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• videantis announces computer vision partner program (Wednesday Oct. 30, 2013)
  Today at the ARM TechCon conference, German video IP and solution provider videantis announced its computer vision partner program, including its first three partners: ViNotion, PathPartner, and nViso.
  
  
• HP Preps 64-Bit ARM Server for 2014 (Wednesday Oct. 30, 2013)
  A Hewlett-Packard sales rep complained at a recent internal meeting that a customer wanted to buy a load of HP gear, "but he can't get any more power from the city."
  
  
• Vivante Selects Solution57 as a Platinum Technology Partner to Enhance IoT and Embedded Ecosystem Support (Wednesday Oct. 30, 2013)
  Solution57 today announced that Vivante Corporation has chosen the company to be part of its Platinum Technology Partnership (PTP).
  
  
• Freescale Collaborates with ARM and Oracle to Add New Vertical Segment Support for "One Box" IoT Gateway Platform (Wednesday Oct. 30, 2013)
  As demand grows for a common, open and secure Internet of Things (IoT) service delivery infrastructure from the cloud to the network’s edge, Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL), ARM® and Oracle are answering the call with a growing portfolio of segment solutions for next-generation IoT service providers and edge node developers.
  
  
• Avnet Electronics Marketing Unveils Xylon Touchscreen HMI Reference Design for the MicroZed Evaluation Kit (Tuesday Oct. 29, 2013)
  Avnet Electronics Marketing today announced the release of a new touchscreen Human Machine Interface (HMI) reference design from Xylon, a leading provider of advanced FPGA application solutions, IP cores and design services for its MicroZed™ evaluation kit.
  
  
• ARM Extends Its Flagship DS-5 Development Studio for RTOS Development (Tuesday Oct. 29, 2013)
  ARM® announces the availability of ARM DS-5 Development Studio version 5.16, which adds support for debug and optimization of embedded software based on real-time operating systems (RTOS).
  
  
• ARM and Nordic Semiconductor Partner to Accelerate Development of Bluetooth Low Energy-Enabled Devices (Tuesday Oct. 29, 2013)
  ARM and Nordic Semiconductor today announced an agreement to incorporate Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) solutions with the ARM mbed™ IoT device development platform.
  
  
• Atmel Expands Lowest-Power Cortex-A5 Processor-based MPU Portfolio With New Device and Ecosystem Extensions (Tuesday Oct. 29, 2013)
  Atmel® today announced the company has expanded its portfolio of Cortex-A5 processor-based microprocessors (MPUs).
  
  
• Altium introduces TASKING Software Platform Builder for ARM Cortex-M (Tuesday Oct. 29, 2013)
  Altium announces its Software Platform, delivering ultra rapid prototyping and development for ARM Cortex-M based microcontrollers, at an unparalleled attractive cost level.
  
  
• Cavium's Thunder is First 64-bit ARMv8 Processor supported in Ubuntu Server 13.10 (Tuesday Oct. 29, 2013)
  Cavium today announced that Cavium’s Thunder ARMv8 processors are supported in Ubuntu 13.10, the latest release from Canonical.
  
  
• TI introduces gateway to the cloud for connected products with Tiva C Series TM4C129x MCUs, industry's first ARM Cortex-M4 with Ethernet MAC+PHY (Tuesday Oct. 29, 2013)
  Texas Instruments announces the newest additions to the Tiva™ C Series microcontroller (MCU) platform. The Tiva TM4C129x MCUs are the industry’s first ARM Cortex-M4-based MCUs with Ethernet MAC+PHY, enabling customers to create a new class of sophisticated, highly connected products that bridge the cloud and amplify the ever-growing Internet of Things (IoT).
  
  
• u-blox and ARM introduce cellular development kit for "Internet of Things" (Monday Oct. 28, 2013)
  u‑blox and ARM have joined forces to create a powerful, flexible and easy-to-use prototyping kit for designing wirelessly connected, location-aware internet devices: the ARM mbed-enabled u‑blox C027 "Internet of Things (IoT) Starter Kit".
  
  
• Calxeda Announces New Fabric-based Platform for Clouds (Monday Oct. 28, 2013)
  Calxeda today announced its second-generation product line, the EnergyCore® ECX-2000 family, targeting the fast-growing private cloud infrastructure market.
  
  
• ASOCS and ARM Announce Cloud RAN Reference Design at ARM TechCon (Monday Oct. 28, 2013)
  ASOCS and ARM today announced a comprehensive reference design for next-generation mobile infrastructure equipment. The design is based on ARM Cortex®-A57 processors and ASOCS’s Modem Processing Unit (MPU).
  
  
• Inside Secure Introduces EasyPlug Cryptographic Middleware for Secure Microcontrollers (Monday Oct. 28, 2013)
  INSIDE Secure today introduced its EasyPlug™ cryptographic middleware, software thatenables developers to quickly and easily addstrong security tomobile devices, USB tokens, PC-Link products and embedded systems.
  
