Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes high-reliability analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs and customizable SoCs, and complete subsystems, based on silicon, gallium arsenide and silicon ...
14nm finfet technology will level the playing field for the fabless community by giving them a process as good as anything available in the IDM community,Mojy Chian,senior vice president for design enablement at Globalfoundries,told the ...
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The two companies partner to benefit mutual customers across ARM partner ecosystem Electronic design automation (EDA) software and services provide Synopsys had signed a multi year agreement with semiconductor firm ARM to licenses a range ...
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The mass production of the renovated fabrication line is scheduled to start in second half of 2013 Samsung Electronics is planning to invest about $4bn at its chip plant in Austin, Texas to boost capacity of processors used in smartphones ...
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ARMv8 architecture includes 64-bit execution UK based semiconductor and software design firm ARM has announced integrated semiconductor products company Cavium as an architecture licensee for the ARMv8 architecture. The ARMv8 ...
ARM will develop a full platform of ARM Artisan Physical IP, which includes standard cell libraries, memory compilers and POP IP applications Chip designer ARM and computer chip-maker GlobalFoundries have signed an agreement to jointly ...
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The new SoC process can develop transistors that are 22%to 65%faster compared to 32nm versions US based chipmaker Intel is working on a new chip manufacturing technology,the Tri-Gate 3D chip technology,to develop 22nm ...
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Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs and customizable SoCs, and subsystems) has expanded its family of radio-frequency transistors based on gallium ...
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STMicroelectronics has taped out a dozen SOCs on Samsung's 32/28nm HKMG process.The chips are for mobile,consumer and network applications. "We have successfully started production of STMicroelectronics'new-generation 32/28nm SoC ...
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Globalfoundries says it will match Intel in having 14nm finfet chips taped out next year and volume production in 2014.PDKs are available now. The process is running in GF's new fab in Saratoga County near New York. 14nm is the ...
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Maxim is staking its future on integrated analogue in the belief that sales of analogue SoCs will overtake discrete analogue sales within two years. Asked by EW what integrated analogue means,Maxim responded:'Analogue has traditionally ...
MIPS Technologies hopes to challenge ARM in the market for high-end tablets and smartphones with an upcoming processor design it presented at the Hot Chips conference in Silicon Valley on Tuesday. MIPS is known for chips used in home ...
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Marvell has designed a 3G chipset for both Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access(TD-SCDMA)and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access(WCDMA)markets. The unified 3G design incorporates an application and communications ...
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Xilinx says it has increased the top processing performance spec of its Zynq-7000 programmable SoC devices to 1GHz. This is a 25%increase over initial specifications for the two largest Zynq-7000 devices. Target applications are ...
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ARM+TSMC is leading Intel in process technology for highly integrated mobile SOCs,ARM's CEO Warren East tells EW. Asked if it was the aspiration of ARM's physical IP division,working with TSMC,to catch up with Intel in process,East ...