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• Calxeda Joins OpenStack Community; Leads ARM-based Server Movement for Emerging "Green Clouds" (Wednesday Jun. 22, 2011)
  Calxeda, the company changing the data center and server market with high performance, low power semiconductors, today announced it has joined OpenStack, the global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds.
  
  
• Freescale Demonstrates Breakthrough Quad-Core ARM Applications Processor (Wednesday Jun. 22, 2011)
  Freescale Semiconductor kicked off the 2011 Freescale Technology Forum Americas in high energy fashion today by demonstrating one of the industry’s highest-performance quad-core applications processors.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Announces Embedded Linux Platform Support for Freescale Semiconductor's Most Advanced QorIQ Family of Multi-threaded 64-bit Processors (Tuesday Jun. 21, 2011)
  Mentor Graphics today announced its support for Freescale Semiconductor's Advanced Multi-Processing (AMP) Series of QorIQ® multicore processors by providing its comprehensive Mentor® Embedded Linux platform, open source tools and services, to deliver a unified workflow for Freescale customers.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Optimizes the Mentor Embedded Inflexion UI for Use on ARM Mali GPUs (Wednesday Jun. 15, 2011)
  Mentor Graphics and ARM have worked together to optimize the Mentor® Embedded Inflexion™ UI product for the ARM® Mali™ GPU, helping ensure that UIs created using Inflexion achieve fantastic performance on ARM Mali GPUs.
  
  
• Imagination METAflow connected processor links embedded systems to the cloud (Tuesday Jun. 14, 2011)
  Imagination Technologies is now licensing its METAflow family of connected processors. The highly integrated licensable METAflow IP platform is based on Imagination's market leading silicon IP and supporting software solutions.
  
  
• Calxeda Announces Trailblazer Initiative; Ecosystem Dedicated to the Promise of Hyper-Efficient Servers (Tuesday Jun. 14, 2011)
  Program Kicks Off with Autonomic Resources, Canonical, Caringo, Couchbase, Datastax, Eucalyptus Systems, Gluster, Momentum SI, Opscode, and Pervasive Software; Calxeda Selects Ubuntu as the Operating System for Launching its ARM Servers
  
  
• Vivante GPU Core Brings Android 3.0 Honeycomb Support to Ingenic's Latest JZ4770 Application Processor (Tuesday Jun. 14, 2011)
  Vivante 3D core positions Ingenic JZ4770 application processor as a leader in Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) solutions for upcoming super tablets and smartphones
  
  
• Imec and Target Present Innovative Flexible Forward Error-Correction Solution for Software-Defined Radios (Monday Jun. 06, 2011)
  Imec and Target Compiler Technologies present a C-programmable flexible FEC solution fit for future cellular, connectivity and broadcasting standards. The C-programmable flex FEC ASIP (application-specific instruction-set processor) template supports LDPC (low-density parity check), Turbo and Viterbi decoding. Imec designed and optimized the ASIP architecture and generated a matching software development kit, using IP Designer, Target’s tool-suite for ASIP design.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Advances "Apps on MIPS" Development (Tuesday May. 31, 2011)
  MIPS Technologies announced the launch of a new MIPS Application Development (MAD) Program designed to promote rapid development of applications on the MIPS® architecture. The program offers technical support and services for performance testing and compatibility to verify that applications will run as designed on MIPS-Based devices.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies and Ingenic Semiconductor Collaborate to Bring Android 'Honeycomb' to New 1GHz MIPS-Based™ Mobile SoC (Tuesday May. 31, 2011)
  MIPS and Ingenic Semiconductor today announced that they are collaborating to bring Android 3.0, also known as 'Honeycomb', to Ingenic's new JZ4770 mobile applications processor, which leverages a MIPS-Based XBurst CPU running at 1GHz.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies and SiS Continue to Drive Android into the Digital Home (Tuesday May. 31, 2011)
  MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications, and Taiwan's Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS) announced their latest milestones in driving the Android platform into the digital home.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies and Actions Semiconductor Collaborate to Bring Android 'Honeycomb' to New 1.3GHz Chipset for Tablets (Tuesday May. 31, 2011)
  MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications, and Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: ACTS), one of China's leading fabless semiconductor companies that provides solutions for portable consumer electronics, announced that they are collaborating to bring Android 3.0, also known as "Honeycomb," to a new 1.3GHz MIPS-Based chipset from Actions.
  
  
• Linaro partners with Samsung ecosystem to deliver exciting new low cost board 'Origen' to Open Source developers (Monday May. 30, 2011)
  Linaro provides optimized base of software and tools for highest performance low cost ARM board 'Origen' using Samsung's dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 based Exynos 4210 chipset with high bandwidth DDR3 memory.
  
  
• Linaro completes first year with demonstrations of Linaro Evaluation Builds for Android and Ubuntu and introduction of new partner program (Monday May. 30, 2011)
  Linaro is marking its first anniversary with demonstrations of the latest open source software running on its members' hardware at Linaro Developer Summit (LDS) and Computex. The company also announced Linaro Partner Program, an initiative designed to help companies and organizations get involved with Linaro's engineering effort.
  
  
• ARM Announces Cortex-M System Design Kit (Tuesday May. 17, 2011)
  ARM today announced the availability of the ARM® Cortex™-M System Design Kit (CMSDK), a system solution enabling Cortex-M processor licensees to get to silicon faster, reduce risk, and focus on differentiation.
  
