D&R Headline News (May 2024)

Headlines for Friday May. 31, 2024

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OPENEDGES' Memory Subsystem IPs Selected by ASICLAND for Next-gen AI Applications

OPENEDGES Technology, Inc. (OPENEDGES), the leading provider of memory subsystem IPs, is pleased to announce a recent licensing agreement with ASICLAND.

Headlines for Thursday May. 30, 2024

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Redefining Mobile Experiences with AI-Optimized Arm CSS for Client and New Arm Kleidi Software

With power efficiency in our DNA, the Arm platform is providing the foundation for the next wave of computing demands as the AI era accelerates.

• NUMEM & IC'ALPS Collaborate to Develop an ultra-low-power SOC for Sensor and AI applications
• Xiphera's Customisable nQrux™ Confidential Computing Engine Protects Cloud, Edge, and AI Environments
• Fifth generation ARM Cortex-X for 3nm AI chip designs
• Andes Technology Announced the QiLai SoC and the Voyager Development Board

Headlines for Wednesday May. 29, 2024

• MIPS To Showcase New Embedded and Edge AI Innovations At Computex 2024

Headlines for Monday May. 27, 2024

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Dolphin Design teams up with Raspberry Pi for advanced chip power management

Dolphin Design and Raspberry Pi are proud to announce a groundbreaking partnership that leverages Dolphin’s cutting-edge power management solutions in the development of Raspberry Pi’s chip technology.

• MerlinTPS Partners with Bluespec to Provide Urgently Needed GPS Augmentation and Backup Without Satellites
• SEALSQ RISC-V Chips Adoption is Predicted to Get AI Boost Making it a Viable Competitor to Traditional GPUs
• HCLTech and Arm collaborate on custom silicon chips optimized for AI workloads
• Need a Perfect Ethernet IP? Key ASIC's 0.13um 10/100 PHY IP Solution is Ready Now
• T2M-IP announces Silicon-Proven eDisplayPort v1.4 Tx PHY and Controller IP Core in 22ULP readily available for licensing for your futuristic SoCs

Headlines for Friday May. 24, 2024

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Weebit Nano and Efabless collaborate to enable easy, affordable prototyping of innovative SoC designs

Under this agreement, Efabless chipIgnite customers have access to Weebit’s Resistive RAM (ReRAM) IP, an innovative non-volatile memory (NVM), which they can incorporate into their designs manufactured using SkyWater Technology Foundry’s 130nm CMOS (S130) process.

• 4DS Unveils New Interface Switching ReRAM Technology for Faster and Energy Efficient Memory for AI Processing

Headlines for Thursday May. 23, 2024

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ZeroPoint Technologies Closes Funding Round for Groundbreaking Hardware-Accelerated Memory Compression Technology

ZeroPoint Technologies AB today closed a EUR 5.0 million Series A, led by European Deep Tech fund Matterwave Ventures. Additionally, Nordic Deep Tech fund Industrifonden served as the local lead for this round.

• JPEG XS Joins GenICam, a Machine Vision Standard Managed by EMVA
• Qualitas Semiconductor's eDP RX PHY IP v1.5a is Ready for Mass Production

Headlines for Wednesday May. 22, 2024

• S2C and Sirius Wireless Collaborate on Wi-Fi 7 RF IP Verification System
• Quadric Presents and Demos AI+ML Chimera GPNPU at Embedded Vision Summit 2024

Headlines for Tuesday May. 21, 2024

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Expedera Raises $20M Series B Funding Round Led By indie Semiconductor

Expedera Inc., a leading licensor of edge inference artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor intellectual property (IP), today announced it raised $20 million in Series B funding led by indie Semiconductor, with participation from prominent repeat and new industry investors.

• Andes Technology and Arteris Partner To Accelerate RISC-V SoC Adoption
• Crucial role for imec in EU Chips Act
• Analog Bits Joins the Silicon Catalyst In-Kind Partner Ecosystem
• Siemens simplifies development of AI accelerators for advanced system-on-chip designs with Catapult AI NN
• Samsung Collaborates With Arm To Drive Research in Software for Next-Generation Communication Technologies

Headlines for Monday May. 20, 2024

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RaiderChip raises 1 Million Euros in seed capital to market its innovative generative AI accelerator: the GenAI v1.

