D&R Headline News (December 2022)

Headlines for Monday Dec. 26, 2022

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Cadence Announces Industry Best-In-Class 8533Mbps LPDDR5X IP Solution for Next-Generation AI, Automotive and Mobile Applications

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the first LPDDR5X memory interface IP design optimized to operate at 8533Mbps—up to 33% faster than the previous generation of LPDDR IP.

• TSMC in talks to build fab in Dresden
• eDisplay Port Tx PHY and Controller IP Cores in 12FFC and 40ULP for an immersive UHD experience at 8K

Headlines for Friday Dec. 23, 2022

• Achronix Announces Speedster7t AC7t1500 FPGA General Availability

Headlines for Thursday Dec. 22, 2022

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Stellantis Completes Acquisition of aiMotive to Accelerate Autonomous Driving Journey

Stellantis N.V. today announced that it has finalized the acquisition of aiMotive, a leading developer of advanced artificial intelligence and autonomous driving software.

• BSC develops four open-source hardware components based on RISC-V, contributing to open, reliable and high-performance safety-critical systems for industry
• intoPIX TicoRAW technology empowers mobile devices, sensors, and cameras at CES 2023
• Axelera AI Announces Metis AI Platform
• IPrium releases 100 Gbps Polar Encoder and Decoder

Headlines for Wednesday Dec. 21, 2022

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Dream Chip Technologies Licensed its Real-time Pixel Processor IP to Renesas

Dream Chip Technologies by Goodix, a leading provider of Image Signal Processing IP and SoC Design with engineering sites in Hannover, Hamburg, Eindhoven and Brunswick, has licensed their Real-time Pixel Processor (RPP) to Renesas for the integration into their new generation of R-Car system-on-chip (SoC).

• PEZY Computing Selects proteanTecs to Monitor Die-to-Die Interconnects in Next-Generation Supercomputer Processors

Headlines for Tuesday Dec. 20, 2022

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Efinix® Releases Efinity® RISC-V Embedded Software IDE

Efinix®, an innovator in programmable product platforms and technology, today announced the release of its Efinity RISC-V Embedded Software IDE. Powered by the popular Ashling RiscFree™ IDE, the embedded environment simplifies the creation, management, and debug of projects running on the Efinix Sapphire RISC-V core.

• U.S. Blacklists YMTC, 21 Chinese Companies on AI Threat
• GbE (10/100/1000Base-T) PHY IP Core, a robust, low-power, fully featured IP Core along with MAC Controller IP Core is available for immediate licensing

Headlines for Monday Dec. 19, 2022

• Low-Power Apps, Foundries Eye Emerging Memories

Headlines for Friday Dec. 16, 2022

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Labwise by Allegro DVT Introduces StreamWise-ATSC Test Suites to Accelerate Conformance Testing of ATSC 3.0 Receivers

Labwise the leader in digital TV conformance testing announces the availability of StreamWise-ATSC its latest digital TV test suites that enable testing of ATSC 3.0 (NEXTGEN TV) receivers and TV sets to ensure their conformance with ATSC 3.0 TV service features.

• Synopsys Initiates $300 Million Accelerated Share Repurchase Agreement
• Global Total Semiconductor Equipment Sales Forecast to Reach Record High in 2022, SEMI Reports

Headlines for Thursday Dec. 15, 2022

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New CAES, IAR Systems Partnership Brings NOEL-V Support to IAR Embedded Workbench

IAR Systems is set to release a new version of the IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V that will support the NOEL-V, a fault-tolerant RISC-V compliant processor core from CAES. The partnership is another example of progress toward global adoption of RISC-V in space missions.

• Quadric Announces Completion of Series B Funding
• Arm declines to sell Neoverse V to Alibaba
• Imagination extends its commitment to RISC-V with an upgrade to Premier level membership
• Ventana Introduces Veyron, World's First Data Center Class RISC-V CPU Product Family
• Codasip Lead IP Architect chosen for the RISC-V Contributor Award
• Total Revenue of Global Top 10 IC Design Houses for 3Q22 Showed QoQ Drop of 5.3%; Broadcom Returned to No. 2 Spot in Revenue Ranking by Overtaking NVIDIA and AMD, Says TrendForce
• DDMA, multi-channel DMA Controller IP core from DCD-SEMI

Headlines for Wednesday Dec. 14, 2022

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Latest aiWare4+ automotive NPU brings enhanced programmability, flexibility and scalability while retaining highest efficiency

aiMotive, one of the world’s leading suppliers of scalable modular automated driving technologies, today announced the latest release of its award-winning aiWare automotive NPU hardware IP. aiWare4+ builds on the success of aiWare4 in production automotive SoCs, such as Nextchip’s Apache5 and Apach6, by refining the hardware architecture and significantly upgrading the software SDK.

