D&R Headline News (March 2016)

Headlines for Thursday Mar. 31, 2016

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Faraday's MIPI IP Subsystem Shipment Reaches Fifteen Million

Faraday Technology today announced that its MIPI IP subsystem has been adopted widely and accumulated the shipment of fifteen million. The customers include giant system companies and leading fabless vendors around the globe, and cover applications of mobile, surveillance and Digital Still Camera (DSC).

• Intel Custom Foundry Certifies Synopsys Implementation and Signoff Tools for 10-nm Tri-Gate Process
• Dolphin Integration Gets the EN 9100 Certification for its Service Activity of ASIC/SoC Integration
• Cadence Digital and Signoff Tools Certified on Samsung Foundry's 14LPP Process

Headlines for Wednesday Mar. 30, 2016

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Image Matters and PLDA enables 8K, HDR, HFR and IP transport video system design with new levels of modularity, flexibility and performance.

Image Matters, an advanced electronics provider for cutting edge video system manufacturers, and PLDA, a leading IP Core and FPGA solution provider, announced today their partnership to enable all video OEM’s to address their upcoming high end audiovisual application requirements, by bringing FPGA technology within their reach.

• JEDEC Publishes Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Removable Card Standard
• Custom Compiler Pioneers New Era of Visually-Assisted Automation
• Asahi Kasei Microdevices Switches to Synopsys' Custom Compiler
• NGCodec and PathPartner Technology jointly demonstrate H.265/HEVC codecs running on Xilinx FPGA's at the NAB Show
• Kandou Licenses Glasswing SerDes Technology to Marvell
• Synopsys' Custom Compiler Deployed at STMicroelectronics to Boost IP Development Productivity
• Open-Silicon to Exhibit and deliver two Tech Talks at IP SoC 2016, Bangalore on Wednesday, April 6, 2016
• Synopsys' Custom Compiler Certified for TSMC 10-nm and 7-nm FinFET Process Nodes

Headlines for Tuesday Mar. 29, 2016

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Arteris FlexNoC Interconnect IP is Licensed by Movidius for Ultra- Low Power Machine Learning and Vision Processing

Arteris today announced that Movidius has licensed Arteris® FlexNoC IP for use in its machine learning vision processing units (VPU).

• Andes Technology Corporation Reaches 1.4 Billion Cumulative Shipments of AndesCores Through Over 100 Customers Worldwide
• Synopsys Accelerates RTL Signoff with Introduction of New SpyGlass Lint Advanced Solution
• D&R introduces a new version of its IP management platform (IPMS) integrating IP Packaging, IP Delivery and CRM features

Headlines for Monday Mar. 28, 2016

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INNOSILICON Announce the World's First GF14nm DDR4/LPDDR4 PHY &Controller IP Silicon Proven

INNOSILICON proudly announces the world’s first DDR4/LPDDR4 PHY & Controller IP combination that has been successfully proven in GLOBALFOUNDRIES 14nm LPP process.

• VLSI Event Reflects Silicon Shifts
• TSMC and Nanjing Sign 12-inch Fab Investment Agreement
• New JEDEC Standard Sets Best Practices for Mitigating Counterfeit Electronic Parts
• Synopsys Unveils Breakthrough Parallel Simulation Performance Technology for VCS

Headlines for Thursday Mar. 24, 2016

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Apple has no plans to buy Imagination

Apple has said that although it has held talks with struggling processor intellectual property licensor Imagination Technologies Group plc it does not plan to make an offer for the company "at this time."

• Silicon Lacks Clear Metrics
• EDA Consortium Reports EDA Industry Revenue for Q4 2015
• Microsemi Announces Definitive Agreement to Divest Business to Mercury Systems, Inc.

Headlines for Wednesday Mar. 23, 2016

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Imagination Stock Rises on Report of Apple Talks

The share price of troubled processor intellectual property licensor Imagination Technologies Group plc (Kings Langley, England) jumped on Tuesday (March 22) on a report of potential acquisition by Apple.

• Toshiba Announces Immediate IP Subsystem Availability of 10 Gigabit Ethernet for Custom LSI Platforms
• Synopsys' PrimeTime Speeds Timing and Power Closure for Complex SoC and IoT Designs
• EnSilica launches Kalman Filter acceleration IP core for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)
• Toshiba Launches ARM Cortex-M3-based Microcontrollers with Latest 65nm Flash Embedded Logic Process for Motor Control and Consumer Devices

Headlines for Tuesday Mar. 22, 2016

• GL Communications Inc. selects Achronix Speedster22i FPGAs for 10/40/100G PacketExpert

Headlines for Monday Mar. 21, 2016

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Chip Market May Contract Again

At least one market watcher thinks the semiconductor industry will decline slightly for the second straight year for the second time in its history.

