D&R Headline News (August 2015)

Headlines for Monday Aug. 31, 2015

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Credo Raises $8 Million in Series A Funding

Credo Semiconductor, a global innovation leader in Serializer-Deserializer (SerDes) technology, today announced that it has raised over $8 million in Series A funding led by global venture capital firm, Walden International.

• Synopsys' IC Validator Distributed Processing Accelerates Signoff Physical Verification of Mellanox Design
• Synopsys' IC Validator Signoff Physical Verification Delivers 2X Memory Reduction in Latest Release

Headlines for Friday Aug. 28, 2015

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Open Source GPU Debuts

The first general-purpose graphics processor (GPGPU) now available as open-source RTL was unveiled at the Hot Chips event here. In a separate talk, another academic described an integrated open source processor with a core that’s more power efficient than a similar block from ARM.

• Creonic Enables High-speed Downlinks for Aquila Space's Nanosatellites
• Pure-Play Foundry Sales Forecast to Surpass $12.0 Billion in 4Q15

Headlines for Thursday Aug. 27, 2015

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Well-backed MEMS startup closed?

Sand 9 Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), a startup founded in 2007 to develop piezoelectric MEMS resonator timing circuits as an alternative to quartz crystal devices, appears to have closed its doors.

• Open-Silicon and Cadence Collaborate on DSP-Based Custom SoC Platform

Headlines for Wednesday Aug. 26, 2015

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China Shakes Up ARM Servers

A China-based startup described at the annual Hot Chips event here the most aggressive ARM-based server processor to date. In the same session, Oracle described its first Sparc processor with integrated Infiniband.

• Truechip announces first customer shipment of USB Type-C and Power Delivery Comprehensive Verification IP (CVIP)
• Gartner Says Worldwide Server Shipment Market Grew 8 Percent in the Second Quarter of 2015, While Revenue Increased 7.2 Percent
• CEO Interview: Ambiq Sees Broader Options for Low Voltage

Headlines for Tuesday Aug. 25, 2015

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TSMC Wins Lawsuit Against Ex-Employee Now at Samsung

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest chip foundry, has won a lawsuit against a former R&D employee who leaked secrets including 28-nm process technology to Samsung, South Korea’s largest company.

• INSIDE Secure's Award-winning HCE Payment Solution Achieves Visa Ready Approval
• Startup Wants Better IoT Radios
• Microsemi Introduces XMC Form Factor SATA SSD for Industrial and Defense Applications Requiring the Highest Levels of Security and Reliability
• Cavendish Kinetics raises $36 million, transforms LTE Smartphones
• TSMC to Cease Solar Manufacturing Operations
• Ittiam and Silicon Philosophies Collaborate to Demonstrate Cinema Craft 4K H.265 (HEVC) and Ultra HD Blu-Ray Encoder Products at IBC 2015

Headlines for Monday Aug. 24, 2015

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Silicon Works Adopts Hardent's VESA DSC Decoder IP

Hardent and Silicon Works today announced that Silicon Works has adopted the Hardent VESA Display Stream Compression (DSC) decoder IP. The VESA DSC IP enables Silicon Works to deliver compelling ultra high-definition (UHD) displays while meeting critical time-to-market constraints.

• HP to Cut More Jobs
• eASIC and ASOCS Partner to Develop Custom Silicon Accelerators for Network Function Virtualization (NFV)-based Virtual Base Station Solutions
• Build an ultra low power SoC thanks to implementation-ready solutions from Dolphin Integration
• Kilopass to Demonstrate Embedded Non-Volatile Memory IP at IIC-China 2015 Fall Exhibition

Headlines for Friday Aug. 21, 2015

• Via Licensing Issues Call for MPEG-H 3D Audio Patents
• North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts July 2015 Book-to-Bill Ratio of 1.02

Headlines for Thursday Aug. 20, 2015

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CEVA's Bluetooth Low Energy IP Powers NXP QN9000 Series of Bluetooth Smart SoCs

Leveraging the ultra-low power performance of RivieraWaves Bluetooth Smart, NXP's SoCs dramatically simplify innovation of next-generation wearables, smart home, digital health, and other devices that comprise the Internet of Things (IoT).

