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• NXP Ships World's Fastest ARM Cortex-M4 and Cortex-M3 Microcontrollers (Monday Dec. 05, 2011)
  NXP Semiconductors N.V. today announced the availability of the LPC4300 Digital Signal Controller (DSC) -- at 204 MHz, the world's fastest ARM® Cortex™-M4 processor.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies and Ingenic Semiconductor Announce Availability of World's First Android "Ice Cream Sandwich" Tablet (Monday Dec. 05, 2011)
  MIPS Technologies and Ingenic Semiconductor today announced worldwide availability of the world's first tablet based on Android 4.0, known as 'Ice Cream Sandwich', that is retailing for less than $100 (U.S).
  
  
• Samsung Announces Industry First ARM Cortex-A15 Processor Samples for Tablet Computers (Thursday Dec. 01, 2011)
  Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, announced today the industry's first dual-core processor samples based on the ARM(TM) Cortex-A15 core.
  
  
• NXP Delivers Industry's First ARM Cortex-M0 Microcontrollers with Integrated USB Drivers (Wednesday Nov. 30, 2011)
  NXP Semiconductors today introduced the LPC11U2x series – the first microcontroller based on the ARM® Cortex™-M0 processor to offer integrated USB class drivers.
  
  
• ARM Launches Free Toolkit For Android Application Developer Community (Monday Nov. 28, 2011)
  ARM today announced the release of the ARM® Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) Community Edition (CE) – a free-to-use edition of its reference software development toolkit. The new edition is dedicated to the Android application developer community and helps them create native software for compute intensive tasks that can run up to 4 times faster than Java code.
  
  
• Khronos Releases OpenCL 1.2 Specification (Tuesday Nov. 15, 2011)
  Industry leaders cooperate to evolve cross-platform open standard for heterogeneous parallel programming; Backwards compatible with OpenCL 1.1 to preserve code investment; Comprehensive OpenCL 1.2 conformance tests available
  
  
• Barcelona Supercomputing Center to Deploy World's First ARM-Based CPU/GPU Hybrid Supercomputer (Monday Nov. 14, 2011)
  NVIDIA today announced that the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is developing a new hybrid supercomputer that, for the first time, uses energy-efficient, low-power NVIDIA(R) Tegra(TM) ARM CPUs, together with high-performance NVIDIA(R) CUDA(R) GPUs.
  
  
• CSR aptX Codec Gives Samsung GALAXY Tab 7.0 Plus Superior Wireless Audio (Thursday Nov. 10, 2011)
  As part of an ongoing licensing partnership with Samsung Electronics, CSR plc today announced that its aptX™ Bluetooth audio codec will be supported in the upcoming Samsung GALAXY Tab 7.0 Plus.
  
  
• CriticalBlue releases support for Texas Instruments' TMS320C66x multicore DSPs within Prism (Wednesday Nov. 09, 2011)
  CriticalBlue announced today immediate availability for TI’s TMS320C66x DSP generation based on the KeyStone multicore architecture within CriticalBlue’s Prism product. Software developers are now able to analyze their existing software applications and quickly assess the tangible benefits of migrating to TI’s C66x multicore DSPs.
  
  
• MIPS and SYSGO Collaborate to Bring SYSGO's PikeOS Virtualization Technology to MIPS32 Cores (Wednesday Nov. 09, 2011)
  MIPS and SYSGO today announced they are collaborating to bring SYSGO's embedded virtualization technology to MIPS32® processor cores.
  
  
• Freescale Announces Industry's Fastest Microcontrollers Built on the ARM Cortex-M Family (Wednesday Nov. 09, 2011)
  Freescale is redefining the boundaries of microcontroller (MCU) performance with its new Kinetis X series - the world's fastest MCUs built on an ARM Cortex-M core. The new Kinetis X series shares the same powerful ARM Cortex-M4 core (with DSP and floating point instructions) used for other Kinetis devices, but with an increased operating frequency up to 200 MHz - the fastest of any Cortex-M-class MCU.
  
  
• Epiq Solutions Announces First Handheld Software Defined Radio (Tuesday Nov. 08, 2011)
  Epiq Solutions has announced Matchstiq™, the world's smallest commercially available software defined radio (SDR) capable of tuning between 300 MHz and 3.8 GHz.
  
  
• TI Introduces Sitara AM335x ARM Microprocessors, the Industry’s First $5 High-Performance, Feature-Packed ARM Cortex-A8 Devices (Monday Oct. 31, 2011)
  TI Introduces Sitara™ AM335x ARM® Microprocessors, the Industry’s First $5 High-Performance, Feature-Packed ARM Cortex™-A8 Devices
  
  
• AppliedMicro Revitalizes the Cloud with World's First 64-bit ARM Architecture Compliant Processor Converging Compute Performance with Power Efficiency (Friday Oct. 28, 2011)
  AppliedMicro, today announced "X-Gene(TM)," the world's first 64-bit ARM architecture compliant processor for next-generation cloud computing, wireless infrastructure, enterprise networking, storage and security applications. X-Gene multi-core processors based on high-performance ARMv8 compliant cores operating at up to 3.0 GHz will offer compelling performance at a fraction of the power and cost of existing solutions.
  
