D&R Headline News | Most Popular | SoC News Alerts | |

Fabless / IDM News

• Renesas Develops Embedded MRAM Macro that Achieves over 200MHz Fast Random-Read Access and a 10.4 MB/s Fast Write Throughput for High Performance MCUs (Monday Feb. 26, 2024)
  Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that it has developed circuit technologies for an embedded spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (STT-MRAM, hereinafter MRAM) test chip with fast read and write operations.
  
  
• Qualinx partners with EU Space Agency to develop a GNSS receiver for a service to detect spoofing and boost resilience (Thursday Jan. 25, 2024)
  Qualinx is partnering with the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) under the Fundamental Elements EU R&D funding mechanism to develop a consumer-grade, low-power GNSS receiver for the agency’s GNSS authentication service.
  
  
• POLYN Announces Agreement with SkyWater Technology to Produce its First Commercial Voice Processing Chip (Wednesday Jan. 17, 2024)
  POLYN Technology has finalized an agreement with SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ: SKYT), to fabricate POLYN’s first commercial chip for voice processing, with the tapeout planned by the end of the year.
  
  
• Innatera shows RISC-V neuromorphic edge AI microcontroller (Wednesday Jan. 17, 2024)
  Dutch chip startup Innatera has shown its neuromorphic microcontroller for edge AI sensor applications based on the RISC-V open instruction set architecture.
  
  
• Atmosic Introduces the Multiprotocol ATM34/e Series Adding 802.15.4 Support for Thread and Matter to its Bluetooth LE Portfolio (Wednesday Jan. 10, 2024)
  Building on the legacy of Atmosic’s innovative ATM3 and ATM33/e SoCs which support Bluetooth LE, the ATM34/e series adds support for IEEE 802.15.4 based protocols including Thread and Matter, as well as enhanced Bluetooth LE support for the latest 5.4 standard revision.
  
  
• Rambus Advances Data Center Server Performance with Industry-First Gen4 DDR5 RCD (Thursday Dec. 28, 2023)
  Rambus today announced the availability of its state-of-the-art Gen4 DDR5 Registering Clock Driver (RCD) which began sampling to the major DDR5 memory module (RDIMM) manufacturers in the fourth quarter of 2023.
  
  
• BSC presents Sargantana, the new generation of the first open-source chips designed in Spain (Friday Dec. 15, 2023)
  The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) presented on Wednesday the new Sargantana chip, the third generation of open source processors designed entirely at the BSC.
  
  
• Renesas Unveils the First Generation of Own 32-bit RISC-V CPU Core Ahead of Competition (Thursday Nov. 30, 2023)
  Renesas Electronics announced today that it has designed and tested a 32-bit CPU core based on the open-standard RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA).
  
  
• SPARK Microsystems Revolutionizes Wireless Headsets with Ultra-Wideband Audio Technology (Thursday Nov. 09, 2023)
  SPARK Microsystems, a Canadian fabless semiconductor company specializing in next-generation short-range wireless communications, has released its Golion wireless headset reference design leveraging SPARK ultra-wideband (UWB) audio technology to deliver an unparalleled audio experience.
  
  
• Renesas Unveils Processor Roadmap for Next-Gen Automotive SoCs and MCUs (Wednesday Nov. 08, 2023)
  Renesas Electronics today laid out plans for its next-generation system on chips (SoCs) and microcontrollers (MCUs) targeting all major applications across the automotive digital domain.
  
  
• Renesas' New Ultra-High Performance MCUs are Industry's First Based on Arm Cortex-M85 Processor (Tuesday Oct. 31, 2023)
  Renesas Electronics today introduced the world’s most powerful microcontrollers (MCUs), delivering breakthrough performance of over 3000 CoreMark points, and fully deterministic, low latency, real-time operation that satisfies customers’ most demanding application needs.
  
  
• Prophesee launches the world's smallest and most power-efficient event-based vision sensor, bringing more intelligence, privacy and safety than ever to consumer Edge-AI devices (Thursday Oct. 19, 2023)
  Prophesee today announced the availability of the GenX320 Event-based Metavision sensor, the industry’s first event-based vision sensor developed specifically for integration into ultra-low-power Edge AI vision devices.
  
  
• Qualcomm to Bring RISC-V Based Wearable Platform to Wear OS by Google (Wednesday Oct. 18, 2023)
  Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced today that they are building on their long-standing collaboration with Google by bringing a RISC-V based wearables solution for use with Wear OS by Google.
  
  
• LeapMind's New AI Chip Paves the Way for Unprecedented Cost-Effective AI Computing (Monday Oct. 16, 2023)
  LeapMind Inc, has announced the commencement of the new AI chip development that accelerates the training and inference of large-scale AI models.
  
  
• Tenstorrent Selects Samsung Foundry to Manufacture Next-Generation AI Chiplet (Thursday Oct. 05, 2023)
  Tenstorrent, a company that sells AI processors and licenses AI and RISC-V IP, announced today that it selected Samsung Foundry to bring Tenstorrent’s next generation of AI chiplets to market.
  
