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• Altera Ships 20 nm SoCs (Tuesday Feb. 24, 2015)
  Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today strengthened its leadership position in SoC FPGA products by shipping its second-generation SoC family. Arria® 10 SoCs are the industry’s only programmable devices that combine ARM® processors with a 20 nm FPGA fabric.
  
  
• Altera FPGAs Achieve Compelling Performance-per-Watt in Cloud Data Center Acceleration Using CNN Algorithms (Monday Feb. 23, 2015)
  Altera today announced Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is using Altera Arria® 10 FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays), to achieve compelling performance-per-Watt in data center acceleration based on CNN (convolutional neural network) algorithms.
  
  
• Xilinx Stays a Generation Ahead at 16nm with New Memory, 3D-on-3D, and Multi-Processing SoC Technologies (Monday Feb. 23, 2015)
  Xilinx today announced its 16nm UltraScale+™ family of FPGAs, 3D ICs, and MPSoCs, combining new memory, 3D-on-3D and multi-processing SoC (MPSoC) technologies, delivering a generation ahead of value. In addition, to enable an even higher level of performance and integration, the UltraScale+ family also includes a new interconnect optimization technology, SmartConnect.
  
  
• Microsemi Strengthens Leadership in Defense and Security with Category 1A Trusted Supplier Accreditation From DMEA (Thursday Feb. 19, 2015)
  Microsemi today announced it has received the Category 1A Trusted Design, Test and Broker accreditation from the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA).
  
  
• Altera Announces Virtual Prototyping for Its Industry-leading SoC FPGA Portfolio Through Collaboration with Mentor Graphics (Tuesday Feb. 17, 2015)
  Altera today announced its collaboration with Mentor Graphics to provide embedded software developers access to best-in-class Vista® virtual platforms that support Altera’s entire SoC FPGA portfolio, including its third-generation 14 nm Stratix® 10 SoCs with a 64-bit quad-core ARM® Cortex-A53 processor.
  
  
• Xilinx and BEEcube Deliver World's First Millimeter Wave Prototyping Platform Solution for Pioneering Development of 5G Applications (Tuesday Feb. 17, 2015)
  Xilinx and BEEcube today announced they have delivered the world's first millimeter wave (mmWave) prototyping platform solution for pioneering development of 5G applications. Xilinx's newest 256QAM 500MHz mmWave modem IP coupled with the BEEcube BEE7 baseband platform provides a complete "out of the box" solution addressing the 60GHz backhaul market thereby enabling designers to work on innovative mmWave designs immediately.
  
  
• Achronix Announces Production Availability of Speedster22i Product Family (Tuesday Feb. 17, 2015)
  Achronix Semiconductor Corporation today announced that the Speedster22i family of FPGAs has transitioned into production status. The Speedster22i FPGA family is built on Intel’s 22nm Tri-Gate process technology and consists of three device members, two of which have entered production – the HD680 with 660 thousand effective look-up-tables (LUTs) and the HD1000 with 1 million effective LUTs.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor and Helion Demonstrate New FPGA-Based Camera Design Solutions (Monday Feb. 09, 2015)
  Lattice and Helion GmbH today announced they will demonstrate several new FPGA-based camera design solutions at the upcoming SPIE Photonics West show
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor Announces the Industry’s Most Affordable I/O Expansion and Bridging Starter Kit (Tuesday Jan. 20, 2015)
  Lattice today announced the availability of the MachXO3L™ Starter Kit, an easy-to-use platform for evaluating and designing with the company’s low cost family of MachXO3L instant-on, non-volatile FPGAs. Product developers can now immediately deploy programmable bridging and I/O expansion with breakthrough I/O density at the lowest cost per I/O that Lattice offers.
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers the Industry's First 4M Logic Cell Device, Offering >50M Equivalent ASIC Gates and 4X More Capacity than Competitive Alternatives (Thursday Jan. 15, 2015)
  With a capacity of 50 million equivalent ASIC gates and the industry's highest I/O count, the Virtex UltraScale VU440 FPGA leverages the UltraScale architecture's ASIC-like clocking, next-generation routing, and logic block enhancements to deliver best in class utilization, making it ideal for ASIC prototyping and large scale emulation.
  
