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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced the availability of the new Cadence® Tensilica® Fusion G3 digital signal processor (DSP), a multi-purpose, high-performance DSP ideal for compute-intensive system-on-chip (SoC) designs.
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Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, through its Silicon Storage Technology (SST) subsidiary, announced today that silicon-proven SuperFlash® macros are now available on SilTerra’s 180 nm CMOS technology.
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The deal could also face hard scrutiny by the European Commission, which is now becoming more critical about consolidation in the technology sector.
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Wolfson Microelectronics gone to Cirrus; CSR gone to Qualcomm; Imagination stumbles; UK votes to leave the European Union; ARM votes to become a subsidiary of a Japanese telecommunications company with IoT dreams of grandeur. Is there a steady-state theory of tech company creation and destruction or are we living in a big-bang technology world? And was the bang we just heard the door closing as UK exits hardware technology?
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Semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. recently introduced the newest generation in its eighteen-year-long series of IP cores for video and image compression.
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Synopsys today announced the immediate availability of its new DesignWare® MIPI® CSI-2℠ Device Controller IP and DesignWare MIPI DSI℠ Device Controller IP for mobile, automotive and Internet of Things (IoT) system-on-chips (SoCs).
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So let’s assume billions of chips are going to get sold for ‘IoT’, what ever that might be. And let’s assume they were going to have ARM Cortex-M_ cores in them. Now that ARM is no longer independent, I can see two futures.
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Is ARM cashing in its chips after a successful 25-year run or is it simply looking to SoftBank for financial back up because the best is yet to come in a global IoT revolution?
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Digital Core Design, one of the most experienced (since 1999) IP Core providers and a System-on-Chip design house, introduced to its portfolio the DTPCI32DC. It’s a Dual Clock 32-bit PCI Bus Target Interface IP Core which meets all requirements of the PCI 3.0 specification for a target device. Moreover, it compromises a minimal gate count with a high-bandwidth data transfer.
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Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS) today announced it has reduced the power and area of its DesignWare® USB 2.0 Type-C Controller and PHY IP for cost-sensitive and energy-efficient Internet of Things (IoT) edge applications targeting 40-nanometer (nm) and 55-nm ultra-low power processes.
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Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, through its Silicon Storage Technology (SST) subsidiary, announced today qualification and availability of SST's low-mask-count embedded SuperFlash® non-volatile memory (NVM) on GLOBALFOUNDRIES' 130 nm BCDLite® technology platform.
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Chips&Media Inc. announced today they completed development of 2nd generation VP9 and HEVC(H.265) multi-format Decoder IP - WAVE512 and now are available to customers. This is the second rollout of their high-performance UHD (4K/8K) Video IP series called WAVE5 which are based on the sophisticated new architecture.
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Imagination Technologies today announces results for the year ended 30 April 2016.
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Mercia is pleased to announce that it has agreed the Group's second direct investment from the portfolio of investments managed by Enterprise Ventures Group ("EVG") following its acquisition by Mercia on 9 March 2016. The syndicate investment into sureCore Limited ("sureCore"), a low power electronic memory design specialist, provides further confirmation of the strategic benefit EVG brings to Mercia, expanding Mercia's direct investment pipeline sourced via its third party funds significantly.