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Headlines for Feb. 28, 2006
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Design productivity can grow by 8X, says Synopsys VP |
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Imagination Technologies opens office in Taiwan |
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IBM announces enhancements to PowerPC portfolio, new Power licensee |
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Xilinx First To 65nm With Next Generation Virtex FPGAs |
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PLDA PCI Express IP Chosen by EVE for Zebu Prototyping Platform |
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Actel Delivers Development Kit for ARM7-Enabled FPGAs |
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Innovative Semiconductor Teams with Denali to Deliver High-Quality USB OTG Solutions |
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Green Hills Software Announces New Development Tools and Operating System for Texas Instruments' DaVinci Technology |
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Celoxica and Philips TASS Team to Accelerate ESL Adoption in Europe |
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Headlines for Feb. 27, 2006
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IPextreme to Accelerate Power Architecture Adoption by Making Valuable Member IP Widely Available |
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Poseidon Design Systems Appoints Brian Bailey as Chief Technologist |
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French startup, Cortus SA, offers compact 32-bit RISC |
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Arteris Ships Arteris NoC Solution 1.4 to Accelerate Adoption of Network on Chip |
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Impinj Aligns With UMC to Deliver Logic NVM Cores on 0.18um and 0.13um Process Technologies |
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ARM Offers Advantage Physical IP Support For IBM, Chartered And Samsung Common Platform On 65-Nanometer Generic Process |
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Silicon Design Chain Validates Enhanced Power Management Methodology with ARM 1136JF-S |
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Akustica Launches the World's First Single-Chip Microphone |
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Vativ Announces Industry's First and Most Advanced Three Input, Dual Output HDMI Receiver Chip for Next Generation Digital TVs |
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Mercury Computer Systems and Texas Instruments Announce a WiMAX AMC for Next-Generation Mobile Broadband Market |
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SystemC finds new horizons |
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Summit Design's Vista IDE Simplifies Intellectual Property Development and Design Sharing For SystemC-Based Designs Without A Run-Time License |
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Headlines for Feb. 24, 2006
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Analysis: Chip design outsourcers must embrace IP |
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Transmeta Licenses its LongRun2 Technologies for Low Power and Leakage Management to Toshiba |
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Elliptic Semiconductor Ports Security IP Cores to Lattice FPGAs |
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MOSAID Announces Third Quarter Results for Fiscal Year 2006 |
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Transmeta's Full Year 2005 Revenue Increases 147% To $72.7 Million |
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Dualcore DCIC9907 Industrial Microcontroller with Two ARM Cores Targeted at Time-critical Industrial Control Applications |
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Headlines for Feb. 23, 2006
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Silicon Image Announces HDMI IP Core Design Wins With Pixelworks and Sunplus |
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Micron Technology, Inc., Brings Lawsuit Against Rambus in Italy |
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Samsung Offers ARM Physical IP To Support 65 Nanometer Low-Power Common Platform Enablement |
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Renesas Technology Selects ARM11 MPCore Technology |
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Tensilica and CSIP of Ministry of Information Industry (MII) of PRC Establish First Joint IP Core Lab |
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MIPS Technologies Appoints Shanghai-based SinoSys Technologies as the first MIPS Authorized Training Center in China |
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Headlines for Feb. 22, 2006
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Texas Instruments Releases Advanced ASIC Kits, Extends ASIC Library and Support for Design Tools |
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Patriot Scientific Announces Important Patent Licensing Agreement with Casio |
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eInfochips Expands Expertise to System Validation and Reference Designs |
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Sharp Microelectronics and Actimagine Collaborate to Boost SoC Video Capabilities |
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Technology Authority Jim Turley Joins Board of Patriot Scientific |
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Semico Maintains Optimistic 17.3% Growth Projection |
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JMicron Technology Corp Develops Serial ATA II (3.0 Gpbs) PHY Core on UMC's 90nm G and 90nm SP Processes |
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Xilinx And ISR Technologies Announce Software Defined Radio Kit Supporting Partial Reconfiguration And SCA-Enabled SoC |
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TSMC Says Immersion Lithography Nearly Production Ready |
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MIPS Technologies Names Kate Rundle Vice President, General Counsel |
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Headlines for Feb. 21, 2006
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Next Generation Content Protection Specification - Advanced Access Content System (AACS) - Made Available for Licensing |
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Micron Technology, Inc., Files RICO Lawsuit Against Rambus |
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Casio Joins HP in Purchasing ''System'' License to Use Moore Microprocessor Patent(TM) Portfolio; Casio Reinforces Need for Digital Hardware Manufacturers to License Ubiquitous MMP Portfolio Technologies |