  
• Alizem Embedded Motor Control Software IP reaches a new milestone of performance (Tuesday Oct. 22, 2013)
  Alizem is pleased to announce that its recently released Embedded Motor Control Software IP for Servo-Drives applications has reached a new milestone of performance after having been successfully tested at customer site on industrial electric motors with power ranging from 25kW to 100kW.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Nucleus RTOS Improves System Reliability and Performance for Safety-Critical Systems (Friday Oct. 18, 2013)
  Mentor Graphics today announced a new version of the Nucleus® real time operating system (RTOS) targeting high-performance, next-generation applications for connected embedded devices.
  
  
• Fortemedia and Cadence to Bring Exceptional Voice Processing Capability to Mobile Handsets, Tablets and Ultrabooks (Wednesday Oct. 16, 2013)
  Fortemedia today announced that its voice processing solution, iS600, is now available optimized for Cadence's Tensilica® HiFi DSPs.
  
  
• Imperas Provides Comprehensive ARM TrustZone Modeling Kit For OVP-Based Virtual Platforms (Wednesday Oct. 09, 2013)
  Imperas today made available a System Modeling Kit designed to simplify the creation of high-performance virtual platforms that incorporate the ARM TrustZone technology.
  
  
• Imagination and Rightware enter multi-year strategic partnership (Monday Oct. 07, 2013)
  Imagination and Rightware have entered into a new multi-year strategic agreement. The partnership is aimed at driving best practices for mobile benchmark development and also delivering application-optimized, visually stunning user experiences through Rightware’s Kanzi-based UIs on Imagination’s industry-leading processors, including PowerVR GPUs and MIPS CPUs.
  
  
• Fujisoft supports the development of Android-powered embedded devices with the launch of their Graphics Accelerator for Android supporting Altera SoC (Thursday Sep. 26, 2013)
  Fujisoft will provide a total solution including the sale and support of our GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR for Android as well as full system design & customization services for a wide variety of embedded devices based on Altera’s Cyclone® V SoC.
  
  
• Undo and ARM Agreement Delivers First Commercial Reversible Linux and Android Application Debugger for ARM Processors (Wednesday Sep. 25, 2013)
  Undo Software today announced that ARM has entered into an agreement to integrate UndoDB in its flagship software development tool suite, ARM® DS™-5 Development Studio.
  
  
• Elliptic Technologies Premiers New Standards-Compliant HDCP 2.2 Solutions with Synopsys HDMI 2.0 IP (Thursday Sep. 12, 2013)
  Elliptic and Synopsys today announced the industry’s first standards compliant HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) solutions to protect UHD (Ultra-High Definition) content over uncompressed streaming interfaces.
  
  
• Samsung Primes Exynos 5 Octa for ARM big.LITTLE Technology with Heterogeneous Multi-Processing Capability (Wednesday Sep. 11, 2013)
  Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced its Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP) solution for the Exynos 5 Octa to fully maximize the benefits of the ARM® big.LITTLE™ technology.
  
  
• 25 IC vendors adopt Allegro DVT HEVC/H.265 compliance streams (Wednesday Sep. 11, 2013)
  Allegro DVT announces it has already licensed its HEVC compliance streams to 25 major IC vendors in China, Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the U.S.
  
  
• New Intel CEO, President Outline Product Plans, Future of Computing Vision to 'Mobilize' Intel and Developers (Wednesday Sep. 11, 2013)
  Krzanich laid out Intel's vision and described how Intel is addressing each dynamic market segment – such as accelerating Intel's progress in ultra-mobile devices – with new products over the next year and beyond, including a new, lower-power product family.
  
  
• Caskeid from Imagination provides the ultimate solution for wireless multiroom audio (Thursday Sep. 05, 2013)
  Imagination Technologies announces Caskeid, the world’s most accurately synchronised wireless multiroom connected audio streaming technology.
  
  
• Intel Unveils New Technologies for Efficient Cloud Datacenters (Thursday Sep. 05, 2013)
  Manufactured using Intel's leading 22nm process technology, the new Intel Atom C2000 product family features up to eight cores, a range of 6 to 20Watts TDP, integrated Ethernet and support for up to 64 gigabytes (GB) of memory, eight times the previous generation.
  
  
• Silicon Studio Partners With Vivante (Tuesday Sep. 03, 2013)
  Silicon Studio, a high-end middleware provider and game developer announced today a new partnership with Vivante Corporation. This partnership pairs the YEBIS Mobile GPU Benchmark demo in conjunction with Vivante’s powerful mobile graphic processors.viv
  
  
• TI introduces Tiva C Series TM4C123G USB+CAN Development Kit for ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller development (Friday Aug. 30, 2013)
  Designing with Tiva™ C Series microcontrollers (MCUs) is now even easier with the new Tiva™ C Series TM4C123G USB+CAN Development Kit from Texas Instruments.