• ReRAM Startup in Reverse Takeover for Funds
• DINI Group announces full integration with EXOSTIV FPGA Debug Solution
• Analog Devices Enhances IoT Sensing Portfolio with SNAP Sensor Acquisition
• Altera Demonstrates Dual-mode 56-Gbps PAM-4 and 30-Gbps NRZ Transceiver Technology for Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs

Headlines for Friday Mar. 18, 2016

• Mobiveil will demonstrate its UNH certified NVM Express IP (UNEX) in the Members- Only NVM Express Meeting Next Week
• SK Hynix, Amkor Technology, eSilicon, Northwest Logic and Avery Design Systems Announce "Start your HBM/2.5D Design Today" Webinar

Headlines for Thursday Mar. 17, 2016

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Imagination Technologies: Restructuring update

On 8 February 2016, the Group announced that it will reduce total operating costs of its ongoing businesses by £15 million in the next financial year, ending April 2017. These cost reductions will be implemented by the end of the current financial year, ending April 2016. The Group has seen considerable interest in Pure, its consumer electronics business, which it is planning to sell by the end of 2016.

• Acorn Technologies Licenses hellaPHY to Sequans Communications
• Imagination announces latest PowerVR Graphics SDK including full support for new Vulkan API
• Rambus Cryptography Research Division Licenses Advanced Security Technologies to Altis Semiconductor
• Acorn Technologies Introduces New Positioning IP Core for LTE Baseband Chipset Market

Headlines for Wednesday Mar. 16, 2016

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TSMC Details Silicon Road Map

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is ramping its 16nm process and making progress on plans to roll out 10 and 7nm nodes over the next two years.

• Xilinx All Programmable Optical Transport Network (OTN) IP Subsystems Honored by 2016 Lightwave Innovation Reviews

Headlines for Tuesday Mar. 15, 2016

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ARM and TSMC Announce Multi-Year Agreement to Collaborate on 7nm FinFET Process Technology for High-Performance Compute

ARM and TSMC announced a multi-year agreement to collaborate on a 7nm FinFET process technology which includes a design solution for future low-power, high-performance compute SoCs. The new agreement expands the companies’ long-standing partnership and advances leading-edge process technologies beyond mobile and into next-generation networks and data centers.

• Bluetooth Transport Discovery Service Enables Collaborative IoT
• Cadence Design IP to Support TSMC 16FFC and 28HPC+ Process Technologies
• Xilinx Delivers the Industry's Most Flexible and Comprehensive Ethernet Portfolio for Data Center Interconnect, Service Provider and Enterprise Applications
• Microsemi Announces New Secured FPGA Production Programming Solution to Prevent Overbuilding, Cloning, Reverse Engineering, Malware Insertion and Other Security Threats
• Quantum Computer May Crack Public-Key Encryption
• Analog Bits to Demonstrate Half-Power SERDES at TSMC's San Jose Technology Symposium
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Releases New 7SW SOI RF PDK Featuring Latest Keysight Technologies Advanced Design System Software
• TSMC and MediaTek Extend Collaboration on Ultra-Low Power Technology to Capture the Emerging IoT Market
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Broadens SiGe Power Amplifier Portfolio, Enhancing RF Performance and Efficiency for Wireless Devices

Headlines for Monday Mar. 14, 2016

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True Circuits Announces New Line of Low Power, 32KHz IoT PLLs

True Circuits announced today the availability of a new line of Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) hard macros specifically tailored to the stringent power requirements and wide frequency operation range of the rapidly-growing IoT market.

• Silicon Shift Ahead in Comms
• Cadence Announces DDR4 and LPDDR4 IP Achieve 3200 Mbps on TSMC 16nm FinFET Plus Process
• Credo 16-nm 56G PAM-4 SerDes IP Now Available
• Synopsys Announces Broad IP Portfolio for TSMC 16FFC Process
• TSMC Certifies Synopsys IC Compiler II for 10-nm FinFET Production and 7-nm Early Design Starts
• Flex Logix Announces Program for Fast-Track Evaluation and Prototyping
• M31 Technology Announces Its Release of TSMC's 28HPC+ ULL SRAM Compilers for the Intelligent Device Market
• elitePLUS semiconductor Technologies released a fully functional 400G PCS VIP.
• eMemory Announces Industry's First 16nm FinFET Compact (FFC) Process Verified OTP Silicon IP
• Mellanox and Cadence Demonstrate PCI Express 4.0 Multi-Lane PHY IP Interoperability
• Lattice Semiconductor and MediaTek Deliver the World’s Most Power Efficient 4K Video Solution Over USB Type-C

Headlines for Friday Mar. 11, 2016

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Mn_nH release deep-learing accelerated and 8-bit pixel anti-banding HEVC encoder.

MnHEVC overcome the barrier of optimisation with deep learning acceleration and 8-bit anti-banding encoding technic. MnHEVC is deep learned with many and various video estimation patterns and its depth classifier make to reduce encoding complexity dramatically.

• Jury Finds in Favor of Synopsys in ATopTech Copyright Infringement Case
• SMIC and RRAM Leader Crossbar Announce Strategic Partnership Agreement

Headlines for Thursday Mar. 10, 2016

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THine Electronics Licenses SILICONGATE's Power Management IP Solutions for its Next Generation of Serial Interfaces

SILICONGATE today announced that THine Electronics, the world’s leader in high-speed serial interface and provider of mixed-signal LSI, has selected SiliconGate high performance Power Management IP’s for its next generation of high-speed serial interfaces.

