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• Bluetooth Smart radio with record battery lifetime (Wednesday Dec. 04, 2013)
  With a power consumption up to five times lower than state-of-the-art radios and an extremely small memory footprint, this radio solution, integrating imec and Holst Centre’s 2.4GHz ultra-low power radio and Wicentric’s exactLE product line of Bluetooth® Smart software, leads the way to new Internet of Things applications such as personal health monitoring systems and smart home applications.
  
  
• MoSys Announces Tabula Support of GigaChip Interface (Thursday Nov. 21, 2013)
  MoSys today announced that Tabula, Inc., advancing high-performance programmable logic solutions for network infrastructure systems, supports the GigaChip™ Interface.
  
  
• MediaTek Launches MT6592 True Octa-Core Mobile Platform (Wednesday Nov. 20, 2013)
  MediaTek today unveiled the MT6592, the world’s first true octa-core mobile platform. The MediaTek MT6592 System on a Chip (SOC) combines an advanced eight-core application processor with industry-leading multimedia capabilities and mobile connectivity for a perfect balance of performance and power consumption.
  
  
• Faraday Announces the Availability of Dual-core Cortex A9-based SoC Platform (Tuesday Nov. 19, 2013)
  Faraday Technology today announced the availability of its ARM-based SoCreative! IV™ evaluation platform with A380 SoC chip in 40nm LP (Low power) process. This latest extendable SoC platform integrates powerful processors and high-performance interfaces to address the fast growing demand of cloud infrastructure market, targeting the networking, computing, and storage applications.
  
  
• KALRAY today announces world’s first hyper-scalable 1000+ cores MIMD processor architecture for next generation exaflop supercomputers. (Tuesday Nov. 19, 2013)
  KALRAY today announces world’s first hyper-scalable 1000+ cores MIMD processor architecture (about 1 TeraFlops at less than 30 Watts, and up to0.5 TeraBytes of DDR) for Next Generation ExaFLOP Ssercomputers.
  
  
• INSIDE Secure Extends Leadership in Protecting Connected Devices with New Generation of Authentication Chips (Thursday Nov. 14, 2013)
  INSIDE Secure today announced the next generation of its innovative dual-interface VaultIC 150/150D security modules. The new VaultIC products have been redesigned to provide enhanced functionality, including a new privacy mode, in a more cost-effective solution that will have broad appeal in new, higher-volume markets.
  
  
• DecaWave Launches Industry's Most Precise Indoor Location and Communication CMOS Chip (Monday Nov. 11, 2013)
  Fabless semiconductor company DecaWave announced today its first single chip of the ScenSor wireless technology family DW1000, which makes indoor location and communications more accurate, cost-effective and power-efficient than ever before. This is the first Integrated Circuit on the market to electronically identify the specific distance to any object, person or thing with +/-10cm precision.
  
  
• Tabula and Titan IC Systems Partner to Offer High-Speed Content Analysis Products (Tuesday Nov. 05, 2013)
  Tabula announced today a partnership with Titan IC Systems to offer high-speed content analysis products. This solution features the seamless integration of Titan IC's Regular Expression Processor (RxP) soft IP powered by Tabula's ABAX2P1 3PLD.
  
  
• Aquantia Solidifies Market Leadership With World's First 28nm 10GBASE-T PHY (Tuesday Nov. 05, 2013)
  The new device, which is the fourth generation of 10GBASE-T ICs from Aquantia, reduces the power consumption of its data center products to 1.5W per port while also integrating such features as Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE), 1588 and MACsec.
  
  
• XMOS creates the next wave in programmable system-on-chip products (Friday Oct. 25, 2013)
  XMOS today announced xCORE-XA™, a range of eXtended Architecture xCORE devices that combine the company’s configurable multicore microcontroller technology with an ultra-low-power ARM Cortex-M3 processor, to create the next wave in programmable system-on-chip (SoC) products.
  
  
• Freescale Debuts ARM-based QorIQ LS Series Communications Processors (Wednesday Oct. 16, 2013)
  Freescale Semiconductor is bringing 20 years of networking IP and expertise to ARM® processing with its new QorIQ LS1 family of communications processors based on the core-agnostic, software-aware Layerscape system architecture.
  
  
• Texas Instruments drives customer applications one lane closer to an autonomous driving experience and reduction in collisions (Wednesday Oct. 16, 2013)
  New TDA2x SoC family with cutting-edge Vision AccelerationPac enables auto manufacturers to redefine next-gen advanced driver assistance systems at significantly lower power consumption
  
  
• Broadcom Announces Server-Class ARMv8-A Multi-Core Processor Architecture (Tuesday Oct. 15, 2013)
  Broadcom today announced the architecture for a new generation of multicore processors, featuring the industry's highest performance 64-bit ARM® core.
  
  
• Silicon Motion Introduces the SM3267 Ultra High-Performance, Cost-Effective USB 3.0 Controller (Monday Oct. 14, 2013)
  
  
  
• Silicon Labs Launches the World's Most Energy-Friendly MCUs Based on the ARM Cortex-M0+ Core (Thursday Oct. 10, 2013)
  Silicon Labs today introduced the industry’s most energy-friendly 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) based on the ARM® Cortex®-M0+ processor.
  
