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• Altera and ARM Expand Strategic Partnership for SoC Development Tools (Wednesday Oct. 01, 2014)
  Altera and ARM today announced a long-term agreement to expand their strategic partnership for best-in-class embedded software development tools for SoC FPGAs
  
  
• Altera Announces Immediate Availability of Next-generation, Non-volatile MAX 10 FPGAs and Evaluation Kits (Wednesday Oct. 01, 2014)
  Altera today announced the availability of non-volatile MAX® 10 FPGAs, Altera’s latest addition to its Generation 10 portfolio. Using TSMC’s 55 nm embedded flash process technology, MAX 10 FPGAs revolutionize non-volatile FPGAs by delivering dual-configuration flash, analog and embedded processing capabilities in a small-form-factor, low-cost, instant-on programmable logic device.
  
  
• Lattice Announces Production of MachXO3L in WLCSP Packages (Monday Sep. 22, 2014)
  Lattice today announced volume production of the industry leading MachXO3L in three tiny WLCSP packages as small as 2.5 x 2.5 mm. Lattice also announced two new low-cost breakout boards that enable designers to evaluate MachXO3L’s LED, SPI, I2C, MIPI CSI2, DSI, differential I/O and other capabilities.
  
  
• Altera and Baidu Collaborate on FPGA-based Acceleration for Cloud Data Centers (Monday Sep. 22, 2014)
  Altera and Baidu, China’s largest online search engine, are collaborating on using FPGAs and convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithms for deep learning applications set to play a critical role in the development of more accurate and faster online search.
  
  
• Xilinx Showcases 100G Solutions with Live Traffic over Optical Fiber and Backplane Demonstrations at ECOC 2014 (Wednesday Sep. 17, 2014)
  Xilinx today announced it will showcase 100G solutions with live traffic over optical fiber and backplane demonstrations in the OIF booth at ECOC 2014.
  
  
• Altera FPGAs Enable Dolby Vision for Ultra-HD TVs (Monday Sep. 15, 2014)
  Altera today announced its Arria® V FPGAs are delivering the high performance needed for Dolby Laboratories’ innovative Dolby® Vision™ imaging technology for ultra-high definition (UHD) displays.
  
  
• Xilinx and China Mobile Research Institute Collaborate on Virtualized 5G Wireless Networks Development (Monday Sep. 15, 2014)
  Xilinx announced its collaboration with China Mobile Research Institute for the development of virtualized 5G wireless networks
  
  
• Xilinx and its Ecosystem Demonstrate All Programmable Solutions for Smarter Vision Systems at IBC 2014 (Monday Sep. 15, 2014)
  Xilinx and its ecosystem are demonstrating All Programmable solutions for Smarter Vision systems at IBC 2014. The demonstrations highlight Xilinx's leadership and commitment to video connectivity in support of 4K and video over IP, showcasing comprehensive portfolio support for 6G-SDI and 12G-SDI, HDMI, DisplayPort, and HDCP.
  
  
• Hollywood's Top-selling Camera Maker ARRI Chooses Altera (Friday Sep. 12, 2014)
  Altera today announced that its field programmable gate array (FPGA) products and complementary power products have been chosen to enable a new, versatile documentary-style camera by Munich-based ARRI, the world’s largest maker of cinematographic cameras for Hollywood’s film industry.
  
  
• Altera Demonstrates Advanced SMPTE Solutions for IP-Based UHD Infrastructure at IBC 2014 (Friday Sep. 12, 2014)
  Altera is showcasing solutions supporting the industry’s migration to an affordable IP-enabled ultra-high-definition (UHD) and high-definition (HD) infrastructure on Altera FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) and SoCs.
  
  
• Altera and China Mobile Research Institute Announce Joint Efforts on Next Generation C-RAN Wireless Technologies (Wednesday Sep. 10, 2014)
  Altera today announced a three-year strategic agreement with China Mobile Research Institute (CMRI) to research and prototype next-generation green wireless network infrastructure solutions based on the Centralized Radio Access Network (C-RAN) architecture that leverages network function virtualization (NFV).
  
