Future Horizons Expects Recovery in Mobile Phone Unit Production
This financial recession has caused the first fall in mobile phone unit production since 2001 according to Future Horizons in the Semiconductor Application Market Report. The resultant mobile phone slowdown is continuing into 2009 but is forecast to recover in 2010. Worldwide mobile phone production consists of emerging markets in countries like China, Africa and Latin America, and the replacement market in saturated regions including Western Europe and Japan.
Virage Logic Qualifies AEON Non-Volatile Embedded Memory for TSMC 65nm
Virage Logic Corporation (NASDAQ:VIRL), the semiconductor industry’s trusted IP partner, announced it has qualified its AEON® non-volatile memory (NVM) solution on TSMC’s 65-nanometer (nm) Low Power (LP) process. As the industry’s first multi-time programmable (MTP) logic NVM solution that is commercially available on a 65nm process, AEON further extends Virage Logic’s NVM provider leadership position.
3L Becomes Member of Texas Instruments Developer Network
3L, the Multiprocessor Design Company, announced that it has joined the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) Developer Network as a provider of multiprocessor design solutions. The announcement strengthens 3L’s multiprocessor design flow targeting TI digital signal processors (DSPs) and offers tighter integration between 3L’s Diamond multiprocessor tool suite and the TI portfolio of DSPs as well as Code Composer Studio (CCStudio) integrated development environment (IDE).
ScaleMP Ranks First for SPEC CPU2006 Benchmark
ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, announced record-breaking results for x86 systems. The SPECfp_rate_base2006 achieved is 666, which is the best ever x86-based result and 2x faster than the previous best x86 published result. This performance is achieved on 32 Intel Xeon (2.93GHz) cores with HT enabled and is among the top 30 results ever published. The official results can be viewed at SPEC.org web site.
Unity Semiconductor Eliminates Transistor in Memory Cell with CMOx
Unity Semiconductor Corp., a Silicon Valley start-up that will serve the semiconductor data storage memory market as a designer, developer and manufacturer of non-volatile memory products, disclosed its objective to have the smallest die-size and the lowest manufacturing cost per bit in the industry. The storage-class non-volatile memory (NVM) products company plans to achieve its objective using innovative, multi-layer, memory array architectures and a new breakthrough technology called CMOx, which is based on the use of new materials called conductive metal oxides into the semiconductor process that allows for ionic motion.
Unicoi Fusion Software Supports Analog Devices Blackfin 51x Processors
Unicoi Systems, Inc. (Unicoi), a leading provider of software solutions to the embedded device market, announced the availability of its Fusion Software, including the license free Fusion RTOS, for the Blackfin® 51x (BF-51x) family of processors from Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI). Fusion Embedded Software support for these additional ADI processors provides embedded developers with a high-performance solution designed specifically for projects with low-cost/low-power requirements.
Mobile Handsets, Stationary CE Products Fuel Wi-Fi Chipset Growth
While mobile PCs and portable consumer electronic (CE) devices comprised the lion’s share of Wi-Fi chipset shipments in 2008, mobile handsets and stationary CE categories are driving the market growth, reports In-Stat. In 2008, Wi-/Fi chipsets in mobile handsets grew by more than 51%. By 2010, In-Stat anticipates that this category will exceed 20% of the total Wi-Fi chipset market.
OMG, INCOSE Team on Certification Program for Systems Modeling Language
OMG[tm] and the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) announced that they have agreed to work together on the development of OMG’s new program to certify Systems Engineers and other practitioners on the OMG Systems Modeling Language (OMG SysML[tm] ) standard. SysML is a graphical modeling language used to perform Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) – that is, to specify and design complex systems that may include hardware, information, personnel, and facilities in addition to software. The program, to be called OCSMP[tm] (OMG-Certified Systems Modeling Professional), will be OMG’s fourth certification.
STMicroelectronics Ranks First in Automotive Infotainment Chip Market
Defying a flat year for the global automotive infotainment semiconductor market, leading supplier STMicroelectronics NV managed to achieve double-digit revenue growth in 2008 due in part to the success of its Cartesio product, a combined media processor and GPS baseband chip, according to iSuppli Corp. The global automotive infotainment semiconductor market in 2008 generated revenue of $3.4 billion, up a scant 0.6 percent from $3.3 billion in 2007. While the average amount of entertainment and informational electronics content in cars continued to increase in 2008, the infotainment industry suffered from a 6.6 percent decline in global car sales for the year. The infotainment semiconductor industry’s flat growth in 2008 contrasts sharply with its 16.8 percent expansion in 2007.
Cadence Design Systems Reveals Winners of EMEA Student Design Contest
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic design innovation, announced Américo Dias and Daniel Oliveira from the Microelectronics Students’ Group of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, as the winners of its second electronic design automation (EDA) contest for students in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa). Cadence held this contest to discover the fastest and most accurate layout designer from top academic institutions across the EMEA region, and out of 60 applicants, Américo Dias and Daniel Oliveira were selected as the winners and have received the title ‘Fastest full custom layout designer of the year’ by Cadence in EMEA.
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