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• Silicon Image Introduces the First LiquidHD Display Processor (Thursday Jan. 08, 2009)
  A silicon implementation of the LiquidHD specification, the SiI6100 display processor allows CE manufacturers and multiple service operators (MSOs) to reduce the time-to-market for their next-generation networked equipment. In addition, the SiI6100 reduces the cost of deployment of multi-room services while offering secure, high-quality video and a pixel-accurate remote user interface on a consumer electronics network.
  
  
• ECS EliteGroup demonstrates first dual-mode Mobile WiMAX/EDGE device using Comsys single-chip multimode baseband processor (Wednesday Jan. 07, 2009)
  ECS EliteGroup Computer Systems and Comsys Communication & Signal Processing Ltd. have announced that Comsys' award-winning ComMAX™ CM1125 Multimode Mobile WiMAX/EDGE baseband processor will enable ECS EliteGroup's new line of cutting-edge Mobile WiMAX devices.
  
  
• Freescale Semiconductor targets the netbook market (Monday Jan. 05, 2009)
  Based on the new i.MX515 processor featuring ARM Cortex™-A8 technology, Freescale’s solution includes an impressive lineup of software, components and resources to help OEMs quickly develop and deploy compelling netbook products.
  
  
• Ambarella A5 Hybrid Camera Platform Puts High-quality Photos and Video on A Chip (Monday Jan. 05, 2009)
  The A5 platform enables key hybrid camera functions such as 10 mega-pixel (MP) still images, full high-definition (HD) recording, and simultaneous dual-resolution recording for fast internet sharing. Tucked into a small low-power package, the A5 SoC platform lets consumers take high-quality photos and video in affordably priced pocket-sized cameras.
  
  
• Siverge Unveils First Single-Chip 2.5 Gbps Carrier Transport Device To Handle Any Port, Service, Channelization and Functionality, in Both Legacy and Packet Networks (Tuesday Dec. 16, 2008)
  Siverge Networks today announced the industry’s first single-chip carrier transport device that enables equipment manufacturers to develop converged linecards and systems capable of handling any port, service, channelization and functionality while supporting both TDM and packet-based networks.
  
  
• Staccato's Ripcord2 Single-Chip Solution Earns Wireless USB Certification from the USB Implementers Forum (Monday Dec. 15, 2008)
  Staccato Communications today announced that its Ripcord2(TM) family of single-chip UWB solutions has achieved Wireless USB certification from the USB-IF.
  
  
• Icera Secures $70M Financing Package (Friday Dec. 12, 2008)
  Icera's HSPA silicon and software has been selected by several major mobile operators and product companies supplying the fast-growing mobile broadband market and the $70M will fund Icera's business plan to profitability as it steps up its supply of cellular chipsets and software to customers in Europe, North America and Asia.
  
  
• Zenverge Announces Groundbreaking Advance in Digital HD Convergence (Thursday Dec. 11, 2008)
  Zenverge introduced today the Zenverge Entertainment Nexus (ZEN), a groundbreaking new architecture for digital HD convergence. Implemented in a family of single-chip Advanced Media ICs, this new technology is the first to support transcoding, decoding and encoding of multiple formats at up to 4 times HD performance or up to four simultaneous HD streams.
  
  
• NEC Electronics Releases SoC Optimized for Stream Processing (Monday Nov. 24, 2008)
  his SoC consists of an STP programmable hardware engine; 2-channel PCI Express; a DDR2 memory interface; and other components all on a single chip. The STP engine's parallel computational processing enables processing of streaming data one to two orders of magnitude faster than a conventional high-performance CPU, without requiring the data to pass through the CPU, all while consuming at most just 2 Watts of power.
  
  
• Sandbridge Rolls out 65nm dynamically reprogrammable, 4G capable baseband platform for Smartphones (Friday Nov. 14, 2008)
  Sandbridge Technologies announced today the release of their SB3500 flexible baseband processor which facilitates the implementation of 4G mobile handsets entirely in software.
  
  
• Open-Silicon Introduces MAX Technologies (Thursday Nov. 13, 2008)
  Open-Silicon today announced the introduction of three new MAX technologies to address design issues common to the 65nm and 40nm process nodes.
  
  
• Staccato's Ripcord2 Single-Chip UWB Solution Achieves Industry-first Milestone with WiMedia PHY Certification (Tuesday Nov. 04, 2008)
  Enabling worldwide operation, Staccato’s 65nm all-CMOS implementation is the first single-chip solution to earn PHY certification for WiMedia Spectrum Extension Release (SER) in Band Groups 1, 3 and 6
  
  
• Innovasic Semiconductor to Produce Pin-Compatible 80C186XL and 80C188XL Embedded Processors (Monday Nov. 03, 2008)
  The IA186XL and IA188XL are form, fit and function compatible with the original Intel® 80C186XL and 80C188XL 16-bit high-integration embedded processors, and are low power, fully static versions of the 80C186 and 80C188.
  
  
• Atheros Launches Align Technology Leveraging 802.11n 1-Stream Specification to Provide Upgrade from Legacy 802.11g (Thursday Oct. 30, 2008)
  The single-stream feature enables a new class of Wi-Fi® devices that deliver performance enhancements over the existing 802.11g technology, at comparable price points. Align solutions are also forward compatible to higher-performance, multi-stream, MIMO-based 802.11n – providing the optimal upgrade path for value-class WLAN products.
  
