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• Atmel Highly-Integrated Cortex-M3-based Flash MCUs Improve Impedance Matching and Lower Power Up to 50 Percent (Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009)
  Atmel today announced the SAM3S series. This series includes 18 general-purpose Cortex®-M3 based Flash microcontrollers that improve impedance matching, simplify PCB design and save 50 percent power at 1 MHz operation with a consumption of only 2.3 mW.
  
  
• NXP Introduces Advanced 3DTV Processor (Monday Dec. 14, 2009)
  NXP Semiconductors today announced the availability of the PNX5130, the industry’s first video co-processor enabling 3DTV, frame-rate conversion (FRC) and local backlight dimming in a single chip. By eliminating the need for external FPGA devices to support 3DTV, NXP is providing a highly cost-effective post-processing solution that will enable manufacturers to bring competitively priced 3D-enabled TV sets to the mainstream consumer market.
  
  
• Genesys Logic Will Display USB 3.0 Products at CES 2010 (Monday Dec. 07, 2009)
  GL3310 USB 3.0 to SATA Bridge Controller and GL3520 USB 3.0 Hub Controller will be on display during CES 2010
  
  
• Atmel Launches Low-cost LF RFID IC with OTP Functionality and Unsurpassed Read Performance for Small-sized Access Control Systems (Thursday Nov. 19, 2009)
  Atmel today announced the availability of the LF OTP (One Time Programmable) transponder IDIC® ATA5575M1. The ATA5575M1 provides OTP functionality, which simplifies the production process and provides increased flexibility compared to read-only devices.
  
  
• Low-Cost Cortex-M0 MCU from NXP targets 8/16-bit applications (Monday Nov. 16, 2009)
  NXP today announced the availability of its ARM® Cortex™-M0 based LPC1100 microcontroller family. NXP’s LPC1100 is the lowest-priced 32-bit MCU solution in the market, bringing higher value and ease of use than existing 8/16-bit microcontroller through unprecedented performance, simplicity, low power, and more importantly, dramatic reductions in code size for all 8/16-bit applications.
  
  
• ZiiLABS Introduces ZMS-08 : The World's First 1080p Blu-ray Quality Handheld Media Processor (Thursday Nov. 12, 2009)
  New ZMS-08 StemCell Processor Offers Faster, Lower-Power Single Chip Solution for Full H.264 HD 1080p Video Playback, 720p Video Conferencing, 1080p Encode, OpenGL ES 2.0, X-Fi Audio and 1GHz ARM® Cortex Application Acceleration
  
  
• Qualcomm Now Sampling Industry's First Dual-carrier HSPA+ and Multi-Mode 3G/LTE Chipsets for Global Markets (Thursday Nov. 12, 2009)
  Qualcomm today announced that it is sampling the industry’s first chipsets for dual-carrier HSPA+ and multi-mode 3G/LTE.
  
  
• Atmel Launches New Secure Microcontroller for Smart Objects and System Security Markets (Monday Nov. 09, 2009)
  Atmel today announced a new family of secure microcontrollers targeting the highest security level for smart objects and systems. The new AT90SO family is the first in the industry to offer a wide range of interfaces to bring security to various applications including USB e-tokens, femtocells, smart meters, secure data storage, telehealth and gaming platforms.
  
  
• GUC announces the mass-production of leading-edge ARM7-based GP5080 series Solid State Disk SoC Solution (Monday Nov. 02, 2009)
  Global Unichip Corporation today announced the mass-production of its leading-edge ARM7-based GP5080 series Solid Sate Disk (SSD) SoC platform solution, targeting the storage application for the booming market of Netbook/Smartbook, thin-NB, UMPC, MID and other portable consumer electronics.
  
  
• Global Unichip announced today world's first 4 channel H.264 full D1 real time surveillance SoC GP1680 with HD Display design solution (Monday Nov. 02, 2009)
  Global Unichip announced today mass production of the world’s first surveillance SoC designs solutions capable of 4 channel concurrent encode/decode in real time D1 format.
  
  
• PLX Technology Completes First Design on Advanced 40nm Process Technology (Monday Nov. 02, 2009)
  PLX Technology today strengthened its industry leadership position by finishing a new design on 40nm process technology at TSMC.
  
  
• CSR and Realtek partner to deliver Bluetooth v3.0 + HS and 802.11n into PCs and netbooks (Thursday Oct. 29, 2009)
  CSR today announced that it has partnered with one of Taiwan's leading wireless communication IC design houses, Realtek, to deliver a family of Bluetooth v3.0 + High Speed (HS) and 802.11n module designs for the PC and netbook markets.
  
  
• CSR and TSMC collaboration reaches new milestones (Thursday Oct. 29, 2009)
  CSR today announced that it has shipped more than 1.5 billion units and processed more than one million wafers from TSMC. CSR also announced that it is collaborating with TSMC on a leading edge 40 nanometer (nm) low power (LP) RF process technology and that CSR has validated a broad range of proprietary connectivity IP blocks at this node for incorporation into their next generation Connectivity Centre SoCs.
  
  
• CSR partners with a leading manufacturer to drive adoption of Bluetooth v3.0 + HS and 802.11n in PCs and netbooks (Thursday Oct. 29, 2009)
  CSR today announced that it has partnered with fast-growing PC Wi-Fi manufacturer Ralink to enable a new Bluetooth/802.11n PCI Express (PCIe) design.
  
  
• Innovative System-on-Chip from STMicroelectronics Simplifies Multimedia Monitor Design and Enhances Viewing Experiences for Consumers (Thursday Oct. 29, 2009)
  STMicroelectronics is the first to combine a DisplayPort 1.1a and HDMI 1.3 receiver to support full-high-definition sources, such as Blu-Ray, while providing comprehensive analog-video and audio connectivity.
  
