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• SiTune unveils Ultra low power Mobile Analog CMOS TV Tuner for power sensitive devices (Tuesday Jan. 19, 2010)
  SiTune announced its latest generation of state of the art Global Analog CMOS TV tuners based upon its P2TUNE architecture. STN-55T2000 is a highly integrated LOW-IF Tuner that delivers best performance for PAL/SECAM/NTSC for terrestrial and Mobile applications with best in class power consumption.
  
  
• Triad Semiconductor Announces Availability of World's First Configurable ARM Cortex-M0 Mixed-signal ASIC Solution (Tuesday Jan. 12, 2010)
  Triad Semiconductor today announced the first system-on-chip (SoC) to integrate the world-class ARM® Cortex™-M0 with the via-configurable analog and digital functions needed to rapidly and inexpensively deliver embedded mixed-signal solutions.
  
  
• Atmel Reduces System Cost in Industrial Applications With High-Quality Video Decoding ARM926-Based Microprocessor (Monday Jan. 11, 2010)
  Atmel today announced the SAM9M10, a high-performance ARM926EJ™-based embedded microprocessor (MPU) that integrates a video decoder and 2D acceleration (scaling, rotating, color space conversion, picture in picture) to provide high-quality video performance in industrial embedded applications.
  
  
• Marseille Reinvents Fabless Semiconductor Development, Unveils Virtual Tape-Out Methodology (Thursday Jan. 07, 2010)
  Marseille Networks today unveiled its Virtual Tape-Out methodology that uses virtualization for prototyping a chip’s design in the end consumer device prior to manufacture
  
  
• Nuvoton launches NuMicro Family - 32-bit Microcontroller based on ARM Cortex-M0 (Thursday Jan. 07, 2010)
  NuMicro® family adopts the newest processor of ARM® Cortex™-M0, featured with smallest size, lowest power consumption, optimized instruction set. As a powerful microcontroller, NuMicro® Family is equipped with various built-in analog, mixed-signal components, and all kinds of high-speed communication interfaces, which enables users to upgrade their existing products from 8051 to NuMicro® Family easily.
  
  
• Ambarella A5s with High-Speed CPU and Low-Power 45nm Technology Makes Pocket-Sized Hybrid Cameras a Richer User Experience (Thursday Jan. 07, 2010)
  A5s Combines Full High-Definition Video, Megapixel Photography, Internet Sharing, Long Battery Life, and Best-in-Class Graphical Interface Capabilities
  
  
• Cavium Networks Introduces a New Family of PureVu Single Chip H.264 Processors That Break the Price-Performance Barrier for Mass Market Adoption in Wireless Displays, Home Video Distribution, and Video Conferencing (Wednesday Jan. 06, 2010)
  Cavium Networks today announced a new family of full HD (1080p60) system-on-a-chip (SoC) H.264 video processors for consumer and enterprise applications.
  
  
• eSilicon Takes Achronix 1.5 GHz FPGA Design to Production (Thursday Dec. 17, 2009)
  eSilicon and Achronix Semiconductor today revealed that they have successfully taken the Achronix Speedster 1.5 GHz FPGA to commercial production. Achronix selected eSilicon to leverage eSilicon’s world-class physical design and supply chain expertise.
  
  
• STMicroelectronics Unveils High-Performance System-on-Chip for Next Generation of Integrated Broadcast and Broadband-Internet Digital TVs (Wednesday Dec. 16, 2009)
  Consumer equipment makers to benefit from highly integrated chip with world-class Faroudja(TM) video/audio enhancements, delivering full high-definition digital TV processing and accelerated Internet TV support
  
  
• Atmel Highly-Integrated Cortex-M3-based Flash MCUs Improve Impedance Matching and Lower Power Up to 50 Percent (Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009)
  Atmel today announced the SAM3S series. This series includes 18 general-purpose Cortex®-M3 based Flash microcontrollers that improve impedance matching, simplify PCB design and save 50 percent power at 1 MHz operation with a consumption of only 2.3 mW.
  