  
• Xilinx SDAccel Development Environment for OpenCL, C, and C++, Achieves Khronos Conformance (Wednesday Jan. 14, 2015)
  Xilinx today announced that the SDAccel™ development environment for OpenCL™, C, and C++ is now Khronos OpenCL 1.0 standard compliant. The OpenCL standard provides a uniform programming environment for software developers to write efficient, portable code enabling a rich range of algorithms to be easily accelerated on Xilinx FPGAs.
  
  
• Microsemi Steps Up Its Cyber Security Leadership in FPGAs: SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs Enhanced with Physically Unclonable Function Technology (Tuesday Jan. 06, 2015)
  Microsemi today announced the latest addition to its leading portfolio of cyber security capabilities for its flagship FPGAs, SmartFusion®2 SoC FPGA and IGLOO®2 FPGA, with Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) technology licensed from Intrinsic-ID, B.V.
  
  
• Xilinx First to Move 20nm FPGAs into Volume Production (Friday Dec. 19, 2014)
  Xilinx today announced that its Kintex® UltraScale™ KU040 FPGAs are now the industry's first 20nm device to move into volume production. Customers can benefit from an estimated one year time to market advantage relative to its competition.
  
  
• Altera Demonstrates Industry's Highest Performance DDR4 Memory Data Rates in an FPGA (Thursday Dec. 18, 2014)
  Altera today announced it is demonstrating in silicon DDR4 memory interfaces operating at an industry-leading 2,666 Mbps. Altera’s Arria® 10 FPGAs and SoCs are the industry’s only FPGAs available today that support DDR4 memory at these data rates, delivering a 43 percent improvement in memory performance over previous generation FPGAs and a 10 percent improvement in memory performance over competing 20 nm FPGAs.
  
  
• Microsemi Announces Successful Completion of Nine NIST Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program Certifications (Tuesday Dec. 16, 2014)
  Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced the completion of nine new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP) certifications.
  
  
• Altera Quartus II Software v14.1 Enables TFLOPS Performance in Industry's First FPGA with Hardened Floating Point DSP Blocks (Monday Dec. 15, 2014)
  Altera today released its Quartus® II software v14.1 featuring expanded support for Arria® 10 FPGAs and SoCs, the FPGA industry’s only devices with hardened floating point DSP blocks and the industry’s only 20 nm SoC FPGAs that integrate ARM processors.
  
  
• Altera FPGAs and IP with New Functional Safety Development Board and Reference Designs Reduce SIL 3 Development and Certification Costs for Industrial Designs (Tuesday Nov. 25, 2014)
  Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the availability of a functional safety development board and FPGA reference designs through NewTec, a leading European provider of safety-related electronic systems.
  
  
• Xilinx and NXP Collaborate to Reduce CapEx and OpEx Costs of Wireless Infrastructure Radios (Thursday Nov. 20, 2014)
  Xilinx and NXP announced their collaboration to reduce CapEx and OpEx costs of wireless infrastructure radios. The two companies have been working together to enable customers to quickly and easily combine Xilinx's newest crest factor reduction (CFR) and digital pre-distortion (DPD) SmartCORE™ IP with NXP's Gen9 LDMOS RF highly efficient power amplifier technology.
  
  
• Altera and IBM Unveil FPGA-accelerated Systems Coherently Attached to POWER CPU (Monday Nov. 17, 2014)
  Altera and IBM today unveiled the industry’s first FPGA-based acceleration platform that coherently connects an FPGA to a POWER8 CPU leveraging IBM’s Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI). The reconfigurable hardware accelerator features shared virtual memory between the FPGA and processor which significantly improves system performance, efficiency and flexibility in high-performance computing (HPC) and data center applications.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces SDAccel Development Environment for OpenCL, C, and C++, Delivering Up to 25X Better Performance/Watt to the Data Center (Monday Nov. 17, 2014)
  Xilinx today announced the SDAccel™ development environment for OpenCL™, C, and C++, enabling up to 25X better performance/watt for data center application acceleration leveraging FPGAs.
  