• Pragmatic Semiconductor increases Series C funding to $125 million
• Examining the Top Five Fallacies About RISC-V
• SiFive Delivers Record Growth in 2022 with Fast-Growing Roster of New Customers and Products
• JEDEC Publishes Automotive Solid State Drive (SSD) Device Standard

Headlines for Tuesday Dec. 13, 2022

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KI-FLEX AI chip tapes out with flexible videantis processor platform

videantis today announced the tape-out of the FlexAISIC AI chip based on its flexible v-MP6000UDX unified processing platform. The tape-out has been achieved in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, and the chip development is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the KI-FLEX project.

• CAES' Quad-Core LEON4FT on its Way to the Moon
• Breker Verification Systems Unveils Easy-To-Adopt Integrity FASTApps Targeting RISC-V Processor Core, SoC Verification Scenarios
• RISC-V Sees Significant Growth and Technical Progress in 2022 with Billions of RISC-V Cores in Market
• LeWiz released RISC-V with OmniXtend clustering technology to open source.
• Faraday Unveils SONOS eFlash Platform with Infineon on UMC 40uLP
• Siemens pioneers commercial grade Linux support for the RISC-V architecture
• NSITEXE Qualifies Imperas RISC-V Reference Models for Akaria Processors NS72A, NS72VA, and NS31A
• XMOS announces software-defined SoC platform now compatible with RISC-V
• Cadence Wins Six 2022 TSMC OIP Partner of the Year Awards
• Intrinsic ID to Showcase its Security Solutions at CES 2023
• CEVA NeuPro-M Edge AI Processor Architecture Recognized at EE Awards Asia 2022

Headlines for Monday Dec. 12, 2022

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Codasip launches SecuRISC5 initiative

Codasip today launched SecuRISC5, a Codasip initiative to provide its customers with safe and secure custom compute using highly verified reference designs combining Codasip IP and third-party technology.

• Global Chip Industry Projected to Invest More Than $500 Billion in New Factories by 2024, SEMI Reports
• QuarkLink scalable IoT Security Platform Now Available on 30-Day Free Trial
• Sofics joins the Intel Foundry Services (IFS) Accelerator IP Alliance program
• BrainChip Joins Intel Foundry Services to Advance Neuromorphic AI at the Edge
• Microchip Showcases RISC-V-Based FPGA and Space-Compute Solutions at RISC-V Summit
• Simon Davidmann President & CEO of Imperas Software elected as Chair of the OpenHW Verification Task Group
• Imperas releases new updates, test suites, and functional coverage library to support the rapid growth in RISC-V Verification
• Tata may make chips
• MIPS Announces Availability of its first RISC-V IP core - the eVocore P8700 Multiprocessor
• MIPS Partners With Mobileye to Accelerate Next Generation Autonomous Driving Technologies and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
• USB 3.2 OTG Controller and PHY IP Cores for ultra-high speed, lossless data and power delivery are available for immediate licensing

Headlines for Friday Dec. 09, 2022

• TSMC November 2022 Revenue Report

Headlines for Thursday Dec. 08, 2022

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Andes Technology Unveils the AndesCore™ D23, a Feature-Rich, Low-Power and Highly-Secured Entry-Level RISC-V Processor

Andes Technology today announces the details of the AndesCore™ D23, a new 3-stage 32-bit RISC-V CPU core, to target embedded processing and IoT applications that require low power and high efficiency in a small footprint.

• Global Top 10 Foundries' Total Revenue Grew by 6% QoQ for 3Q22, but Foundry Industry's Revenue Performance Will Enter Correction Period in 4Q22, Says TrendForce
• Andes Announces RISC-V Multicore 1024-bit Vector Processor: AX45MPV
• Apple, AMD Back TSMC's Tripled Investment, Tech Upgrade in Arizona
• Imperas and Imagination collaborate on providing virtual platform models for the Catapult RISC-V CPU family
• Siquance: an avant-garde startup dedicated to quantum calculations
• Allegro DVT and V-Nova announce strategic collaboration to accelerate development of LCEVC ecosystem
• Imec enables tight standard cell boundary scaling using a two-level semi-damascene integration scheme
• Imagination PowerVR SDK wins Design Tool and Development Software Product of the Year
• Join Andes at RISC-V Summit; Learn the Only ISO 26262 Fully-Compliant RISC-V CPU, the Latest Multicore 4-Way Out-Of-Order Processor & the Multicore 1024-bit Vector Processor

Headlines for Wednesday Dec. 07, 2022

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Andes Technology and Parasoft Collaborate to Provide Seamless Software Testing Tools for Automotive Functional Safety Applications

Andes Technology and Parasoft jointly announced the establishment of the global partnership to provide the robust software testing solutions for Andes RISC-V automotive platform according to the rigorous ISO 26262 certification process.

