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• IP plays cautiously in emerging markets (Thursday Nov. 09, 2006)
  All the big IP vendors are offering IP to emerging countries, such as China, India, and, to some degree, Russia. but if you are designing ICs in those countries, don't be surprised if established IP companies refuse access to their RTL and offer you only a hard core or require you to work with one of their ''trusted partners.''
  
  
• 65 nm: Where are the chips? (Monday Nov. 06, 2006)
  In January of this year--about two years after it shipped the first 90-nanometer Prescott--Intel began shipping 65-nm versions of its Pentium D Presler processor. Intel has now shipped more than 40 million 65-nm processors
  
  
• Analysis: BDTI's ARM1176 benchmark scores (Wednesday Nov. 01, 2006)
  BDTI has released independent benchmark results for the ARM1176 licensable processor core on the BDTI DSP Kernel Benchmarks™, which measure overall signal-processing performance, and the BDTI Video Decoder Benchmark™, which measures performance on video decoding and similar workloads
  
  
• ARC CEO: 'Impatient capital' hinders U.S. IC industry (Wednesday Nov. 01, 2006)
  The semiconductor industry in the United States is challenged by ''impatient capital'' and an investment mindset focused on short term results, according to Carl Schlachte, president and CEO of ARC International.
  
  
• Semiconductor Memories and MEMS Serve as Potential 'Killer' Applications for SOI (Tuesday Oct. 31, 2006)
  Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) has become the core material for high-end microprocessors and other cutting-edge chips. However, the lack of intellectual property (IP) designs for easy implementation and integration of SOI with standard complementary metal-oxide- semiconductor (CMOS) processes in the industry and the high cost of SOI are deterring chip manufacturers from adopting it.
  
  
• Chinese companies favoring soft IP (Monday Oct. 30, 2006)
  Chinese companies ready to buy intellectual property blocks are favoring design-ins with soft cores rather than hard cores. This is pushing IP vendors to loosen up about delivering RTL code to Chinese customers
  
  
• ARC waives up-front IP fees in China (Monday Oct. 23, 2006)
  A pricing experiment by ARC International could alter the way intellectual-property vendors operate in China. By waiving up-front licensing fees, the configurable-processor provider says it is catering to Chinese demand to use a product first and pay for
  
  
• Analysis: ARC Player Subsystem and SMIC Partnership (Friday Oct. 13, 2006)
  On September 9th, silicon intellectual property licensor ARC made two related announcements: It unveiled a new configurable multimedia player subsystem based on its ARC600 family of cores, and announced a new partnership with Chinese silicon foundry Semic
  
  
• Panelists critique IDM, foundry, fabless models (Wednesday Oct. 11, 2006)
  It's becoming increasingly expensive and difficult to own a semiconductor fabrication facility, according to panelists at Mentor Graphics' EDA Tech Forum here Monday (Oct. 9). But panelists disagreed over the viability of the fabless semiconductor, integr
  
  
• ARM seeks help in refining mobile security API (Thursday Oct. 05, 2006)
  In an effort to set an industry standard for mobile security, ARM Holdings has asked a handful of mobile chip makers to help define the next-generation applications programming interface for its TrustZone extensions to the ARM core
  
  
• Ground shifting in multicore interconnect battleground (Monday Oct. 02, 2006)
  A battle royal is shaping up behind the scenes as Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. race to define interconnects for their next-generation multicore processors. The archrivals hope to use those links to weave separate webs of partnerships that w
  
  
• Denali CTO: Formalize contract between hardware, software (Tuesday Sep. 12, 2006)
  The semiconductor industry needs to revisit and redefine traditional boundaries between hardware and software, according to Mark Gogolewski, chief technology officer at intellectual property (IP) and EDA vendor Denali Software Inc.
  
  
• Will offshoring move U.S. chip industry to 'designless' model? (Monday Sep. 11, 2006)
  An emerging issue is whether increased offshoring will hasten the rise of a ''designless'' business model for the U.S. semiconductor industry. Panelists from around the world are expected to address that issue from a global perspective.
  
