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• NxGn Data Emerges from Stealth Mode to provide a paradigm shift in enterprise storage solutions (Thursday Jul. 31, 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. The company believes that by moving computational tasks closer to where the data resides, its intelligent storage products will considerably improve overall energy efficiency and performance by eliminating storage bandwidth bottlenecks and the high costs associated with data movement.
  
  
• Movidius Accelerates the Era of Computational Cameras With a New Vision Processor for Mobile, Wearable and Embedded Markets (Wednesday Jul. 30, 2014)
  Movidius today announced Myriad 2, the next generation of its vision processor unit (VPU) system-on-a-chip (SoC). Compared to Myriad 1 -- which was introduced as part of Google's Project Tango -- the new chipset delivers 20x more processing efficiency in terms of computations per watt of power consumed.
  
  
• Allwinner's first 64-bit tablet processor to hit the market soon (Thursday Jul. 24, 2014)
  With the rising requirement for 64-bit application processors, Allwinner Technology today is announcing that its first 64-bit tablet processor should hit the market by end of 2014. A 64-bit development board should also be ready for demo during the Hong Kong Electronics Fair in October.
  
  
• Nitero Introduces NT4600 - The First End-to-End IEEE 802.11ad Solution Built from the Ground up for Mobile Applications (Thursday Jul. 17, 2014)
  Nitero today announced 60G®, its 60GHz family of solutions. The first product in this family, the NT4600, is the industry’s only end-to-end IEEE 802.11ad™ solution that meets the power, performance and form-factor requirements for mobile applications.
  
  
• Renesas Electronics Intellectual Property for Capacitive Touch Sensing Delivers Industry-Leading Performance for Human Machine Interface Applications (Thursday Jul. 17, 2014)
  Renesas Electronics Europe today announced development of innovative new intellectual property (IP) that implements industry-leading capacitive touch sensing technology suitable for home appliances, and healthcare equipment, such as blood pressure and blood glucose meters.
  
  
• MediaTek Launches 64-bit True Octa-core LTE Smartphone SoC with World's First 2K Display Support (Tuesday Jul. 15, 2014)
  MediaTek today announced MT6795, the 64-bit True Octa-core(TM) LTE smartphone System on Chip (SoC) with the world's first 2K display support. This is MediaTek's flagship smartphone SoC designed to empower high-end device makers to leap into the Android(TM) 64-bit era.
  
  
• Spreadtrum Launches Highly Integrated Quad-core Smart Phone Platform Using 28nm Process (Tuesday Jun. 24, 2014)
  Spreadtrum today introduced the SC883XG, a highly integrated TD-SCDMA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE multi-mode quad-core smartphone platform designed with advanced 28nm process technology.
  
  
• AppliedMicro Announces Readiness of 64-bit ARM-Based Server SoC for High Performance Computing (Monday Jun. 23, 2014)
  AppliedMicro today announced the readiness of the X-GeneTM Server on a Chip™ based on the 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture for High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads.
  
  
• NVIDIA GPUs Open the Door to ARM64 Entry Into High Performance Computing (Monday Jun. 23, 2014)
  NVIDIA today announced that multiple server vendors are leveraging the performance of NVIDIA® GPU accelerators to launch the world's first 64-bit ARM development systems for high performance computing (HPC).
  
  
• Qualcomm Introduces High-Performance, Cost-Effective Small Cell System-on-Chip for SMB and Neighborhood Access Points for Expanding Network Capacity and Coverage (Wednesday Jun. 11, 2014)
  Qualcomm has introduced the Qualcomm® FSM90xx system-on-chip (SoC) for neighborhood and small and medium business (SMB) small cells.
  
  
• Cavium Introduces ThunderX: A 2.5 GHz, 48 Core Family of Workload Optimized Processors for Next Generation Data Center and Cloud Applications (Tuesday Jun. 03, 2014)
  Cavium today announced the introduction of a new game changing category of processors that are workload optimized for a range of applications in the cloud and data center.
  
