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• ASSET and SoftIron collaborate on rapid debugging for 64-bit ARM-based enterprise servers using AppliedMicro's X-Gene technology (Wednesday Jul. 23, 2014)
  
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Launches Comprehensive Solution for Heterogeneous Multicore Embedded Software Development (Thursday Jul. 17, 2014)
  Mentor Graphics today announced the embedded software industry’s first comprehensive solution for heterogeneous multicore system-on-chip (SoC) development. Heterogeneous architectures are those which combine two or more different types of microprocessors or microcontrollers.
  
  
• Vanguard Video Announces the Release of Its Next Generation Professional H.265/HEVC Codec SDK (Friday Jul. 11, 2014)
  Vanguard Video will release version 2.0 of their professional software codec, V.265, later this summer. V.265 v2.0 significantly improves parallelization and adds support for multi-socket systems, making it possible to achieve unparalleled high quality real-time 4K/UltraHD encoding.
  
  
• Linaro announces Android Open Source Project port for ARMv8-A Architecture is ready and running on a 64-bit multi-core SoC (Thursday Jul. 03, 2014)
  Following the recent announcement of the Android™ L Developer Preview, Linaro, the collaborative engineering organization developing open source software for the ARM® architecture, today announced that a port of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) to the ARMv8-A architecture has been made available as part of the Linaro 14.06 release.
  
  
• PLDA and KAYA Instruments announce a tested high performance CoaXPress system based on PCIe Kintex-7 FPGA Board. (Thursday Jun. 26, 2014)
  PLDA and KAYA Instruments today announced a new custom and high-performance CoaXPress system. The complete system includes PLDA’s XpressK7 board based on Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA and KAYA’s FMC daughtercard with five CoaXPress channels that can support up to 6.25 Gbps each with total bandwidth of more than 31 Gbps.
  
  
• INSIDE Secure to deliver advanced DRM technology for protection of premium content on Intel-based mobile devices running Android (Thursday Jun. 26, 2014)
  INSIDE Secure today announces it will enable Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology for protection of premium content on Intel-based mobile devices running Android. The challenge of content protection on mobile devices has deterred many content service providers from offering premium content to mobile markets.
  
  
• LTE Protocol Stack from NextG-Com Now Available on Cadence Tensilica Processor (Tuesday Jun. 24, 2014)
  Cadence and NextG-Com today announced that NextG-Com has completed its port of the ALPS520 LTE Layer 2 and 3 protocol to the Cadence® Tensilica® ConnX BSP3 processor core. This combined hardware/software solution can be used to speed the design of LTE modems for cellular phones, tablets and other end-user equipment.
  
  
• ARM and Sensor Platforms Deliver an Open Source Framework for Sensor Devices (Tuesday Jun. 24, 2014)
  ARM® and Sensor Platforms Inc. are extending their collaboration to the Open Sensor Platform (OSP) to simplify development of embedded sensor-based products utilizing ARM architecture. Contributions to the OSP framework will enable ARM CMSIS, the ARM RTX RTOS, and compatibility with the ARM mbed™ SDK and mbed platforms.
  
  
• Cadence and QNX Announce New Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice DSP Application for In-Car Active Noise Control (Monday Jun. 23, 2014)
  Cadence and QNX Software Systems today announced that QNX has ported its QNX® Acoustics for Active Noise Control (ANC) software to the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi Audio/Voice digital signal processing (DSP) core.
  
  
• KALRAY announces world's most efficient manycore PCI Express board for intensive computing application at ISC 2014 (Monday Jun. 23, 2014)
  KALRAY today announced the world’s most efficient 1024-core, 32GB DDR PCIe board. The TURBOCARD2 is based on KALRAY MPPA-256 manycore processor and provides a unique solution to boost servers and workstations used in Oil & Gas, Computational Finance, Cryptanalysis, Numerical simulation or Bio computing.
  
