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• AuthenTec Announces Field Proven Downloadable DRM Solution for Android- and Apple iOS-based Mobile Devices (Wednesday Apr. 13, 2011)
  AuthenTec today announced the commercial availability of an industry standards-based downloadable digital rights management (DRM) client solution on Android-based phones and tablets as well as iOS-based devices including Apple’s iPhone and iPad.
  
  
• Elecard Hits Market with ARM Codec SDK for Mobile and Portable Devices (Monday Apr. 11, 2011)
  Elecard announces release of ARM Codec SDK for platform-independent multimedia applications development. Usage and implementation of ARM Codec SDK enables developers to create platform-independent multimedia applications supporting live MPEG-2, DivX and AVC streaming for mobile and portable devices and gadgets driven by ARM processors.
  
  
• Texas Instruments first semiconductor company to license EtherCAT technology for embedded ARM- and DSP+ARM-based devices (Tuesday Apr. 05, 2011)
  Texas Instruments announces it is the first semiconductor company to license Ethernet for Control Automation Technology (EtherCAT®) for its ARM®- and DSP+ARM-based embedded processors.
  
  
• Altera, Apical, AltaSens Jointly Announce Industry's First HD Wide Dynamic Range Video Surveillance Chipset (Monday Apr. 04, 2011)
  Altera, Apical Ltd. (UK), and AltaSens, Inc. today announced the availability of the industry's first HD WDR video surveillance chipset. The chipset combines an Altera Cyclone® IV E FPGA with a security chip that supports Apical's HD WDR full image signal processing (ISP) pipeline IP and AltaSens' 1080p60 A3372E3-4T image sensor.
  
  
• AuthenTec Expands IPsec Toolkit Offering to Address Security in New Mobile Devices and Networking Systems (Wednesday Mar. 30, 2011)
  AuthenTec today announced a new IP security (IPsec) solution. AuthenTec’s new QuickSec 5.2 Server and Client Toolkits offer compliance with IPsec security standards including updates to IKEv2 and the performance needed for today’s multi-core processor-based network routers, carrier-grade security gateways, and mobile VPN devices.
  
  
• Lauterbach's TRACE32 PowerTools for Xilinx Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (Tuesday Mar. 15, 2011)
  Lauterbach has launched support the new Xilinx Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform that integrates a complete ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ processor-based system with 28nm low-power programmable logic.
  
  
• BIRD Owl, the new real-time debugging solution for the 16-bit microcontrollers, from Dolphin Integration (Friday Mar. 11, 2011)
  The latest release of the real-time debugging solution, BIRD™ Owl, enables optimized development and debug of application programs at minimal cost! Thanks to its innovative approach for bug detection, BIRD™ Owl represents a step forward in terms of quality and flexibility with respect to existing solutions.
  
  
• Tatvik Announces High Performance VP8 Video Decoder Optimized For Cortex-A8 Using ARM NEON Technology (Wednesday Mar. 09, 2011)
  Tatvik Technologies has started providing software VP-8 video decoder optimized for Cortex-A8 using ARM NEON technology. This is in addition to company’s existing efficient and world leading video codec solutions.
  
  
• STMicroelectronics Announces Extension and Production Availability of STM32L Ultra-Low-Power ARM Cortex-M3 Microcontroller Series for "Energy-Lite" Applications (Thursday Mar. 03, 2011)
  The STM32L microcontrollers are the industry’s first ultra-low-power ARM® Cortex™-M3 MCUs available from a top-10 silicon supplier and offer 33 DMIPS performance at 32MHz (max).
  
  
• Imagination announces POWERVR Insider SDK 2.8 (Wednesday Mar. 02, 2011)
  Imagination Technologies has released version 2.8 of its industry leading POWERVR Insider SDK (software development kit). Free and fully featured copies of the SDK will be available for download soon following a brief period where they will be exclusively given away by Imagination at GDC 2011 in San Francisco.
  
  
• ARM Cortex-M3 Reference Platform Running Micrium uC/OS II Released On OVP (Monday Feb. 28, 2011)
  Imperas has expanded its Multiprocessor/Multicore Software Development Kit™ (M*SDK™) to include CPU-aware support for the Cortex-M3 processor model, and OS-aware support for the μC/OS II RTOS.
  
  
• ARM DS-5 Supports Freescale i.MX53 Multimedia Applications Processors (Thursday Feb. 24, 2011)
  ARM announces immediate support for the Freescale i.MX53 family of multimedia applications processors in the ARM® Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) and the DSTREAM target connection unit.
  
  
• mimoOn & BDTI simplify processor performance evaluation for LTE base stations (Thursday Feb. 17, 2011)
  mimoOn today announced a partnership with independent technology analysis firm BDTI to develop benchmarks for the evaluation of processors used in LTE baseband applications.
  
  
• ARM Development Studio-5 v5.4 Delivers Enhanced ARM NEON Technology Support (Wednesday Feb. 16, 2011)
  ARM announced the release of the Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) v5.4, which delivers enhancements to its compiler, debugger and performance analysis tools
  
  
• Content protection on HTC's Android Devices, powered by Discretix (Monday Feb. 14, 2011)
  Discretix announced today that HTC Corporation has extended its Discretix Multi-Scheme DRM license, to include support for Microsoft PlayReady® DRM technology on Android smartphones and tablets.
  