  
• Intel Enters into Strategic Agreement with Rockchip to Accelerate, Expand Portfolio of Intel-Based Solutions for Tablets (Wednesday May. 28, 2014)
  Intel Corporation today announced it has entered into a strategic agreement with Rockchip to expand the breadth of and accelerate the rate at which it brings its Intel® architecture and communications-based solutions to market for a range of entry-level Android* tablets worldwide.
  
  
• Inuitive Introduce NU3000 ASIC, The Industry's Most Advanced 3D imaging and computer vision processor for PCs, laptops, tablets, smartphones and consumer devices (Tuesday May. 27, 2014)
  Inuitive Ltd ., a leading 3D Imaging and Computer Vision Processor developer, is proud to announce it has sampled its NU3000 ASIC , the most advanced Image and Computer Vision (CV) Processor in the industry.
  
  
• eASIC Announces Support for GigaChip Interface (Tuesday May. 13, 2014)
  eASIC and MoSys today announced successful hardware interoperability at 10.3125Gbps and 12.5Gbps between the MGIO (Multi Gigabit I/O) serial transceivers on eASIC’s Nextreme-3 28nm family and the CEI-11 compatible interface on the MoSys® Bandwidth Engine® IC.
  
  
• Achronix Announces PCI-SIG Compliance for Hardened PCI Express on Speedster22i FPGAs (Monday May. 12, 2014)
  Achronix Semiconductor Corporation today announced that its 22nm Speedster22i devices have achieved PCI-SIG® compliance with the PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 Specification for x8 lanes. The Speedster22i devices successfully passed the PCI-SIG Compliance and Interoperability Tests at the PCI-SIG workshop and are now included in the PCI-SIG integrators list.
  
  
• Peregrine Semiconductor Ships First UltraCMOS 10 Production Units (Wednesday May. 07, 2014)
  Peregrine Semiconductor announces shipment of the first RF switches built on the UltraCMOS 10 technology platform. With partner GLOBALFOUNDRIES, the company also announces the completion of product and process qualification for the advanced RF SOI technology.
  
  
• Innosilicon Announce the world 1st 28nm Litecoin ASIC and Reference Miners (Monday Apr. 21, 2014)
  Innosilicon is proudly announcing the availability of another customer driven ASIC for volume shipment, the 28nm LTC ASIC coded name “A2 Terminator”.
  
  
• GigOptix Expands Industrial ASIC Product Line (CX) Offering with ASIC Sunrise Product Family to Address Advanced Low-Geometry Foundry Processes (Monday Apr. 14, 2014)
  GigOptix today announced the launch of the newest family of products for its Industrial ASIC Product Line (CX). The new product line, named ASIC SunriseTM, will address high-performance designs in advanced low-geometry CMOS process nodes, accompanying the well proved and widely deployed Sunset-RescueTM family of products that offers customized ASIC designs at geometries from 65nm to 600nm.
  
  
• Marvell Releases New 28nm 10GbE and GbE Packet Processor Product Suite Further Enabling Secure and Power Efficient Solutions for Access Networks (Monday Mar. 31, 2014)
  Marvell today announced a new series of Marvell® Prestera® DX packet processors that enable secure and power efficient solutions for a new generation of access networks. The Marvell Prestera DX product family continues the company's leadership in highly integrated packet switching in the 28nm process with an advanced System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture.
  
  
• NVIDIA Launches World's First High-Speed GPU Interconnect, Helping Pave the Way to Exascale Computing (Thursday Mar. 27, 2014)
  NVIDIA today announced that it plans to integrate a high-speed interconnect, called NVIDIA® NVLink™, into its future GPUs, enabling GPUs and CPUs to share data five to 12 times faster than they can today. This will eliminate a longstanding bottleneck and help pave the way for a new generation of exascale supercomputers that are 50-100 times faster than today's most powerful systems.
  