  
• SoftIron Announces the World's First Production 64-bit ARM-Based Enterprise Server Motherboard Using X-Gene Technology (Friday Jun. 20, 2014)
  SoftIron's 64-0800 server motherboard uses AppliedMicro's X-Gene ARMv8 64-bit Server-on-a-Chip technology. It offers up to twice the performance-per-watt of leading x86 alternatives and has the potential to be deployed at twice the rack density. Initially available in an eight core processor unit, the server boasts many power-saving and performance-enhancing innovations.
  
  
• ARM University Program and Partners Launch DSP 'Lab-in-a-Box' for Audio Systems (Monday Jun. 16, 2014)
  ARM® and its Partners will start shipping a digital signal processing (DSP) 'Lab-in-a-Box' (LiB) to universities worldwide to help boost practical skills development and the creation of new ARM-based audio systems. This will include products such as high definition home media and voice-controlled home automation systems. The LiB kits contain ARM Cortex®-M4-based microcontroller boards by STMicroelectronics and audio cards from Wolfson Microelectronics and Farnell element14.
  
  
• Imagination and Oracle collaborate to enhance Java for embedded and the Internet of Things (Thursday May. 22, 2014)
  Imagination Technologies announces a broad collaboration with Oracle Corp. intended to enhance Java for embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) applications and optimize Java for the MIPS CPU architecture.
  
  
• Argon Streams update includes HEVC Range Extensions (Monday May. 12, 2014)
  Argon Design has released an update to Argon Streams to include full conformance test bit-streams for the Range Extensions Draft 7 update of the HEVC Specification.
  
  
• Chukong Technologies and ARM Raise the Bar for Mobile Gaming Performance (Friday May. 09, 2014)
  International mobile entertainment platform company Chukong Technologies, which powers seven out of the ten top grossing games in China, and ARM today announced a partnership to optimize games built in Cocos2d-x for ARM®-based devices.
  
  
• Synopsys Introduces Optimized DTS-HD Decoder for DesignWare ARC Audio Processors (Thursday May. 08, 2014)
  Synopsys today announced the immediate availability of the DTS-HD® audio decoder optimized for its DesignWare® ARC® AS211SFX and AS221BD Audio Processors. The DTS-HD audio decoder provides manufacturers of internet-connected devices with a single technology solution for decoding all DTS 5.1 channel audio formats.
  
  
• Synopsys Establishes Center of Excellence with Freescale to Speed Development of Automotive Electronic Systems Software (Wednesday May. 07, 2014)
  Synopsys today announced it has collaborated with longtime automotive silicon pioneer Freescale® Semiconductor to create a Center of Excellence program to speed development of automotive electronic system software.
  
  
• Imperas Announces ARMv8 ISS and ARMv8 Platform Roadmap (Tuesday May. 06, 2014)
  Imperas Softwarehas released an Instruction Set Simulator (ISS) for the ARMv8-A architecture. In addition, Imperas announced its roadmap for products and virtual platforms supporting the ARMv8 family, including having two Extendable Platform Kits™ (EPKs™) available by the end of Q2.
  
  
• AMD Unveils Ambidextrous Computing Roadmap (Tuesday May. 06, 2014)
  AMD today announced a roadmap of near- and mid-term computing solutions that harness the best characteristics of both the x86 and ARM® ecosystems, called “ambidextrous computing.” The cornerstone of this roadmap is the announcement of AMD’s 64-bit ARM architecture license for the development of custom high-performance cores for high-growth markets.
  
  
• Sonic Emotion Absolute 3D Sound Software Now Available on Cadence Tensilica HiFi Low-Power Audio/Voice Processors (Wednesday Apr. 30, 2014)
  Cadence and Sonic Emotion today announced that an optimized port of Sonic Emotion’s Absolute 3D™ sound software is now available on the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi Audio/Voice digital signal processing (DSP) family. This is the first time Absolute 3D sound software has been ported to a licensable IP DSP core.
  
