D&R Headline News (November 2015)

Headlines for Monday Nov. 30, 2015

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Toshiba Considers Listing or Partial Sale of Chip Business

Toshiba Corp. said Friday (Nov. 27) that it was considering splitting off its semiconductor business with listing it as a means of raising capital or it could sell off part of its chip business.

• Pleora Expands Market-Proven GigE Vision IP Core with Xilinx FPGA Support
• Accusonus Achieves 60 Percent Reduction in Computational Cost of Speech Enhancement Software for Cadence Tensilica HiFi DSPs
• Ultra-low power 32-bit microcontroller with advanced power modes from Dolphin Integration
• RFEL announces the Correlator AX for real time, multiple Unique Pattern detection across thousands of data streams

Headlines for Friday Nov. 27, 2015

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NXP Announces Final Regulatory Approval and Closing Date for Merger with Freescale

NXP today announced it has received final regulatory approval from the Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”) of China to complete its merger with Freescale

• TSMC to Sell 5.1% of Xintec Inc.

Headlines for Thursday Nov. 26, 2015

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Report: Abu Dhabi holding talks over GlobalFoundries sale

Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Development Co. has held talks with potential buyers for all or part of Globalfoundries Inc. according to a Bloomberg report that cited unnamed sources.

Headlines for Wednesday Nov. 25, 2015

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Microsemi Corporation Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire PMC-Sierra, Inc.

Microsemi and PMC-Sierra today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsemi will acquire PMC for $9.22 in cash and 0.0771 of a share of Microsemi common stock for each share of PMC common stock through an exchange offer.

• Securing medical in the IoT
• Starting all over again on plastic: ARM
• Synopsys' IC Compiler II Qualified for Samsung Foundry 10-nanometer Process

Headlines for Tuesday Nov. 24, 2015

• Silicon Labs Acquires Telegesis, a Leading Provider of ZigBee Modules

Headlines for Monday Nov. 23, 2015

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Synopsys Delivers Industry's First Ethernet 400G Verification IP for Next-Generation Networking and Communications Systems

Synopsys today announced the availability of the industry's first verification IP (VIP) and source code test suite to support the proposed IEEE P802.3bs/D1.0 Ethernet 400G standard.

• Altera Functional Safety Package Combines FPGA Flexibility with "Lockstep" Processor Solution to Reduce Risk and Time-to-Market
• The DELTA breakthrough: the standard for embedding power management systems made public by Dolphin Integration
• Strong Smartphone Growth in a Saturated Cellphone Market
• Mentor Graphics Veloce Emulation Platform Supports Andes Processors

Headlines for Friday Nov. 20, 2015

• Internet of Things: Opportunities and challenges for semiconductor companies
• North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts October 2015 Book-to-Bill Ratio of 0.98

Headlines for Thursday Nov. 19, 2015

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M&A Activity Could Help Move Semi Companies from Product Sales to Ecosystem Solutions

Give a quick look around the current semiconductor industry. It is not the same as it was a couple years ago, and it would not be the same if the current streak of mergers and acquisitions runs on into next year.

• Xilinx Announces the Spartan-7 FPGA Family
• Is Google disrupting or stabilizing mobile SoCs?
• Intel will ship first Xeon chips with integrated FPGAs in Q1 2016
• JEDEC Updates Standards for Low Power Memory Devices
• Truechip Partners with Advinno to Market Verification IP Products in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei & Cambodia

Headlines for Wednesday Nov. 18, 2015

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CEVA Introduces New Low Power Communication DSPs to Address the Multimode Connectivity Requirements of IoT and M2M

CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of DSP and IP platforms for cellular, multimedia and connectivity, today introduced two new power- and cost-optimized communication processors designed specifically to address the growing demand for multimode connectivity solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications.

