| Chip start-ups get the squeeze
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2009-06-24 |
| The Tzero story will likely be repeated more than a hundred times over the next few years as investors slash through a decade of over-investments in semiconductor start-ups. |
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| TSMC moves to 28nm with SRAM cell
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2009-06-19 |
| TSMC claims it has developed the first functional 64-Mbit SRAM cell, based on its 28nm technology. |
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| Process migration moves in multiple directions
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2009-06-12 |
| Process migration is not only occurring, but it is occurring in all directions: down, up and sideway. |
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| Media phone grabs spotlight at Computex
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2009-06-04 |
| ARC International is pushing "media phones" at this year's Computex trade fair in Taipei. |
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| PND market needs to be 'more realistic'
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2009-05-25 |
| Despite what many are predicting, the PND market is not set to tail off dramatically, says IMS Research. |
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| Analysis: The story behind MIPS-Chipidea breakup
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2009-05-20 |
| An examination of the MIPS-Chipidea breakup suggests that both did not have the qualities to make the merger work. |
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| DSP silicon market faces 'down' year
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2009-05-13 |
| According to a report from Forward Concepts, 2009 will be a "down" year for most DSP silicon market segments. |
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| MIPS, Chipidea break up
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2009-05-12 |
| MIPS has divested its analogue business group to Synopsys in an all-cash transaction for Rs.111.36 crore ($22 million). |
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| Axiom amps strategy with tool-centric services
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2009-04-24 |
| Ravi Shankar, managing director at Axiom, shared the company's perspective on the current state of the EDA market. |
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| IMEC sends DFM tool for embedded SRAMs to Samsung
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2009-04-23 |
| IMEC has successfully transferred the first EDA tool for statistical memory analysis to Samsung Electronics. |
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| Does NEC Electronics-Renesas deal make sense?
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2009-04-21 |
| The merger of NEC Electronics and Renesas would have a dominate position in MCUs, but there would be huge integration issues. |
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| Marvell's quest: Connecting the next billion users
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2009-04-14 |
| In this interview by Junko Yoshida, Marvell Technology's co-founder and CEO Sehat Sutardja shares his vision of enabling the next billion users of connected devices. |
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| Renesas acquires Key Stream's WLAN business
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2009-03-31 |
| Key Stream and Renesas have agreed to transfer Key Stream's WLAN business to Renesas on April 1. |
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| TSMC, Ciranova team up on advanced design kits
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2009-03-26 |
| TSMC and Ciranova will collaborate on advanced PDK technology based on Ciranova's PyCell architecture. |
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| ARM-Intel feud heats up
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2009-03-05 |
| The Intel-TSMC deal has put Intel on a further collision course with ARM in the embedded arena. |
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| NEC gets Virage Logic as IP partner for 40nm
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2009-03-04 |
| Virage Logic has been chosen by NEC Electronics to provide a portfolio of silicon-proven Silicon Aware IP for its advanced 40nm technologies. |
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| Intel inks Atom deal with TSMC
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2009-03-04 |
| Intel said the agreement with TSMC would broaden the market opportunities for its Atom SoCs. |
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| Apache, STMicroelectronics take on power and noise challenges for 45/32nm
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2009-02-23 |
| Apache and STMicroelectronics are extending their long-standing collaborative efforts to include tackling of power and noise challenges associated with 45nm and 32nm designs. |
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| LG, Intel collaborate on MIDs
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2009-02-18 |
| Intel and LG Electronics have announced a collaboration around the design and production of mobile Internet devices based on Intel's MID hardware platform "Moorestown" and Linux-based Moblin ver 2.0 software platform. The LG device is expected to be one of the first Moorestown designs to market. |
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| Towards a market-driven policy for FMC
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2009-02-16 |
| This article aims to encourage a market driven policy, in which FMC can flourish as a technology advantage while complimentary business models can still emerge and thrive. |
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| CircuitSutra, GreenSocs tie up for SystemC SoC modelling
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2009-02-16 |
| CircuitSutra announces a strategic partnership for SystemC-based SoC modelling services with UK-based GreenSocs |
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| Intel lists challenges for chip scaling
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2009-02-12 |
| At the ISSCC, Intel's Mark Bohr listed five major stumbling blocks for the 32nm node and beyond. |
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| Analysis: Plug-and-play IP goal still elusive
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2009-02-11 |
| Users still complain of the lack of standards and effective quality metrics that they say would help greatly in confidently selecting IP. |
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| CircuitSutra gets entrepreneurship award
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2009-02-09 |
| CircuitSutra has received the "ISBA Entrepreneurship Award 2008" last January 31 at the ISBA 2009 International Conference on business incubation. |
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| Intel: 32nm ready by late '09
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2009-02-09 |
| Despite recent layoffs, Intel remains on track to deliver its first 32nm processors before the end of the year. |
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| Renesas CEO retires amid losses, layoffs
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2009-02-03 |
| The world's largest MCU supplier changes executives as it deals with major losses brought on by the IC slump. |
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| ST, Synopsys team up on SoC timing sign-off
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2009-02-02 |
| The collaboration will focus on the deployment of timing analysis tech for 45- and 32-nm nodes. |
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| Intel opens Europe labs
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2009-02-02 |
| Intel has announced its "open labs" to be formed in Leixlip and Munich. |
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| Qualcomm acquires parts of AMD's handhelds biz
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2009-01-22 |
| Qualcomm bought the graphics and multimedia IP and assets of what was AMD's handhelds business. |
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| RMI, Spirit enter license agreement
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2009-01-15 |
| Spirit DSP and RMI will deliver high-quality voice and video over IP for RMI's Alchemy processor family. |
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