  
• Tachyum Books Purchase Order to Build System with 25,000x ChatGPT4 Capacity and 25x Faster than Current Supercomputers (Tuesday Oct. 03, 2023)
  
  
  
• Nanusens technology is key to enabling AI to be smarter (Thursday Sep. 28, 2023)
  The problem at the moment is that sensors are currently manufactured on a tiny sliver of silicon, or die, by a small number of specialist companies with each sensor type being produced on a dedicated production line so it is hard to ramp up production.
  
  
• SambaNova Unveils New AI Chip, the SN40L, Powering its Full Stack AI Platform (Tuesday Sep. 26, 2023)
  SambaNova unveils an intelligent AI chip capable of running models up to 5 trillion parameters, enabling fast and scalable inference and training, without sacrificing model accuracy
  
  
• Kalray announces the availability of its new processor "Coolidge™2", the first DPU optimized for AI and data intensive processing (Thursday Sep. 21, 2023)
  Kalray, a leading provider of hardware and software technologies and solutions for high-performance, data-centric computing markets from Cloud to Edge today announces the availability of Coolidge™2, the new version of its 3rd generation DPU processor.
  
  
• Realtek and V-Nova Announce Support for MPEG-5 Part 2 LCEVC on Set-Top-Box SoCs (Thursday Sep. 14, 2023)
  Realtek Semiconducto and V-Nova today announced support for MPEG-5 Part 2 LCEVC in Realtek STB SoCs. This makes Realtek the first chipset provider to offer support for LCEVC.
  
  
• Esperanto Technologies Introduces First Generative AI Appliance Based on RISC-V, Enabling Developers to Easily Create and Deploy Purpose-Built Vertical Applications (Wednesday Sep. 13, 2023)
  Esperanto Technologies™, the leading developer of high-performance, energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions based on the RISC-V instruction set, today announced the industry’s first Generative AI Appliance based on RISC-V technology.
  
  
• Indie Semiconductor Expands Quality Operations (Monday Sep. 04, 2023)
  indie Semiconductor, an Autotech solutions innovator, has expanded its operations to include a best-in-class quality lab facility at its engineering center of excellence in Dresden, Germany.
  
  
• Milk-V Launches Milk-V Vega, the World's First RISC-V Open Source 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch (Tuesday Aug. 22, 2023)
  Shenzhen MilkV Technology Co., Ltd (Milk-V) unveiled the world’s first RISC-V open-source 10-gigabit Ethernet switch - the Milk-V Vega. The core control chip utilizes the FSL1030M network switch chip developed by Wuhan Binary Semiconductor Corporation.
  
  
• Marvell Introduces Industry's First 5nm Multi-Gigabit PHY Platform (Thursday Aug. 17, 2023)
  Marvell today introduced its technology platform for 5nm multi-gigabit copper Ethernet PHYs to enable enterprise network equipment manufacturers and others to meet the exacting energy efficiency and performance targets of next generation multi-gigabit network technologies such as Wi-Fi 7.
  
  
• Tachyum Achieves 192-Core Chip After Switch to New EDA Tools (Wednesday Aug. 16, 2023)
  Tachyum® today announced that new EDA tools, utilized during the physical design phase of the Prodigy® Universal Processor, have allowed the company to achieve significantly better results with chip specifications than previously anticipated, after the successful change in physical design tools – including an increase in the number of Prodigy cores to 192.
  
  
• Kneron Unveils the KL730 AI Chip, Propelling Low-Energy GPT Solutions at Scale (Wednesday Aug. 16, 2023)
  Kneron, the San Diego-based full stack AI company known for pioneering neural processing units (NPUs), is today announcing the launch of KL730, an auto-grade NPU chip with an integrated Image Signal Processor (ISP).
  
  
• Blueshift Memory announces successful development of computer vision AI accelerator chip (Wednesday Aug. 09, 2023)
  Blueshift Memory, designer of a novel proprietary high-speed memory architecture, has announced the successful completion of a 13-month R&D project to demonstrate the performance of its Cambridge Architecture™, which was funded by an Innovate UK Smart grant.
  
  
• VSORA Announces All-in-One Single Chip Architecture to Meet Generative AI Processing Challenges (Wednesday Jul. 19, 2023)
  VSORA, an innovative startup offering silicon intellectual property (IP) solutions and silicon chips, today unveiled Jotunn™, an all-in-one single-chip family to provide a massive jump in performance for Generative AI inferencing processing challenges.
  
  
• Lightelligence Revolutionizes Big Data Interconnect with World's First Optical Network-on-Chip Processor (Thursday Jun. 29, 2023)
  Lightelligence, the global leader in photonic computing, today introduced a new big data interconnect paradigm with the launch of Hummingbird™, the world’s first Optical Network-on-Chip (oNOC) processor designed for domain-specific artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.
  
  
• AMD Introduces World's Largest FPGA-Based Adaptive SoC for Emulation and Prototyping (Thursday Jun. 29, 2023)