  
• AppliedMicro Showcases World's First 64-bit ARM v8 Core (Friday Oct. 28, 2011)
  AppliedMicro today demonstrated core functionality of the world's first 64-bit ARM processor on an FPGA platform
  
  
• Atmel Samples First ARM Cortex-M4 based Flash Microcontroller; Unveils Fifth-Generation Family (Thursday Oct. 27, 2011)
  Atmel today announced sampling of the Atmel SAM4S16, the first device in the Cortex™-M4 processor-based family, to lead customers.
  
  
• Freescale reveals new product platform that integrates ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-M4 and Cortex(TM)-A5 cores (Wednesday Oct. 26, 2011)
  Freescale Semiconductor today announced a new product platform that incorporates a high-performance microcontroller (MCU) and an energy-efficient applications processor, along with extensive enablement to help designers meet aggressive market windows.
  
  
• EnSilica launches version 2.5 of its eSi-RISC Development Suite (Tuesday Oct. 25, 2011)
  The eSi-RISC Development Suite v2.5 features new capabilities for multicore support, significantly enhanced compiler performance and ultra low-power applications support.
  
  
• Imagination launches HelloSoft 4G VoLTE platform and SDK (Tuesday Oct. 25, 2011)
  Imagination Technologies is launching its HelloSoft 4G VoLTE solution for smartphones, tablets, and mobile computing devices at 4G World 2011 in Chicago.
  
  
• Ashling Microsystems Announces New High Performance Debug and Trace Probe for ARM devices (Monday Oct. 24, 2011)
  Ashling Microsystems has launched a new high performance Real Time Debug and Trace Probe for ARM™devices. With Trace capture rates up to 400MHz DDR and a massive 504GB on-board Trace storage memory Vitra-XD allows Extended Trace Capture (users can record time-stamped data for up to 1564 hours) and non-intrusive Software Profiling and Code-Coverage (no code instrumentation required).
  
  
• D2 Technologies Partners with Altair Semiconductor to Create Ultra-Low Power 4G VoLTE Communications Solution (Monday Oct. 24, 2011)
  D2’s mCUE®, a converged 4G mobile communications client for Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and RCS video calling applications, has been successfully integrated with Altair’s FourGee™-3100/6200 LTE chipset platform.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Announces the Next-Generation Nucleus RTOS Addressing Power Management and Connectivity Issues for Embedded Systems (Thursday Oct. 20, 2011)
  Mentor Graphics today announced its third generation flagship Nucleus® RTOS. The Nucleus product adds built-in power management capabilities that seamlessly use hardware features such as Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS), making it ideal for power conscious, battery powered applications.
  
  
• Variscite announces the VAR-SOM-OM44 OMAP4460, 1.5GHz Dual-Core (Wednesday Oct. 12, 2011)
  Variscite announces the first System on Module based on TI's OMAP4460 smart multicore processor with dual ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCores™ running at up to 1.5GHz each - now the fastest on the market.
  
  
• IntegrIT's DSP Math Library Now Available for Tensilica's Baseband DSPs (Tuesday Oct. 11, 2011)
  Tensilica today announced that the NatureDSP Math Library from IntegrIT DSP Design House is now available for Tensilica's ConnX BBE16 baseband DSP for SOC design.
  
  
• Imec IR-UWB enables hi-quality low-power mobile applications (Tuesday Oct. 11, 2011)
  Imec and Holst Centre present a fully chip-integrated ultralow-power IR-UWB (impulse-radio ultra-wideband) solution for use in the worldwide available 6-10GHz band. The radio delivers high-quality communication for battery-operated mobile and sensing applications.
  
  
• Fujitsu Selects Wind River for Android Testing (Wednesday Oct. 05, 2011)
  Wind River announced Fujitsu Limited is using Wind River Framework for Automated Software Testing (FAST) to test its next-generation Android smartphones for software quality, performance and compliance.
  
  
• Elliptic Technologies Expands DTCP-IP Content Protection Solutions For Android-based Devices (Thursday Sep. 29, 2011)
  Elliptic Technologies today announced that it has expanded its DTCP-IP content protection offering to include support for the widely adopted Android™ OS used in a myriad of consumer devices, including DLNA enabled smartphones and tablets.
  
  
• ARM and Synopsys Sign ARM Cortex Processor Models Agreement (Thursday Sep. 29, 2011)
  Synopsys and ARM® today announced a licensing agreement enabling Synopsys to distribute ARM's Fast Models and create models of ARM Cortex Series processors. Designers will be able to accelerate embedded software development for ARM technology-based designs by up to nine months by creating virtual prototypes using ARM models with Synopsys' DesignWare® TLM, SystemC TLM Libraries and Virtualizer™ tool set.
  
  
• Fujitsu Selects Mentor Graphics Sourcery CodeBench for FM3 Microcontroller Family Embedded Development (Thursday Sep. 29, 2011)
  Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe and Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that Fujitsu has chosen the Mentor® Embedded Sourcery CodeBench for ARM® EABI (embedded application binary interface) to support Fujitsu’s FM3 Cortex™-M3 microcontrollers and hardware evaluation boards.
  
  
• Imagination announces Minimorph development system for connected devices (Thursday Sep. 29, 2011)
  Imagination Technologies announces the Meta HTP221-dp2 'Minimorph', a highly integrated low cost ‘connected processor’ based system designed to help engineers create the next generation of Cloud-connected embedded and consumer solutions.