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Headlines for Mar. 31, 2005
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New Fabless Semiconductor Company, Ambric, Inc., Brings on Jerry Ardizzone, Former President of ARM USA as VP of Sales |
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Transmeta and Sony Group Reach Agreement on Multi-Year Strategic Alliance |
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Transmeta Corp. Names Arthur L. Swift as President & CEO |
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Transmeta Announces Strategic Restructuring Plan |
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Brave New World -- lawyers may become more important than engineers |
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Axeon and Infineon unveil embedded machine learning system |
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Patriot Scientific Says Licensing Agreements Result in Quarterly Profit |
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ARC Brings the Power of Configurable Processor Technology to Japan |
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ARC International Announces Strategic Partnerships with Kogent and NSW to Service Growing Japanese Consumer Electronics Market |
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ARC International and Green Hills Software Announce Enhanced MULTI Development Environment for Configurable ARC Processors |
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Availability of low-cost PCI Express Design Kit through HiTech Global Distribution |
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Faraday Announces the Industry's Smallest 0.18um Library-miniLib |
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Headlines for Mar. 30, 2005
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IP Reuse Can Usher in a Renaissance |
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Elpida, Toshiba claim world's fastest DRAMs based on the XDR memory interface technology from Rambus Inc |
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Silicon Storage Technology (SST) Updates Guidance on Expected First Quarter 2005 Results |
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Via Licensing Announces Availability of Joint Patent License for AVC (H.264) Video Compression Standard |
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Mentor Graphics Donation of SystemVerilog Assertion (SVA) Version of Open Verification Library Accepted by Accellera |
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ZAiQ Technologies and S2C Inc. Collaborate on a Transaction-Based SoC Design and Validation System |
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Shareholders Approve Cadence's Acquisition of Verisity |
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Actel and Prover Technology Announce Equivalence Checking Support for Actel Design Flows |
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Headlines for Mar. 29, 2005
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FSA and IEE Announce 2005 IEE/FSA International Semiconductor Executive Forum |
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SafeNet Announces QuickSec IKEv2 Toolkit |
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Xilinx Extends Low Cost Leadership With New ISE WebPACK 7.1i |
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Tower Semiconductor Board Approves 2005 Operating Plan Focused On Maximizing Operational Efficiencies |
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FS2 System Navigator Delivers Debugging for SOCs with Multiple Tensilica Xtensa Processors |
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SMIC reports 2004 fourth quarter results |
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Renesas Technology Releases "Mobile Videophone Middleware Package" SH-Mobile Application Processor Software |
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Headlines for Mar. 28, 2005
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Heavy rules hold back 90-nm yield |
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Flexible 'partner' chip can be an SoC's best friend |
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China gains in 2004 pure-play foundry rankings |
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China microprocessor developer scrambles for funds |
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Chartered Details Comprehensive Market-Specific Solutions for High-Volume Consumer and Wireless Products |
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Analyzer gets early eye on SystemC code |
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MIPS spins China shop for hard-core projects |
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Faraday Offers Peripheral Composer, the Fastest Time-to-Market Structured ASIC for Peripheral Interface Chips |
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Tensilica Xtensa LX Processor Beats All Other Processors and Cores On EEMBC Office Automation Benchmark |
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University Licenses MIPS Processor for its DTV Product Development |
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ARC International Appoints Consumer Marketing Executive to Drive the Company's Multimedia Programs |
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Headlines for Mar. 25, 2005
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Design at the System Level |
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Headlines for Mar. 24, 2005
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USDC Contracts with Next Sierra to Develop OLED Driver Chips |
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Interview: Rambus' chairman looks to the future -- Geoff Tate discusses shortage of U.S. engineers, market opportunities and demand from chipmakers |
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FS2 Announces Ethernet Enabled Solutions for Altera Nios II; Probe is Now a Shared Resource, Cost Effective, Offers Remote Log-On |
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Configurable processor scores best in office test, Tensilica says |
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Xilinx Demonstrates 1 To 5 Watts Lower Power Per FPGA In Virtex-4 Family Compared To Competing FPGAs |
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NEC Electronics Embeds MoSys' 1T-SRAM Memory Technology in 90nm Custom ASIC; Companies Extend Agreement To Use 1T-SRAM In Upcoming Consumer Applications |
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Cisco selects nSys for its PCI Express Interface verification |