  
• Tomorrow's Platform: Multicore, SoCs and IP (Thursday Sep. 07, 2006)
  But far from the traditional retirement, the microprocessor’s new role will be more of a career change, as the device continues its work but becomes part of a larger team
  
  
• Synopsys IP move shows China, analog in the driver's seat (Wednesday Sep. 06, 2006)
  Synopsys Inc. said Tuesday (Sept. 5). it is making the heart of its mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) available for the 130-nm process of foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) in Shanghai. The move shows both China and analo
  
  
• Multi-Processor SoCs: Where are the Tools? (Friday Aug. 25, 2006)
  Electronic News sat down with Simon Davidmann, president and CEO of Imperas Inc.; Chris Rowen, founder, president and CEO of Tensilica Inc.; Ian Mackintosh, president of the OCP/IP Association; Jeff Jussel, VP marketing and Americas general manager at Cel
  
  
• Complex semiconductor IP is an Indian opportunity (Thursday Aug. 17, 2006)
  The evolving IP industry will present new opportunities for the Indian semiconductor design services industry.
  
  
• 3D Graphics Processor Takes ARM into New Markets (Tuesday Aug. 15, 2006)
  ARM will launch its first 3D graphics processor next year, a move which will see the low power processor company moving into new markets.
  
  
• Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor IP Revenue on Track for 25 Percent Increase in 2006 (Monday Aug. 14, 2006)
  Demand for semiconductor intellectual property (IP) is growing, and the demand is shifting from simple IP to complex IP, according to Gartner, Inc.
  
  
• What's Right and Wrong with IP? (Friday Aug. 11, 2006)
  Electronic News sat down with Sanjay Dave, director of ASIC engineering in ATI’s digital TV group, and Kevin Walsh, director of marketing for intellectual property in Synopsys’ Solutions group, to talk about what’s working in the intellectual property spa
  
  
• Verification: Automation no substitute for thought, Foster says (Friday Jul. 28, 2006)
  EDA can help by automating some of the ''bookkeeping'' aspects of verification, but ultimately that is no substitute for the thinking that goes into creating a verification plan, according to verification guru Harry Foster, a principal engineer at Mentor
  
  
• Should IP adopt a services business model? (Wednesday Jul. 26, 2006)
  
  
  
• IP encryption brings trust, panelists say (Tuesday Jul. 25, 2006)
  An intellectual property (IP) encryption proposal offered by Synplicity Inc. will help restore ''trust'' between providers and consumers, according to panelists at the Design Automation Conference here Tuesday morning. But there are tradeoffs with respect
  
  
• ASIC design starts slowing, but market growth continues (Monday Jul. 24, 2006)
  Although the withdrawal of LSI Logic from the structured ASIC market has caused every analyst to rewrite their market predictions downward, the market for structured ASICs is still significant, according to Bryan Lewis, vice president of semiconductor res
  
  
• Samsung passes on ARM power management software (Tuesday Jun. 27, 2006)
  When Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. licensed a National Semiconductor Corp. power management function block, recently announced, it did not license the complementary Intelligent Energy Management (IEM) software from ARM Holdings plc.
  
  
• Actel CEO John East comments on the FPGA market metamorphosis (Friday Jun. 23, 2006)
  By John East, CEO, Actel Corp.
  
  
• ARM multiprocessor could carry the load in SH-Mobile (Wednesday Jun. 21, 2006)
  Japanese chip giant Renesas Technology Ltd. could downgrade the significance of its own SH processor in future generations of the SH-Mobile in favor of ARM processors and in particular an ARM multiprocessor
  
  
• Xilinx CEO Interview: Programmable Processing (Friday Jun. 09, 2006)
  Xilinx CEO Wim Roelandts sounds off on what went wrong in the FPGA market, and what will go wrong in the future ASIC and intellectual property markets.
  
  
• Panelists explore system-to-silicon link (Wednesday May. 31, 2006)
  How can designers produce manufacturable silicon from system-level specifications?
  
  
• IP reuse on the rise, says Synopsys CEO (Tuesday May. 30, 2006)
  Chip design companies, in particular startup companies in China and Israel, are increasing their adoption of reusable IP, according to Aart de Geus, chairman and CEO, Synopsys.