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• Infineon Achieves Industry-Best Performance of Disk Drive Read Channel Based on 90 nm Technology; Core Targeted for SoC Supporting 6 Gbs Hard Disk Serial Interface Standards (Wednesday Aug. 09, 2006)
  The core is the third generation of read channels developed in cooperation with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. It is being integrated into a system-on-chip (SoC) device that will contain all the functions necessary to control a hard disk drive, incl
  
  
• Collaboration on SoC Process Development Expanded to 45 nm (Thursday Aug. 03, 2006)
  Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., and Renesas Technology Corp. today announced that they have entered the full integration1 testing of a 45-nm SoC (system-on-chip) semiconductor manufacturing technology.
  
  
• QUALCOMM and SMIC Form Strategic Agreement for Turnkey Semiconductor Fabrication and Test Services (Friday Jul. 28, 2006)
  Commitment to Chinese Industry Helps Shorten Time to Market With More Cost-Effective Process
  
  
• Luminary Micro Announces Availability of Thirteen New Stellaris(TM) 32-bit Microcontrollers Based on ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-M3 Core (Wednesday Jul. 26, 2006)
  Luminary Micro Has Delivered 19 Stellaris Microcontrollers to Market in Three Months as 'ARM for $1.00' Eliminates Economic Entry Barriers to 32-bit Performance
  
  
• Certicom Launches New Product for Fabless Semiconductor Designers to Prevent Gray Market Chip Theft (Monday Jul. 24, 2006)
  Certicom Security for Silicon Design Protection combines multi-stage authentication and key generation to protect IP and secure offshore manufacturing process
  
  
• Infineon Multimedia Platform Selected by LGE for New EDGE Mobile Phones (Monday Jul. 17, 2006)
  The Infineon platform, provided as a reference design, includes the baseband processor, the RF transceiver for four frequency ranges, the power management circuitry, Bluetooth chips, and a complete EDGE phone software suite.
  
  
• Cypress's SVTC Enables Cavendish Kinetics to Develop and Characterize Embedded Non-Volatile Memory Technology for Standard CMOS Processes (Wednesday Jul. 12, 2006)
  Innovative Data Storage Technology to Dramatically Enhance Non-Volatile Memory
  
  
• New eSilicon Direct Model Lowers Risks and Costs for Custom Chip Developers (Monday Jul. 10, 2006)
  The innovative, new approach expands upon the proven benefits of the eSilicon(R) fabless ASIC model to provide custom chip developers such as fabless semiconductor companies and system OEMs with the lower risk of a traditional ASIC model combined with the
  
  
• Fujitsu Introduces Its Mobile WiMAX System-on-Chip Solution and Roadmap (Thursday Jun. 29, 2006)
  This highly integrated one-chip MAC and PHY mixed signal baseband SoC is designed to optimize both performance and power consumption using Fujitsu's 90nm process technology, and is especially well-suited for PC cards and mobile devices
  
  
• Micronas' New Audio Processor Meets Ever-Increasing Demand for Analog and Digital I/O With a Powerful DSP for Home Audio Applications (Tuesday Jun. 27, 2006)
  The New MAP-M Delivers System Cost Reduction Via Complete Integration and Flexibility Via Customizable Modular Processing
  
  
• NEMERIX and TSMC Strike Partnership For GPS/AGPS CMOS Products (Friday Jun. 23, 2006)
  NemeriX (www.nemerix.com), a leading fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra low power RF and base band chipsets and software for GPS and wireless applications, today announced that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Inc. (TSMC), has
  
  
• Darfon Selects Cypress's WirelessUSB LP Radio System-on-Chip And enCoRe II MCUs For Next-Generation Wireless Mice (Tuesday Jun. 20, 2006)
  Elecom and BenQ Brand Mice to Deliver Extended Battery-life With Low-Power and Robust Performance of Cypress's 2.4-GHz Solution
  
  
• Actions Semiconductor Introduces 0.18 Micron Product with New Power Management Technology (Monday Jun. 19, 2006)
  Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd., one of China's leading fabless semiconductor companies that provides comprehensive mixed-signal system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for portable consumer electronics, today announced that its new 0.18 micron mixed signal mult
  
  
• Fujitsu, NEC Electronics, Renesas, and Toshiba to Aim for Standardization of Semiconductor Process Technology for Next-Generation LSI (Tuesday Jun. 13, 2006)
  The joint program will define a basic standard for certain aspects of the process technology that will enable each company to have easier access to the intellectual property (IP) and libraries of the others, in consideration of possible shared use of one
  
  
• Raza Microelectronics, Inc. and AMD Announce Broad Strategic Relationship, Transfer of AMD Alchemy Processor Product Line (Tuesday Jun. 13, 2006)
  As a key part of this cooperation, RMI will acquire the MIPS-based AMD Alchemy™ processor product line and operations from AMD, and AMD will become an investor in RMI.
  