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Headlines for Mar. 23, 2005
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Gartner's Final Semiconductor Vendor Market Share Results Shows Industry Grew 23 Percent in 2004 |
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TSMC to open design center in Shanghai, says report |
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Ericsson sues UK based mobile phone company Sendo for patent infringement |
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TSMC exec calls for proactive measures on IP |
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Rambus announces its customers have shipped more than 500 million memory devices |
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Cambridge Consultants doubles US office |
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Running System Debugging Support in ARM RealView Developer Suite Now Available for Accelerated Technology's Nucleus PLUS |
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Dolphin Integration Announces a Breakthrough for an Embedded Output Converter for high quality Audio |
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Headlines for Mar. 22, 2005
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IntelliProp Introduces OEM Solutions for Consumer Electronics Storage Applications |
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Proactive approach needed to overcome 90-nm quality challenges, experts say |
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Renesas Technology Integrates Mentor Graphics 0-In Assertion Synthesis for Assertion Based Verification Flow |
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Open-Silicon Licenses Multiple RaSer Serial Link Cells Under the Cadence-Rambus Reseller Program |
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eASIC Expands its Global Presence to Korea By Signing An Agreement with Advanced Design Technology (ADT) |
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ISQED panel takes on IP roadblocks |
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Xelic Announces SONET/SDH Tributary Payload Processor Core Availability for Integration into ASIC or FPGA Networking Applications |
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Headlines for Mar. 21, 2005
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Poseidon Design Systems Appoints Douglas Fairbairn, Industry Notable and Chairman Of Verisity, to its Board Of Directors |
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TTPCom announces appointment of non-executive Director |
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Altera Ships 10 Millionth Cyclone FPGA to Harmonic Inc. |
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Zoran's COACH 7 Processor Powers Samsung's New 7 and 5 Megapixel Digital Cameras |
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Conexant and Interpeak Launch 802.11 Wireless Solution for Embedded Developers |
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Dr. Edward C. Ross, President Emeritus of TSMC, Joins Open-Silicon Board of Directors |
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UMC considers taking 15% stake in Chinese fab |
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WISchip Rolls Out New System-on-Chip Streaming Media Encoding Solution |
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Zoran Corporation Licenses Kilopass' XPM Memory Technology; Standard CMOS Technology Adds On-Chip Security ID to Digital Entertainment Products |
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Silicon Design Chain Collaboration Demonstrates Significant 90-nanometer Total Power reduction; Applied Materials, ARM, Cadence and TSMC Integrated Capabilities Deliver Silicon-Validated Power Reduction |
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Tower Semiconductor Honored by ON Semiconductor for Outstanding Support |
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LTRIM LTR1761 LDO Voltage Regulator IP Available for IBM 0.13um Process Technology |
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MoSys Signs First EDA to Its International Sales Representative Network; Newest Partnership Covers UK and Ireland |
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Altera Demonstrates Industry's First FPGA Solution Enabling Video-Over-IP at CCBN |
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Architectures: On-chip interconnect gets off the bus |
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The Great Debate: SOC vs. SIP |
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FPGA merger with processors gathers steam |
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Infineon Technologies and Rambus Conclude Broad Licensing Agreement |
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Rambus Updates First Quarter 2005 Financial Guidance |
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Structured ASICs walk a fine line |
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Teldix Selects Actel's ProASIC Plus FPGAs for Multi-Processor Boards Used in the Eurofighter Project |
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Headlines for Mar. 18, 2005
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eSOL Forms Strategic Partnership with MoreThanIP to Offer a Versatile TCP/IP Solution for Altera's Nios II Soft Core Processor |
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System-in-package (SIP) may not be that simple |
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Headlines for Mar. 17, 2005
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ChipX Accelerates Development of XM Satellite Radio Receivers; ChipX Structured ASICs Provide Fast Turnaround Time, Low Risk to High-volume Production |
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EDA exec offers alternative IP channel |
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Xilinx R&D Center in India Helping Customers Worldwide Benefit From Programmable Chip Technologies; Creates 12 IP Cores in First Year of Operation Through Partnership with CMC |
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Rambus Opens Design Center In Bangalore, India |
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Headlines for Mar. 16, 2005
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RF Engines contracted to supply signal processing cores to leading mobile telecommunications company |
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CEVA to file Form 12b-25 With the Securities and Exchange Commission |
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Fabless firms outpace IDMs in costs, gross margins |
