D&R Headline News (April 2017)

Headlines for Friday Apr. 28, 2017

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Creonic Starts Wideband Satellite Initiative with Launch of New DVB-S2X IP Cores

Creonic today announced the launch of multiple IP cores for wideband satellite communication, satisfying current and future requirements of nanosatellites as well as high-throughput satellites (HTS).

• HHGrace and Empyrean Continue Their Cooperation on Local EDA Tools to Facilitate IP Design
• NXP Acquires Freescale, Becomes Top MCU Supplier in 2016
• DMP AI Processor IP "ZIA DV700" Enables AI at the Edge
• asicNorth enhances IoT Design EcoSystem with IoT Endpoint ASIC Platform
• RISC-V Gains a Software Development Solution from Imperas

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 27, 2017

• MIPI Alliance Hosts First Plugfest for Companies Adopting MIPI I3C Sensor Interface Specification
• Titan IC sets sail to secure the world's major cloud providers
• RISC-V Foundation clarifies '100 errors' reports
• Starblaze Achieves Volume Production of Storage SoC with Synopsys Security and Foundation IP
• Linaro Announces Latest 96Boards Product for AOSP Development
• IAR Systems invests in IoT security by acquiring equity stake in Secure Thingz
• Faraday Exhibits Total IP Solutions and IoT SoC Platform at ESC 2017
• Xilinx Sales Grow For 6th Consecutive Quarter; Dividend Raised For 12th Consecutive Year
• Visual Processors and CNN - the next generation supercomputer
• UMC Sees Weakening Demand at 28nm

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 26, 2017

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Geon Secure Execution Processor Brings Royalty-Free Protection to IoT Devices

Semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. today announced the availability of an IP core that builds secure code execution into a 32-bit processor suitable for embedded systems and Internet of Things devices.

• Amlogic Reduces HW/SW Integration Time for Multimedia SoCs by Two Months Using the Cadence Protium S1 FPGA-Based Prototyping Platform
• Wave Computing Accelerates its Machine Learning Software Bring-up by 12 Months Using Synopsys ZeBu Server Emulation System
• Neurala Patents "Whole Brain" Approach to AI, the Basis of the Next Generation of AI
• Wave Computing and Sonics to Present on Deep Learning Technology At ML DevCon

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 25, 2017

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Inside Secure releases latest True Random Number Generator providing continuous protection against security threats in IoT and Datacenters

Inside Secure today announces the release of its newest version of TRNG-IP-76, the company’s leading true random number generator (TRNG). TRNG-IP-76 is 50 times more efficient than what’s on the market today, and successfully addresses two of the critical challenges for SoC providers: security and power consumption.

• eASIC and Mobiveil Announce Flash Reliability Platform
• Synopsys Extends Portfolio of ASIL Ready ISO 26262 Certified DesignWare IP
• Rambus Reports First Quarter 2017 Financial Results
• AMD Expands Technology Portfolio to Drive Immersive Computing Vision with Acquisition of Wireless Virtual Reality IP from Nitero
• Cadence Reports First Quarter 2017 Financial Results
• Fraunhofer IIS Joins GLOBALFOUNDRIES FDXcelerator Program to Enable Dynamic Biasing IPs
• Barco Silex and Intrinsic ID to Integrate Security Technology
• Mentor announces Nucleus RTOS support for i.MX6UltraLite SoC

Headlines for Monday Apr. 24, 2017

• Imagination shatters price barriers to SoC embedded software development
• Village Island, in partnership with NHK, simplifies 8K video transport and SDI cabling using TICO technology
• GUC Appoints System CTO
• Mentor collaborates with Microsoft to accelerate Internet of Things solutions
• Inside Secure Announces First Quarter 2017 Revenue

Headlines for Friday Apr. 21, 2017

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intoPIX Releases New TICO Encoder and Decoder Cores Supporting UHDTV2 and 8K up to 60fps.

intoPIX, a leading provider of innovative compression technology, today announces new TICO compression IP-cores managing 8K resolutions. The cores offer unique performances at a very light implementation cost for handling HD, 4K and 8K content.

• Rambus Partners with Samsung to Develop 56G SerDes PHY on 10nm LPP Process

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 20, 2017

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Accelize Integrates Amazon EC2 F1 Instance into its QuickPlay/QuickStore Framework

Accelize today announces that it is integrating the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F1 instance into its QuickPlay®/QuickStore® framework. With this support, customers and partners can leverage the QuickPlay Software Defined FPGA development platform and its associated catalog of highly efficient 3rd party IP cores to seamlessly create Amazon FPGA Images (AFIs) regardless of their FPGA expertise.