• ON Semiconductor to Acquire Fairchild Semiconductor for $2.4 Billion in Cash
• Microsemi Corporation Announces Revised Proposal to Acquire PMC-Sierra for $12.05 per Share in Cash and Stock
• Ambiq Micro announces that the world's lowest power microcontroller is now in volume production
• Inspur and Altera Launch Speech Recognition FPGA Solution with OpenCL
• Could Qualcomm Be China's Next Target?
• TowerJazz Announces Availability of its Next-Generation Power Management Platform Enabling up to 30% Efficiency Boost and Form Factor Reduction

Headlines for Tuesday Nov. 17, 2015

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Report: China Has $47bn Chip Fund Focused on U.S. M&A

Tsinghua Unigroup intends to spend 300 billion yuan (about $47 billion) over the next five years to build up China's position in the chip industry, according to the company chairman speaking in an interview given to Reuters.

• UMC's Automotive Semiconductor Revenue Doubles YoY on Strong Customer Adoption
• Imagination's new end-to-end debug environment targets advanced heterogeneous CPU systems
• Sonics Upgrades SoC Development Environment And Flagship NoC To Improve Chip Architecture Optimization And SoC Resiliency
• IBM and Xilinx Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate Data Center Applications
• IPextreme Joins Forces With NXP to Bring Silicon Proven USB Technology to Market
• S2C Extends Its Xilinx Virtex UltraScale FPGA Prototyping Board Family with Dual VU440 Prodigy Logic Module
• Altera to Exhibit FPGA and SoC Solutions for Industry 4.0 and IoT at SPS IPC Drives 2015
• Cadence Ushers in New Era of Datacenter-class Emulation with Palladium Z1 Enterprise Emulation Platform

Headlines for Monday Nov. 16, 2015

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Arasan Announces The Industry's First MIPI SLIMBus v2.0 IP Core

Arasan Chip Systems, Inc. (“Arasan”), a leading provider of Total IP Solutions for SoC providers, announces availability of IP compliant with MIPI SLIMbus® standard v 2.0 released by the MIPI association on November 4, 2015.

• Menta's Embedded FPGA Successfully Evaluated by Partners for the EDA-SoC program
• Tips to get funding for your IoT product idea
• Barco Silex launches lightning-fast IP core for public-key cryptography to secure Internet-of-Things
• Cellnetrix offers secure embedded operating system for Cortus-based M2M and IoT integrated circuits
• Minimizing BoM cost and silicon area thanks to Dolphin Integration's iLR-LaDiable capless regulator
• PEZY and Imagination team up to develop next-generation HPC systems
• A Therapy Session for Insecure IoT
• ARM Flexes Mbed, RTOSes Respond
• Khronos Releases OpenCL 2.1 and SPIR-V 1.0 Specifications for Heterogeneous Parallel Programming

Headlines for Friday Nov. 13, 2015

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Arteris FlexNoC Interconnect IP is Licensed by SK Hynix for Solid State Storage Device (SSD) Controllers

Arteris today announced that SK Hynix, Inc., has licensed Arteris FlexNoC IP for use in its solid state memory storage products, including SSD controllers.

• ARM Accelerates Mathematical Computation on 64-bit ARM-based HPC Systems
• Apple's A9: Story Within A Story
• Altera FPGAs Accelerate Servers at Texas Advanced Computing Center

Headlines for Thursday Nov. 12, 2015

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ARM Extends Server to IoT Services

ARM surveyed its work in everything from servers to cloud services for the Internet of Things at its annual conference here (Tuesday Nov. 10). Mike Muller, ARM's chief technology officer, expressed optimism about the future of the semiconductor industry in a keynote opening the event.