  
• Synopsys DesignWare ARC Sound IP Solution First to Support the Dynamic Resolution Adaptation Audio Standard (Wednesday May. 11, 2011)
  Synopsys today announced the availability of an optimized version of the Dynamic Resolution Adaptation (DRA) decoder software for the widely used DesignWare® ARC™ Sound AS211SFX and AS221BD audio processors.
  
  
• Carbon Design Systems and MIPS Technologies Collaborate to Enable Virtual Platforms (Wednesday May. 11, 2011)
  Carbon Design and MIPS Technologies announced today that they are collaborating to create and distribute virtual platform models of MIPS Technologies’ processor intellectual property (IP) cores.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Adopts Myriad's Dalvik Turbo VM Engine for its Android on MIPS Distribution (Monday May. 09, 2011)
  MIPS announced that it has entered into a license agreement with Myriad, through which MIPS will make Myriad's Dalvik Turbo Virtual Machine (VM) available to its licensees as part of its standard distribution of Android for the MIPS® architecture.
  
  
• Imagination introduces next step in Flow Technology for connected embedded systems (Thursday May. 05, 2011)
  FlowWorld is a configurable portal technology enabling the connection of devices to the cloud. Used alongside Imagination’s METAflow connected processor technology it enables an end to end solution for delivery of services and content between service providers and users through the cloud.
  
  
• ARM Launches DS-5 Professional Edition and ARM Compiler v5.0 (Wednesday May. 04, 2011)
  ARM today announced the release of v5.0 of the ARM® Compiler, and the availability of the ARM DS-5™ Professional Edition, which replaces the ARM RVDS™ toolkit as the reference software development toolchain for ARM processor-based ASICs and ASSP devices.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies and eCosCentric Announce Availability of eCosPro Developer's Kit for microMIPS (Wednesday May. 04, 2011)
  MIPS Technologies and eCosCentric today announced that eCosCentric has ported its eCosPro® open source real-time operating system (RTOS) to the microMIPS instruction set architecture (ISA).
  
  
• Delivering High-Performance, Multicore Applications and Efficient Software: ARM Launches Next Generation System Solution for Debug and Trace (Tuesday May. 03, 2011)
  ARM® CoreSight™ SoC-400 provides highly configurable debug and trace for complex System on a Chip (SoC) designs to improve visibility, productivity and time to market
  
  
• Elliptic Technologies Unveils Industry Leading HDCP 2.0 Content Protection Solution (Wednesday Apr. 27, 2011)
  Elliptic Technologies, a leading supplier of security IP and software, has announced the immediate availability of its HDCP 2.0 (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) Software Development Kit.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Now Porting Android Honeycomb Platform (Wednesday Apr. 27, 2011)
  MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications, announced today that it has official source access to Android 3.0 also known as "Honeycomb".
  
  
• Tensilica First IP DSP Core Supplier to Offer DTS Broadcast and DTS DMP Support (Tuesday Apr. 26, 2011)
  Tensilica today announced that it is the first audio IP core supplier to be awarded DTS® Broadcast and DTS DMP certification. The certification, achieved using fully optimized software implementation on Tensilica's HiFi 2 and HiFi EP Audio DSP IP cores, provides developers of SOCs (system on chips) with a proven solution that reduces the time to market for new, fully compliant designs.
  
  
• AuthenTec Announces the First Downloadable Microsoft PlayReady-Based DRM Solution for Android- and Apple iOS-based Mobile Devices (Tuesday Apr. 19, 2011)
  AuthenTec today announced the development and immediate availability of the first Microsoft PlayReady-based downloadable digital rights management (DRM) client solution for Android-based phones and tablets and Apple iOS-based devices including iPhone and iPad.
  
  
• AuthenTec Announces Field Proven Downloadable DRM Solution for Android- and Apple iOS-based Mobile Devices (Wednesday Apr. 13, 2011)
  AuthenTec today announced the commercial availability of an industry standards-based downloadable digital rights management (DRM) client solution on Android-based phones and tablets as well as iOS-based devices including Apple’s iPhone and iPad.
  
  
• Elecard Hits Market with ARM Codec SDK for Mobile and Portable Devices (Monday Apr. 11, 2011)
  Elecard announces release of ARM Codec SDK for platform-independent multimedia applications development. Usage and implementation of ARM Codec SDK enables developers to create platform-independent multimedia applications supporting live MPEG-2, DivX and AVC streaming for mobile and portable devices and gadgets driven by ARM processors.
  
  
• Texas Instruments first semiconductor company to license EtherCAT technology for embedded ARM- and DSP+ARM-based devices (Tuesday Apr. 05, 2011)
  Texas Instruments announces it is the first semiconductor company to license Ethernet for Control Automation Technology (EtherCAT®) for its ARM®- and DSP+ARM-based embedded processors.
  
  
• Altera, Apical, AltaSens Jointly Announce Industry's First HD Wide Dynamic Range Video Surveillance Chipset (Monday Apr. 04, 2011)
  Altera, Apical Ltd. (UK), and AltaSens, Inc. today announced the availability of the industry's first HD WDR video surveillance chipset. The chipset combines an Altera Cyclone® IV E FPGA with a security chip that supports Apical's HD WDR full image signal processing (ISP) pipeline IP and AltaSens' 1080p60 A3372E3-4T image sensor.