D&R Headline News (April 2015)

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 30, 2015

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Creonic to Supply New LDPC Decoder and Encoder IP Cores for CCSDS Standard

Creonic announced today the release of their new CCSDS LDPC encoder and decoder IP cores for the satellite and backhaul markets. The IP core complements the company's broadest product portfolio of LDPC IP cores in the world.

• Videantis showcases low power vision processor IP at the Embedded Vision Summit
• Mentor Graphics Announces Nucleus RTOS for Wearable Devices
• PayPal Deploys ARM Servers in Data Centers
• RFEL adds Ultra-Low Latency Distortion Correction to its growing range of HD video enhancement solutions
• eInfochips introduces NVMe Solution Portfolio for Flash based SSD storage products
• High Costs Hint IoT SoC Design Shakeout?
• China's Underdog Chipmakers Make IP Grab to Compete in SoC Market
• Intel Loses Mobile Vet in Reorg
• UMC to Skip 20nm, Gun for 14nm FinFET
• VeriSilicon Appoints Robert A. Brown as Chief Financial Officer

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 29, 2015

• eInfochips PCIe Verification IP enables reliability for high-speed computing
• Kilopass Spans the Globe Next Week to Participate at GSA European Executive Forum, Internet of Things Developers Conference in the U.S., TSMC Technical Symposium in China

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 28, 2015

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Ultra-High Definition Video Encoding Now Feasible in Low-Cost FPGAs or Low-End ASICs

A new hardware encoder has the performance and efficiency needed to make 4K, 8K, or very high frame rate HD video output viable for low-volume or cost-sensitive products. This new Ultra-High Throughput (UHT™) JPEG Encoder IP Core available from semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST, Inc., is sourced from semiconductor IP company Alma Technologies.

• Sidense Webinar on Memory Considerations for the Smart Connected Universe
• Synopsys' New DesignWare Hybrid IP Prototyping Kits Accelerate IP Prototyping, Software Development and Integration
• Microsemi Successfully Completes Vitesse Tender Offer
• Cadence Introduces Indago Debug Platform, Improving Debugging Productivity by up to 50 Percent
• ReFLEX CES implements GigE Vision IP from Pleora Technologies in Military Imaging System
• Cadence Reports First Quarter 2015 Financial Results
• Toshiba Launches Application Processor Development Platforms for Wearable and IoT Devices
• Parrot Licenses INSIDE Secure Content Protection Technology to Protect its State-of-the-Art Automotive Media Center
• Uniquify Develops DDR3 IP for Samsung 28nm LPP Process
• Inomize Becomes TSMC Design Center Alliance Partner

Headlines for Monday Apr. 27, 2015

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Imagination Revolutionizes CPU Architecture Education with Free and Open Access to a Modern MIPS CPU

Through MIPSfpga, Imagination is transforming CPU architecture education in universities around the globe by offering them free and open access to a fully-validated, current generation MIPS CPU in a complete teaching package.

• Renesas Demonstrates Deterministic Deep Database Search Engine Interoperating with Xilinx’s FPGA-Based Packet Processor at Japan IT Week 2015
• HMS Industrial Networks AB Collaborates with Xilinx to Deliver Next Generation Industrial Networking Solutions
• Shorter Time-To-Market thanks to the innovative SmartVision IDE from Dolphin Integration
• ARM Gives Peek at Road Map
• Variscite Introduces the Smallest Freescale i.MX6 Quad Cortex-A9 System-on-Module in the Embedded Market

Headlines for Friday Apr. 24, 2015

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ARM Overtakes Imagination in GPU Shipments

ARM Holdings plc, the leading licensor of processor intellectual property, overtook rival IP provider Imagination Technologies Group plc in graphics processor IP shipments in 2014, according to numbers from the two companies.

• Freescale Reveals NXP Mega Merger Details
• Open-Silicon Ships 100 Million ASICs
• 2015 Semiconductor Capex led by Memory & Foundry
• Altera Announces First Quarter Results

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 23, 2015

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ARM Expects Vehicle Compute Performance to Increase 100x in Next Decade

ARM offers functional safety package for ARM® Cortex®-A processors as it broadens its support for automotive

• 8 Views of Security from RSA
• EEMBC Delivers 64-Bit Android Platform Benchmark
• Xilinx Announces Fiscal 2015 Results; Record 70% FY Gross Margin, 28nm FY Sales Reach $580M
• Leading edge technology company in India will Design, Build and License Semiconductor IP products and Services in 14nm Technology
• IPextreme Takes Semiconductor IP to New Heights at DAC 2015 in San Francisco

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 22, 2015

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Arteris Delivers FlexNoC Physical Interconnect IP to Accelerate SoC Layout

Arteris today announced availability of Arteris FlexNoC Physical interconnect IP, a breakthrough that accelerates system-on-chip (SoC) physical design.

