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• XMOS creates the next wave in programmable system-on-chip products (Friday Oct. 25, 2013)
  XMOS today announced xCORE-XA™, a range of eXtended Architecture xCORE devices that combine the company’s configurable multicore microcontroller technology with an ultra-low-power ARM Cortex-M3 processor, to create the next wave in programmable system-on-chip (SoC) products.
  
  
• Freescale Debuts ARM-based QorIQ LS Series Communications Processors (Wednesday Oct. 16, 2013)
  Freescale Semiconductor is bringing 20 years of networking IP and expertise to ARM® processing with its new QorIQ LS1 family of communications processors based on the core-agnostic, software-aware Layerscape system architecture.
  
  
• Texas Instruments drives customer applications one lane closer to an autonomous driving experience and reduction in collisions (Wednesday Oct. 16, 2013)
  New TDA2x SoC family with cutting-edge Vision AccelerationPac enables auto manufacturers to redefine next-gen advanced driver assistance systems at significantly lower power consumption
  
  
• Broadcom Announces Server-Class ARMv8-A Multi-Core Processor Architecture (Tuesday Oct. 15, 2013)
  Broadcom today announced the architecture for a new generation of multicore processors, featuring the industry's highest performance 64-bit ARM® core.
  
  
• Silicon Motion Introduces the SM3267 Ultra High-Performance, Cost-Effective USB 3.0 Controller (Monday Oct. 14, 2013)
  
  
  
• Silicon Labs Launches the World's Most Energy-Friendly MCUs Based on the ARM Cortex-M0+ Core (Thursday Oct. 10, 2013)
  Silicon Labs today introduced the industry’s most energy-friendly 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) based on the ARM® Cortex®-M0+ processor.
  
  
• KnCMiner Announces Word's first 28nm Bitcoin mining machine (Thursday Oct. 03, 2013)
  KnCMiner AB announced that it has achieved, what is believed to be; the world's fastest concept to production of any 28nm device ever created, in a little over 4 months, and the word's very first 28nm Bitcoin mining machine.
  
  
• Silicon Image Announces First 4K Ultra HD MHL 3.0 Receiver IC With HDCP 2.2 in Support of Secure Premium Content Transmission (Monday Sep. 30, 2013)
  Silicon Image today announced the availability of the industry's first 4K Ultra HD MHL® 3.0 receiver featuring support for HDCP 2.2, the latest High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection technology that protects high-value digital motion pictures, television programs and audio against unauthorized interception and copying.
  
  
• Micron Technology Ships First Samples of Hybrid Memory Cube (Thursday Sep. 26, 2013)
  Micron Technology, Inc. announced today that it is shipping 2GB Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) engineering samples. HMC represents a dramatic step forward in memory technology, and these engineering samples are the world's first HMC devices to be shared broadly with lead customers.
  
  
• Fresco Logic Demonstrates Industry's First SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps (USB 3.1) Data Transfer (Friday Sep. 13, 2013)
  Fresco Logic demonstrated SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps (USB 3.1) data transfer on its hardware development platform at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF).
  
  
• Sigma Designs to Launch New ARM-based Chipset at IBC (Thursday Sep. 12, 2013)
  Combining a high performance ARM A9 CPU with an Imagination SGX GPU, the SMP8734 will enable a new level of user experience with minimal extra cost.
  
  
• AMD Details Embedded Product Roadmap (Tuesday Sep. 10, 2013)
  AMD extends ambidextrous strategy to embedded customers becoming the first to offer choice of ARM or x86 SoC, APU or CPU options coupled with industry-leading AMD Radeon graphics
  
  
• Cortina Introduces Industry's First Dual 15G EDC PHY (Monday Sep. 09, 2013)
  Cortina Systems today announced the availability of the industry's first dual 15G Electronic Dispersion Compensation (EDC) PHY for low port count applications transitioning from 1 to 10 and 15G.
  
  
• VMC uses eASIC to Achieve 24.756 TH/s Bitcoin Miner (Thursday Sep. 05, 2013)
  eASIC and Virtual Mining Corporation (VMC) today announced that VMC will use eASIC Nextreme-3™ 28nm devices to create a series of scalable Bitcoin mining machines capable of generating up to 24.756 TH/s (tera hashes per second) of cryptographic hashes.
  
  
• Coherent Logix And Intrinsic-ID Announce Availability Of An Advanced Secure Processor Enabling Fully Software Reprogrammable Wireless and Video Solutions for Software Defined Systems (Tuesday Aug. 13, 2013)
  Coherent Logix, Inc. and Intrinsic-ID have collaborated in the development of embedded security features in the latest HyperX™ Software Defined System processor from Coherent Logix.
  
  
• IntelliProp Announces High Performance SATA SSD Flash Controller (Monday Aug. 12, 2013)
  IntelliProp announced today the availability of a new SATA SSD (Solid State Drive) Flash Controller. The IntelliProp IPA-SA129-CT (code named “Apache”) features enterprise class ECC:BCH error correction, True End-to-End CRC, AES-XTS-256bit encryption and supports both MLC and SLC flash.
  