  
• Provigent Secures Additional $5 Million of Financing (Wednesday Jun. 07, 2006)
  New Funds From Plenus Will Help SoC Solutions Provider Further Expand Customer Base and Accelerate Development
  
  
• CSR provides Bluetooth connectivity for Motorola iDEN handsets in the US (Tuesday Jun. 06, 2006)
  CSR plc (LSE: CSR.L) announced today that the latest Motorola Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) handsets are endowed with CSR's BlueCore3-ROM cellular Bluetooth IC.
  
  
• Infineon Launches Breakthrough Single-Chip Home Gateway; Integrates ADSL2+ and Converged Broadband Value Added Services to Reduce System Chip Count Up to 60 Percent (Monday Jun. 05, 2006)
  Infineon Technologies AG (FSE/NYSE: IFX), a leading provider of broadband communications ICs, today announced a single-chip solution for ADSL2+ broadband IAD (integrated access device) and home gateway applications enabling services such as VoIP, video-co
  
  
• Redline Selects Sequans Chips for Its IEEE 802.16e-2005 WiMAX Devices (Monday Jun. 05, 2006)
  SEQUANS Communications and Redline Communications today announced that Redline will incorporate Sequans' system-on-chip (SoC) into its WiMAX CPE and will collaborate with Sequans' ODM partners to manufacture low-cost fixed, portable and mobile WiMAX devic
  
  
• Inapac Technology and eSilicon Partner on SiP Program; eSilicon to Offer Inapac SIPFLOW Memory IP and Methodology to Enable SiP Applications (Friday Jun. 02, 2006)
  Inapac Technology, Inc., and eSilicon Corporation today announced that eSilicon has added Inapac's proven SiPFLOW™ design-for-test (DFT) intellectual property (IP) to its technology portfolio
  
  
• SigmaTel Powers Konica Minolta Magicolor 2480 MF Color Laser All-In-One System (Tuesday May. 30, 2006)
  SigmaTel Inc., a leader in mixed-signal multimedia semiconductors, today announced that its STDC2040 System-on-Chip (SoC) chip is powering the Konica Minolta magicolor 2480 MF color laser All-In-One (AIO) system that features print, copy, scan, and camera
  
  
• Tundra Expands Industry-Leading Portfolio of Serial RapidIO(R) Switches (Monday May. 29, 2006)
  Tundra Semiconductor Corporation, the leader in System Interconnect, today announced the Tundra Tsi574 Serial RapidIO Switch, a high-performance switch with patent-pending technology that delivers the performance, power and configurability, designers of e
  
  
• ST increases outsourcing, denies fab-lite strategy (Wednesday May. 24, 2006)
  Leading European chipmaker STMicroelectronics has taken the proportion of advanced CMOS logic that it puts out to foundry above 50 percent, the company told a meeting of financial analysts’ held here Tuesday (May 23). However, the company denied it was ad
  
  
• Luminary Micro Launches Four New Stellaris(TM) 32-bit Microcontrollers Based on ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-M3 (Tuesday May. 23, 2006)
  Luminary Micro ( http://www.luminarymicro.com ), a fabless semiconductor company that designs, markets, and sells ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-M3 processor-based microcontrollers and was the first to bring ARM for $1.00 to embedded developers, announces today the av
  
  
• AsicAhead Enters WiMAX Market with Breakthrough Single-Chip Programmable Radio (Monday May. 22, 2006)
  AsicAhead NV today entered the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) market with the only single chip programmable radio that can be reconfigured in the field to support multiple frequency bands, as well as all currently specified IEEE 8
  
  
• STMicroelectronics Unveils 90nm System-on-Chip Capability for Hard Disk Drives (Monday May. 22, 2006)
  STMicroelectronics is planning to make hard disk drive SoCs incorporating entirely its own IP in 90nm technology. The part will integrate the read channel, serial ATA interface (SATA) and memory.
  
  
• Freescale Paves the Way for Autonomous Vehicles with Industry's First 32-Bit Flash-Based Microcontroller with FlexRay(TM); Integration of Networking Protocol with PowerPC(R) Core Targets High-End Powertrain and Chassis Applications (Monday May. 22, 2006)
  Freescale Semiconductor continues to steer the automotive industry toward safer, more reliable cars with the industry's first 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) based on the PowerPC® core with embedded flash and integrated FlexRay(TM) protocol.
  
  
• BroadLight Leads GPON Silicon Market With 25 Design Wins for Its Industry-Leading GPON Solution; BroadLight Extends Its Leading ITU-T PON Position in North America Into Countries Around the Globe (Monday May. 22, 2006)
  Signaling the rapid momentum in GPON development, BroadLight, Inc. today announced that it has secured 25 design wins for its complete End-to-End (E2E) GPON solutions.
  
  
• AnaFocus, a spanish mixed-signal startup offers vision chips (Thursday May. 18, 2006)
  AnaFocus SA, a fabless chip company founded in September 2001, has brought forward a number of mixed-signal designs and interfaces and is specializing in vision sensors and post-processing systems for intelligent vision systems.
  
  
• Freescale Introduces Industry's Highest-Performance Fully Programmable Digital Signal Processor (Tuesday May. 16, 2006)
  New Quad-Core MSC8144 Based on Next-Generation StarCore(TM) Technology Delivers Performance Equivalent to a 4GHz Single-Core DSP