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Huaya Microelectronics Ltd Licenses MIPS Processor for Its DTV Products |
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Headlines for Mar. 15, 2005
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VeriSilicon Announced Release of Library Products for HeJian Technology 0.18 and 0.25 micron Process Technology |
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Virtio Jumpstarts Mobile Multimedia with Support for Texas Instruments OMAPV1030 Platform |
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SeaSolve Software Inc. Announces IEEE 802.15.4 WPAN And IEEE 802.11 WLAN Compliance Test And Analysis Solution |
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FSA Announces 27 Percent Worldwide Fabless Revenue Growth in 2004 |
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Texas Instruments and Imagination Technologies Create Gaming and Graphics Ecosystem Leveraging TI's OMAP 2 "All in One Mobile Entertainment" Platform |
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Rambus Appoints J. Thomas Bentley to its Board of Directors |
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Arithmatica IP selected by Xilinx for Virtex-4 XtremeDSP(TM) Slice |
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MindTree to demonstrate its Bluetooth capabilities on OMAP and Nucleus at CTIA Wireless 2005 |
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Headlines for Mar. 14, 2005
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Limits of IP block strategy exposed |
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Knowlent Announces Opal Electrical Verification Platform and Support for PCI Express, Serial ATA |
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Video codec is a study in power |
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SigmaTel, Inc. Files Formal Complaint with ITC Against Actions Semiconductor for MP3 Player Technology Patent Infringement |
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ZAiQ Technologies and ProDesign Integrate High Speed Transaction-Based Verification System |
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Rambus Demonstrates Its 800MHz DDR2 Memory Controller Interface At Denali MemCon In Taiwan |
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MoSys 1T-SRAM IP Ships in HUDSON Soft's Video Game Controller; Video Game Controller in Volume Production Targets Toy Markets |
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NEC Electronics America Expands ASIC IP Portfolio with Tensilica’s Xtensa Configurable Processor |
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Arteris introduces industry's first products for building networks on Chip (NoC) |
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CEVA-TeakLite DSP License Extended By STMicroelectronics For Next Generation DSL Central Office Chipsets |
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Industry Study Reaffirms Reliability of Actel FPGAs Against Radiation-Induced Failures |
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LSI Logic Introduces RapidChip Xtreme2(TM) Family With Unprecedented SERDES Integration and I/O Bandwidth |
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Digital Core Design will take part in the EU Gateway to Japan |
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Headlines for Mar. 13, 2005
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IPCore and eMemory form alliance to provide a comprehensive single-poly OTP solution |
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Headlines for Mar. 10, 2005
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Research centre for SoC opens in Belfast |
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Tensilica Expands Into China |
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QuickSilver closes operations, shops IP |
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Actel Corporation Announces First Quarter Business Update |
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Why does STMicroelectronics license in FPGA blocks? |
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M2000 unveils optimized eFPGA architecture for DSP functions |
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Headlines for Mar. 09, 2005
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Virtual Silicon's Ground-breaking Mobilize Power Management IP Wins EDN INNOVATION Award |
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U.S. District Judge Rules to Disqualify Patriot Scientific Corporation's Counsel and to Deny Witness Testimony |
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HiTech Global Distribution expands IP Portfolio with SDIO Core |
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Further contract successes for new HyperSpeed and HyperLength FFT cores from RF Engines |
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TSMC's sales falls 18% amid silicon foundry lull |
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STMicroelectronics Introduces Highly Integrated Microcontroller with Embedded Programmable Logic for Wireless Infrastructure Applications |
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Xilinx Ships Virtex-4 SX55 - World's Fastest FPGA For DSP |
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TransChip and CEVA Collaborate to Create Highly Compact Video Streaming Solution for Multimedia Applications |
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Micronas Micronas Licenses Silicon Image's HDMI and DVI IPLicenses Silicon Image's HDMI and DVI IP |
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TSMC Monthly Sales Report - February 2005 |
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Virage Logic's High-Density ASAP Memory(TM) IP Used in Development of Low-leakage Wireless Multimedia Processors From NVIDIA |
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Headlines for Mar. 08, 2005
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Falanx Announces Availability of Geometry Processors for Mobile Gaming |
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Memec Unique Announces Multi-Channel UART Evaluation Kit for Actel ProASIC Plus |
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Atmel's New Single-Cycle 8051 Core Provides Big Performance Boost and Low Power |
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Faraday Monthly Sales Report -- February 2005 |
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Legerity Selects StarCore Technology to Power Its Next Generation VoIP and FTTP Products |
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Falanx Submits Mali IP Cores to Khronos OpenGL ES Conformance Process |