  
• Crossbar Emerges from Stealth-Mode; Unveils Crossbar RRAM Non-Volatile Memory Technology (Monday Aug. 05, 2013)
  Emerging from stealth-mode today, Crossbar, Inc., a start-up company pioneering a new category of very high capacity and high-performance non-volatile memory, unveiled its Crossbar Resistive RAM (RRAM) technology.
  
  
• Diablo Technologies Disrupts Latency and Performance Metrics for the Enterprise with Introduction of New Memory Channel Flash Solution (Tuesday Jul. 30, 2013)
  Diablo Technologies, a proven innovator in advanced memory system interface products, today introduced Memory Channel Storage, a transformational new storage and system memory solution, resetting the bar for latency and throughput for enterprise applications.
  
  
• MediaTek Introduces Industry Leading Tablet SoC, MT8135 (Monday Jul. 29, 2013)
  MediaTek today announced its breakthrough MT8135 system-on-chip (SoC) for high-end tablets. The quad-core solution incorporates two high-performance ARM Cortex™-A15 and two ultra-efficient ARM Cortex™-A7 processors, and the latest GPU from Imagination Technologies, the PowerVR™ Series6.
  
  
• Tilera's TILE-Gx72 Processor Sets World Record for Suricata IPS/IDS: Industry's Highest Performance (Tuesday Jul. 23, 2013)
  Tilera today announced it has achieved the highest ever single-chip Suricata performance, delivering 4x the performance, and 7x the performance-per-watt of a high-end x86 multicore processor.
  
  
• Scaleo chip and GLOBALFOUNDRIES partner to design and manufacture System on a Chip for automotive market. (Thursday Jul. 11, 2013)
  Scaleo chip announced today it has entered into a collaborative agreement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES for the design and manufacture of automotive qualified devices.
  
  
• Tabula and Algo-Logic Collaborate to Release Second Generation Ternary Search Engine (Tuesday Jul. 02, 2013)
  Tabula announced today the availability of the latest addition to its suite of high-performance packet processing solutions: the second generation Ternary Search Engine (TSE2) soft IP cores.
  
  
• Atmel Announces New ARM Cortex-M0+ Microcontroller Family, Leveraging Two Decades of Microcontroller Leadership (Monday Jun. 17, 2013)
  Atmel today announced the new Atmel®SAM D20, the first series in a new family of embedded Flash microcontrollers based on the ARM® Cortex™-M0+ processor core and designed ideally for home automation, consumer, smart metering and industrial applications.
  
  
• AMD Unleashes First-Ever 5 GHz Processor (Tuesday Jun. 11, 2013)
  AMD today unveiled its most powerful member of the legendary AMD FX family of CPUs, the world’s first commercially available 5 GHz CPU processor, the AMD FX-9590.
  
  
• MediaTek Introduces New Quad-Core Application Processor for Fast-Growing Tablet Market (Thursday May. 30, 2013)
  The new tablet platform is an extension of the company’s highly successful quad-core portfolio, it integrates a power-efficient quad-core Cortex™- A7 CPU subsystem with speed up to 1.5GHz, PowerVR™ Series5XT Graphics that delivers compelling multimedia features and sophisticated user experiences.
  
  
• Energy efficient EFM32 "Wonder Gecko" with ARM Cortex-M4 and FPU now available (Monday May. 13, 2013)
  Energy Micro is now shipping its latest and most advanced microcontroller yet, the EFM32 Wonder Gecko. The Wonder Gecko MCU includes the ARM Cortex-M4 processor that provides a full DSP instruction set and a dedicated floating point unit (FPU).
  
  
• Intel Launches Low-Power, High-Performance Silvermont Microarchitecture (Tuesday May. 07, 2013)
  Intel Corporation today took the wraps off its brand new, low-power, high-performance microarchitecture named Silvermont.
  
  
• Texas Instruments and Continental collaborate to deliver first 65 nm safety ARM Cortex microcontroller used in advanced automotive safety applications (Tuesday May. 07, 2013)
  Texas Instruments and Continental are pleased to announce their collaboration on the first 65 nm ARM Cortex safety microcontrollers with Flash technology in volume production. The Continental processor for advanced control in electronic braking systems (PACE) is the foundation for the Continental MK 100 family of electronic stability control (ESC) systems.
  
  
• AMD to Create Tailored Products Integrating Customer-Specific IP through Semi-Custom Business Unit (Friday May. 03, 2013)
  AMD announced today a strategic focus on developing one-of-a-kind solutions through its Semi-Custom Business Unit based on the extensive set of intellectual property (IP) amassed across AMD processors, graphics and multimedia.
  
  
• LSI Introduces Axxia 4500 Family of ARM Technology-based Communication Processors to Accelerate Enterprise and Datacenter Networks (Tuesday Apr. 16, 2013)
  LSI today introduced its Axxia 4500 product family of communication processors designed to accelerate network performance while supporting increasing traffic loads throughout the enterprise.