at CSIA-ICCAD 2014 in Hong Kong

Headlines for Monday Dec. 01, 2014

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GUC Provides Server Chip for Japan Major Networking Solution Provider

Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), the Flexible ASIC Leader, revealed today that an on-going series of server-related designs for one of Japan major networking solution providers is in mass production. Server related chip is part of a larger effort by GUC to diversify its IP offerings and provide technology differentiations.

• Cavium Announces Availability of ThunderX: Industry's First 48 Core Family of ARMv8 Workload Optimized Processors for Next Generation Data Center & Cloud Infrastructure
• Vidatronic Names Dr. Hector Ruiz to Board of Directors
• HiSilicon Expands Adoption of Cadence Tools and IP for Advanced-Node FinFET Designs
• Dolphin Integration raises its status of one-stop-shop for IoT devices
• Toshiba Launches ARM Cortex-A9 Based Application Processors with Enhanced Sound and Image Data-Mining and Security Functions