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FS2 System Navigator Delivers Multi-Core Debugging for Tensilica Xtensa Processors |
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FS2 Introduces System Navigator with PDtrace for MIPS32 24K Debug |
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Xilinx Updates Guidance for March Quarter FY05 |
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Synopsys' coreAssembler Reduces Time and IP Integration Risk for Spirit-Compliant IP |
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Chipidea, Solid Silicon Technology Offer Integrated USB 2.0 and USB 2.0 OTG IP Solutions for Chartered's 0.13-Micron and 0.18-Micron Processes |
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Accelerated Technology Announces Nucleus IPC for Rapid Development of Multi-Processor Applications |
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Headlines for Mar. 07, 2005
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Toshiba Launches Family of SATA PHY Cores That Meet High Speed Requirements of Storage, Networking and Consumer Markets |
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Panelists peer into future of FPGAs |
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Tower aims to ship ICs made on 130-nm process in 2005 |
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LSI Logic Drives High Performance Applications With Synthesized ARM1156T2-S Processor and Reference Design |
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NEC Electronics Unveils 90-Nanometer Embedded DRAM Technology |
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NEC Electronics Introduces the CMOS-12M Series of Mainstream Structured ASICs |
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Bitboys Introduces Vector Graphics Processor for Mobile Devices at Game Developers Conference |
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MIPS Technologies Teams with TimeSys to Deliver MIPS Architecture and Core-Optimized 2.6 Linux Distributions to Licensees and OEMs Worldwide |
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MIPS Architecture Selected by Infineon as Standard for its VoIP Solutions |
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Lauterbach Debugger Delivers Multi-Processor Support for Altera's Nios II Embedded Processor |
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Xilinx Virtex-4 FX FPGAs With PowerPC Processor Deliver Breakthrough 20x Performance Boost |
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ARM Discloses Technical Details and Partner Support For ARMv7 Architecture |
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ARM Announces Rapid System Prototyping Solution |
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TRIM's LTR1004 and LTR4041 Voltage Reference IPs are Available for IBM 0.13um Process Technology |
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CAST Expands USB OTG Line with New Multi-Port IP Core |
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Newest Release of SonicsMX Addresses H.264 and Legacy Interconnectivity |
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Faraday Technology Introduces Industry's Smallest USB2.0 PHY IP |
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Actel and ARM Sign Landmark Agreement to Bring ARM7 Processor Family to Burgeoning FPGA Market |
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Tensilica Names Dan Weed as Vice President of Customer Engineering |
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UMC and Virage Logic Announce Qualification of Embedded Non-Volatile Memory Technology on UMC's 0.18um Logic Process |
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Headlines for Mar. 04, 2005
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Costello's analog automation pioneer, Barcelona, to fold |
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Chartered updates guidance for first quarter |
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Headlines for Mar. 03, 2005
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austriamicrosystems launches fully automotive-qualified non-volatile process for foundry customers |
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GlobalPress Summit panelists debate route to working SoCs |
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Intel targets multithreaded software for multicore processors |
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MPEG-only bows out of codecs race; H.264 and VC-1 still contending |
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LTRIM Technologies offers a family of pure CMOS silicon proven power management analog IPs to IBM Microelectronics foundry and ASIC customers |
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Headlines for Mar. 02, 2005
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OCP-IP Announces Release of OCP 2.1 Specification |
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PCI Express adoption could boost TSMC in Q2, says report |
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Gurus mull challenges of 65 nm at Global Press Summit |
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HED Licenses ARM922T Processor For SoC Designs |
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Headlines for Mar. 01, 2005
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Design outsourcing a challenge |
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Judge Again Dismisses Rambus Patent Claims in Virginia Case |
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Genesys Logic Introduces PCI Express and GigaSata Serial ATA Products at IDF Spring 2005 |
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Innotech Joins ARM Foundry Program With ARM7TDMI Microprocessor License |
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Altera's PCI Express IP Core Passes PCI-SIG February Workshop Compliance Tests |
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Altera's Stratix II Family Leads the Industry With 2X Signal Integrity Performance Over Competing FPGAs |
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Tensilica Offers Automatically Configured RTOS and Development System Support for Xtensa LX Configurable Processor |
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MIPS Technologies Launches China Operations |
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USPTO Awards ARC International Key Patent On Configurable Processor Technology |
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Prosilog announces the integration of Yogitech's OCP eVC in Magillem |
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ESL Design State of the Union 2005 |