• New Tensilica Fusion DSP Sets Low-Energy Benchmarks for IoT, Wearables and Wireless Connectivity
• New Tensilica Fusion DSP Sets Low-Energy Benchmarks for IoT, Wearables and Wireless Connectivity
• Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Sales Expected to Reach $354 Billion in 2015, a 4 Percent Increase from 2014
• Intel's 10nm Secrets Predicted
• North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts March 2015 Book-to-Bill Ratio of 1.10
• Samsung Busts TSMC's 'Monopoly,' Analysts Say

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 21, 2015

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ARM Holdings plc Reports Results for the First Quarter 2015

ARM Holdings plc announces its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2015.

• S2C Sets New Standards For FPGA-Based Prototyping With Prodigy Complete Prototyping Platform
• Synopsys' Modeling of 10-nanometer Parasitic Variation Effects Ratified by Open-Source Standards Board
• UltraSoC announces industry-first "debug over USB" capability for complex SoCs
• Rambus Reports First Quarter Financial Results

Headlines for Monday Apr. 20, 2015

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Athena and Rambus Cryptography Research Division Announce Solutions to Prevent Advanced Security Threats

Athena today introduced a comprehensive portfolio of IP cores with side-channel attack (SCA) countermeasures, based on advanced differential power analysis (DPA) countermeasure approaches pioneered by Rambus Cryptography Research Division.

• Global Semiconductor Market Achieves Strong, Broad-based Growth in 2014, According to IHS
• Synopsys to Acquire Software Security Company Codenomicon
• Atomic Rules Joins the 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium
• Netspeed Systems Accelerates Global Adoption of its On-Chip Network IP with new Office in Tokyo
• 'Connected Home' Key to Intel's Lantiq Deal
• TSMC Cuts Capex by $1 Billion
• Comcores announces availability of an ETIS ORI 4.1.1 compliant CPRI IQ Compression IP Core enabling enhanced throughput or lowering of front-haul cost in wireless networks
• iCatch Technology Licenses DMP GPU IP core

Headlines for Friday Apr. 17, 2015

• 2015 Semiconductor Sales Leaders Forecast to Include NXP/Freescale; One Japanese Company

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 16, 2015

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Chips&Media releases world's first HEVC and VP9 multi-format decoder IP with 10bit support

Chips&Media has introduced today its new multi decoder IP, WAVE412 which provides the industry’s first support for both HEVC (H.265) and WebM VP9 targeted for multimedia SoCs with 4K UHD capability.

• Samsung Describes Road to 14nm
• TSMC Reports First Quarter EPS of NT$3.05
• Open-Silicon Streamlines ASIC Quotation Process
• Aims Technology releases Industry’s First Non-legacy AMBA5 CHI based High-performance Cache Coherent Network-on-Chip (NoC) IP for SoCs
• ARM Announces Acquisition of Wicentric and Sunrise Micro Devices

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 15, 2015

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Imagination's Ensigma Whisper Cores: the industry's lowest power consumption connectivity IP for wearables and IoT

Imagination Technologies announces the first members of its Ensigma Whisper flexible connectivity IP family, designed specifically to enable the integration of ultra-low power communications in SoCs targeting wearables, IoT and other connected devices that require extended battery life and low cost points.

• INSIDE Secure and Presto Engineering to sign a partnership agreement to outsource INSIDE Secure’s semiconductor operations and supply chain activities to specialist provider, Presto Engineering
• FreeRTOS Now Available for Tensilica Processors
• Qualcomm Leads 32/64-bit Core Silicon Vendor Share Ranking in 2014, Ahead of Apple & MediaTek, says Semicast
• TVS extends CPU Verification Capability
• Rambus Cryptography Research Division Licenses DPA Countermeasures to Thales
• Kilopass to Exhibit at CASPA 2015 High Tech Job Fair as Crown Sponsor

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 14, 2015

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Arasan Chip Systems Announces Availability of MIPI RFFE v2.0 IP

Arasan announced availability of its latest RFFE controller IP compliant with the recently updated MIPI RFFE standard v 2.0 released March 12, 2015.