RaiderChip, a hardware design company, announced today the closing of its seed capital round. The fully subscribed round raised one million Euros in new capital to drive the next phase of the company’s growth. The funds will be primarily allocated to market its innovative AI acceleration engine.

• CFX announces commercial availability of low cost automotive grade SonoS based charge trapping EFlash/MTP technology on 90nm BCD process
• Qualitas Semiconductor expands presence in chinese market through strategic partnership with chinese chip design company
• High-Speed Data Transmission Enhanced by 28nm JESD204B Tx PHY & Controller IP Cores Licensed for MCU Applications

Headlines for Thursday May. 16, 2024

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AiM Future Brings GenAI Applications to Mainstream Consumer Devices

AiM Future, a leading provider of concurrent multimodal inference accelerators for edge and endpoint devices, has just announced the launch of its next-generation Generative AI Architecture, “GAIA,” and Synabro software development kit.

• Axiomise Names Two Executives to Newly Formed Technical Advisory Board
• GDDR7 Adds Headroom to Meet AI Pressures

Headlines for Wednesday May. 15, 2024

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Actions Technology's smart watch SoC adopted VeriSilicon's 2.5D GPU IP

VeriSilicon today announced that Actions Technology (688049.SH), a low-power AIoT fabless semiconductor company, has adopted VeriSilicon’s power-efficient and feature-rich 2.5D Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) IP in its highly integrated dual-mode Bluetooth smart watch SoC series, ATS3085S and ATS3089.

• Esperanto Technologies and Rapidus Partner to Enable More Energy-Efficient Designs for the Coming "Post GPU Era"
• New Automotive Grade Linux Platform Release Adds Cloud-Native Functionality, RISC-V Architecture and Flutter-Based Applications

Headlines for Tuesday May. 14, 2024

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Digital Core Design in cooperation with DCD-SEMI Unveils DCAN-XL: Revolutionary CAN XL IP Core Bridging the Gap Between CAN FD and Ethernet

Designed to bridge the gap between CAN FD and 100Mbit Ethernet, the DCAN-XL sets a new standard in high-speed, reliable data transmission for automotive and industrial applications.

• Andes, HiRain, and HPMicro Join Hands to Build RISC-V AUTOSAR Software Ecosystem
• Kevin O'Buckley to Lead Foundry Services at Intel
• M31 Q1 Revenue Increases 9.3% YoY, Advanced Processes Drive QoQ Growth
• ADTechnology and ANAFLASH to Team Up for Embedded Vision Summit (EVS) showcase

Headlines for Monday May. 13, 2024

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Frontgrade Gaisler Leads the Way in RISC-V Processor Development for Space Applications

Under a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), Frontgrade Gaisler is designing a new RISC-V processor tailored to meet the requirements of microcontrollers for the space industry.

• Is Graphcore Deal Finally About to Close?
• NEO Semiconductor Reveals a Performance Boosting Floating Body Cell Mechanism for 3D X-DRAM during IEEE IMW 2024
• TSMC April 2024 Revenue Report
• lowRISC Deploys Real Intent Ascent Lint, Meridian CDC, & Meridian RDC for OpenTitan Project
• Silicon Proven PCIe 5.0 PHY and Controller IP Cores in 12nm to Revolutionize Connectivity solutions

Headlines for Thursday May. 09, 2024

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X-Silicon Announces a NEW Low-Power Open-Standard Vulkan-Enabled C-GPU™ - a RISC-V Vector CPU Infused with GPU ISA and AI/ML acceleration in a Single Processor Core

The Open-Standard C-GPU solutions, offered as IP blocks and software, enable leading processor companies to develop low-power SoCs for Next Generation 3D Graphics, Compute, and AI/ML enabled wearables, AR/VR headsets, auto displays, edge and cloud processing, industrial systems, robotics, and other connected embedded/IoT devices.