  
• Open-Silicon, MIPS Technologies, and Virage Logic Achieve High Performance ASIC Processor Design (Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009)
  Open-Silicon, MIPS Technologies and Virage Logic today announced the co-development of test chips showcasing the companies' industry-leading technologies for building high-performance processor-based systems. The companies achieved successful 65 nanometer (nm) silicon testing of a processor test chip at 1.1GHz, making it one of the fastest processors built in a 65nm ASIC.
  
  
• Tilera Announces the World’s First 100-core Processor with the New TILE-Gx Family (Monday Oct. 26, 2009)
  Tilera today announced its new TILE-Gx family – four new processors from Tilera including the world’s first 100-core processor: the TILE-Gx100™.
  
  
• Cypress Provides Solutions IP for New PSoC 3 Devices and Revolutionary PSoC Creator IDE (Monday Oct. 26, 2009)
  Cypress today announced the availability of over 30 intellectual property (IP) elements for its new PSoC® 3 programmable system-on-chip architectures. The new solution IP Elements help engineers to quickly design with features of the PSoC 3 architecture such as the direct memory access (DMA), analog peripherals, and communication interfaces.
  
  
• Energy Micro announces world's most energy efficient microcontroller (Thursday Oct. 22, 2009)
  Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller company, today announced the availability of its first products, the 32-bit EFM32 Gecko microcontroller family. Based on the ultra-efficient ARM® Cortex™-M3 microcontroller architecture, the EFM32G has been proven to extend battery life by a factor of four, consuming a quarter of the energy required by existing 8, 16 or 32-bit microcontrollers.
  
  
• SiTune unveils Innovative mobile DVB-T CMOS demodulator exceeding MBRAI specification. (Thursday Oct. 22, 2009)
  SiTune announced a state of the art and revolutionary mobile DVB-T demodulator IC. STN-10D3000 is a highly integrated mobile DVB-T demodulator that exceeds MBRAI performance specification with excellent Doppler performance.
  
  
• Texas Instruments debuts first ARM Cortex-A8 processors for industrial computing applications (Wednesday Oct. 21, 2009)
  For the industrial market, Texas Instruments today announced the first two devices from its new Sitara™ family, the AM3505 and AM3517 ARM microprocessors (MPU), and an AM3517 evaluation module
  
  
• Toshiba Drives Power-Efficient Appliance Design With New Dual-Motor, ARM Technology-Based Microcontroller (Wednesday Oct. 21, 2009)
  Toshiba today announced availability of the company's newest microcontroller (MCU), the TMPM370. The device combines an 80MHz ARM® Cortex™-M3 processing core with a hardware vector engine, providing enough computation capability to drive two independent motors.
  
  
• ST Unveils World's First ARM Cortex-M Series Microcontrollers Featuring Advanced 90nm Embedded Flash Technology (Tuesday Oct. 20, 2009)
  STMicroelectronics has achieved a breakthrough for microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex-M series of processor cores by announcing the industry’s first devices featuring embedded Flash at 90nm process technology.
  
  
• Marvell Launches ARMADA – New Application Processors for Next Generation Mobile Computing and Intelligent Connected Devices (Tuesday Oct. 20, 2009)
  Marvell today announced the game-changing ARMADA™ family of processors designed specifically for next generation ARM instruction set smartphones, smartbooks, consumer and embedded devices, and displays.
  
  
• Triad Semiconductor and Z-Focus to Demonstrate the World's First Software-based Real-time Single-mode Bluetooth Low Energy Data Transfer (Monday Oct. 19, 2009)
  Triad Semiconductor and Z-Focus Technology Group will demonstrate the world’s first software-based, real-time Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) data transfer. The demonstration, based on the BLE v0.9 prototyping specification, will wirelessly stream real time digitized signals from Triad’s new Mocha development system to a PC display.
  
  
• AppliedMicro Introduces Multi-core System-on-Chip for Next Generation Converged Applications (Friday Oct. 16, 2009)
  Applied Micro today announced the first member of its APM 83K series System on Chip (SoC) family: APM 83290 - the highest performance Power Architecture® solution available in bulk CMOS process.
  
  
• STMicroelectronics Unveils Mobile-Phone 5M-pixel Camera Roadmap Utilizing Latest Innovations in CMOS Image-Sensor Technology (Wednesday Oct. 14, 2009)
  STMicroelectronics today unveiled details of its roadmap for new 5M-pixel CMOS image sensors in the standard quarter-inch optical format commonly used in camera-phone handsets.
  
  
• Ensphere Solutions to Deliver New Transceiver Integrated Circuit for Intel's Light Peak Optical Interconnect Technology (Friday Oct. 09, 2009)
  Ensphere Solutions today announced the availability of a new transceiver IC for the rapidly-developing converged I/O interconnect Light Peak technology. Ensphere Solutions’ new ESI-XVR10100 is a cost-effective IC which interfaces with optical links and provides signal conversion between optical and electrical signals.
  
  
• Sigma Commits Android Support Across Its Line of Consumer Media Processors (Tuesday Oct. 06, 2009)
  Sigma Designs today announced its commitment to broad scale support of the Android™ operating system on its media processor SoCs. Sigma also announced the availability of a ported version of Android onto its Vantage SMP8654 development platform.
  
  
• VT Silicon Announces World's First Silicon Power Amplifier for 4G Mobile Devices (Tuesday Oct. 06, 2009)
  VT Silicon, a fabless semiconductor startup in Atlanta, GA, today announced the industry's first silicon-based power amplifier capable of meeting the stringent operating requirements of 4G wireless data transmissions.