  
• NXP Introduces Advanced 3DTV Processor (Monday Dec. 14, 2009)
  NXP Semiconductors today announced the availability of the PNX5130, the industry’s first video co-processor enabling 3DTV, frame-rate conversion (FRC) and local backlight dimming in a single chip. By eliminating the need for external FPGA devices to support 3DTV, NXP is providing a highly cost-effective post-processing solution that will enable manufacturers to bring competitively priced 3D-enabled TV sets to the mainstream consumer market.
  
  
• Genesys Logic Will Display USB 3.0 Products at CES 2010 (Monday Dec. 07, 2009)
  GL3310 USB 3.0 to SATA Bridge Controller and GL3520 USB 3.0 Hub Controller will be on display during CES 2010
  
  
• Atmel Launches Low-cost LF RFID IC with OTP Functionality and Unsurpassed Read Performance for Small-sized Access Control Systems (Thursday Nov. 19, 2009)
  Atmel today announced the availability of the LF OTP (One Time Programmable) transponder IDIC® ATA5575M1. The ATA5575M1 provides OTP functionality, which simplifies the production process and provides increased flexibility compared to read-only devices.
  
  
• Low-Cost Cortex-M0 MCU from NXP targets 8/16-bit applications (Monday Nov. 16, 2009)
  NXP today announced the availability of its ARM® Cortex™-M0 based LPC1100 microcontroller family. NXP’s LPC1100 is the lowest-priced 32-bit MCU solution in the market, bringing higher value and ease of use than existing 8/16-bit microcontroller through unprecedented performance, simplicity, low power, and more importantly, dramatic reductions in code size for all 8/16-bit applications.
  
  
• ZiiLABS Introduces ZMS-08 : The World's First 1080p Blu-ray Quality Handheld Media Processor (Thursday Nov. 12, 2009)
  New ZMS-08 StemCell Processor Offers Faster, Lower-Power Single Chip Solution for Full H.264 HD 1080p Video Playback, 720p Video Conferencing, 1080p Encode, OpenGL ES 2.0, X-Fi Audio and 1GHz ARM® Cortex Application Acceleration
  
  
• Qualcomm Now Sampling Industry's First Dual-carrier HSPA+ and Multi-Mode 3G/LTE Chipsets for Global Markets (Thursday Nov. 12, 2009)
  Qualcomm today announced that it is sampling the industry’s first chipsets for dual-carrier HSPA+ and multi-mode 3G/LTE.
  
  
• Atmel Launches New Secure Microcontroller for Smart Objects and System Security Markets (Monday Nov. 09, 2009)
  Atmel today announced a new family of secure microcontrollers targeting the highest security level for smart objects and systems. The new AT90SO family is the first in the industry to offer a wide range of interfaces to bring security to various applications including USB e-tokens, femtocells, smart meters, secure data storage, telehealth and gaming platforms.
  
  
• GUC announces the mass-production of leading-edge ARM7-based GP5080 series Solid State Disk SoC Solution (Monday Nov. 02, 2009)
  Global Unichip Corporation today announced the mass-production of its leading-edge ARM7-based GP5080 series Solid Sate Disk (SSD) SoC platform solution, targeting the storage application for the booming market of Netbook/Smartbook, thin-NB, UMPC, MID and other portable consumer electronics.
  
  
• Global Unichip announced today world's first 4 channel H.264 full D1 real time surveillance SoC GP1680 with HD Display design solution (Monday Nov. 02, 2009)
  Global Unichip announced today mass production of the world’s first surveillance SoC designs solutions capable of 4 channel concurrent encode/decode in real time D1 format.
  
  
• PLX Technology Completes First Design on Advanced 40nm Process Technology (Monday Nov. 02, 2009)
  PLX Technology today strengthened its industry leadership position by finishing a new design on 40nm process technology at TSMC.
  