• Microcontroller Unit Shipments Surge but Falling Prices Sap Sales Growth
• Real Time Logic Joins Andes Technology Corp.'s New Internet of Things Community Knect.me to Provide Software Stack Solutions
• Semtech Announces Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2016 Results
• Synopsys Posts Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2015
• UMC Joins Elite Club
• Accellera Systems Initiative Announces SCE-MI 2.3
• MediaTek Faces Eroded Smartphone Growth
• Taiwan May Ease Rules on Chip Investments in China

Headlines for Wednesday Aug. 19, 2015

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USB Ain't So Simple Anymore

A number of chip vendors including Cypress Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, NXP Semiconductors and Lattice Semiconductor have had a busy summer rolling out new USB Type-C chips, an accelerated product launch that effectively ends an era of scarcity for USB Type C.

• Intel Skylake Gets Mixed Reviews
• Gowin Semiconductor Corporation Announced New Non-volatile FPGA Devices -- GW1N

Headlines for Tuesday Aug. 18, 2015

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CEVA Announces the Certification of RivieraWaves Bluetooth Smart 4.2 Platform IP

CEVA today announced that its RivieraWaves Bluetooth Smart 4.2 IP platform has been fully certified by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG).

• Overall GPU shipments dropped 11% from last quarter, AMD slipped 26%, Nvidia fell 16%, and Intel saw a 7.4% slip
• PMC-Sierra Scales Storage with PCIe, NVMe
• Inside GlobalFoundries' Fab 8
• Open-Source Virtual Reality Consortium Selects Xilinx All Programmable Devices to Enable Industry's First, Fully Upgradable Virtual Reality Headset
• Atmel Expands Line of New Innovative Ultra-Low-Power ARM Cortex M0+ MCUs with Segment LCD Controller
• Lattice Semiconductor Expands USB Type-C Product Family

Headlines for Monday Aug. 17, 2015

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Rambus Makes Server Memory Interface Chipset For Advanced Enterprise and Data Center Systems

Rambus today introduced the R+ DDR4 server memory chipset, RB26, for RDIMMs and LRDIMMs[i], delivering superior performance and capacity for both the enterprise and data center server markets.

• eASIC and Tamba Networks Announce Immediate Availability of 100 Gigabit Ethernet Solution for Data Center, Core and Access Network Switching Applications
• Should Altera Worry About Intel's M&A Record?
• HyperSilicon Releases Xilinx- XCVU440 Based FPGA-Based Prototyping Platform for VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration)Verification

Headlines for Friday Aug. 14, 2015

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Docea Power has been acquired by Intel Corporation

Docea Power has been acquired by Intel Corporation. The transaction was completed on July 31, 2015.

• Bring on the 64-Bit Tablets: Allwinner's First 64-Bit Tablet Solution Goes Mass Production in August

Headlines for Thursday Aug. 13, 2015

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Qualcomm Completes $2.4 Billion Acquisition of CSR

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Global Trading Pte. Ltd, has completed its acquisition of CSR plc (CSR), a leading fabless provider of end-to-end semiconductor and software solutions for the Internet of Everything (IoE) and automotive segments.

• CMOS Image Sensors See Higher Growth from Greater Diversity of Uses
• Chelsio Demonstrates NVMe Over Fabrics with 40GbE iWARP RDMA at Flash Memory Summit
• Qualcomm Tips Comeback Chip
• Intel Said to Unseat Qualcomm in iPhone
• Altera FPGA Acceleration Solutions on Display at IDF15

Headlines for Wednesday Aug. 12, 2015

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IP-Maker to introduce PCIe Gen3 capable NVMe controller IP

IP-Maker introduces its new version of NVMe controller IP. PCIe Gen3 capable, this full hardware architecture UNH-IOL compliant, will reduce dramatically the latency of NVMe storage systems.

• MIPI Alliance Releases New MIPI M-PHY v4.0 Specification, Achieving a Peak Transmission Rate of Nearly 12 Gbps
• SMIC Reports 2015 Second Quarter Results

Headlines for Tuesday Aug. 11, 2015

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Chips&Media announces new small size multi-standard video codec IP targeting for Low end AP

Chips&Media, Inc. announced today the availability of CODA7Q - ultra small size new multi-standard video codec IP targeting for low end AP market. CODA7Q is an updated version of CODA7L supporting HEVC (H.265) Decoder IP in a single core

• Aricent Acquires SmartPlay - Accelerates R&D for Semiconductors, Embedded Systems and Internet of Things
• eASIC Announces Nextreme-3 Platform Support for PCIe Gen 3.1 - SRIS

Headlines for Monday Aug. 10, 2015

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Dolphin Integration and TSMC collaborate on Low-Power IoT Subsystem Design

Dolphin Integration today announced a collaborative effort with TSMC to ease the design and optimization of Internet of Things (IoT) subsystems for System-on-Chip (SoC) integrators.