  
• KnCMiner Announces Word's first 28nm Bitcoin mining machine (Thursday Oct. 03, 2013)
  KnCMiner AB announced that it has achieved, what is believed to be; the world's fastest concept to production of any 28nm device ever created, in a little over 4 months, and the word's very first 28nm Bitcoin mining machine.
  
  
• Silicon Image Announces First 4K Ultra HD MHL 3.0 Receiver IC With HDCP 2.2 in Support of Secure Premium Content Transmission (Monday Sep. 30, 2013)
  Silicon Image today announced the availability of the industry's first 4K Ultra HD MHL® 3.0 receiver featuring support for HDCP 2.2, the latest High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection technology that protects high-value digital motion pictures, television programs and audio against unauthorized interception and copying.
  
  
• Micron Technology Ships First Samples of Hybrid Memory Cube (Thursday Sep. 26, 2013)
  Micron Technology, Inc. announced today that it is shipping 2GB Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) engineering samples. HMC represents a dramatic step forward in memory technology, and these engineering samples are the world's first HMC devices to be shared broadly with lead customers.
  
  
• Fresco Logic Demonstrates Industry's First SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps (USB 3.1) Data Transfer (Friday Sep. 13, 2013)
  Fresco Logic demonstrated SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps (USB 3.1) data transfer on its hardware development platform at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF).
  
  
• Sigma Designs to Launch New ARM-based Chipset at IBC (Thursday Sep. 12, 2013)
  Combining a high performance ARM A9 CPU with an Imagination SGX GPU, the SMP8734 will enable a new level of user experience with minimal extra cost.
  
  
• AMD Details Embedded Product Roadmap (Tuesday Sep. 10, 2013)
  AMD extends ambidextrous strategy to embedded customers becoming the first to offer choice of ARM or x86 SoC, APU or CPU options coupled with industry-leading AMD Radeon graphics
  
  
• Cortina Introduces Industry's First Dual 15G EDC PHY (Monday Sep. 09, 2013)
  Cortina Systems today announced the availability of the industry's first dual 15G Electronic Dispersion Compensation (EDC) PHY for low port count applications transitioning from 1 to 10 and 15G.
  
  
• VMC uses eASIC to Achieve 24.756 TH/s Bitcoin Miner (Thursday Sep. 05, 2013)
  eASIC and Virtual Mining Corporation (VMC) today announced that VMC will use eASIC Nextreme-3™ 28nm devices to create a series of scalable Bitcoin mining machines capable of generating up to 24.756 TH/s (tera hashes per second) of cryptographic hashes.
  
  
• Coherent Logix And Intrinsic-ID Announce Availability Of An Advanced Secure Processor Enabling Fully Software Reprogrammable Wireless and Video Solutions for Software Defined Systems (Tuesday Aug. 13, 2013)
  Coherent Logix, Inc. and Intrinsic-ID have collaborated in the development of embedded security features in the latest HyperX™ Software Defined System processor from Coherent Logix.
  
  
• IntelliProp Announces High Performance SATA SSD Flash Controller (Monday Aug. 12, 2013)
  IntelliProp announced today the availability of a new SATA SSD (Solid State Drive) Flash Controller. The IntelliProp IPA-SA129-CT (code named “Apache”) features enterprise class ECC:BCH error correction, True End-to-End CRC, AES-XTS-256bit encryption and supports both MLC and SLC flash.
  
  
• Crossbar Emerges from Stealth-Mode; Unveils Crossbar RRAM Non-Volatile Memory Technology (Monday Aug. 05, 2013)
  Emerging from stealth-mode today, Crossbar, Inc., a start-up company pioneering a new category of very high capacity and high-performance non-volatile memory, unveiled its Crossbar Resistive RAM (RRAM) technology.
  
  
• Diablo Technologies Disrupts Latency and Performance Metrics for the Enterprise with Introduction of New Memory Channel Flash Solution (Tuesday Jul. 30, 2013)
  Diablo Technologies, a proven innovator in advanced memory system interface products, today introduced Memory Channel Storage, a transformational new storage and system memory solution, resetting the bar for latency and throughput for enterprise applications.
  
  
• MediaTek Introduces Industry Leading Tablet SoC, MT8135 (Monday Jul. 29, 2013)
  MediaTek today announced its breakthrough MT8135 system-on-chip (SoC) for high-end tablets. The quad-core solution incorporates two high-performance ARM Cortex™-A15 and two ultra-efficient ARM Cortex™-A7 processors, and the latest GPU from Imagination Technologies, the PowerVR™ Series6.
  
  
• Tilera's TILE-Gx72 Processor Sets World Record for Suricata IPS/IDS: Industry's Highest Performance (Tuesday Jul. 23, 2013)
  Tilera today announced it has achieved the highest ever single-chip Suricata performance, delivering 4x the performance, and 7x the performance-per-watt of a high-end x86 multicore processor.
  
  
• Scaleo chip and GLOBALFOUNDRIES partner to design and manufacture System on a Chip for automotive market. (Thursday Jul. 11, 2013)
  Scaleo chip announced today it has entered into a collaborative agreement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES for the design and manufacture of automotive qualified devices.