• Up to Their ARMs in Concrete
• Xilinx Demonstrates 56G PAM4 Transceiver Technology
• TSMC February 2016 Revenue Report
• GUC Delivers 28G Multi-Standard SerDes IP
• Aldec delivers enhanced UVM Support and New Debugging Features with the latest release of Riviera-PRO

Headlines for Wednesday Mar. 09, 2016

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Trilinear Technologies Delivers Next Generation DisplayPort Link Controllers

Trilinear Technologies continues to advance the state of the art in DisplayPort link controller cores. Building on the highly successful line of DisplayPort link controller cores originally introduced in 2007, the Trilinear VF-111T DisplayPort Transmitter and VF-117R DisplayPort Receiver cores have been updated to include full support for the Video Electronic Standards Association (VESA) DisplayPort 1.3a standard and the Embedded DisplayPort 1.4 standard.

• GUC Announces Progress in LPDDR4 IP and Reaffirms Commitment to DIMM Application of DDR3/4
• eMemory Announces Innovative Solution for Cryptographic Security
• UMC Reports Sales for February 2016

Headlines for Tuesday Mar. 08, 2016

• ARM Showcases the World's No. 1 Computing Ecosystem at Bluetooth World 2016

Headlines for Monday Mar. 07, 2016

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Arasan Announces USB 2.0 PHY in Ultra Low Power TSMC 40LP

Arasan’s USB 2.0 PHY has been designed to target mobile devices and the automotive market. This IP expands Arasan’s library of nodes, now available from 180nm to 28nm from major foundries including automotive grade qualifications. Ubiquitous in PCs, USB 2.0 is now the charging and media transport interface for billions of mobile products from Smartphones to headphones.

• MRAM Breakthrough Looms
• Semiconductor Unit Shipments To Exceed One Trillion Devices in 2018
• ON Semiconductor Extends Tender Offer to Acquire Fairchild Semiconductor
• GUC Monthly Sales Report - February 2016
• Linaro announces ARM Based Developer Cloud
• Linaro announces support for 96Boards HiKey in AOSP
• Sidense Exhibiting at TSMC 2016 North American Technology Symposiums

Headlines for Friday Mar. 04, 2016

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Broadcom Identifies $300M Cuts

Hock Tan has made a lot of progress re-defining Broadcom Corp. in just a month since he acquired it for $37 billion in the semiconductor industry’s biggest deal to date. But the chief executive of the former Avago is not ready to provide details about what the new company looks like yet.

• Intel Security Expands Partner Ecosystem
• BrainChip Announces: Unsupervised Visual Learning Achieved
• Global Semiconductor Sales Off to Sluggish Start in 2016
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Adds Alain Mutricy as Head of Product Management Group

Headlines for Thursday Mar. 03, 2016

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QuickPlay Extends its Leadership in Software Defined FPGA Development Flow with the Release of Version 2.0

PLDA today announced the release of version 2.0 of its QuickPlay® development platform. QuickPlay is a software defined FPGA development environment that enables developers with little to no FPGA expertise to build FPGA designs seamlessly and have working hardware in record time.

• Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Leaba Semiconductor
• Xilinx Invests in Neural Network Startup
• Synopsys Extends Leadership in Functional Safety and Security Verification with Addition of Key Technology for ISO 26262 Compliance

Headlines for Wednesday Mar. 02, 2016

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New Lossless & Lossy Hybrid frame buffer compression IP, CFrame50 released by Chips&Media

Chips&Media Inc. announced today that it released its new enhanced frame buffer compression IP CFrame50. CFrameTM is IP core that performs visually lossless compression of source image data from ISP or decoded data that are to be transferred to display chip so that efficient memory management, considerable bandwidth reduction and power saving can be all achieved.

• Startup offers RF IP for 5G communications
• Synopsys Galaxy Design Platform Certified for Samsung Foundry 14LPP FinFET Process
• ARM has R&D interest in neural network cores
• Cisco Rolls 16nm ASICs
• VESA Publishes DisplayPort Standard Version 1.4

Headlines for Tuesday Mar. 01, 2016

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Titan IC Systems Launches Content Inspection Technology

Titan IC Systems announced that is has worked closely with Xilinx to optimize its Helios Regular Expression (RegEx) Processor as a licenseable soft Intellectual Property (IP) core for Xilinx FPGAs.

• iCatch Technology Selects CEVA Imaging and Vision DSP for Digital Video and Image Product Line
• Resource-rich MCU targets wearable IoT
• Taiwan Passes South Korea to Become #1 in Total IC Wafer Fab Capacity
• IPrium releases Burst BPSK Modem
• New Titan IC Systems and Xanadata partnership means huge acceleration to analytics of data in network security solutions
• Express Logic's X-Ware Secure Platform Provides Secure Solution for Information- and Safety-Sensitive IoT Devices