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• StarFive Starts Delivery of High Performance RISC-V CPU Core IP "Dubhe" (Wednesday Dec. 08, 2021)
  StarFive, the leader of RISC-V software and hardware ecosystem in China, announced the official delivery of the world's highest-performance RISC-V CPU Core IP codenamed Dubhe to its customers.
  
  
• SiFive Expands and Improves Industry-Leading RISC-V Processor Portfolio (Tuesday Dec. 07, 2021)
  SiFive today announced the availability of the SiFive 21G3 release, a comprehensive suite of product updates for the industry’s broadest and most successful RISC-V processor IP portfolio, and introduced the new SiFive Essential™ 6-Series range of RISC-V processor IP to address market demands for mid-range application capable and real-time processors.
  
  
• Menta Introduces the Industry's First eFPGA Soft IP at the Design Automation Conference (Tuesday Dec. 07, 2021)
  Menta S.A.S., a premier supplier of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) solutions, today announced the industry’s first eFPGA soft IP offering, giving engineers greater flexibility in how they implement their SoC and ASIC designs.
  
  
• Sondrel's modules accelerate implementation of new ASIC designs (Tuesday Dec. 07, 2021)
  Sondrel has revealed that its recently launched family of Architecting the future™ IP platforms are very easy to modify to precisely match customers’ ASIC requirements.
  
  
• Imagination launches RISC-V CPU family (Monday Dec. 06, 2021)
  Imagination Technologies announces Catapult, a RISC-V CPU product line designed from the ground-up for next-generation heterogeneous compute needs.
  
  
• Fraunhofer IPMS and CAST Announce a RISC-V Embedded Processor for Edge AI (Monday Dec. 06, 2021)
  Electronic systems research and development organization Fraunhofer IPMS and semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. today announced an upcoming new option for the EMSA5-FS RISC-V processor that can perform artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) functions in standalone devices.
  
  
• True Circuits Introduces New Synthesizable Precision PLL and Synthesizable Micro PLLs and DLLs and Demonstrates Silicon Proven DDR PHY (Monday Dec. 06, 2021)
  True Circuits, Inc. (TCI) Introduces New Synthesizable Precision PLL and Synthesizable Micro PLLs and DLLs and Demonstrates Silicon Proven DDR PHY
  
  
• CAST Introduces 8K Video Codecs and Advanced Image Signal Processing IP Cores (Friday Dec. 03, 2021)
  Production-proven cores complement CAST’s video IP line with new 8K support for HEVC, H.264, AVI, and VP9, and high-quality processing from popular image sensors
  
  
• SiFive Raises RISC-V performance bar with New Best-in-Class SiFive Performance P650 Processor (Thursday Dec. 02, 2021)
  The SiFive Performance P650 processor is expected to be the fastest licensable RISC-V processor IP core in the market, bringing RISC-V into new markets and applications, and will debut to lead partners in Q1 2022.
  
  
• Andes RISC-V Superscalar Multicore A(X)45MP and Vector Processor NX27V Upgrade Their Spec. and Performance (Thursday Dec. 02, 2021)
  Andes Technology today announces its superscalar multicore AndesCore 45MP family and the first commercial RISC-V vector processor IP, AndesCore NX27V, upgrade their spec and performance.
  
  
• Arasan Chip Systems announces Immediate availability of MIPI I3C PHY I/O IP (Wednesday Dec. 01, 2021)
  Arasan Chip Systems, the leading provider of Total IPTM solutions for today’s Systems on a Chip (SoC) market announces the immediate availability of Arasan’s MIPI I3CⓇ PHY I/O IP, in compliance with MIPI I3CⓇ specifications v1.1.
  
  
• LeapMind Announces Efficiera v2 Ultra-Low Power AI Inference Accelerator IP (Wednesday Dec. 01, 2021)
  LeapMind Co., Ltd., a leading creator of the standard in edge artificial intelligence (AI), today announced version 2 (hereinafter: v2) of the ultra-low power AI inference accelerator IP Efficiera, scheduled to be available in December 2021.
  
  
• videantis achieves Automotive SPICE Level 2 certification (Wednesday Dec. 01, 2021)
  Today, videantis, a leading supplier of deep learning, computer vision, image processing, and video coding solutions powering already more than 10 million cars on the road, announces the achievement of Automotive SPICE® Level 2 Certification (Automotive SPICE® is a registered trademark of the Verband der Automobilindustrie e.V. (VDA)).
  
  
• intoPIX Unveils "TicoXS FIP" During its ProAV Virtual Event This Week (Monday Nov. 29, 2021)
  Not yet officially announced but not exactly a secret either; intoPIX, leading expert in video compression for ProAV, has again extended its large range of JPEG XS codecs with the addition of the Flawless Imaging Profile (FIP) in its revolutionary “TicoXS FIP” Codec.
  
  
• VeriSilicon Image Signal Processor IP Achieved ISO 26262 Automotive Functional Safety Certification (Wednesday Nov. 24, 2021)
  VeriSilicon (688521.SH), a leading Silicon Platform as a Service (SiPaaS®) company, today announced its Image Signal Processor (the Vivante ISP) IP ISP8000L-FS V5.0.0, designed for advanced and high-performance camera applications, has now been certified ASIL-B as Safety Element out of Context (SEooC) in compliance with the ISO 26262 standard.
  
  
• CEVA SensPro Sensor Hub DSP Achieves Automotive Safety Compliant Certification for ASIL B (Random) and ASIL D (Systematic) (Tuesday Nov. 23, 2021)
  SensPro has already been licensed by multiple leading automotive semiconductor players for next-generation automotive SoCs. As an automotive IP supplier, the SensPro safety certification reflects the company’s commitment to a safety-focused design methodology for its processors, tools and software targeting automotive applications.
  