• Arm revenues up 47%; shares fall
• Sondrel awarded new Video Processor ASIC design and supply contract for a leading provider of High-Performance Video systems
• Softbank reported to be in talks to buy Graphcore
• VESA Elevates PC and Laptop HDR Display Performance with Updated DisplayHDR Specification
• SAPEON Enhances AI Accelerator with proteanTecs Reliability and Performance Monitoring
• Ceva, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2024 Financial Results

Headlines for Wednesday May. 08, 2024

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Arasan's Total MIPI Camera IP solution with CSI and C-PHY achieve ISO26262 Certification

Arasan announces the ISO26262 functional certification of its Total MIPI Camera IP Solution as a seamlessly integrated combination of its MIPI CSI-2 Tx / Rx and C-PHY IP

• Silvaco Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
• sureCore announces successful tape-out of cryogenic IP demonstrator

Headlines for Tuesday May. 07, 2024

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Siemens delivers end-to-end silicon quality assurance for next-generation IC designs with new Solido IP Validation Suite

Siemens Digital Industries Software today introduced Solido™ IP Validation Suite software, a comprehensive, automated signoff solution for quality assurance across all design intellectual property (IP) types, including standard cells, memories and IP blocks.

• UMC Reports Sales for April 2024

Headlines for Monday May. 06, 2024

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Synopsys Enters Definitive Agreement to Sell its Software Integrity Business to Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners

The transaction, valued at up to $2.1 billion, is expected to close in the second half of 2024, subject to customary closing conditions including the receipt of required regulatory approvals.

• GUC Monthly Sales Report - April 2024
• Zhuhai Chuangfeixin: OTP IP Based on 55nm High-Voltage Process Successfully Qualified for Listing
• Arm Brings Transformers to IoT Devices
• BrainChip and Frontgrade Gaisler to Augment Space-Grade Microprocessors with AI Capabilities
• Fabless semiconductor startup Mindgrove launches India's first indigenously designed commercial high-performance MCU chip
• A Conversation with GlobalFoundries Europe's Manfred Horstmann
• oneNav announces the first L5-direct GNSS receiver technology
• Q3 FY24 Quarterly Activities Report: Weebit Nano advancing negotiations with partners and customers; demonstrates ReRAM robustness
• Announcing Availability of Silicon-Proven 12bit 1Msps SAR ADC IP Core for Whitebox Licensing with Royalty Free

Headlines for Friday May. 03, 2024

• Alphawave Semi announced today a refocussing of the Board of Directors after reaching the three-year milestone since the Company's IPO
• Arteris Announces Financial Results for the First Quarter 2024 and Second Quarter and Full Year 2024 Guidance
• Synopsys and Samsung Electronics Collaborate to Achieve First Production Tapeout of Flagship Mobile CPU with Leading Performance on Samsung Foundry's GAA Process

Headlines for Thursday May. 02, 2024

• Worldwide Silicon Wafer Shipments Dip 5% in Q1 2024, SEMI Reports
• GOWIN's progress in global automotive market gathers momentum with award of ISO 26262 certification for its FPGA design environment
• PCI-SIG® Announces CopprLink™ Cable Specifications for PCIe® 5.0 and 6.0 Technology
• Radiation-Tolerant PolarFire® SoC FPGAs Offer Low Power, Zero Configuration Upsets, RISC-V Architecture for Space Applications

Headlines for Wednesday May. 01, 2024

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Packetcraft Delivers Bluetooth Software Enabling Channel Sounding to Early Access Licensees

Channel Sounding is set to deliver high-accuracy distance measurement for secure access, location-based services and asset tracking in automotive + IoT markets

• QuickLogic Releases Aurora 2.6 with Expanded Operating System Support and Up to 15% Faster Performance
• Rapid Silicon Introduces Revolutionary Rapid eFPGA Configurator for Hassle Free Embedded FPGA Evaluation