  
• RDA Microelectronics today announced the launch of its RDA8860 WCDMA/EDGE/GSM baseband SoC for the low-cost smartphone market. (Thursday Mar. 27, 2014)
  The RDA8860 integrates an RF transceiver, WCDMA modem, EDGE modem, application processor, power management unit, analog baseband, and 32kHz oscillator onto a single 40 nanometer die, significantly reducing the customer bill of materials. Built around a 1GHz ARM (R) Cortex (TM)-A5 processor with a 256KB L2 cache, the chip uses 400MHz 32-bit LPDDR2 memory, which supplies 3.2GB bandwidth to create a powerful platform for low-cost mobile devices.
  
  
• KALRAY to showcase low power, live Ultra HD (4K) HEVC encoder at CCBN 2014 in collaboration with DivX (Thursday Mar. 20, 2014)
  KALRAY, the designer and provider of the low power, high performance MPPA MANYCORE processor, today announced the demonstration at CCBN 2014 of its unique low power live Ultra HD HEVC (4K) encoder running on the KALRAY MPPA MANYCORE processor.
  
  
• MoSys Demonstrates 15.625G Bandwidth Engine SerDes Interoperability with Xilinx's Kintex UltraScale FPGA at OFC 2014 (Wednesday Mar. 12, 2014)
  MoSys is demonstrating its industry leading Bandwidth Engine® interface, at 15.625G, using Xilinx’s latest Kintex® UltraScale™ FPGA.
  
  
• KnC Announce "Tape out" of the World's first 20nm ASIC for Bitcoin Mining (Wednesday Mar. 05, 2014)
  KnC is announcing they have completed ‘tape out’ of their new ASIC. This is the world’s first Bitcoin Mining Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designed using ground breaking 20 nanometer engineering. This important milestone was achieved only 3 months after starting the project, during February 2014.
  
  
• Marvell Extends its 4G LTE Leadership with the Introduction of the 64-bit Single-Chip Mobile Processor with Production-Ready 5-Mode Modem (Wednesday Mar. 05, 2014)
  Marvell today announced the 64-bit mobile System-on-Chip (SoC) with production-ready 5-mode modem, the ARMADA® Mobile PXA1928.
  
  
• Silicon Image Enters Small Cell Wireless Backhaul Market with Industry's First Single-Chip Beam Steering 60GHz RF Tranceivers (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  Silicon Image today announced its entry into the small cell wireless backhaul market with the introduction of two high-throughput, single-chip CMOS beam-steering 60GHz RF transceivers designed to address the rapidly growing market for high-capacity wireless backhaul links in urban environments.
  
  
• Silicon Image Announces New MHL® Smartphone Reference Designs with MediaTek (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  Silicon Image today announced that MediaTek has partnered with Silicon Image to include the SiI8348 MHL® transmitter in their latest MT6592 and MT6595 octa-core smartphone SoC platforms.
  
  
• Renesas Electronics Develops Industry's First 28nm Embedded Flash Memory Technology for Microcontrollers (Wednesday Feb. 19, 2014)
  Renesas Electronics today announced that it has developed the industry's first 28-nanometer (nm) flash memory intellectual property (IP) for microcontrollers (MCUs) using a 28 nm process technology.
  
  
• INSIDE Secure launches a unique and comprehensive mobile security offer (Wednesday Feb. 19, 2014)
  INSIDE Secure today announces the availability of second-generation VaultSEcure(TM) secure element, the market’s first fully comprehensive mobile security chip.
  
  
• Leti and STMicroelectronics Demonstrate Order-of-Magnitude-Faster FD-SOI Ultra-Wide-Voltage Range DSP (Friday Feb. 14, 2014)
  CEA-Leti and STMicroelectronics have presented the successful demonstration of an ultra-wide-voltage range (UWVR) digital signal processor (DSP), based on 28nm ultra-thin body buried-oxide (UTBB) FD-SOI technology.