  
• CSR and Realtek partner to deliver Bluetooth v3.0 + HS and 802.11n into PCs and netbooks (Thursday Oct. 29, 2009)
  CSR today announced that it has partnered with one of Taiwan's leading wireless communication IC design houses, Realtek, to deliver a family of Bluetooth v3.0 + High Speed (HS) and 802.11n module designs for the PC and netbook markets.
  
  
• CSR and TSMC collaboration reaches new milestones (Thursday Oct. 29, 2009)
  CSR today announced that it has shipped more than 1.5 billion units and processed more than one million wafers from TSMC. CSR also announced that it is collaborating with TSMC on a leading edge 40 nanometer (nm) low power (LP) RF process technology and that CSR has validated a broad range of proprietary connectivity IP blocks at this node for incorporation into their next generation Connectivity Centre SoCs.
  
  
• CSR partners with a leading manufacturer to drive adoption of Bluetooth v3.0 + HS and 802.11n in PCs and netbooks (Thursday Oct. 29, 2009)
  CSR today announced that it has partnered with fast-growing PC Wi-Fi manufacturer Ralink to enable a new Bluetooth/802.11n PCI Express (PCIe) design.
  
  
• Innovative System-on-Chip from STMicroelectronics Simplifies Multimedia Monitor Design and Enhances Viewing Experiences for Consumers (Thursday Oct. 29, 2009)
  STMicroelectronics is the first to combine a DisplayPort 1.1a and HDMI 1.3 receiver to support full-high-definition sources, such as Blu-Ray, while providing comprehensive analog-video and audio connectivity.
  
  
• Open-Silicon, MIPS Technologies, and Virage Logic Achieve High Performance ASIC Processor Design (Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009)
  Open-Silicon, MIPS Technologies and Virage Logic today announced the co-development of test chips showcasing the companies' industry-leading technologies for building high-performance processor-based systems. The companies achieved successful 65 nanometer (nm) silicon testing of a processor test chip at 1.1GHz, making it one of the fastest processors built in a 65nm ASIC.
  
  
• Tilera Announces the World’s First 100-core Processor with the New TILE-Gx Family (Monday Oct. 26, 2009)
  Tilera today announced its new TILE-Gx family – four new processors from Tilera including the world’s first 100-core processor: the TILE-Gx100™.
  
  
• Cypress Provides Solutions IP for New PSoC 3 Devices and Revolutionary PSoC Creator IDE (Monday Oct. 26, 2009)
  Cypress today announced the availability of over 30 intellectual property (IP) elements for its new PSoC® 3 programmable system-on-chip architectures. The new solution IP Elements help engineers to quickly design with features of the PSoC 3 architecture such as the direct memory access (DMA), analog peripherals, and communication interfaces.
  
  
• Energy Micro announces world's most energy efficient microcontroller (Thursday Oct. 22, 2009)
  Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller company, today announced the availability of its first products, the 32-bit EFM32 Gecko microcontroller family. Based on the ultra-efficient ARM® Cortex™-M3 microcontroller architecture, the EFM32G has been proven to extend battery life by a factor of four, consuming a quarter of the energy required by existing 8, 16 or 32-bit microcontrollers.
  
  
• SiTune unveils Innovative mobile DVB-T CMOS demodulator exceeding MBRAI specification. (Thursday Oct. 22, 2009)
  SiTune announced a state of the art and revolutionary mobile DVB-T demodulator IC. STN-10D3000 is a highly integrated mobile DVB-T demodulator that exceeds MBRAI performance specification with excellent Doppler performance.
  
  
• Texas Instruments debuts first ARM Cortex-A8 processors for industrial computing applications (Wednesday Oct. 21, 2009)
  For the industrial market, Texas Instruments today announced the first two devices from its new Sitara™ family, the AM3505 and AM3517 ARM microprocessors (MPU), and an AM3517 evaluation module