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• STMicroelectronics and IBM to Collaborate on Chip Technology (Wednesday Jul. 25, 2007)
  The agreement includes 32-nanometer (nm) and 22nm complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) process-technology development, design enablement and advanced research adapted to the manufacturing of 300-millimeter (mm) silicon wafers. The new agreement between IBM and ST will also include collaboration on IP development and platforms to speed the design of system-on-chip devices in these technologies.
  
  
• Newport Media Unveils World's First Mobile TV System-on-Chip (SoC) For ISDB-T Standard in Japan (Monday Jul. 23, 2007)
  Newport Media today unveiled the world’s first complete single-chip solution for the mobile version of Japan’s Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) digital television standard. The NMI320 Sundance J mobile digital TV receiver integrates an RF tuner, demodulator and all required memory in a single monolithic CMOS device that will enable designers to deliver today’s smallest, most power-efficient handset products.
  
  
• Staccato's Single-Chip CMOS Ultra Wideband Solution Achieves Certification Milestones in US and Japanese Markets (Monday Jul. 23, 2007)
  The Industry’s First and Only Single-Chip, All-CMOS Product Family, Ripcord™ Secures US FCC and Japanese TELEC Regulatory Approval, Enabling Faster Time-to-Market with Reduced Risk for Customers
  
  
• IC vendors, get with the platform (Tuesday Jul. 17, 2007)
  The momentum toward product platforms and new business models is accelerating. New models are pervasive among companies that manufacture and design semiconductors, as well as among their fabless counterparts. Efficient, economical and versatile platforms are tomorrow's vehicle for delivering high performance.
  
  
• STMicroelectronics Licenses Leading-Edge Smart Power Process Technologies to Bosch Automotive (Tuesday Jul. 10, 2007)
  STMicroelectronics today announced the signing of an agreement with Bosch in which the world's leading automotive electronic systems company will license ST's state-of-the-art BCD8 process technology, enabling Bosch to design and manufacture highly integrated automotive products using this leading-edge technology in its own wafer fabrication plant.
  
  
• XMOS Software Defined Silicon to bring low cost flexibility to consumer product design (Monday Jul. 09, 2007)
  Based on arrays of processors, SDS devices will allow system functions that would normally be implemented in hardware to be defined in software, unifying the design flow for software and hardware. XMOS Semiconductor will be offering chips, software IP and development tools and its first product will be announced during Q1'2008
  
  
• New eSilicon Peripheral Subsystem offers Design Flexibility for ARM Processor-Based Chips (Tuesday Jul. 03, 2007)
  he subsystem is designed in single- and multi-AHB (AMBA® High-performance Bus) configurations, making it easy to accommodate specialty IP including PCI, USB, Ethernet, 802.11 and Bluetooth. This provides chip developers with the ability to modify the subsystem in-house, or work directly with eSilicon to optimize the subsystem for their application.
  
  
• Infineon Achieves New Data Rate Breakthrough With 3.0 Gb/s Advanced Hard Disk Drive Read Channel and 6 Gb/s Serdes Interface (Friday Jun. 29, 2007)
  Infineon Technologies AG today announced it has demonstrated functionality and data rates exceeding 3.0 Gb/s speed of read channel, setting the pace for next-generation hard disk drive (HDD) System-on-Chip (SoC) technology
  
  
• Comtech AHA Announces GZIP Compression and Decompression IC (Thursday Jun. 28, 2007)
  Comtech AHA's GZIP IC is the first of its kind, and offers up to 2.5 Gbits/sec throughput while achieving compression ratios comparable to high effort (level 9) GZIP software.
  
  
• Atmel Extends CAP Family of Customizable Microcontrollers With ARM7-based Product (Monday Jun. 25, 2007)
  The new CAP7 customizable microcontroller is architecturally compatible with Atmel's broad range of off-the-shelf ARM7-based MCUs and incorporates metal programmable cell fabric (MPCF) technology to integrate up to 450K equivalent ASIC gates in a metal programmable block for custom logic netlist conversion. Atmel's flexible design flow allows an easy conversion path from FPGA netlist to the metal programmable block.
  
  
• Mobilygen Announces the Industry's Broadest Range of H.264 HD Codec ICs (Monday Jun. 25, 2007)
  Mobilygen today announced the en-ViE platform enabling the creation, playback and distribution of HD H.264 video for connected home, mobile, and surveillance applications. The en-ViE platform includes three new codec SOCs (System On Chip), the MG2500, MG3500, and MG4500, offering customers the choice of dual-stream SD, multi-stream SD or full 1080i HD encoding.
  
  
• FSA Reports Fabless Revenue Totaled $11.7B in the First Quarter Of 2007 (Monday Jun. 25, 2007)
  Fabless industry revenue totaled $11.7 billion, which equated to 19 percent of the semiconductor sales total of $61.0 billion.
  