  
• Imagination introduces world's highest quality WebRTC media engine (Thursday Apr. 17, 2014)
  Imagination Technologies introduces an innovative WebRTC media engine that promises to deliver a new level of quality to companies building native or browser-based voice and video conferencing services based on WebRTC. Imagination’s HelloSoft WebRTC engine with its unique, proven algorithms provides enhanced voice and video quality for a superior user experience across mobile and tablet platforms.
  
  
• ARM Compiler Builds on Open Source LLVM Technology (Tuesday Apr. 08, 2014)
  ARM announces the availability of version 6 of the ARM Compiler, the reference code generation toolchain for the ARM® architecture. ARM Compiler 6 adopts the Clang and LLVM open source compiler framework, channeling contributions from the whole ARM Partnership to improve code quality, performance and power efficiency of software on ARM processors.
  
  
• Sensor Platforms and ARM Introduce Open Source Software To Enable Sensor Hub Implementations (Tuesday Apr. 08, 2014)
  Sensor Platforms, a leading provider of algorithmic sensor software for smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, together with ARM, the world’s leading semiconductor intellectual property supplier, announce the introduction of the world’s first open source software for sensor hub applications.
  
  
• NXP LPCXpresso and ARM's mbed platform now fully aligned (Wednesday Apr. 02, 2014)
  NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today announced that the latest (version 2) release of its popular LPCXpresso development boards now fully support the ARM® mbed™ platform, giving embedded engineers more choice and flexibility when developing advanced applications for LPC and mbed microcontroller platforms.
  
  
• Imagination and Unity partner to bring Imagination's breakthrough ray tracing technology to real time, interactive games (Tuesday Mar. 18, 2014)
  Imagination Technologies and Unity Technologies are broadening their partnership with a new multi-faceted agreement around Imagination’s groundbreaking PowerVR Ray Tracing technology and Unity’s industry leading game development engine that will bring photorealistic graphics to the mainstream gaming experience across a wide range of devices.
  
  
• Onkyo and Imagination announce global collaboration on next-generation wireless audio systems and High Quality Audio (Friday Feb. 28, 2014)
  Imagination Technologiesand Onkyo announced today that they have entered an agreement to collaborate on the next generation of wireless audio music streaming systems and the global expansion of High Quality Audio.
  
  
• CSR partners with ARM to bring connectivity and GPS to mbed community (Thursday Feb. 27, 2014)
  CSR today announces that it has joined the ARM® mbed™ platform, an industry venture designed to nurture the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), as a component partner. The partnership provides the mbed community access to CSR Bluetooth®, Bluetooth Smart, Wi-Fi® and GPS connectivity solutions and makes it easy for them to be integrated into existing microcontroller projects.
  
  
• Imagination first to show new 3DMark OpenGL ES 3.0 Benchmark from Futuremark (Wednesday Feb. 26, 2014)
  Imagination Technologies wowed visitors to Mobile World Congress today with the first public demonstration of 3DMark’s Cloud Gate benchmark test running on mobile hardware. 3DMark Cloud Gate is a new OpenGL ES 3.0 benchmark for mobile platforms from Futuremark, a leading provider of high-performance benchmarking software.
  
  
• MulticoreWare Accelerates VP9, Google's Next-Generation Open Video Codec (Wednesday Feb. 26, 2014)
  MulticoreWare is announcing the availability of accelerated VP9 decoding solutions for mobile and embedded devices. VP9 is Google’s Open-Source video codec, available for free as part of the WebM project. VP9 will be used for YouTube and Google Hangouts as well as other web-based video applications.
  
  
• Advanced VP9 decoder now available for Imagination's PowerVR Series6 GPUs (Wednesday Feb. 26, 2014)
  Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) announces that an advanced GPU accelerated VP9 software decoder for its industry-leading PowerVR Series6 Rogue graphics processors (GPUs) is available from Imagination’s strategic partner MulticoreWare.