• Synopsys Enhances ARC Data Fusion Subsystem with New Audio and High-Performance Sensor Support for Always-On IoT Applications
• Xilinx Delivers Broad Deployment of Dynamic Reconfiguration Technology
• Princeton finds bugs in RISC-V architecture
• Samsung Completes Qualification of its 2nd Generation 10nm Process Technology
• Xilinx Announces General Availability of Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs in Amazon EC2 F1 Instances
• Mentor Announces 64-bit ARMv8-A support for the Nucleus Real-Time Operating System
• Mentor Graphics expands formal verification's reach with new cross-platform GUI and apps for sequential logic equivalence checking and CDC gate-level analysis

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 19, 2017

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Arastu Systems Ethernet 10G Digital Switch IP Soft Core for Time-Critical Applications

Time critical applications, such as Trading Stock Exchange’s, Airport Terminals etc. require systems that deliver high throughput with low latency, as negligence even by a millisecond can prove catastrophic for business. Bearing in mind the Industry needs, Arastu Systems, a company that specializes in delivering customized IP solution in the Networking and Memory area, today announced Ethernet 10G Digital Switch IP soft core, which is proven and is readily available for usage.

• CEVA, Inc. Appoints Ran Soffer as Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development
• IP-Maker to release new NVMe host IP
• Faraday Delivers V-by-One HS PHY & Controller IP on UMC 28HPCU Process
• Truechip announces first customer shipment of JESD204B Comprehensive Verification IP (CVIP)

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 18, 2017

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Cambricon Licenses Arteris FlexNoC Interconnect IP for Machine Learning SoCs

ArterisIP today announced that Cambricon has licensed Arteris FlexNoC interconnect IP for use as the backbone interconnect of their revolutionary machine learning SoC.

• Inside Secure partners with ContentArmor to address Hollywood studios' higher security requirements for early-window and UHD movies delivered over-the-top (OTT)
• Rambus Expands Cryogenic Memory Collaboration with Microsoft
• CAST Becomes Member of ESD Alliance

Headlines for Monday Apr. 17, 2017

• Dolphin Integration announces the availability of the new generation 28 nm SpRAM generator

Headlines for Friday Apr. 14, 2017

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NXP Shows First FD-SOI Chips

NXP will ship this year as many as five SoCs made in Samsung’s 28nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) process, including one that has been sampling for six months. Samsung is expected to announce its FD-SOI roadmap in May and is already working on RF and in-house embedded MRAM for it.

• TSMC Expects First-Half Smartphone Slump
• PT13: A compact 8-bit microprocessor IP core for just $1000
• DDR4 Set to Account for Largest Share of DRAM Market by Architecture

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 13, 2017

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Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Forecast to Increase 12.3 Percent in 2017

Worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to total $386 billion in 2017, an increase of 12.3 percent from 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Favorable market conditions that gained momentum in the second half of 2016, particularly for commodity memory, have accelerated and raised the outlook for the market in 2017 and 2018.

• Dialog suffers on report of Apple in-sourcing
• Synapse Design Acquires Asilicon to Address Customer Demand and Provide Increased Access to Off-Shore Design Centers
• TSMC Reports First Quarter EPS of NT$3.38
• Xilinx Announces Multi-Year Succession Plan and New COO
• Silicon Creations Selects Mentor Graphics Software for High-Performance Analog and Mixed-Signal IP Verification
• Toshiba Expands Line-up of ARM Cortex-M-Based Microcontrollers

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 12, 2017

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Over 100,000 Wafers Embedded with eMemory's NeoEE IP Shipped

eMemory announces an important milestone today having shipped more than 100,000 wafers embedded with its innovative NeoEE IP, an embedded logic multiple-time programmable (MTP) solution.