  
• Lattice's New USB 3.1 Type-C Power Delivery Solution Speeds Development of Next-Generation USB Connectors (Tuesday Sep. 09, 2014)
  Lattice today announced a USB 3.1 Type-C power delivery solution that enables manufacturers to immediately develop USB 3.1 Type-C connectors and quickly get them to market.
  
  
• Fuji Xerox Recognizes Altera with 2014 Premier Partner Award (Tuesday Sep. 02, 2014)
  Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced it has been recognized as a 2014 Premier Partner by Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. Fuji Xerox is headquartered in Japan and develops, produces and sells xerography (or electrophotographic) and document-related products and services in the Asia-Pacific region.
  
  
• Full Compliance with Military Temperature Specification Planned for Altera 20 nm FPGA and SoC Devices (Tuesday Aug. 26, 2014)
  Altera today announced military temperature (Mil Temp) qualification plans for its newest 20 nm Arria® 10 FPGAs and SoCs, which will be qualified for extreme temperature environments (-55C to 125C ambient). In addition to the ratings, Altera can provide guidelines on speed grades, protocols, and external memory interfaces best suited to specific applications.
  
  
• Altera Releases Quartus II Software Arria 10 Edition v14.0 (Monday Aug. 18, 2014)
  Altera today released Quartus® II software Arria® 10 edition v14.0, the industry’s most advanced 20 nm FPGA and SoC design environment. Altera’s proven Quartus II software delivers the fastest compile times and enables the highest performance for 20 nm FPGA and SoC designs in the industry.
  
  
• Microsemi and eInfochips Collaborate to Improve Efficiency, Reliability and Performance for Critical Avionics Systems Development and Design (Tuesday Aug. 12, 2014)
  System Designers Can Now Leverage Industry-leading FPGA-based Products in Conjunction with DO-254 Compliant Design and Re-engineering Solutions for Aerospace Customers and Applications
  
  
• Lattice Simplifies Optical Ethernet System Management Interfaces (Wednesday Aug. 06, 2014)
  Lattice is helping engineers quickly implement optical Ethernet designs up to 100Gb/s with the publication of a new reference design for IEEE 802.3 Management Data Input/Output (MDIO) interface controllers.
  
  
• Microsemi Continues its FPGA Security Leadership for Secure Boot with Extension of Cryptography Research Differential Power Analysis Patent License (Wednesday Aug. 06, 2014)
  Microsemi today announced the company has obtained an extension of its existing Differential Power Analysis (DPA) patent license from the Cryptography Research division of Rambus. The patent license extension allows Microsemi to continue providing industry-leading solutions for the secure booting of third-party processors and FPGAs using the Cryptography Research portfolio of patented breakthrough DPA countermeasures.
  
  
• Altera Enables Customer Design Starts for 14 nm Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs (Monday Aug. 04, 2014)
  Building on the success of early customer benchmarking results announced earlier this year, Altera today released early access design software for Stratix® 10 FPGAs and SoCs, the industry’s first design software targeting 14-nm FPGAs.
  
  
• Xilinx Showcases Smarter Solutions for Data Center Flash Storage and Application Acceleration at Flash Memory Summit 2014 (Tuesday Jul. 29, 2014)
  Xilinx today announced it will showcase smarter solutions for Data Center flash storage and application acceleration at the Flash Memory Summit 2014. Through a series of demonstrations, Xilinx will highlight cutting-edge high performance flash storage and FPGA-based acceleration solutions for use in next-generation data centers including Xilinx's acceleration reference design and OpenCL™ compiler technology
  
  
• Altera SDK for OpenCL Development Flow Delivers Prototypes in Minutes (Monday Jun. 30, 2014)
  Altera today dramatically simplified a programmer’s ability to accelerate algorithms in FPGAs. The Altera SDK for OpenCL version 14.0 includes a programmer-familiar rapid prototyping design flow that enables users to prototype designs in minutes on an FPGA accelerator board. Altera, along with its board partners, further accelerate the development of FPGA-based applications by offering reference designs, reference platforms and FPGA development boards that are supported by Altera’s OpenCL solution.
  