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National Semiconductor and ARM Release Next-Generation PowerWise Interface Open-Standard Specification |
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Actel ProASIC3 Commercial Qualification Completed |
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X-FAB Offers IP Blocks for RF Designs |
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UMC Fabricates World's Highest Frequency Silicon Circuit Using CMOS - 192-GHz Voltage-Controlled Oscillator; Push-push Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) designed by the University of Florida reaches 192-GHz Operating Frequency |
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NEC Electronics America to Distribute Tensilica's |
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Tensilica, Virage Logic and SMIC Partner to Provide Hard Macro Versions of Diamond Standard Processor Cores |
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Global Unichip and Tensilica Announced Partnership to Present Diamond Standard Series Hard Cores for SoC Design Technologies at 0.13um and Below |
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Actel Offers One Million Gates for Free |
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Impinj Extends GrandPrix Gen 2 RFID Solution to Item-Level Tagging |
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Headlines for Feb. 20, 2006
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Chinese Audio/Video codec rises; Domestic rival to WMV-9 and MPEG-4 nears standardization |
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Reconfigurable cores boost processor power |
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ARM Licenses 1176JZF-S Processor To NEC Electronics |
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Tensilica Introduces Diamond Standard Processor Core Family, Leading the Industry in Low Power and High Performance |
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Tensilica Introduces Diamond Standard 570T with 50% Lower Power Consumption, Twice the Performance and Half the Area of ARM11 Processor Core |
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Tensilica Introduces Fastest, Lowest Power Linux Processor Core |
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Tensilica Announces Diamond Standard 330HiFi, a Low-Power 24-bit Audio DSP |
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New ARC Video Subsystem Delivers Complete Solution for Portable Multimedia Devices |
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STMicroelectronics Inaugurates its New Design Campus in India |
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Temento Systems announces the support of System Verilog Assertions among the new features of DiaLite Platform Edition and of TemStorage |
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Celoxica Strengthens DSP-FPGA Solutions Joins Texas Instruments Third Party DSP Program |
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Headlines for Feb. 17, 2006
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GE Fanuc Embedded Systems Signs Agreement To Purchase Assets Of Condor Engineering |
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Aware, Inc. Reports 2005 Fourth Quarter Financial Results |
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Silicon Image Reports Fourth Quarter and 2005 Financial Results |
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Headlines for Feb. 16, 2006
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NaturalNano Licenses Key Patent for Selective Wireless Access in RF Shielded Environments |
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Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Market Will Continue to Show Gradual Improvement in 2006 |
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Innovative Silicon Inc. Ramps for Growth of Z-RAM Memory IP with New Silicon Valley Headquarters |
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Altera and TES Offer Cost-Effective FPGA-Based Reconfigurable Graphics Controller |
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Abacus Polar partners with Proven Software Solutions to create the Abacus Systems Solutions Framework |
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Headlines for Feb. 15, 2006
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Monolithic System Technology, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2005 Financial Results |
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Wi-LAN Announces Director Resignation |
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Toshiba, NEC Electronics and Fujitsu Announce Agreement on ''COSMORAM Rev. 4'' Common Pseudo SRAM Specifications for Mobile Devices |
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Saifun Semiconductors Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2005 Results |
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Haier IC Standardizes on ARM Artisan Physical IP for Consumer Electronics Applications |
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Leading Acceleration Technology Company Selects Denali for Memory System Design |
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MoSys' 1T-SRAM(R) CLASSIC Running in Volume Production on Chartered's 0.13-micron Process |
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4i2i and LSI Logic demonstrate video solutions at Embedded World |
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Essensium NV, a Belgian fabless provider of SoC ASICs, secures 6 million euro in Malaysian funding |
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Genesys Logic Low Power USB 2.0 Digital TV Controller IC being awarded the Bus Power certification by USB-IF |
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Headlines for Feb. 14, 2006
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Sharp Microelectronics and Actimagine Collaborate to Boost SoC Video Capabilities; Video Decompression Rates Increase Fourfold with Same Power Use |
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EVE Raises $6 Million in New Funding |
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Texas Instruments New OMAP3 Architecture Will Spark Development of a New Class of Mobile Phones |
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Patriot Scientific Corporation Announces Unprecedented Microcap Dividend |
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ARM Announces Availability of Mobile Consumer DRM Software Solutions Based on ARM TrustZoneTechnology |
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Altera's Cyclone II FPGA Family Now Available in Extended Temperature Range |
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Accelerated Technology's Nucleus RTOS Continues Support for CDMA Chipset from VIA Telecom |