• Movidius Raises $40 Million in Funding to Accelerate Adoption of Visual Sensing in the Internet of Things
• Quanta, Celeno and Imagination partner to provide the first WebRTC-enabled total VP8+H.264 IP camera solution
• EnSilica launches eSi-3260 processor core with comprehensive SIMD DSP extensions targeting IoT sensing nodes and always-on applications
• Why China Is Shopping for Silicon Valley Chip Companies
• Arasan is an Intel Custom Foundry IP Partner
• sureCore Limited Opens Leuven Design Centre

Headlines for Monday Apr. 13, 2015

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Imagination Tunes in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth

Imagination Technologies launched versions of its MIPS cores powering Wi-Fi/Bluetooth links, competing with ARM and Ceva in intellectual property for consumer wireless chips. The IP blocks target Internet of Things designs where some competitors are still fielding low power mobile SoCs.

• TICO Lightweight Compression Shortlisted "Finalist for the IABM Game Changer Awards 2015" at NAB 2015.
• EDA Consortium Reports Record Revenue for Q4 2014 and for the Year
• MulticoreWare demonstrates high quality 4K 10-bit real-time HEVC video encoding with x265
• Altera Joins Industrial Internet Consortium to Influence Global Ecosystem for Internet of Things
• Differentiate your SoC with the new MCU core from Dolphin Integration
• TVS extends Security Expertise through Associate Dr. Carol Buttle
• Squid Systems Announces Industry Leading Real-Time 4K UHD HEVC Encode Solution at NABShow 2015
• World's first public demonstrations of V-Nova's PERSEUSR video compression at NAB Show 2015
• Vanguard Video to Showcase its new HEVC Codec with Imagine Communications at NAB 2015
• NGCodec demonstrates its H.265/HEVC Intra encoder on a Kintex-7 FPGA in the Xilinx booth at NAB Show
• Google Joins Via Licensing's LTE Patent Pool
• Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Grew 7.9 Percent in 2014, According to Final Results by Gartner

Headlines for Friday Apr. 10, 2015

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Intertrust Technologies Integrates Advanced Security Cores from Rambus Cryptography Research Division to Protect Digital Content Delivery to Consumer Devices

Rambus today announced that Intertrust® Technologies Corporation, a leading provider of trusted computing technologies, will integrate its CryptoFirewall™ advanced hardware security cores with ExpressPlay™ cloud service.

• TSMC March 2015 Revenue Report
• UMC Reports Sales for March 2015
• Samsung Delivers Its 14 nm
• Vanguard Video Announces the Release of its New 64-Bit H.264 ARM Codec
• Intel drops talks to acquire Altera: Sources

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 09, 2015

• Xilinx All Programmable Devices Enable Blackmagic Design to Develop Complete 4K Camera Systems on Chip
• Pathpartner Technology Announces Hybrid Hardware-Software HEVC Decoder Optimized for Programmable SoC Devices at NAB’15
• Altera to Demonstrate Ultra HD End-to-End Solutions at NAB 2015
• UltraSoC appoints Rupert Baines as CEO
• HDMI Forum, Inc. Release 2.0a Specification
• Intel's bid for semiconductor firm signals more sector deals

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 08, 2015

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Arteris Delivers FlexNoC Version 3 to Enhance System-on-Chip (SoC) IP Assembly

Arteris today announced availability of FlexNoC Version 3 (v3) interconnect fabric IP designed to help chip designers create more sophisticated chips, more quickly.

• Elliptic Technologies to Exhibit Leading Security Solutions for Ultra HD Content Protection at the NAB Show 2015
• TICO Compression Supporters Announce the Launch of the TICO Alliance to Move to 4K/UHD in Live Broadcast Production.
• Xilinx and its Ecosystem Demonstrate 'Any Media over Any Network' Connectivity with All Programmable Professional Video Solutions at NAB 2015
• Microsemi Announces Expiration of HSR Waiting Period for Vitesse Tender Offer
• TSMC Outlines 16nm, 10nm Plans
• Synopsys Announces Immediate Availability of Broad Portfolio of Silicon-Proven IP for TSMC 16-nm FinFET Plus Processes
• INSIDE Secure Introduces DRM Fusion Essential at the NAB Show 2015
• Kilopass Named Platinum Sponsor of the GSA Silicon Summit on Formative Technology

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 07, 2015

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PLDA and GUC Delivers Fully Integrated PCI Express Gen 4 Solution for TSMC's 16nm FinFET Plus Process

PLDA has partnered with GUC to create the fully-integrated complete PCIe Gen 4 solution for TSMC’s 16nm FinFET Plus (16FF+) process. The new PCIe Gen 4 IP can be licensed immediately by system-on-a-chip (SoC) and system companies, enabling solutions that satisfy the throughput, latency and power demands of PCIe 4.0 applications.

