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• Actions Semiconductor Debuts 28nm Quad-Core Processor for Mainstream Android Tablets (Monday Nov. 03, 2014)
  Actions Semiconductor today introduced a new quad-core system-on-a-chip (SoC) to provide primary processing, connectivity, enhanced battery life and other capabilities in computer tablets and set top boxes (STB).
  
  
• Marvell's Total Cloud Platform Solution Powers the World's First Dedicated ARM-Based High Density Cloud Server from Online.net Labs (Monday Nov. 03, 2014)
  Marvell today announced that the Marvell® ARMADA®-XP System-on-Chip (SoC), Prestera® DX Switch and Alaska®-X 10GbE PHY solutions have been selected by Online.net Labs, the hosting subsidiary of a leading French telecom company, Iliad S.A., to support the world’s first dedicated ARM-based cloud platform.
  
  
• Kili Technology Unveils First mPOS Solution-on-a-Chip (Tuesday Oct. 28, 2014)
  Kili Technology Corporation, a rapidly growing developer of secure, low-cost payment processing solutions, announced today the industry's most highly integrated line of secure Solution-on-a-Chip (SoC) processors for payment processing applications.
  
  
• Actions Semiconductor Debuts Its First 28nm OWL Series Chipset (Tuesday Oct. 28, 2014)
  Actions Semiconductor today announced that it debuted its latest innovative 28nm process based quad-core application processor offering for the tablet and OTT set-top box markets.
  
  
• MegaChips to Begin Sampling BlueChip Wireless Sub-GHz Band Wireless Communication LSI at the End of October (Tuesday Oct. 28, 2014)
  MegaChips today announced it will begin sampling its sub-Ghz band BlueChip Wireless communication LSI (Model: MAB0100) LSI at the end of October and begin mass production volume shipping in January 2015.
  
  
• Silicon Space Technology (SST) Demonstrates ARM Cortex-M0-based Processor and SRAM Solutions Operating at 250C for 500 Hours (Monday Oct. 27, 2014)
  SST announced today the successful testing of temperature-hardened components operating at 250C for more than 500 hours.
  
  
• Ambarella S3 IP Camera SoC Delivers Outstanding 4K Video Quality Using State-of-the-Art H.265/HEVC Encoding (Wednesday Oct. 22, 2014)
  Ambarella today introduced S3, a security IP camera System-On-Chip (SoC) family with support for the new H.265 or HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) video standard.
  
  
• Freescale Announces the Industry's Most Power-Efficient 64-Bit ARM-Based Processor for the New Virtual Network (Tuesday Oct. 21, 2014)
  Freescale Semiconductor today introduced the QorIQ LS1043A communications processor – the industry’s most power-efficient 64-bit ARM-based processor for the new virtual network.
  
  
• The World's First G.fast Chipsets Announced by Sckipio (Wednesday Oct. 08, 2014)
  Sckipio Technologies today introduced the world’s first G.fast modem chipsets, fundamentally changing how telecom service providers can deliver 1Gbps ultra-broadband Internet access to bandwidth-hungry customers at the lowest cost per megabit.
  
  
• Broadcom Introduces Industry's First 40GbE Quad Port Gearbox PHY (Tuesday Oct. 07, 2014)
  Broadcom today announced the industry's first quad port 40GbE gearbox PHY supporting 20 Gbps input/output (IO) designs.
  
  
• Aquantia Unveils Game-Changing Enterprise Technology to Break Mobile Infrastructure Bottleneck and Deliver Unprecedented Throughput (Monday Oct. 06, 2014)
  
  
  
• Samsung Shows 14nm Chip (Thursday Oct. 02, 2014)
  Samsung showed a working 14nm FinFET device at the ARM Tech Con here. However the Korean giant would not provide details of the chip, any of its customers for the process, or the status of the process.
  
  
• AppliedMicro Launches 64-Bit ARM-Based Custom Cores for High End Embedded (Thursday Oct. 02, 2014)
  AppliedMicro today announced HeliX™, a family of ARMv8-A architecture based embedded products designed for use in wired and wireless networking, networked storage, office automation solutions and industrial controls.
  
  
• STMicroelectronics Accelerates MCU-Developers' Pace of Innovation with World's First ARM Cortex-M7 Core-Based STM32 F7 Series MCU (Wednesday Sep. 24, 2014)
  STMicroelectronics today announced the extension of its STM32 family of more than 500 pin- and software-compatible microcontrollers. The new STM32 F7 microcontroller (MCU) series leverages the ARM Cortex-M7 core, just announced as ARM’s newest and most powerful Cortex-M processor.
  
  
• Samsung Now Mass Producing Industry's First, 20-Nanometer 6Gb LPDDR3 Mobile DRAM (Monday Sep. 22, 2014)
  Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing its six gigabit (Gb) low-power double data rate 3 (LPDDR3) mobile DRAM, based on advanced 20 nanometer (nm) process technology.
  
  
• CoinTerra announces the world's first 16nm ASIC based Bitcoin Miner - the AIRE Miner (Friday Sep. 19, 2014)
  CoinTerra today announced their next generation Bitcoin Miner – the AIREMiner™. At an expected performance per watt of 5x the current generation miners, the 16nm ASIC based AIRE Miner is now available for limited time pre-order with expected delivery in Q1 2015.
  