• Codasip launches Codasip Labs to accelerate advanced technologies
• MIPS Selects Imperas for Advanced Verification of High-Performance RISC-V Application-class Processors
• TSMC Announces Updates for TSMC Arizona

Headlines for Tuesday Dec. 06, 2022

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Mixel Patented MIPI D-PHY RX+ IP Integrated into Lumissil Automotive Microcontroller

Mixel, Inc.® (Mixel), a leading provider of mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), and Lumissil Microsystems (Lumissil), a division of Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. (ISSI), announced today that Mixel’s MIPI® IP solution has been successfully integrated into Lumissil’s automotive microcontroller which will go to production next year.

• Arteris FlexNoC Interconnect Licensed by Telechips for Use in Advanced Automotive Applications
• Israeli AI startup NeuReality raises $35M Series A to bring its novel inferencing chip to the market
• Tachyum Signs MOU with Cologne Chip
• Avery Design Systems Announces SimXACT-SA™ for Improved Sequential X-Verification
• Lattice Extends Low Power Leadership with New Lattice Avant FPGA Platform
• Intel Pathfinder for RISC-V: New Capabilities and A Growing Ecosystem
• UMC Reports Sales for November 2022
• IEEE802.11n/ac/ax Wi-Fi LDPC Encoder and Decoder FEC IP Core Available For Licensing and Implementation from Global IP Core
• QuickLogic Inks eFPGA IP Partnership Agreement with Yu-Hsin Layout Technology

Headlines for Monday Dec. 05, 2022

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Novatek Adopts CEVA's Latest Sensor Hub DSP for New Multi-sensor IP Camera SoC

CEVA today announced that Novatek Microelelctonics Corp, a leading fabless chip design company, has licensed and deployed the SP500 DSP from CEVA’s SensPro2 Sensor Hub DSP architecture family in its newest generation NT98530 multi-sensor IP Camera SoC targeting surveillance, retail, smart city, transportation and more.

• Renesas tapes out spiking neural network chip
• Global Semiconductor Sales Decrease 0.3% Month-to-Month in October
• Eliyan eliminates silicon interposer to advance D2D chiplet connect for HPC
• Simon Davidmann President & CEO of Imperas Software elected as Chair of the OpenHW Verification Task Group
• GUC Monthly Sales Report - November 2022
• Imperas and Andes collaborate to support RISC-V innovations
• The Worldwide Semiconductor Market is expected to slow to 4.4 percent growth in 2022, followed by a decline of 4.1 percent in 2023
• Innovative ASIC CPU Drives Record-Setting Server Performance
• Implement seamless DRAM processing speeds utilizing Silicon Proven DDR4/LPDDR4/DDR3L Combo PHY IP Core in 12FFC process technology

Headlines for Friday Dec. 02, 2022

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USB IP Cores for the Intel Pathfinder for RISC-V Platform

SLS today announces support for Intel® Pathfinder for RISC-V* via its USB Host and Device Controller IP for the Cyclone 10 GX FPGA development board, a recently added board supported by Intel Pathfinder for RISC-V.

• Codasip and Intel bring RISC-V development to higher-education

Headlines for Thursday Dec. 01, 2022

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CEVA Joins Intel Pathfinder for RISC-V Program

CEVA today announced that it will make its CEVA-BX1 and CEVA-BX2 Audio DSPs and audio front-end software stack available for commercial developers through the Intel® Pathfinder for RISC-V* ecosystem.

• New Report Identifies Challenges to Continued U.S. Leadership in Semiconductor Design, Innovation
• Crypto Quantique Joins Silicon Catalyst In-Kind Partner Ecosystem Along with 2 Other UK-based Companies
• CHIPS Alliance Announces Rapid Silicon as its Newest Member
• The Worldwide Semiconductor Market is expected to slow to 4.4% growth in 2022, followed by a decline of 4.1% in 2023
• Synopsys Posts Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2022
• ItoM is now part of the Bosch Group
• Siemens streamlines medical standards compliance for Linux OS based systems
• Synopsys Appoints Shelagh Glaser Chief Financial Officer
• Global Semiconductor Equipment Billings Increase 9% in Q3 2022, SEMI Reports
• Xiphera Launches xQlave™ Product Family of Quantum-Secure Cryptographic IP Cores