• MEMS Sensor Company Standing Egg Chooses MIPS CPUs for Sensor Hubs targeting Mobile, IoT, Wearables and Automotive
• Barco Silex adds lightweight VC-2 compression to video production toolbox
• Why EDA Invests in IP
• Xilinx UltraScale 20nm Devices Enable JDSU ONT 400G Ethernet Test Platform
• Microsemi Announces RTG4 Radiation-tolerant FPGAs For High-speed Signal Processing Applications
• Realtek Adopts Faraday's 28nm HLP 7-track miniLib for TV SoC Solution
• Altera and TSMC Innovate Industry-first, UBM-free WLCSP Packaging Technology Platform for MAX 10 FPGA Products
• Mentor Graphics Announces Nucleus RTOS Safety Critical Certification
• GUC Monthly Sales Report - March 2015
• SEMI Reports 2014 Global Semiconductor Materials Sales of $44.3 Billion
• Leading Global Mobile OEM, Yulong Coolpad, Selects Inside Secure to Protect Flagship Android Smartphone
• Barco Silex Partners with Rambus to Combat Security Threats in Point-of-Sale Market
• GUC Demonstrates Industry's First TSMC 16nm Low Leakage USB 3.1 PHY IP
• Percepio AB Joins ARM Connected Community
• eASIC Joins Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium

Headlines for Monday Apr. 06, 2015

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True Circuits Announces New Line of PLLs, the "Ultra PLL", that offers exceptional performance, features and ease of use

Circuits, Inc. (TCI), a leading provider of analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) for the semiconductor, systems and electronics industries announced today the availability of a new line of Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) hard macros that is well suited for the most demanding chip applications, including high-speed SerDes and ADC input clocks.

• Cadence Digital and Custom/Analog Tools Achieve TSMC Certification for 10nm FinFET Early Design Starts
• Global Semiconductor Sales Increase in February Compared to Last Year
• TSMC Certifies Synopsys Design Tools for 16-nm FinFET Plus Production and for 10-nm Early Design Starts
• Dolphin Integration addresses the real memory challenges of LCD Display Drivers in advanced nodes
• GIGABYTE Releases Its First ARM Server Solutions
• Vanguard International Signs OTP IP License Agreement with Attopsemi Technology
• Barco Silex Standardizes on Blue Pearl Software - Transforms Its ASIC and FPGA Design Flows
• Alibaba Group joins Linaro to accelerate development of software platforms for ARM Powered servers
• Xilinx Highlights Multiple Next Generation Ethernet, SDN and Data Center Acceleration Technologies at Ethernet Technology Summit 2015

Headlines for Friday Apr. 03, 2015

• U.S.-Headquartered Companies Capture Bulk of IDM, Fabless IC Sales
• PathPartner Technology Announces Availability of HEVC Solutions on Multiple Embedded and Server Platforms at NAB'15
• Toshiba Broadens Offering Of ARM Cortex-M4F-Based Microcontrollers For Secure Communications Control

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 02, 2015

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Embrionix to bring the world's first JPEG 2000 SFP module powered by intoPIX technology at NAB 2015.

intoPIX and Embrionix have collaborated to bring the world’s first emSFP integrating a JPEG 2000 engine for video over IP applications.

• Barco Silex releases video-over-IP reference design, enabling JPEG 2000 networks for professional video
• Andes CPU Core Wins New Socket in MediaTek SoCs
• Recore Systems Selects Imperas for Virtual Platform Based Software Development Tools
• Integre Technologies Announces HyperLink Analyzer Development Kit

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 01, 2015

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Mobiveil Announces Major Customer Design Win With a Multinational Telecommunications Company for Its RapidIO 10xN (Gen3) Digital Controller IP

Mobiveil today announced a major design win with a multinational telecommunications company for its RapidIO 10xN digital controller IP.

• Analog EDA Finally Automated
• ARM, INSIDE Secure and Microsoft to Join Forces for Thought Leadership Webinar on Content Protection Issues
• Xilinx Launches Next Generation of Video over IP Connectivity Solutions to Address Emerging All IP-Based Networks
• Accusonus Speech Enhancement Software Optimized for Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice DSPs
• Arasan Celebrates Leadership In UFS Based Storage With A Samsung Galaxy S6 Giveaway
• Arteris' FlexNoC Again Chosen by AppliedMicro for X-Gene Server-on-Chip Products
• Tiempo Secure TESIC-SC dual interface microcontroller is ready for evaluation and software development
• Actions Semiconductor Launches Open Source Platform SoC and Reference Design Platform