  
• Cavium and XPliant Introduce a Fully Programmable Switch Silicon Family Scaling to 3.2 Terabits per Second (Tuesday Sep. 16, 2014)
  Cavium and XPliant today introduced the CNX880xx line of Ethernet switch chips featuring the revolutionary XPliant Packet Architecture (patent pending) (“XPA”) – an industry first, delivering no-compromise, high packet throughput on a fully programmable switch architecture.
  
  
• Peraso Releases PRS4000 60 GHz 802.11ad Baseband Chip (Monday Sep. 15, 2014)
  Peraso Technologies Inc. announced today the immediate availability of the PRS4000 60 GHz 802.11ad baseband chip through its Baseband Early Access Program (BEAP). The highly integrated device includes an 802.11ad compliant MAC/PHY, a USB 3.0 system interface, and analog I/Q for seamless use with Peraso’s 60 GHz RF ICs.
  
  
• Broadcom Announces Industry's Highest Performance, Lowest Power 100GbE Gearbox PHYs (Monday Sep. 15, 2014)
  Broadcom today announced the industry's highest performance, lowest power multi-rate 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) gearbox physical layer transceiver (PHY),
  
  
• Tabula and Intel Work Together to Enable Next-Generation Data Center (Wednesday Sep. 10, 2014)
  Tabula announced today that they are working with Intel Corporation to build a new multi-100 GigE line-rate packet processing platform to deliver a flexible, high-performance solution for next-generation data centers.
  
  
• ASMedia Technologies Demonstrates Industry's First SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps (USB 3.1) Silicon ASM1352R (USB3.1 to SATA6G with RAID) at Intel Developer Forum (Tuesday Sep. 09, 2014)
  ASMedia Technologies, demonstrated the industry’s first SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps (USB 3.1) silicon data transfer on its hardware development platform in the SuperSpeed USB Community at Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco.
  
  
• Genesys Logic announced a reference design pairing its USB 3.0 card reader controller GL3221 with NFC transceiver ST95HF from STMicroelectronics (Tuesday Sep. 09, 2014)
  Genesys Logic today announced a reference design pairing its USB 3.0 card reader controller GL3221 with STMicroelectronics' ST95HF NFC transceiver. This solution provides both high-performance memory card access and near field communication (NFC) simultaneously.
  
  
• Intel Launches the Intel Core M Processor (Monday Sep. 08, 2014)
  At IFA, a global trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances, Intel launched the new Intel® Core™ M processor, which will power new 2 in 1 devices from a variety of manufacturers including: Acer, ASUS, Dell*, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba.
  
  
• Digigram and KALRAY Partner to Create High-Quality, Low-Power, Real-Time HEVC Video Encoder Solutions (Friday Sep. 05, 2014)
  Digigram today announced that it has partnered with KALRAY, a developer and manufacturer of manycore processors, to create high-quality, high density real-time HEVC video encoder solutions based on KALRAY’s massively parallel Multi Purpose Processor Array (MPPA) chip.
  
  
• Fujitsu Presents HEVC HD Decoding SoC for Multimedia Applications (Wednesday Aug. 27, 2014)
  Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe (FSEU) today introduced its newest addition to the Fujitsu H6x decoder series: the MB8AL2030 nicknamed HD62. The System on Chip (SoC) supports HEVC (H.265) decoding in HD resolution for multimedia applications in in-car infotainment and home entertainment systems.
  
  
• Toshiba Launches Multi-function ARM Cortex-M0-core-based Microcontroller with Low Pin Count (Tuesday Aug. 26, 2014)
  Toshiba today announced the launch of a new microcontroller, “TMPM037FWUG”, as the latest addition to its ARM® Cortex®-M0-core-based TX00 series. The microcontroller is designed for motor control applications in equipment such as MFPs (multifunction printers) and printers. Sample shipments start today.
  
  
• NxGn Data Emerges from Stealth Mode to provide a paradigm shift in enterprise storage solutions (Wednesday Aug. 20, 2014)
  NxGn Data, a developer and producer of a new generation of Intelligent SSD Solutions based on its proprietary SoC controllers, announced today that it was exiting stealth mode.
  
  
• New IBM SyNAPSE Chip Could Open Era of Vast Neural Networks (Friday Aug. 08, 2014)
  Scientists from IBM today unveiled the first neurosynaptic computer chip to achieve an unprecedented scale of one million programmable neurons, 256 million programmable synapses and 46 billion synaptic operations per second per watt.
  
  
• eASIC and Mobiveil Collaborate on Optimized NVMe Solution for SSD Systems (Wednesday Aug. 06, 2014)
  eASIC and Mobiveil today announced support for Mobiveil’s NVMe platform implemented in eASIC devices. The platform includes PCI Express, NVM Express, DDR3 and NAND flash controllers, IP that is optimized to take advantage of the unique eASIC Single Mask Adaptable ASIC technology.
  
  
• RFaxis to Unveil Family of RF Front-Ends for IEEE 802.11ac in Nanometer-Scale CMOS Technology (Monday Aug. 04, 2014)