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ARM exec touts IP reuse at ISSCC (Feb. 06, 2008)
The chief technology officer of intellectual property behemoth ARM Ltd. tried to convince hardware circuit designers gathered here that they should take software IP more seriously as the chip industry matures. |
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CNBC Interview: Warren East, Chief Executive Officer, ARM (Feb. 06, 2008)
In this interview with Geoff Cutmore, Warren East discusses full year earnings for 2007 |
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Analysis: VeriSilicon's HD audio IP solution (Jan. 30, 2008)
VeriSilicon has released a licenseable DSP core, the ZSP800, and an associated development platform, VZ.AudioHD, optimized for "HD" audio applications. |
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Chip makers must shift from fabs to systems (Jan. 17, 2008)
Semiconductor companies need to shift their focus from building fabs to building systems, and they must engage with customers at deep technical levels if they are to survive the current wave of consolidation. That's the view of Wolfgang Ziebart, chief executive of Infineon Technologies. |
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Intel CTO outlines 2008 strategy (Jan. 16, 2008)
Intel Corp. researchers have identified five focus areas for 2008, including "platform-on-a-chip" development. |
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ARM vs. Intel? It's ARM for now (Jan. 07, 2008)
Intel may be the king of PC multiprocessors, but ARM Holdings has become ubiquitous in mobile phones by not imposing itself too much |
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Commentary: A few fabless fables (Dec. 27, 2007)
The semiconductor industry is commoditizing with opportunities to differentiate being few and far between. As the fabless companies jostle and compete for market positioning and market share, they are subject to the larger trends that transact in the fabless supply-chain world. |
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Shift in the integration equation (Dec. 24, 2007)
The trend of the semiconductor road map has always been to pack more functions on a single die through process shrinks and better processing, bolstered by a larger die itself. |
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Under the Hood: Silicon TV tuners clearing hurdles (Dec. 24, 2007)
Although mobile phone and WLAN transceivers made the transition to silicon ICs years ago, solid-state TV tuners have been slower off the starting block. Recently, several companies have started to offer IC-based TV receivers that will replace the traditional "can tuner." |
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Effort behind reusing IP blocks is underestimated (Dec. 10, 2007)
When intellectual property (IP) reuse entered the IC design paradigm more than ten years ago, the semiconductor industry expressed high expectations. IP reuse was indeed seen as a way to foster development productivity and output that would eventually offset the design productivity gap. |
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Compute intensive apps to drive innovation in IP technology (Dec. 10, 2007)
ith consumer demand for low power, high performances and low prices, the design of mobile multimedia products moves towards system-level approaches. In a panel at the IP 07 Conference this week in Grenoble, France, Gagan Gupta, senior director of product marketing, ARC International plc (Elstree, England), looked to the next chapter in intellectual property (IP) and where IP suppliers will enable innovation. |
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AMD, Intel at it again, as both take aim at SoC (Dec. 10, 2007)
Advanced Micro Devices and Intel are ramping up system- on-chip capabilities, creating new products and processes. Although both companies will continue to design high-end custom microprocessors, increasingly their competition will hinge on how well they assemble chips out of a stock of reusable cores. |
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IP business model to continue to exist, says analyst (Dec. 07, 2007)
Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) as a real market emerged about ten years ago, and although detractors said there was no money to be made in IP, this sector has outgrown both the EDA and semiconductor markets. |
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Safety-conscious automakers push IC system-level approach (Nov. 26, 2007)
The ability of microcontroller- and microprocessor-based systems to satisfy automobile customers' needs for comfort, safety, information and entertainment in the car is fueling an explosion of applications and of cooperation between automakers and chip companies. |
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Nanoscale chip verification: a massively analog problem? (Nov. 05, 2007)
As semiconductor manufacturing technology deals increasingly with finer and finer measurements, verification of nanoscale components presents a problem of scale, requiring a scaling of verification technology commensurate with the shrinking of technologies like CMOS. |
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Commentary: Get ready for 450-mm fabs (Oct. 29, 2007)
IC industry equipment and material suppliers have recently voiced concern regarding the potential move from 300mm wafers to 450mm wafers for the production of ICs. |
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FSA Reports First Half 2007 Semiconductor Industry Revenue Totaled $129.3B (Oct. 23, 2007)
263 fabless and IDM companies reported $63.9 billion in revenue in Q2 2007, an increase of nine percent year-over-year (YoY) and a 2.4 percent decrease quarter-over-quarter (QoQ). |
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Is fab lite on analog's diet? (Oct. 23, 2007)
As digital integrated-device manufacturers increasingly turn to foundries for their production needs, with some announcing they will no longer build fabs, an inevitable question arises: Will the big analog IDMs follow the same path and move toward fab-lite or even fabless strategies? |
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Tensilica plans IPO, CEO says (Oct. 22, 2007)
Configurable processor specialist Tensilica Inc. said it is planning an initial public offering |
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Uncovering hidden chip costs (Oct. 22, 2007)
For some large manufacturers of consumer electronics, semiconductors are the single largest contributor to finished-goods costs. A clear understanding of the chip supplier's cost structures can bolster the OEM's negotiating position. |
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CEVA's bright future (Oct. 16, 2007)
Your next cell phone just might be powered by a CEVA DSP. Here's why. |
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Multicore gives more bang for the buck (Oct. 15, 2007)
It has been clear for some time that a law of diminishing returns applies to the advancement of conventional processor architectures. Each new process geometry and microarchitecture delivers successively less in terms of performance gains: It is simply no longer possible to deliver Moore's Law by going faster. |
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March to programmability inexorable, says Tensilica CEO (Oct. 10, 2007)
Tensilica chief executive Chris Rowen tells India Semiconductor Association members that while the insatiable appetite for multimedia is driving the development of new silicon platforms. |
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ARM gets serious in physical IP at 32 nm (Oct. 08, 2007)
Looking to get a jump on rivals like TSMC and Virage Logic, ARM Holdings plc last week pulled back the curtain on its 32-nanometer initiative for physical-intellectual property (IP). |
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SoC design's new normalPlatform push roils business models (Oct. 08, 2007)
A group at Microsoft Corp. is co-developing a media chip and is even investigating new on-chip bus structures. The activity is occurring at a time when semiconductor companies say they are increasingly delivering full software stacks with their chips, although they are not always compensated for the code. |
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Viewpoint: Wanted -- an IP manager (Oct. 02, 2007)
Whenever certain SoC design tasks take on a high level of importance (for example, being on the critical path of design completion), design teams usually add a task-specific manager. |
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Silicon in autos stirs patent plans (Sep. 24, 2007)
Customers are demanding more electronic value in automobiles as part of their driving experience. As a result, automotive manufacturers must consider carefully the intellectual property (IP) culture of the semiconductor industry, where patent licensing strategies are considerably different. In this case, IP refers to patent and trademark rights. |
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Letter to the editor: Darwin's theory on IP (Kalar Rajendiran, eSilicon) (Sep. 24, 2007)
eSilicon is a user of IP. As a value chain producer we must understand not only how to evaluate IP for quality but also understands the nuances of chip level integration involving IP blocks from multiple IP companies. eSilicon does this in the context of the foundry's process and manufacturing rules and quality standards with the prime objective of getting its customers' chips into volume production. |
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X86 war cuts to the cores (Sep. 24, 2007)
SoC dynamics could decide the endgame as Intel, AMD converge on similar architectures |
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ARM project prepares to fight mobile Internet battle (Sep. 17, 2007)
Processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc has been running a project for 18 months with select partners to try and define a product category to sit in the gap between the smart phone and the portable computer. |