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S3 collaborates with Hantro to demonstrate DVB-H software evaluation platform |
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LSI Logic Announces Cached DSP Cores for Innovative Wireless, Voice and Multimedia Systems |
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Sequans Communications Licenses LSI Logic ZSP(R) DSP Core for Broadband Wireless Market |
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S3's onHandTV DVB-H stack integrated with multiple phone platforms from Philips |
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Xilinx Streamlines Embedded System Design With New Platform Studio Version 8.1i |
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Expway and Hantro to integrate their solutions for DVB-H and Smartphones Devices |
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Xilinx Collaborates With Xylon To Develop World's First Programmable Development Board For Automotive Infotainment |
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Headlines for Feb. 13, 2006
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ARM vows to fight for automotive market |
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SST And Freescale Semiconductor Sign Embedded Flash Licensing Agreement |
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Tallika's PCI Express Endpoint Controller and SMSC's PCI Express PHY Successfully Pass PCI-SIG Compliance |
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Falanx Microsystems Demonstrates First H.264 Hardware Implementation for Mobile Devices at 3GSM |
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Imagination Technologies debuts accelerated OpenVG technology on the PowerVR MBX Family at 3GSM 2006 |
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NTT DoCoMo, Renesas, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric and Sharp to Jointly Develop Platform for W-CDMA Handsets |
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StarCore and Hantro announce immediate availability of high performance H.264 video decoder |
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Spreadtrum Utilizes CEVA-X DSP to Develop TD-SCDMA Baseband Processors for 3G Wireless Handsets |
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CEVA Low Power DSP Core Enables EoNex Modem Chip, Korea's First for CDMA2000 1x Wireless Phones |
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VMTS and CEVA Partner for Development of Next-Generation Mobile Solutions |
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SRS WOW XT and SRS XSPACE 3D Now Available on Tensilica's Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine for Mobile Phones |
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Epson Renews Contract for Tensilica's Xtensa Configurable Processors |
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LTRIM's System Supervisor IP Blocks Accurately Sense Temperature at Low Power |
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Silembia unveils it DVB-H Silicon IP at 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, 13th to 16th February |
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Iwedia & Silembia to unveil a DVB-H client-side solution, hardware & software, at 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, 13th to 16th of February |
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Spreadtrum License Hantro Video Solution for their Baseband IC Product Family |
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Saifun Extends its Licensing Agreement with Japanese Licensee |
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Silistix Joins OCP-IP |
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Xilinx & Sensory Networks Announce Industry's Most Scalable, FPGA-Enabled Network Security Acceleration Solution For Emerging UTM Security Appliances |
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Xilinx Authorizes Stock Repurchase Program |
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Headlines for Feb. 11, 2006
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TIVR and Streamezzo bring ready-to-deploy optimized embedded Mobile TV solutions |
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Headlines for Feb. 10, 2006
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Zoran Settles Litigation With Mediatek and UMC |
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ESL needs more work, panelists say |
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TSMC January 2006 Sales Report |
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Patriot Scientific Corporation Announces Debenture Conversion, Warrant Buyback Agreements |
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Headlines for Feb. 09, 2006
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Transmeta and Culturecom Mutually Terminate Contingent Processor Technology License and Sale Agreement for the Chinese Market |
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Nokia Growth Partners invests four million euros in Bitboys to support the company's growth and product development |
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CEVA to Showcase Continued Leadership in IP for Wireless Handset Applications at 3GSM World Congress 2006 |
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Tensilica Establishes India Subsidiary for Innovative Research and Development |
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Headlines for Feb. 08, 2006
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Faraday Introduced a New MP3 Player SoC - FIE7010 HD-based Audio Platform Solution |
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ARM and Handshake Solutions Announce Availability of Industry's First Clockless Processor for Real-Time Chip Designs |
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Centrality Communications licenses Imagination Technologies' PowerVR MBX |
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LSI Logic First to Integrate Dual XFI SerDes Into 10G Ethernet SoC Design |
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HiTech Announces the Worldwide Availability of PLDA's Altera Stratix-II based PCI-X evaluation boards |
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Lattice Semiconductor Launches LatticeSC System Chip FPGA Family |
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Saifun to offer more shares in May, says report |
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Ultra Electronics Chooses Altera's Stratix II Devices to Cut IP Security Costs and Seek New SDR Markets |
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IP protection based on trust, technology |
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Headlines for Feb. 07, 2006
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Rambus Announces Resignation of Chief Financial Officer |
