National Semiconductor, Ohmite, Vishay Sponsor Live EDGE Competition
Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), the leading multi-channel, high service distributor and its companies (Newark, Farnell, Premier Electronics, CPC, Farnell-Newark and MCM), announced that National Semiconductor, Ohmite Manufacturing and Vishay Intertechnology have become global sponsors for its 2008 Live EDGE Electronic Design Competition for the global environment.
Purple Labs Acquires Sagem Mobile Applications Suite, Engineering Team
Purple Labs, the leading software provider for mass-market mobile phones, announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding to acquire the mobile applications suite and software engineering team of Sagem Mobiles, a French manufacturer that develops mobile phones branded by Sony Ericsson, Orange, Vodafone and other customers. The asset sale to Purple Labs is linked to an announcement by SAFRAN, a French technology group, that it is selling its Sagem Mobiles business unit to Sofinnova Partners, one of Europe’s leading venture capital firms and an investor in Purple Labs. SAFRAN will join Sofinnova as a shareholder in the new entity, which will be called Sagem Wireless.
KLA-Tencor to Acquire MIE Business Unit of Vistec Semiconductor
KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ: KLAC) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Microelectronic Inspection Equipment (MIE) business unit of Vistec Semiconductor Systems, which is wholly owned by Golden Gate Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity firm. The MIE business unit of Vistec is headquartered in Weilburg, Germany and provides advanced semiconductor mask and wafer manufacturing systems. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Frost & Sullivan Comments on Femtocell Research
Although mobile operators are increasingly optimistic about femtocells, there are many doubts circulating around this new technology as it struggles to resolve key challenges such as functionality and cost. These low-power radio systems, known as femtocells, plug into a residential broadband connection and enable mobile subscribers to use their existing mobile cellular handsets to access both data and voice services. Operators believe that they are capable of cutting costs and retaining more customers, but proof remains to be seen. In the last femtocells study, Frost & Sullivan is skeptical, outlining multiple challenges, that do not look like they could be resolved by the end of 2008.
EEMBC Reveals Benchmark Scores for Freescale i.MX31 with ARM Compiler
The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) announced the publication of new certified benchmark scores for the ARM processor-based Freescale i.MX31 multimedia applications processor. Tested with the ARM® RealView® RVCT 3.1 build 559 compiler, the new results supersede a previous set of certified scores using a GCC version 3.43 compiler and limited –O2 optimizations.
AMD Selects Virage Logic Embedded Memory IP for ATI Radeon 4800
Virage Logic Corp. (Nasdaq: VIRL), the semiconductor industry’s trusted IP partner, announced that Advanced Micro Devices’ (Nasdaq: AMD) ATI Radeon[tm] 4800 series graphics products leverage Virage Logic’s advanced embedded memory IP for superior performance. The relationship between AMD and Virage Logic provides AMD with access to Virage Logic’s embedded memory IP offering to support graphics processors and other devices for 65-nanometer (nm) and 55nm processes and beyond.
Vivante Joins MIPS Alliance Program
Vivante Corporation, the embedded GPU technology leader, announced that it has joined the MIPS® Alliance Program to bring its programmable graphics IP cores to designers using cores from MIPS Technologies (NasdaqGS: MIPS). Vivante will optimize its HD Visual Reality[TM] and Mobile Visual Reality[TM] line of 2D and 2D/3D graphics processor IP solutions, for integration in designs using the MIPS32® 24K® and MIPS32® 24KE[tm] cores, which are widely used in media server, DVD, set-top box and mobile solutions.
ip.access Publishes Paper on Home Femtocells
Home femtocells are allowing mobile operators to deliver a personal 3G signal that will unleash the full potential of the latest phones, according to a new briefing paper from leading femtocell developer ip.access. The combination of excellent voice quality, higher data speeds, longer battery life, plus simple connectivity and lower costs means that femtocells are now set to enable the very best user experience – positioning 3G phones to become the hub of in-home entertainment and internet connectivity.
AXIOMTEK Debuts eBOX832-831, eBOX832-840 Systems with Intel Core 2 Duo
AXIOMTEK, an Associate Member of the Intel® Embedded and Communications Alliance (ECA), is pleased to introduce two compact yet high performance embedded computers, the eBOX832-831 and eBOX832-840, which feature flexible selections of processing power and offer superior graphics via a PCI Express x16 slot. With the extremely rugged aluminum housing only 300 x 210 x 104.5 mm (11.8″ x 8.27″ x4.11″) in size, these compact-size rugged industrial systems can be applied in the most of harsh environments. The eBOX832-831 and eBOX832-840 offer the ideal price and performance for today’s demanding applications such as industrial automation, kiosk/POI, digital signage (DSA), gaming/entertainment, and vehicle applications.
Round Solutions Creates WLAN Module for Wireless Machine Control
More and more highly sophisticated devices – from the CNC turning lathe to the coffeemaker – can send and receive data via TCP/IP and thus over the Internet. So far, however, a hardwired communications path realised with Ethernet was usually necessary to achieve such an exchange. This often led to quite complicated and thus expensive line installations. Round Solutions now presents a solution on the basis of WLAN.
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