• Moortec and UltraSoC collaborate to enable next-generation "smart" PVT sensors
• Novatek Adopts Synopsys' Industry-First HDMI 2.1 with HDCP 2.2 Verification IP and Test Suite
• Cadence Launches the Pegasus Verification System, a Massively Parallel Physical Signoff Solution
• Mentor Announces Availability of Qualified Reference Flow to Help Designers Achieve Success with Samsung 14LPP Process Technology

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 11, 2017

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Qualcomm Files Answer and Counterclaims to Apple Lawsuit

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today filed its Answer and Counterclaims to the January lawsuit brought by Apple against the Company in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

• Socionext Develops Small, Low Power 4K/60p HEVC Codec
• Foundries Need Clear Benchmarks
• Eta Compute Debuts with World's Lowest Power Microcontroller IP Targeting Energy Harvesting Segment
• Qualcomm Returns Fire in Apple Suit
• Microsemi Announces Libero SoC v11.8 Software Providing FPGA Designers Mixed Language Simulation and Best-in-Class Debugging Capabilities

Headlines for Monday Apr. 10, 2017

• Open-Silicon to Showcase its Spec2Chip IoT SoC Platform Solution Consisting of IoT Edge SoC Platform and IoT Gateway SoC Platform at IoT DevCon Santa Clara on April 26-27, 2017
• TSMC March 2017 Revenue Report
• UMC Reports Sales for March 2017

Headlines for Friday Apr. 07, 2017

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ArterisIP Advances Machine Learning SoC Design with Ncore 2.0 Cache Coherent Interconnect and Resilience Package

ArterisIP today announced the Ncore 2.0 Cache Coherent Interconnect IP and the optional Ncore Resilience Package to accelerate and enhance the creation of next-generation designs for autonomous driving systems and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).

• Shanhai Capital Completes Acquisition of Analogix Semiconductor
• ISPD Predicts Chip Futures
• Valens Raises $60M to Boost Growth, Innovation in Automotive Industry

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 06, 2017

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Microsemi and Athena Announce the TeraFire Hard Cryptographic Microprocessor for PolarFire "S Class" FPGAs, Providing Advanced Security Features

Microsemi and Athena today announced Athena's TeraFire® cryptographic microprocessor is included in Microsemi's new PolarFire™ field programmable gate array (FPGA) "S class" family members.

• Google Calls for Switch Chip API
• China's Tsinghua Secures $22 Billion in State Backing
• EEMBC and prpl align to drive use of hypervisors to create security-by-separation for a more trusted IoT
• Solido Launches Machine Learning (ML) Characterization Suite
• PLDA Launches PLDA Design Day Event In Shanghai, China, a First-of-Its-Kind Event, 100% Focused on PCIe 4.0 Design

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 05, 2017

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Cadence Unveils Expanded Virtuoso Advanced-Node Platform for 7nm Processes

Cadence today announced the release of the new Virtuoso® Advanced-Node Platform supporting advanced 7nm designs. Through collaboration with early 7nm FinFET customers, Cadence has expanded the Virtuoso custom design platform with innovative new capabilities to manage design complexity and process effects introduced with this advanced-node process.

• Samsung joins HEVC Advance
• MIPI Alliance Expands Popular CSI-2 Camera Specification Beyond Mobile
• Mentor Nucleus SafetyCert RTOS extends support to ARM Cortex-M4 Processors for safety-critical systems
• Arteris is now ArterisIP
• HDL Design House and Mentor Workshop at Aviation Electronics Europe 2017
• Sunplus Technology Licenses Netspeed Orion IP to Accelerate Design of Automotive SoCs
• Cadence Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution Enables Juniper Networks to Achieve First-Pass Silicon Success for its Largest Networking SoC
• GUC Monthly Sales Report - March 2017

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 04, 2017

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How Apple will dodge an Imagination lawsuit

Once the best of friends processor licensor Imagination and consumer electronics giant Apple look set to fall out at the end of a relationship that has lasted more than a decade. Must Imagination sue and how will Apple avoid such a suit?

• SEMI Reports 2016 Global Semiconductor Materials Sales of $44.3 Billion
• Global Semiconductor Sales Up 16.5 Percent Year-to-Year
• Intel Shows Life Beyond CMOS
• Can Imagination survive without Apple?
• Open-Silicon Unveils Industry's Highest Performance Interlaken Chip-to-Chip Interface IP

Headlines for Monday Apr. 03, 2017

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Imagination Technologies: Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement

Imagination Technologies has been notified by Apple Inc. (“Apple”), its largest customer, that Apple is of a view that it will no longer use the Group’s intellectual property in its new products in 15 months to two years time, and as such will not be eligible for royalty payments under the current license and royalty agreement.

• Apple dumping GPUs: Imagination in discussions
• Imagination share price drops 60% following Apple reports
• Ittiam Accelerates Open Source VP9 Encoder in Partnership with Netflix and Google
• ClioSoft, OneSpin and Truechip Sponsor the Ninth Annual I LOVE DAC Campaign at the 54th Design Automation Conference
• Eight Views of Bluetooth World