  
• Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA Solution to be Deployed in NEC's iPASOLINK Millimeter Wave Communication Systems (Tuesday Jun. 24, 2014)
  Xilinx announced today that their Virtex®-7 FPGA is to be deployed in NEC Corporation's iPASOLINK millimeter wave communications systems. NEC's iPASOLINK series is an ultra-compact system for building wireless backhaul networks in overseas markets.
  
  
• Altera and Cavium Deliver Pre-Verified Packet Classification Solution for Networking Appliances (Monday Jun. 23, 2014)
  Altera today announced its Interlaken Look-Aside intellectual property (IP) core has been tested and is compatible with Cavium’s NEURON Search™ Processor. This deployment-ready, pre-verified solution provides networking OEMs a low-latency, high-performance packet interface for use in networking appliances, including routers, switches, firewalls, and security storage.
  
  
• Xilinx and Pico Computing Announce Industry's First 15Gb/s Hybrid Memory Cube Interface (Monday Jun. 23, 2014)
  Xilinx and Pico Computing today announced the industry's first 15Gb/s Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) interface for All Programmable UltraScale™ devices. The Xilinx® UltraScale™ devices support the full HMC bandwidth of 4 lanes, comprised of 64 transceivers running up to 15Gb/s. Pico Computing's HMC controller IP yields exceptionally high memory bandwidth and outstanding performance/watt in a small but modular and highly scalable footprint.
  
  
• Altera Programmable Logic is Critical DNA in Software Defined Data Centers (Tuesday Jun. 17, 2014)
  Altera announced today that its FPGAs are central to software defined data center (SSDC) development, and that Altera is working with Microsoft Research and Bing to accelerate portions of the web search engine.
  
  
• Altera and Lime Microsystems Team Up to Accelerate and Simplify the Development of Wireless Networks (Monday Jun. 16, 2014)
  Altera and Lime Microsystems have entered into a Strategic Cooperation Agreement focused on jointly developing and promoting programmable solutions for a diverse range of broadband wireless markets.
  
  
• Altera Delivers Early Access Software for Next-Generation, Non-volatile FPGAs (Tuesday May. 27, 2014)
  Altera today announced the availability of Quartus® II beta software and early access documentation for MAX® 10 FPGAs, Altera’s latest addition to its Generation 10 portfolio of FPGAs and SoCs.
  
  
• Xilinx Ships First Virtex UltraScale FPGA and Expands Industry's Only 20nm High-End Family for 500G on a Single Chip (Tuesday May. 13, 2014)
  Xilinx today announced the first customer shipment of the Virtex® UltraScale™ VU095 All Programmable FPGA, and the expansion of the industry's only 20nm high-end family to enable single chip implementation of 400G and 500G applications.
  
  
• Altera Customers Achieve Industry Milestone - Realizing 2X Core Performance Gain with Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs (Monday May. 05, 2014)
  Altera today announced Stratix® 10 FPGA and SoC customers are successfully achieving the anticipated 2X core performance gain in their designs compared to previous generation high-performance programmable devices.
  
  
• Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGAs are First 20nm Devices to Achieve PCI Express Compliance (Thursday May. 01, 2014)
  Xilinx today announced that its Kintex® UltraScale™ FPGAs are the first 20nm devices to achieve PCI Express® compliance and are now listed on the PCI-SIG® integrator's list. The Kintex UltraScale FPGAs, with integrated Endpoint blocks for PCI Express enabling high performance applications, passed rigorous electrical, protocol, and interoperability tests at the latest PCI-SIG event held on April 3, 2014.