| Freescale, Elmos partner on ASSP development
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2006-09-22 |
| Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and Elmos Semiconductor have announced that they will team to develop application-specific semiconductor products combining Freescale's 16bit MCU architectures with Elmos' CMOS ASSPs. |
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| MindTree integrates AECNR algorithm on ASSP
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2006-01-31 |
| MindTree Consulting has announced that its advanced noise reduction algorithm has been integrated on a commercial grade Bluetooth ASSP for hands-free units |
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| Analyst: Altera to tie with Xilinx by 2012
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2011-03-14 |
| Altera is training its sights on the ASSP and embedded markets in addition to the ASIC segment and is expected to catch up to programmable logic market leader Xilinx in quarterly sales by early 2012 |
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| Brazil launches first home-grown RFID chip
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2009-12-14 |
| Brazil ASSP vendor Ceitec S.A. has developed a RFID chip, claimed to be the first IC entirely designed in the country |
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| MIPS acquires silicon IP specialist
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2005-09-09 |
| MIPS Technologies Inc., a provider of cores for digital consumer and business applications, has acquired First Silicon Solutions (FS2). FS2 specializes in silicon IP, design services and OCI (On-Chip Instrumentation) development tools for programming, testing, debug and trace of embedded systems in SoC, SOPC, FPGA, ASSP and ASIC devices |
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| Microsemi unveils SoC private label programme
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2011-12-09 |
| Microsemi reveals a private labelling programme targeted at ASIC and ASSP developments for its SmartFusion customisable SoCs and other FPGA solutions |
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| QuickLogic plans to focus on CSSP
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2007-08-31 |
| QuickLogic is planning to focus on customer specific standard products (CSSP) while announcing its exit from the FPGA market. |
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| The changing face of automotive ECU design
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2005-09-01 |
| Designers are moving away from MCUs and microprocessors and into programmable logic devices. |
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| Diodes inks agreement to acquire Zetex
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2008-04-09 |
| Zetex and Diodes have reached an agreement on the terms of a recommended acquisition of Zetex by Diodes under which Zetex shareholders will receive about Rs.67.90 ($1.72) in cash for each Zetex share. |
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| MCU market on the move
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2008-10-27 |
| EMITT Solutions has announced the release of its updated market analysis report on microcontrollers. |
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| A closer look at Dialog
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2009-04-16 |
| Dialog CEO: System power management will remain our main area of expertise, and we plan to build on that. |
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| Xilinx opens 'targeted design era' at 25
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2009-04-29 |
| Xilinx's Clement Cheung tells us more about the Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA devices and the concept of the TDP. |
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| Bandwidth drives key industry growth
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2011-01-31 |
| High bandwidth demand will be the key growth driver for the electronics industry in 2011 and beyond. |
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| Magma Design launches silicon profitability sol'ns
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2011-06-09 |
| Magma Design Automation launches Silicon One initiative that offers differentiated solutions and technologies for silicon profitability. |
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| PLD architecture trades off time with circuit density
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2010-03-03 |
| Tabula Inc., a fabless semiconductor start-up launches Spacetime, a programmable logic architecture that uses time as a third dimension and is claimed to surpass the performance of FPGA and CPLD architectures. |
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| Airbag reference platform targets auto safety
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2011-08-30 |
| Bosch group and Freescale Semiconductor collaborate to create an automotive airbag reference platform for the growing automotive safety segment in emerging markets such as India and China. |
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| Microprocessor revenues reached $96B
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2009-03-03 |
| The market reached over Rs.4.77 lakh crore in 2008; on track to hit a record Rs.4.97 lakh crore this year before the economy started its current contraction. |
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| Interlaken IOT ratifies Altera's Stratix IV FPGAs
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2010-03-11 |
| Altera's Stratix IV GT FPGAs passed the Interlaken interoperability test at 6.25Gbps line rates and claim they are the industry's only Interlaken solution capable of supporting line rates of 10Gbps.. |
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| Xilinx low-cost solution passes PCI Express compliance tests
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2005-09-12 |
| The programmable PCI Express endpoint silicon solution from Xilinx Inc. has passed all the latest PCI Express compliance and interoperability tests. |
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| Analysts: Analogue market to rebound this year
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2008-01-23 |
| After a flat 2007, the analogue IC market is positioned for a rebound this year. But some vendors are variously wrestling with lackluster demand and capacity shortages. |
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| Oki joins 'fab lite' wagon
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2007-04-02 |
| With Darwinian economics pushing IC companies to shed fat and focus on delivering core value, budding outsourcing partnerships like the one between Oki Electric Industry Co. and Faraday Technology Corp. may offer a clue to the strategies that some of Japan's larger companies might pursue. |
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| IC design growth rate slows down in Korea, Taiwan
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2006-06-01 |
| Korea and Taiwan IC design industries made little progress in 2005. |
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| Xilinx says low-cost PCI Express solution compliant
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2005-08-25 |
| Xilinx Inc.'s programmable PCI Express endpoint silicon solution has passed the latest PCI Express compliance and interoperability tests, the company announced Tuesday (Aug. 23) at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, California. |
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| Fujitsu, TSMC extend partnership to 28nm
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2009-08-31 |
| Fujitsu and TSMC are developing 28nm process technology for foundry production of Fujitsu's logic ICs. |
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| Tata Elxsi teams up with Scaleo chip
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2008-11-14 |
| Scaleo Chip and Tata Elxsi have partnered to deliver an AUTOSAR-based automotive platform. |
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| Intel, ARM widen battlefield at ESC
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2010-04-14 |
| Intel Corp. holds the top stop in the PC processor arena and ARM Holdings plc is the supplier of the leading processor architecture for mobile phones and the two are set to spar in a widened battlefield at ESC. |
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| Altera outlines challenges for IC industry
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2010-03-08 |
| Bradley Howe, VP of IC engineering at Altera, foresees platform collision as a challenge on the horizon as a result of IC integration in the semiconductor industry. |
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| Fujitsu Semi streamlines business model
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2011-03-11 |
| Fujitsu's Haruki Okada talks about the company's streamlined business model which includes its fab-lite strategy, factory restructuring and narrowed product lines. |
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| Altera: Slowdown presents opportunity
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2008-12-23 |
| Altera Corp.'s head John Daane points out growth opportunities despite market slowdowns, and talks about the company's strategy in Asia. |
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| Chips, reference designs not enough to sustain IC cos
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2008-08-22 |
| System OEMs appear more eager to shift their system houses' responsibilities to chip vendors. |
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