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INVECAS today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement, pursuant to which INVECAS will acquire Lattice Semiconductor Corporation’s (NASDAQ: LSCC) HDMI design team and Simplay Labs subsidiary, which oversees standards compliance and interoperability testing services.
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Accelize and OVH, in partnership with CAST, today announced the availability of GZIP compression on FPGA-as-a-service.com, the industry’s first online platform for FPGA acceleration evaluation that enables cloud users to evaluate FPGA acceleration for compute-intensive applications.
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Sankalp Semiconductor a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC solutions, today announced its plan to hire 300 engineers in the next 12 months. Sankalp plans to hire engineers for its India design centers in Bangalore, Hubli and Kolkata.
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Cadence today announced the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi 3z DSP IP core for system-on-chip (SoC) designs targeted for the latest mobile and home entertainment applications, including smartphones, augmented reality (AR)/3D goggles, digital TVs and set-top boxes (STBs).
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Inside Secure (Euronext Paris: INSD), at the heart of security solutions for mobile and connected devices, has released its newest MACsec IP cores that successfully tackle two major challenges in securing high-speed networking: power consumption and flexible line rate throughput in an optimal die area. Leading chipmakers today are already realizing the benefits of Inside Secure’s 400G MACsec IP in their devices (400 Gigabit/sec).
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Graphcore IPU products will lower the cost of accelerating AI applications, increase the performance of both training and inference by 10x to 100x compared to the fastest systems today and enable recent success in deep learning to evolve rapidly towards useful, general artificial intelligence.
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The French specialist in complex electronic embedded systems associates with MBO Partenaires and takes its independence from the PLDA group. This spin-off, led by the manager Sylvain Neveu, allows the management team to hold the majority of the equity.
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Microsemi and Tamba Networks today announced their collaboration to incorporate Tamba Networks' Ethernet media access controller (MAC) in Microsemi's new cost-optimized, low power, mid-range PolarFire™ field programmable gate array (FPGA) to offer industry-leading low power FPGA-based 10G Ethernet solution.
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Is NVM Express (NVMe) overkill for embedded, industrial applications? Until recently, that's been the consensus, according to Scott Phillips, vice president of marketing at Virtium. But as big players such as Intel and Micron push the interface specification forward, Phillips said many industrial customers are approaching the company and asking about NVMe.
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SilTerra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., a Malaysian home grown leading semiconductor wafer foundry, and Zhuhai Chuangfeixin Technology Co., Ltd. ("CFX"), an memory IP design house, jointly announced the production release of Anti-Fuse One-Time-Programming (OTP) IP in SilTerra’s 160nm and 110nm High Voltage technology.
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VeriSilicon today announced that Shenzhen Goke Semiconductor Co., Ltd (SGKS) has selected VeriSilicon Vivante GC7000UL-VX for the SGKS6802X Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) chip, part of SGKS’s ADAS product line used by automotive electronic components partners.
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Arasan extends its long history of support for JEDEC and MIPI standards with the availability of UFS 3.0 controller IP, supporting a maximum throughput of 11.6 Gbps with M-PHY HS-Gear 4 2-lane operation, providing the highest data transfer rate with low power consumption for advanced mobile applications such as smartphone and tablets.
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Memory technology licensor and chip vendor Rambus Inc. is working with a financial advisor to study options for its sale, according to a report by the Bloomberg news service.
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The war of words between Apple and Imagination Technologies seems to be escalating. A few days after Imagination’s annual report accused Apple of making ‘unsubstantiated allegations,’ the Cupertino company has hit back.
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ARM continued to dominate a semiconductor intellectual property (IP) market that grew strongly in 2016, but Imagination struggled as its restructuring during that year hurt sales, according to a report from IPnest. The strongest growth companies were Rambus and Ceva.
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SIA today announced worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $31.9 billion for the month of May 2017, an increase of 22.6 percent compared to the May 2016 total of $26.0 billion and 1.9 percent more than the April 2017 total of $31.4 billion.
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eVaderis today announced that it has joined GLOBALFOUNDRIES' FDXcelerator™ Partner Program to provide scalable, advanced memory IP to be compatible with GF's 22FDX® technology. The advanced memory IP is expected to offer performance and energy saving advantages over competing memory solutions.