  
• CEVA and Alango Partner to Add Innovative Voice Enhancement Software to CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP family (Thursday Feb. 10, 2011)
  Addressing the demand for tighter integration and cost reduction in mobile handset design, the CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP enables the integration of wireless baseband processing with mobile audio, speech, and front-end voice enhancement processing functions offered by Alango, on a single core.
  
  
• Ittiam to showcase HD multi-way conferencing on mobile devices at the Mobile World Congress 2011 (Thursday Feb. 10, 2011)
  Ittiam announced that it will be showcasing its embedded high definition (HD) Conferencing and Bridging System at the GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2011.
  
  
• PA Consulting Group and CEVA Partner for Software-Based 3G Solution Targeting Wireless Infrastructure (Wednesday Feb. 09, 2011)
  CEVA and PA Consulting Group today announced the companies have partnered to offer optimized software solutions for wireless infrastructure applications based on the CEVA-XC processor and PA's baseband software radio expertise.
  
  
• STMicroelectronics Announces ARM Software Support for SPEAr Microprocessor Families (Wednesday Feb. 09, 2011)
  STMicroelectronics today announced software development-tool support for its SPEAr300 and SPEAr600 family of microprocessor units (MPUs) with the ARM® Development Studio 5 (DS™-5).
  
  
• Multiple cores power fifth generation of TI's OMAP (Tuesday Feb. 08, 2011)
  Texas Instruments' believes its OMAP 5 platform is expected to change the concept of ‘mobile’ by driving disruptive mobile computing experiences providing stereoscopic 3D, gesture recognition and computational photography based on multi-core processing, including ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processors
  
  
• Tensilica Announces Availability of Atlas Reference Architecture Dataplane Processors for a Complete Baseband PHY for LTE, HSPA+ and WiMAX (Monday Feb. 07, 2011)
  Tensilica today announced that all the optimized programmable DPUs (dataplane processing units) of its Atlas Reference Architecture are now available for customer evaluation. The Atlas Reference Architecture uses the Tensilica ConnX BBE16 baseband DSP core coupled with three function-specific dataplane processor cores to allow the baseband PHY SOC developer to create a very low power and minimal size PHY system, while enjoying the flexibility of a fully programmable radio, which is vital for competitive multi-standard user equipment devices (handsets) and femtocells.
  
  
• CEVA and mimoOn Offer Complete LTE PHY Reference Architectures for UE and eNodeB Applications (Monday Feb. 07, 2011)
  CEVA and mimoOn announced today a range of LTE reference architectures based on the widely adopted CEVA-XC communication processor and designed to accelerate the development of cost-efficient, low-power 4G solutions for mass market terminal and infrastructure devices.
  
  
• Intel finds design error in chip (Monday Jan. 31, 2011)
  Intel has found a design error in a support chip for the recently announced Sandy Bridge processor. The company says it has implemented a solution but that the error could cost the company $700 million.
  
  
• Four-core ARM A9 to run Sony game console (Thursday Jan. 27, 2011)
  Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) has announced its next-generation portable entertainment system (codenamed NGP) will be run on a four-core Cortex-A9 processor from ARM and a PowerVR SGX543MP4+ graphics core from Imagination Technologies.
  
  
• Synopsys Announces Android Operating System Support for DesignWare ARC Processor Cores (Wednesday Jan. 12, 2011)
  Synopsys today announced Android operating system (v2.2 FroYo) support for the DesignWare™ ARC™ 750D processor core.
  
  
• Ittiam introduces Android-based HD video conferencing on Texas Instruments OMAP 4 platform (Tuesday Jan. 11, 2011)
  Ittiam announces the successful demonstration of a high definition (HD) video conferencing system running on Android™ and the OMAP™ 4 platform from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI).
  
  
• NVIDIA Announces "Project Denver" to Build Custom CPU Cores Based on ARM Architecture, Targeting Personal Computers to Supercomputers (Thursday Jan. 06, 2011)
  NVIDIA announced today that it plans to build high-performance ARM® based CPU cores, designed to support future products ranging from personal computers and servers to workstations and supercomputers.
  
  
• D2 Technologies Collaborates with Freescale on Android-based Reference Design with HD Video Call Capability (Thursday Jan. 06, 2011)
  D2 Technologies is announcing the availability of a new multimedia processor/software solution based on i.MX technology from Freescale Semiconductor.
  
  
• Microsoft Announces Support of System on a Chip Architectures From Intel, AMD, and ARM for Next Version of Windows (Thursday Jan. 06, 2011)
  Microsoft Corp. today announced at 2011 International CES that the next version of Windows will support System on a Chip (SoC) architectures, including ARM-based systems from partners NVIDIA Corp., Qualcomm Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc.
  
  
• CriticalBlue releases optimized support within Prism for the 2nd generation Intel Core processor family (Thursday Jan. 06, 2011)
  CriticalBlue announced today the completion of a development program which focused on enhancing its Prism product to deliver an optimized experience for software developers who are migrating to the 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processor family.