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Enhanced RapidWorx(TM) Design Kit From LSI Logic Accelerates Time to Revenue for SoC Designs |
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ESS Technology Licenses Kilopass XPM Memory Technology |
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Impinj and Convergence Systems Limited Announce OEM Licensing Agreement for RFID Readers |
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Enigma Semiconductor Licenses Rambus' Advanced Backplane Technology |
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Renesas Technology to License 1Gbit AG-AND Technology to PSC |
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Denali Appoints Raju Pudota as Managing Director of India Subsidiary |
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Xilinx Ships FPGA Industry's Only Compliant Programmable x8 PCI Express IP Core |
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ARM faces automotive shut out from Freescale, ST |
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STMicroelectronics and Freescale Launch Broad Technology Agreement for Automotive Applications |
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How to take advantage of partial reconfiguration in FPGA designs |
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Xelic Announces Family of SONET/SDH Transport Processor Cores for Integration into FPGA or ASIC Networking Applications |
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Altera and TelASIC Announce Breakthrough Power Efficiency for 3G/3.5G Wireless Base Station Radios |
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iRoC Launches Its Professional Service for Soft Error Risk-Free Designs |
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Falanx Microsystems Demonstrates Desktop Graphics Programmability on Mobile Platforms at 3GSM |
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Hot Embedded DSP Market Almost Twice the General-Purpose DSP Market, According to New Forward Concepts Study |
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Sonics Expands Asia Operations to Support Regional Business Growth |
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Headlines for Feb. 06, 2006
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Synopsys' New Designware USB 2.0 nanoPHY IP to Cut Power and Size in Half |
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Rambus Introduces New Innovative Decision Feedback Equalization Technology |
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New Multi-threading Solution From MIPS Technologies Delivers Significant Gains in System Performance for the Embedded Market |
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CoWare Adds MIPS32 34K (TM) Processor Support Package to SystemC-based Model Library |
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Lightspeed Launches Reconfigurable IP Technology Offering |
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TTPCom announces blueprint for $20 ULC cellular handset |
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Mobileye Licenses MIPS Technologies' Multi-threading MIPS32 34Kf Core for Next-Generation Driver Assistance SoC |
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u-Nav Microelectronics Picks Tensilica's Xtensa Processors for Portable GPS Systems |
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Xilinx Announces PlanAhead 8.1, Delivering a Two Speed-Grade Advantage Over Competing Solutions |
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Jeffrey Bouchard Joins Open-Silicon Executive Team |
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China patents a must-have -- Foreigners, locals cope with country's spotty IP rights record |
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Oki Semiconductor and IAR Systems Announce Availability of New IAR Embedded Workbench Tools for Oki’s ARM9-based Advantage Microcontrollers |
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Altera's Stratix II FPGAs Enable 667-Mbps DDR2 SDRAM Data Rate |
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SMIC reports 2005 fourth quarter results |
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Hantro to demonstrate the latest in mobile video technologies at 3GSM World Congress |
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Headlines for Feb. 03, 2006
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ZiLOG(R) Unveils 32-Bit ARM-9(R) Application-Specific Strategy to Focus on Security and Point-of-Sale Markets |
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CAST Rolls Ten Years of 8051 Experience into Configurable Processor Core |
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Headlines for Feb. 02, 2006
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SafeNet Reports Fourth Quarter and 2005 Financial Results |
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ATEME announces a 4 million Euro investment by XAnge Private Equity and Ventech |
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SIDSA launches a state-of-the-art DVB-H demodulator chip |
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Imagination Technologies unveils first official certified benchmark numbers for Futuremark 3DMark Mobile06 running on Texas Instruments OMAP2420 processor incorporating PowerVR MBX |
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Growth of Integrated Circuits in 2005 Was 7.8%, 2006 Expected to Be in Double-Digits |
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Startup prepares UWB competitor for market |
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Headlines for Feb. 01, 2006
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Semico Research Predicts ''Age of Configurability''; Configurable Cores to Outpace Growth of Fixed Architecture CPUs by 5 to 1 |
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MoSys Inc. Announces Licensing Agreement with YAMAHA Corporation |
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NEC Electronics, Sony, and Toshiba Announce Joint Development of 45-nanometer System LSI Process Technologies |
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Wi-LAN Announces Exit of Equipment Business to Concentrate on Core Broadband Wireless Intellectual Property Business |
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Tower Semiconductor Reports Positive EBITDA and 51% Quarter Over Quarter Revenue Growth for Q4 2005 |
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Bluespec Momentum Grows as Leading Mobile Semiconductor Firms Adopt Its ESL Synthesis |
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Startups say ESL adoption accelerating |
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OCP-IP Hosts 2nd Annual OCP-IP Pavilion at DATE; Conference Within a Conference Discusses Trends and Insight Surrounding IP Reuse |