  
• Grovf Inc. Releases Low Latency RDMA RoCE V2 FPGA IP Core for Smart NICs (Tuesday Nov. 23, 2021)
  Grovf Inc. today announced RDMA RoCE v2 IP core, a new product to democratize the RNIC market. RDMA RoCE v2 IP core is an FPGA IP and enables FPGA-based smart NIC producers and system integrators to develop and deploy RNIC use-cases.
  
  
• RISC-V Low-Power Embedded Processor IP Core Now Available from CAST (Wednesday Nov. 17, 2021)
  Implementing a two-stage pipeline, the new 32-bit BA51 Low-Power Deeply Embedded RISC-V Processor is compact—just 16k gates in its minimum configuration–but can still run at over 500 MHz in modern ASIC processes.
  
  
• Intrinsic ID and Rambus Raise the Bar for Hardware Security with Integration of PUF Technology and Rambus Root of Trust (Tuesday Nov. 16, 2021)
  Intrinsic ID, the world’s leading provider of Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) security IP today announced the availability of integrated solutions that combine the Intrinsic ID PUF technology with Rambus Root of Trust security cores.
  
  
• Arteris IP Helps Automate System-on-Chip Semiconductor Design Traceability with Harmony Trace Design Data (Tuesday Nov. 16, 2021)
  Arteris IP today announced the launch of the Arteris® Harmony Trace™️ Design Data Intelligence Solution to ease compliance with semiconductor industry functional safety and quality standards such as ISO 26262, IEC 61508, ISO 9001, and IATF 16949.
  
  
• Faraday Announces Proven MIPI D-PHY for Samsung Foundry 14LPC Process (Tuesday Nov. 16, 2021)
  Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today announced the availability of its silicon proven MIPI D-PHY IP in Samsung Foundry 14LPC process technology.
  
  
• Floadia Announces eNVM of 150 degree C retention on HHGrace 180BCD (Monday Nov. 15, 2021)
  Floadia Corporation announces that its high-quality eNVM (embedded Non-volatile Memory), with product name “ZT”, supporting 150 degree C retention of 10 years, is now available on Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (HHGrace) 180BCD (Z8) platform.
  
  
• Menta and Secure-IC Partnership Expands to Provide the Most Secure eFPGA IP Available (Wednesday Nov. 10, 2021)
  Menta and Secure-IC today announced a new milestone in their groundbreaking technology partnership: the availability of a 28nm test chip and board incorporating Menta’s eFPGA and Secure-IC’s integrated Secure Elements solutions.
  
  
• NSITEXE unveils A New Product AI accelerator "ML041", realizes high power efficiency (Wednesday Nov. 10, 2021)
  The AI accelerator “ML041”, developed by NSITEXE, divides input data (“Tiling”), and fuses the processing of multiple layers for each divided input data (“Layer fusion”), reducing the load/store transactions of intermediate data to the external memory and improving power efficiency.
  
  
• Digital Blocks DB9000 TFT LCD and OLED Display Controller & Processor IP Application Leadership Advancements (Tuesday Nov. 09, 2021)
  Digital Blocks DB9000 Display Controller & Processor IP Core Family Extends Leadership Across Medical, Industrial, Aerospace, Automotive, Communications, Computer, Monitor, Consumer, IoT, AR/VR Headsets, Wearables, Signage, and Cinema Applications
  
  
• Samsung and Alphawave IP Announce Acceleration of Deep Partnership with Flagship Global Hyperscaler Design Win at 4nm (Thursday Nov. 04, 2021)
  Alphawave IP and Samsung are pleased to announce they have secured a strategic design win with a flagship global hyperscaler for a leading-edge datacentre system-on-chip (SoC). This represents one of the first global hyperscaler design wins in Samsung’s 4nm technology, and highlights Alphawave’s continued leadership of its connectivity technology.
  
  
• Blue Cheetah Bunch-of-Wires (BoW) Chiplet Interface Solution Targets Rapid Flexibility, Scalability, and Low Overhead (Thursday Nov. 04, 2021)
  Blue Cheetah, a leading provider of parallel chiplet interface solutions, announced the development of the BlueLynxTM Generator. BlueLynxTM produces a wide range of tapeout-ready, BoW PHY parallel interface configurations, thereby allowing customers to tradeoff package, performance, process, and complexity while maintaining the same standard.
  
  
• Imagination launches the most advanced ray tracing GPU (Thursday Nov. 04, 2021)
  Imagination Technologies announces IMG CXT, its flagship GPU IP which debuts its PowerVR Photon ray tracing architecture. By adding Photon hardware ray tracing, the IMG CXT represents another big jump in GPU IP, delivering incredible performance for games and other graphical use cases.
  
  
• eMemory and UMC Bring New ReRAM Intellectual Property to Market (Thursday Nov. 04, 2021)
  This achievement makes eMemory one of the world’s first companies to provide this emerging memory IP and enables UMC to offer more comprehensive solutions for MCU, PMIC, and AIoT markets. eMemory now offers ReRAM together with existing IP product lines of traditional non-volatile memory technologies.
  
  
• Truechip Introduces Silicon IP For Network on Chip (NoC) Focussed For Tilelink RISC-V Chips (Friday Oct. 29, 2021)
  Truechip, the Verification IP Specialist, today announced that it has introduced a Silicon IP to its product offering in addition to its existing Verification IP product line. This silicon IP named as NoC Silicon IP for RISC-V based chips supporting the TileLink protocol.