  
• STMicroelectronics Expands (U)SIM Card IC Offering with Two New 32-bit ARM-Based Families (Wednesday Oct. 22, 2008)
  The ST32 and ST33 smart card processor families use the ARM Cortex-M3 32-bit processor architecture, and its SC300 secure version, combined with large embedded-Flash memory capacities.
  
  
• Samplify Systems Announces Availability of World's First 16-channel, 12-bit, 65 Msps A/D Converter With Integrated Real-Time Data Compression (Monday Oct. 20, 2008)
  World's lowest-power, highest channel count 12-bit ADC with Samplify's Prism(TM) data compression reduces I/O pin count and power consumption in ultrasound equipment and WiMax wireless base stations.
  
  
• NTT DOCOMO, Renesas, Fujitsu, and Sharp to Jointly Develop Platform for HSUPA Mobile Phone (Thursday Oct. 16, 2008)
  NTT DOCOMO, Renesas Technology, Fujitsu and Sharp today announced that they plan to jointly develop the SH-Mobile G4 single-chip LSI device, and a platform incorporating it, to support the HSUPA 1/HSDPA 2/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE (2G) mobile telephony standards.
  
  
• NEC Electronics America Teams with Ariane Controls to Support Designers of Electronics Systems in the Smart Energy Market (Thursday Oct. 09, 2008)
  NEC Electronics America plans to offer this cost-effective PLC intellectual property (IP) as a building block for its ASIC and standard solutions customers.
  
  
• SiRF Debuts SiRFlinkIII Combo Radio IC to Drive Next-Generation Mobile Convergence Devices (Wednesday Oct. 08, 2008)
  The SiRFlinkIII single-chip solution combines a high-performance GPS RF front end and a complete Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR controller optimized for use with the SiRFatlas(TM) and SiRFprima(TM) multifunction SoC platforms
  
  
• NXP introduces industry's fastest ARM Cortex-M3 Microcontrollers (Monday Oct. 06, 2008)
  NXP today announced the LPC1700 series, the industry's fastest microcontroller family based on the ARM® Cortex-M3 processor. Running at speeds up to 100 MHz, the LPC1700 series of microcontrollers operates from 28 - 64% faster than any competitive Cortex-M3 microcontroller available on the market today.
  
  
• Elpida Completes Development of 65nm Chip Shrink (Monday Oct. 06, 2008)
  Elpida Memory announced today that it has developed a shrunken version of its 1-gigabit DDR2 SDRAM that delivers 20% more chips from a single 300mm wafer.
  
  
• Toshiba announces first ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller (Monday Oct. 06, 2008)
  Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced a general-purpose ARM Cortex™-M3 core-based microcontroller suitable for digital AV applications. The device is the first in a full line-up of Cortex-M3 devices that will become available during 2009 and is the first ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller from a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer.
  
  
• Samsung Implements Silicon Image InstaPort Technology in Next Generation DTVs (Thursday Oct. 02, 2008)
  Silicon Image’s InstaPort technology adds intelligence to HDMI™ technology-enabled digital television (DTV) inputs, resulting in sub-second switching time between inputs delivering digital content from different sources connected to the DTV.
  
  
• Freescale Offers Customization Across SoC Platforms to Help Customers Streamline Unique Product Development (Tuesday Sep. 30, 2008)
  To address the market need for highly customized devices, Freescale Semiconductor has launched a Customer Specific Products (CSP) business that provides custom system-on-chip (SoC) solutions based on its industry-leading SoC platforms – Power Architecture® processors, ColdFire® controllers and i.MX platforms based on ARM® technology
  
  
• DesignArt Networks Delivers the First Universal WiMAX Basestation-on-Chip (Monday Sep. 29, 2008)
  The DAN2400 is an open WiMAX SoC platform, based on a software-centric, purpose-built multi-core architecture designed for high-performance, carrier-grade networks.
  
  
• Radiocomp demonstrates soft-configurable radio heads for WIMAX (Friday Sep. 26, 2008)
  In September 2008 Radiocomp successfully demonstrated that the newest Radiocomp digital IF based family of remote radio heads for 2.5 and 3.5 GHz mobile WiMAX are capable of supporting all channel bandwidths and profiles defined by the WiMAX Forum within the same radio head unit and with no changes in hardware.
  
  
• XMOS Hardware Development Kit Provides Fast Track to Software Defined Silicon Designs (Thursday Sep. 25, 2008)
  XMOS, the creator of Software Defined Silicon, has introduced a credit card sized development board that provides everything needed to start developing applications based on its XS1-G family of programmable devices.
  
  
• Tilera's TILEPro Multicore Processors Set New Performance Benchmark (Monday Sep. 22, 2008)
  TILEPro64(TM) Multicore Processor Delivers 35X Better Performance-per-Watt Over Intel Quad-Core Xeon and 15X the Performance of TI's DaVinci DSP
  
  
• DesignArt Networks Announces Fully Integrated WiMAX Femtocell SoC (Monday Sep. 22, 2008)
  WiMAX SoC based on DesignArt’s Open 4G SoC Architecture Shatters Femtocell Cost Barrier
  
  
• MosChip Launches System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Processor for Digital Content Management in Camcorders, DVRs, Blu-Ray Disc Recorders, Video Editors and other AV Storage Devices (Monday Sep. 22, 2008)
  MosChip's MCS60C80 Digital Content Management Processor is the Only AV 1394 Secure Storage Controller with a Flash Card Interface and Support for Multiple Storage Interfaces: Secure Digital, Compact Flash and Memory Stick