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• LSI Delivers World's Fastest Read Channel, Achieving 4.0GHz Data Rates for Enterprise Hard Disk Drives (Wednesday Sep. 17, 2008)
  The new 65-nanometer (nm) LSI(TM) TrueStore® RC8900 iterative decoding read channel offers industry-leading performance with data transfer rates up to 4.0GHz, a 50 percent increase over the previous product.
  
  
• Newport Media Unveils World's First 65nm System-on-Chip (SoC) for Japan/Brazilian ISDB-T Mobile TV (Tuesday Sep. 09, 2008)
  Newport Media today unveiled the world’s first complete 65nm CMOS single-chip solution for the mobile version of Japan’s Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) digital television standard.
  
  
• Silicon Image To Enable High-Definition Media Content In Mobile Applications on AMD Platforms (Monday Sep. 08, 2008)
  Silicon Image VastLane™ HDMI™ and DVI™ transmitters now available for AMD processor-based embedded platforms
  
  
• Staccato Introduces Ripcord2 Single-Chip, Ultra-Wideband IC Family (Tuesday Sep. 02, 2008)
  This second-generation family is the industry’s first implementation utilizing 65nm CMOS process technology, and offers a quantum leap in power consumption, size and integration over existing solutions.
  
  
• Broadcom Announces New Digital Television Solution Supporting Global Connectivity (Thursday Aug. 28, 2008)
  Next Generation DTV System-on-a-Chip Solution Combines DVB Standards with Advanced Functionality for Premium Picture Quality and Worldwide Compatibility
  
  
• NEC Electronics Announces iDTV SoC Supporting H.264/AVC with Full HD processing (Tuesday Aug. 26, 2008)
  NEC Electronics today announced that it began sample shipments of the EMMA™ 3TL, a new SoC product for full high definition (HD) iDTV supporting the H.264/AVC next-generation video compression standard.
  
  
• PLX Gen 2 Switch Screams Between Earth-Shattering ATI Radeon Dual-GPUs (Monday Aug. 25, 2008)
  PCI Express Chip Provides High-Performance Connectivity on New Premium ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 X2 Graphics Card
  
  
• Realtek Multimedia Chip is First to Enable Full 1080p High-Definition DivX(R) Video on Media Box and Set-Top-Box Applications (Wednesday Aug. 20, 2008)
  Realtek’s new chip, the RTD1262/RTD1282, increases the ability of consumers to capitalize on emerging high-definition content by delivering seamless playback of DivX® HD video at the 1080p profile.
  
  
• PLX Launches Industry's First PCI Express Switches With Integrated DMA (Monday Aug. 18, 2008)
  
  
  
• Ambric Announces Strategic Partnership with Pixellexis (Monday Aug. 11, 2008)
  Ambric has selected Pixellexis Systems & Technologies as a strategic partner for development of an ISO/IEC 15444-compliant JPEG2K codec.
  
  
• DivX Certifies High-Definition Chip from Broadcom for HDTVs and Set-Top Boxes (Monday Aug. 11, 2008)
  DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX), a digital media company, today announced the high-definition (HD) DivX Certification™ of Broadcom Corporation's BCM7405 system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution.
  
  
• Integrated WiMAX SoC Platform and RF-to-Digital Baseband Transceivers Enable Range of Powerful WiMAX Femto, Pico and Micro Base Stations and Relays (Monday Aug. 04, 2008)
  DesignArt Networks integrates Analog Devices’ WiMAX/WiBRO RF transceivers with its DAN2400 SoC platform
  
  
• Mindspeed and ARM Deliver Dual-Core Comcerto(R) 100 Processors With Leading Performance/Low Power (Tuesday Jul. 29, 2008)
  The Comcerto 100 provides the leading performance-power-cost profile in its class, delivering 2 Gbps at 1.7W power with two channels of voice-over-IP (VoIP). The integrated system-on-chip (SoC) features two ARM1136J-S(TM) processors, offering broadband gateway manufacturers a single-chip solution with an attractive bill-of-materials (BOM) cost.
  
  
• Open-Silicon, Inc. Announces Corporate Expansion in Response to Rapid Business Growth (Tuesday Jul. 29, 2008)
  Joining Open-Silicon are William J. DeWilkins, director of test, Al Di Cicco, senior director of sales, Cyrus Fathi, director of quality and reliability, and Robert Fulton, senior staff IP applications engineer.
  
  
• Redpine Signals' Lite-Fi(TM) 802.11n SoC is Among the First Devices Certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance(R) for Voice-Over-Wi-Fi(R) Applications (Wednesday Jul. 23, 2008)
  Redpine's Lite-Fi(TM) solution is Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 802.11n draft 2.0 and Voice-Personal by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
  
  
• Oxford Semiconductor Unveils New Consumer Network-Attached and Direct-Attached Storage Solution-on-a-chip Platforms (Monday Jul. 21, 2008)
  Aimed at the emerging personal shared network-attached storage (NAS) market, Oxford introduced the highly integrated OXE810x NAS platform, designed for bridging between Ethernet and up to two serial advanced technology attachments (SATA) hard disks.
  