• Imagination Technologies unveils Vulkan demo on Android with Google at SIGGRAPH
• Altera to Demonstrate NAND Flash, FPGA Accelerators, and Storage and Memory Virtualization at Flash Memory Summit 2015
• Xilinx Announces LDPC Error Correction IP Fundamental to Enabling Next Generation Flash-Based Applications for the Cloud and Data Center Storage Market
• Intilop delivers on Altera FPGAs, their 7th Gen. industry first, Full TCP, UDP & IGMP Hardware Accelerator System with Dual 10G ports for all Hyper Performance Networking Systems
• SMIC's 28nm Chips Power Mainstream Smartphones Marking a New Era for Advanced Chip Manufacturing in China
• TSMC July 2015 Revenue Report
• Xilinx Showcases All Programmable Solutions for Cloud and Data Center Flash Storage at Flash Memory Summit 2015

Headlines for Friday Aug. 07, 2015

• Faraday Monthly Consolidated Sales Report - July 2015

Headlines for Thursday Aug. 06, 2015

• Microsemi Collaborates with Nine Ways Research and Development to Introduce SmartFusion2-based NetFusion Industrial Ethernet Solution
• GUC Monthly Sales Report - July 2015
• Samsung Cuts Intel's Semiconductor Sales Lead to 16% in 2Q15

Headlines for Wednesday Aug. 05, 2015

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Moortec Semiconductor Announce New Embedded Process Detector (MEPD)

The New Moortec Embedded Process Detector (MEPD) circuit provides the means for advanced node Integrated Circuit (IC) developers to detect the process variations brought about by manufacturing variability and drift of advanced node core digital MOS devices. The Process Detector can be used to enable a continuous Dynamic Voltage & Frequency Scaling (DVFS) optimisation system, monitor manufacturing variations on and if required, across chip, gate delay measurements, critical path analysis, critical voltage analysis and also monitor silicon ‘ageing’.

• New CISC Architecture Takes on RISC
• Diablo Technologies Launches Memory1, World's First All-Flash DDR4 Memory Module, Transforming Datacenter Performance and Economics
• New Cadence Joules RTL Power Solution Delivers 20X Faster Time-Based Power Analysis within 15 Percent Accuracy to Signoff
• eMemory Integrates OTP and MTP to Offer Industry-Leading Combo and Hybrid Silicon IPs
• Kilopass to Showcase its Embedded Non-Volatile Memory IP at Flash Memory Summit

Headlines for Tuesday Aug. 04, 2015

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PLDA Announces SATA Express Support in Their Industry-leading XpressRICH3-AXI PCIe IP

PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express® controller IP solutions, today announced that its XpressRICH3-AXI PCIe® 3.0 IP is now fully compliant with the SATA Express™ standard.

• Montage Technology Licenses Arteris FlexNoC Interconnect IP for Set-Top Box (STB) Systems-on-Chip (SoCs)
• INSIDE Secure Announces the World's Smallest Communications Security Solution for Internet of Things (IoT) Devices
• Altran acquires SiConTech, one of the fastest growing Indian technologies firms, specialised in semiconductor design services
• Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Atrenta
• Realtek Accelerates System-on-Chip Verification with Cadence Palladium XP Platform

Headlines for Monday Aug. 03, 2015

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Synopsys and ASMedia Announce Industry's First USB 3.1 Interoperability Demonstration

Synopsys and ASMedia today announced the successful interoperability demonstration of Synopsys' DesignWare® USB 3.1 Device Controller IP with ASMedia's USB-IF certified USB 3.1 Host Controller IC.

• Mid-Year Global Semiconductor Sales Ahead of Last Year's Pace by 4 Percent
• Leading China Smartphone Innovator Meizu becomes first OEM to join Linaro Mobile Group
• The Computer Graphics market will exceed $235 billion by 2018
• Altera Integrating Advanced Digital Control into Enpirion PowerSoCs to Improve FPGA Power Efficiency
• INSIDE Secure - First half of 2015 results
• Accellera Systems Initiative Delivers UVM 1.2 to IEEE for Standardization
• Lattice Releases World's First superMHL Solutions for USB Type-C to Deliver 4K 60fps Video with Concurrent USB 3.1 Data
• Vantrix Enhances Open Transcoding Video Pipeline With InterDigital PerceptFX Perceptual Pre-Processor