  
• Altera and MathWorks Deliver Unified Model-Based Design Workflow for Altera SoCs (Wednesday Nov. 05, 2014)
  Altera today announced new programming support for its ARM-based SoCs using industry-standard workflows from MathWorks. Release 2014b from MathWorks includes an automated, highly integrated model-based design workflow optimized for Altera SoCs.
  
  
• Xilinx Expands 20 nm Kintex UltraScale Portfolio for the Most Demanding Data Center Acceleration, Video and Signal Processing Applications (Tuesday Nov. 04, 2014)
  As the flagship of the Kintex UltraScale family, the KU115 offers the highest DSP count available in a single programmable device, doubling the DSP resources previously available. This DSP-optimized KU115 FPGA targets data center compute acceleration and signal processing applications including data center, video and medical imaging, broadcast systems, and radar.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor, Fairchild Imaging and Helion Vision to Demonstrate new FPGA-Based Image Sensor Solution at VISION 2014 (Thursday Oct. 30, 2014)
  Lattice, Fairchild Imaging and Helion Vision will demonstrate a new image sensor solution based on Fairchild Imaging’s HWK1910A image sensor and Helion Vision’s IONOS IP cores at VISION 2014 in Stuttgart, Germany, November 4-6.
  
  
• Altera Demonstrates Automotive Embedded System Solutions that Increase Design Productivity at SAE Convergence 2014 (Monday Oct. 20, 2014)
  Altera today announced it is demonstrating new FPGA solutions enabling systems designers to rapidly add features and functionality to their automotive systems designs at SAE Convergence. The demonstrations include a variety of new solutions for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and infotainment applications on Cyclone® FPGAs.
  
  
• Altera Expands Automotive-Grade Product Portfolio with Highly Integrated PowerSoCs (Thursday Oct. 16, 2014)
  Altera today announced nine new Altera® Enpirion® power system-on-chip (PowerSoC) devices that fully comply with the Automotive Electronics Council (AEC-Q100) qualification standard temperature grade 2, a critical stress test qualification for automotive integrated circuits (ICs).
  
  
• Xilinx and SAI Technology Announce Availability of First All Programmable Software Defined Radio Reference Design for LTE User Equipment (Tuesday Oct. 14, 2014)
  Xilinx and SAI Technology announce the availability of the first LTE UE (User Equipment) Software Defined Radio reference design for the Xilinx® Zynq® All Programmable SoC. The LTE UE reference design, based on the Zynq All Programmable SoC and implemented with Vivado® HLS, is fully customizable at all protocol layers, supporting any programmable wireless needs.
  
  
• Microsemi Announces New Security Features to Deliver Industry the Most Secure FPGAs (Thursday Oct. 09, 2014)
  
  
  
• Xilinx Accelerates Productivity for Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs with the Vivado Design Suite 2014.3, SDK, and New UltraFast Embedded Design Methodology Guide (Wednesday Oct. 08, 2014)
  Xilinx today announced major advances in productivity for Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoCs with the Vivado® Design Suite 2014.3, the programmable industry's only SoC-strength design suite, SDK, and new UltraFast™ Embedded Design Methodology Guide.
  
  
• Altera and Lime Microsystems Demonstrate Completely Programmable RF- and FPGA-Based Solutions for Military Communications (Tuesday Oct. 07, 2014)
  Altera and Lime Microsystems, a leading provider of fully programmable radio frequency (RF) transceivers headquartered in the UK, will be demonstrating a new multi-standard software-defined radio (SDR) platform at the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) 2014
  
  
• Xilinx and Aquantia Extend Capabilities of Existing Copper Cabling Infrastructure for Data Center, Mobile, Enterprise and Video Applications (Tuesday Oct. 07, 2014)
  Xilinx and Aquantia today announced they are extending the capabilities of existing copper cabling infrastructure for data center, mobile, enterprise and video applications.