  
• Cavium Networks to Acquire Taiwan-Based Star Semiconductor (Wednesday Jul. 16, 2008)
  Star Semiconductor is a Taiwan-based design house in Hsinchu with expertise in building highly integrated ARM-based SOC processors for the broadband, connected home and SOHO market segments
  
  
• Numonyx and Elpida collaborate to deliver NOR flash memory through 300MM fab (Thursday Jul. 10, 2008)
  Elpida Memory and Numonyx today announced they have signed a letter of intent to enter into a foundry agreement for Numonyx to utilize Elpida’s leading-edge 300mm wafer fab in Hiroshima to manufacture NOR flash memory.
  
  
• Conexant to Acquire Freescale's "Sigmatel" Multi-Function Printer Product Lines (Tuesday Jul. 08, 2008)
  Transaction Will Create a Leading Provider of Semiconductor Solutions for MFPs and Facsimile Imaging Applications
  
  
• Renesas Technology Releases SuperH Family Microcontroller, the SH72544R, Featuring 200 MHz Operation and 2.5 Mbytes Large-Capacity On-Chip Flash Memory (Monday Jul. 07, 2008)
  Optimal for implementing high-precision power-train control, the SH72544R is based on the 400 MIPS real-time processing SH-2A CPU core and features a large-capacity on-chip flash memory
  
  
• eASIC and Northwest Logic Deliver Low Cost, Silicon-Proven, 533 Mbps DDR2 SDRAM Solution (Tuesday Jul. 01, 2008)
  eASIC based DDR2 SDRAM Solution Provides 60% Higher Performance than Mainstream Low-Density FPGAs
  
  
• Sital Announces the Release of OCTAVA, a family of DDC MiniACE Compatible Devices (Wednesday Jun. 25, 2008)
  The OCTAVA™ family integrate Mil-Std-1553 protocol engine, a dual 5-volt transceiver, memory management, processor interface logic and 4K or 64K words of RAM in a 72 pin Plastic Quad Flat Pack (PQFP) package.
  
  
• Atmel Announces ARM Cortex-M3 License and AT91SAM3 Flash MCU Family (Tuesday Jun. 24, 2008)
  Atmel's planned AT91SAM3 Flash MCU family will combine the ARM Cortex-M3 processor with the outstanding system implementation features that have placed the AT91SAM series at the forefront of its market
  
  
• Sigma Designs Announces CoAir, the World's First Ultrawideband Chipset With Integrated Wireless, Coax and Gigabit Ethernet for High Speed Whole Home Networking (Tuesday Jun. 24, 2008)
  Company's Innovative UWB System-on-a-Chip Offers Triple Communications Power for HD Multimedia Streaming and Home Data Networking
  
  
• Jennic first to introduce 32-bit ZigBee PRO wireless microcontroller (Monday Jun. 23, 2008)
  Jennic announces the introduction of a ZigBee PRO software stack to run on its JN5139 32-bit single chip wireless microcontroller.
  
  
• Frontier Silicon announces unified multi-region digital radio receiver (Monday Jun. 23, 2008)
  The new receiver addresses the market need for a solution that supports all Eureka-147 based standards, including DAB and DAB+ and DMB-Audio.
  
  
• Eight-core microprocessor from Freescale redefines state-of-the-art for embedded multicore processing (Monday Jun. 16, 2008)
  The signature member of Freescale's new QorIQ product line, the P4080 multicore processor is based on 45-nm process technology. It integrates enhanced Power Architecture™ cores, a tri-level cache hierarchy, innovative CoreNet™ on-chip fabric and datapath acceleration to deliver exceptional performance within a 30W maximum power envelope.
  
  
• Enhanced Zatara(TM) ARM(R)-Based ASSP From Zilog Adds Integrated Security Features, On-Chip USB for Reduced BOM Costs and Faster Time-to-Market (Thursday Jun. 12, 2008)
  PCI-PED, Single-Chip Solution Offers Highest Levels of Integration, Dual-Role USB OTG Controller, and Reduced External Component Count for Better Overall System Security
  
  
• DesignArt Networks Unveils 4G Silicon Platform and Delivers Fully Integrated WiMAX SoC (Monday Jun. 09, 2008)
  DesignArt's highly integrated system-on-chip (SoC) platform architecture integrates high-capacity backhaul capability with standards-compliant WiMAX and LTE base station functionality, delivering zero-cost backhaul solutions.
  
  
• CSR launches the world's most highly integrated wireless single chip (Tuesday Jun. 03, 2008)
  BlueCore7 is the world's first device integrating Bluetooth v2.1+EDR, Bluetooth low energy, eGPS (enhanced Global Positioning System), and FM transmit and receive technologies on a single chip