  
• STMicroelectronics and Freescale Accelerate Joint Automotive Design Activity (Thursday Jun. 21, 2007)
  Freescale Semiconductor and STMicroelectronics have made significant progress in the areas of automotive IP development, flash technology alignment and new product definition
  
  
• STMicroelectronics Unveils Design Platform for Low-Power Next-Generation 45nm CMOS (Wednesday Jun. 13, 2007)
  ST confirms early availability of design platform for power-optimized System-on-Chip solutions, including 45nm libraries and first tape-out of 45nm SoC demonstrator IC
  
  
• iamba Networks and K-micro Team to Develop Market-Leading GPON SoCs (Tuesday Jun. 12, 2007)
  Will offer high-speed, low-cost solutions to TEMs and ODMs that enable faster time-to-market
  
  
• STMicroelectronics Reshapes the MCU Market with New 32-Bit Family Powered by ARM Cortex-M3 Core (Monday Jun. 11, 2007)
  The STM32 family benefits from the Cortex-M3's many new architectural enhancements including the Thumb-2 instruction set to deliver improved performance combined with better code density, and a tightly-coupled Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller for significantly faster response to interrupts, all combined with industry leading power consumption
  
  
• Comsys baseband processor is first WiMAX multi-technology (Thursday Jun. 07, 2007)
  ComMAX is first baseband to support expanded WiMAX TDD profile within IMT-2000 radio interface
  
  
• Luminary Micro Launches 27 Stellaris Microcontrollers Including the First Offering of Real- Time Networking with the ARM Cortex-M3 Processor (Wednesday Jun. 06, 2007)
  Next Generation of Award-Winning Stellaris MCUs Offers Ethernet and CAN-bus with World’s Only Integrated 10/100 Ethernet MAC and PHY in an ARM Architecture MCU
  
  
• Stream Processors Delivers Industry's Highest-Performing Digital Signal Processor (Thursday May. 24, 2007)
  With 112 GMACs, Storm-1 SP16HP offers a cost-effective, easy-to-design, C-programmable alternative to FPGA and multi-DSP designs
  
  
• TechnoConcepts, Inc. Announces True Software Radio Test Chips in CMOS 90 nm, a Key Milestone for Reconfigurable Chip (Thursday May. 24, 2007)
  The company has been successful in implementing its advanced radio technologies, such as the bank select filters and wideband low noise amplifiers, onto TSMC's (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) CMOS 90nm semiconductor technology.
  
  
• Renesas Introduces Faster (600MHz) 32-bit SoC Device With Performance and Enhanced Peripherals Needed for Next-Generation Car Navigation Systems (Wednesday May. 23, 2007)
  The New Device Delivers 1-GIPS/4.2-GFLOPS Throughput Capabilities, a 3D-Graphics Engine, and GPS Baseband Module to Enable Superior Car Information Systems
  
  
• Intel , STMicroelectronics and Francisco Partners Establish a New Leader in Flash Memory (Tuesday May. 22, 2007)
  STMicroelectronics, Intel and Francisco Partners today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to create a new independent semiconductor company from the key assets of businesses which last year generated approximately $3.6 billion in combined annual revenue.
  
  
• Fujitsu Announces Mobile WiMAX SoC Performance and Delivery Schedule (Monday May. 21, 2007)
  New chip will provide substantial advances for media-rich mobile PC applications; SoC to be first mobile WiMAX chip certified for Wave 2 conformance
  
  
• Atmel Launches Customizable Microcontroller-based SoC Platform (Monday May. 21, 2007)
  By leveraging the architecture of Atmel's market-leading ARM AT91SAM microcontrollers, the new CAP metal programmable microcontroller platform enables application-specific products to be developed in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost of a conventional standard-cell or gate array ASIC, but at a unit price close to that of standard-cell devices.
  
  
• AMCC Announces Titan: 2 GHz Power Architecture Processor for Embedded Applications (Monday May. 21, 2007)
  SoC Multi-Core Design Delivers Unprecedented Combination of Power and Performance
  
  
• Freescale Unveils Versatile Multi-Core Processor for Telematics, Consumer and Industrial Applications (Monday May. 21, 2007)
  Low-Power System-on-Chip Device Combines Power Architecture Technology with Integrated 3D Graphics and Multimedia Acceleration Cores
  
  
• K-micro Runs Digital TV Devices on TSMC 90nm Embedded RAM (Wednesday May. 09, 2007)
  K-micro and TSMC today revealed that K-micro has successfully launched its digital television (DTV) semiconductor product line using TSMC's 90nm embedded DRAM (eDRAM) technology. The new ASIC line addresses increased market demand for a high performance single chip, cost-effective format that features low power consumption coupled with high bandwidth.
  
  
• Open-Silicon Inc. Acquires IP Assets of Zenasis Technology (Monday May. 07, 2007)
  The acquired Zenasis technology will enable Open-Silicon to combine the benefits of increased performance and power through design-specific cell creation by concurrently analyzing and optimizing designs at standard cell, physical and transistor levels. ASIC designs with embedded processor cores can greatly benefit from this technology
  
  
• Conexant Delivers World's First System-on-Chips for Fiber Optic Gateways (Monday May. 07, 2007)
  Conexant Systems today delivered the world's first family of system-on-chips (SoCs) for gigabit and gigabit Ethernet passive optical network (GPON/GE-PON) residential gateway applications
  
  
• QuickLogic Ships the First ArcticLink Solution Platform, with Fully Integrated USB 2.0 High Speed On-the-Go Controller and PHY (Thursday Apr. 26, 2007)
  The ArcticLink solution platform meets the need for mobile devices to integrate a wide variety of wireless, storage and image/video technology by providing designers solutions including USB 2.0 High Speed OTG, SD/MMC memory, High Speed SDIO for Wi-Fi and Mobile TV, CE-ATA and IDE Hard Disk Drive, and a vast library of other production-proven solutions