• Five Top-20 Companies Forecast to Show Double-Digit Growth this Year
• TSMC Open to Selling Stake to Chinese Investors
• Silicon Shipment Levels Decline in Third Quarter 2015
• ARM CEO Touts IoT Security, Fire Safety
• Rambus Announces Executive Management Changes
• Morpho's MovieSolid and Morpho Video WDR Now Available on Cadence Tensilica Imaging/Vision DSPs
• ARM and HeartToHeart Partner to Deliver Accurate and Trusted Healthcare Data

Headlines for Wednesday Nov. 11, 2015

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New ARM Cortex-A35 Processor Extends the ARMv8-A Architecture Deeper Into Mobile and Embedded Markets

ARM announced today the ARM® Cortex®-A35 processor, a new standard-bearer for efficiency among 64-bit processors. The processor is the first CPU in a new family of ultra-high-efficiency ARMv8-A processors designed for high-growth mobile and embedded applications.

• Wave Semiconductor Selects Andes Technology for Embedded Core Wave to Use N9 5-Stage Pipeline CPU Core
• NetSpeed Provides Support for ARM AMBA Protocol with Gemini 2.0
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Launches High-Performance ASIC Offering on 14nm FinFET Process Technology
• Mentor Graphics Adds ARM AMBA 5 AHB Verification IP to Mentor Enterprise Verification Platform
• ARMv8-M Architecture Simplifies Security for Smart Embedded Devices
• Mentor's CEO on Merger Mania
• Cadence Announces Verification IP for ARM AMBA 5 AHB5
• Dream Chip Technologies Supports ARM's Free Access to Cortex-M0 Processor IP

Headlines for Tuesday Nov. 10, 2015

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Cadence and ARM Deliver an IP Reference System for Internet of Things Applications

Cadence has announced a reference system jointly developed with ARM that is targeted at the Internet of Things (IoT) systems. This is the first product following the strategic IP Interoperability Agreement (IPIA) signed by Cadence® and ARM that allows the companies reciprocal access to relevant IP portfolios.

• Synopsys Enables Next-Level of Productivity with Addition of System-Level Capabilities to Verification IP for ARM Cache Coherent Protocols
• Synopsys and ARM Expand Collaboration to Accelerate Software Development for ARM-based Designs
• Arteris Extends Support for ARM AMBA Protocols
• Sonics Supports ARM P-Channel Interface to Extend Commitment to AMBA Ecosystem
• Northwest Logic Uses Avery Design System’s High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Model to Verify Its High-Performance HBM Controller IP Core
• SMIC Reports 2015 Third Quarter Results
• MIPS CPUs continue to push boundaries from low to high end
• Imagination and Testin partner to accelerate time-to-market for app development in Greater China
• Avery, CAST, and Rianta Roll Together on Automotive Ethernet and CAN FD IP and VIP Solutions
• u-blox selects ARM mbed IoT Device Platform for IoT wireless connectivity applications
• Scaling Down Semi Process Nodes for IoT Apps
• Cisco, Ericsson Flirt with Merger
• TSMC October 2015 Revenue Report
• Mobiveil Announces Its New 16G PCIe Gen 4 Controller IP (GPEX) With End-to-End Data Path Protection for High-Performance Enterprise Applications
• Kilopass Announces Breakthrough Memory Technology for IoT Devices

Headlines for Monday Nov. 09, 2015

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Open-Silicon Offers IoT Custom SoC System Based on ARM Cortex-M Processors

Open-Silicon has announced a scalable IoT custom SoC system utilizing ARM® Cortex®-M processors and the ARM mbed™ SDK. The IoT system, launched with an ARM Cortex-M4 processor-based SoC reference design, features ARM TrustZone® CryptoCell hardware-accelerated security technology.

• Altera Discloses Industry's First Heterogeneous SiP Devices that Integrate HBM2 DRAM with FPGAs
• ReFLEX CES announces its first release of the High Performance Computing OpenCL BSP for the Altera Arria 10 FPGA
• ARM Unveils Enhanced Technologies to Speed-Up Mass Deployment of IoT Devices
• STMicroelectronics Enables Faster IoT Development with Support for ARM's mbed Operating System
• CEVA and UltraSoC Partner to Enable Advanced Debug for CEVA DSP Cores
• Automotive IC Market to Display Strongest Growth Through 2019
• Google Walks Fine Line in Android Chip Quest
• A Look at Metal eFuses
• Beijing Pinecone Licenses Arteris FlexNoC Interconnect IP for Smartphone Application Processors
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Achieves 14nm FinFET Technology Success for Next-Generation AMD Products
• UMC Reports Sales for October 2015
• EnSilica appoints Anglia Components as business development partner for eSi-Modules
• Freescale Kinetis MCU development solution provides comprehensive support for new ARM mbed IoT Device Platform
• Synopsys Collaborates with GLOBALFOUNDRIES to Deliver Up to 50 Percent Power Reduction for Designs Using the 22FDX Platform
• Imperas and SELTECH Collaborate on Hypervisor Development and Deployment
• Cadence Digital and Signoff Tools Enabled for GLOBALFOUNDRIES 22FDX Platform Reference Flow

Headlines for Friday Nov. 06, 2015

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Synopsys Extends Software Integrity Platform with Acquisition of Open Source Software Management Company Protecode

Synopsys has acquired Protecode, a privately held Canadian software company that provides solutions for detecting and managing open source software (OSS) and the associated license and security risks.

• Faraday Monthly Consolidated Sales Report - October 2015
• GUC Monthly Sales Report - October 2015

Headlines for Thursday Nov. 05, 2015

• Mentor Graphics Announces Customizable, Secure End-to-End IoT Solution with Integrated Gateway, Cloud and Edge Devices
• UltraSoC moves SoC debug into the 21st Century with CoreSight compatibility and more

Headlines for Wednesday Nov. 04, 2015

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Allegro DVT Adds Support of 4:2:2 10-bit Video Profiles to its Multi-Format Encoder/Decoder Hardware IPs.

Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec hardware IPs and certification bitstreams, announces the availability of new versions of its multi-format video encoder and decoder IPs with additional video profiles that cover 4:2:2 chroma sampling and 10 bits per sample.

• Synopsys Introduces Enhanced Security Package for DesignWare ARC EM Processors
• Undo Software to deliver support for 64-bit ARM Devices
• WiLAN Announces Patent Acquisition From Freescale Semiconductor
• MIPI Alliance Updates its MIPI SLIMbus Specification to Advance Audio System Performance in Mobile and Mobile-Influenced Devices
• Exclusive deal leads to world's smallest sensor for LED lighting & IoT

Headlines for Tuesday Nov. 03, 2015

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Sckipio Receives Investment from Intel Capital

Sckipio Technologies, the leader in G.fast modems, today announced it has received investment from Intel Capital, the strategic investment and M&A arm of Intel Corp.

• EDA Start-Up Intento Design Raises 900k Euros in Early Stage Funding
• Innosilicon Receives "Best Partner of the Year 2015" Award from SMIC
• Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 1.5 Percent in Third Quarter
• Microsemi Corporation Reiterates its Superior $11.88 Per Share Cash and Stock Bid for PMC-Sierra, Inc.
• Blu Wireless Licenses Arteris FlexNoC Interconnect IP for HYDRA WiGig and 4G Backhaul Subsystems
• Faraday Shows Its Force of Multi-imaging-interface Subsystem on MIPI Alliance Demo Day
• Wave Semiconductor Achieves Rapid Design Success Using S2C FPGA Prototyping Solutions

Headlines for Monday Nov. 02, 2015

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CEVA, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2015 Financial Results

CEVA today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2015.Total revenue for the third quarter of 2015 was $16.2 million, an increase of 15% compared to $14.1 million for the third quarter of 2014.

• Lattice Semiconductor and Mikroprojekt Deliver Advanced System Development Platform for the Network Edge
• Altera's New Quartus Prime Design Software Extends Leadership in Design Performance and Productivity
• intoPIX Showcases UHDTV Hybrid SDI/IP Interoperability Using TICO Lite Compression at SMPTE 2015 Conference
• Dolphin Integration's live webinar on Power, Performance and Area optimization during SoC physical implementation