Wednesday, June 29, 2011 – THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn., USA and Bronschhofen, Switzerland – Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry’s Read More → "Digi-Key Corporation and Swissbit Announce Global Distribution Agreement"
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – June 28, 2011 – CEVA, Inc. [(NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA)], the leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, and CellGuide, a leading GNSS solution provider, today announced a partnership to offer a software-based GPS solution for the CEVA-XC communications processor. Leveraging CellGuide’s GPS/GLONASS software IP, CEVA-XC licensees can add GPS capability to their processor designs without any hardware modifications or increase in die size.
CEVA-XC is a high-performance, scalable, low-power communication DSP designed specifically to overcome the stringent power consumption, time-to-market and cost constraints associated with … Read More → "CEVA and CellGuide Partner to offer Software GPS Solution on CEVA-XC"
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – June 28, 2011 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications, announced that WHDI™ founding member AMIMON, the market leader in wireless High Definition, licensed the MIPS32® M4K® processor core for development of its third-generation transmitter and receiver chips designed for the WHDI™ (Wireless Home Digital Interface™) standard.
AMIMON is a long-time MIPS licensee, having leveraged MIPS cores for its previous generation WHDI products. Numerous companies are developing products based on AMIMON’s MIPS-Based& … Read More → "AMIMON Reaffirms Commitment to MIPS® Architecture with New Core License"
MILPITAS, CA – June 28, 2011 – Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC4266A and LTC4274A, 4-port … Read More → "Quad & Single LTPoE++ PSE Controllers Deliver Up to 90W"
Santa Clara, Calif. –– June 28, 2011 –– Kilopass Technology Inc., the leading provider of semiconductor logic non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP), and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (“SMIC”; NYSE: SMI and SEHK: 981.HK), a leading global foundry, today announced the next phase of their embedded NVM IP partnership. Kilopass is expanding its one-time programmable (OTP) NVM product offering to SMIC’s 55 nanometer (nm) logic CMOS process. Kilopass has already successfully taped out in SMIC’s 65nm … Read More → "Kilopass Embedded Non-Volatile Memory IP Selected For SMIC 55nm CMOS Logic Processes"
Munich, June 2011 – DSM Computer has joined the new Embedded Building Blocks (EBB) Initiative of Intel®. The EBB Initiative has the objective of giving system integrators and resellers the possibility of entering the embedded computing market on the basis of existing, flexible building blocks. Compact and robust IPCs that satisfy a wide range of requirements, such as for the industrial automation, can be configured with the EBBs consisting of high-quality industrial housings and standardized computer-on modules with the associated baseboards. This allows customers to define fast and easily … Read More → "DSM Computer joins Intel’s® Embedded Building Blocks Initiative"
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 28, 2011 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that longtime customer Namsong Industrial Co., Ltd. has designed Xilinx’s Spartan®-6 field programmable gate array (FPGA) into its newest line of professional, multi-format portable field monitors recently introduced at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2011 conference.
Namsong’s new high-performance multi-format Read More → "Namsong Designs Spartan-6 into Newest Line of Multi-format Portable Field Monitors for Professional Broadcast Applications"
Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium – June 28, 2011. CISSOID, the leader in high temperature semiconductor solutions, releases CHT-GANYMEDE, a high-temperature 80V dual series small-signal diode in a small hermetically sealed metal can TO-18 package. This new device includes two diodes connected in series that can sustain a reverse voltage of 80V, have a maximum forward current of 300mA at 225°C and are suitable for operation from -55°C up to +225°C. This dual diode is a general purpose discrete component which and can be used in a variety of applications, including clamping, low-current rectification and sensing, among others. </ … Read More → "CISSOID introduces a High-Temperature 80V Dual Series Small-Signal Diode"
San Jose, California – June 24, 2011 – Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced their next generation SSD, the TeraDrive PT3.
Featuring the SandForceTM 2200 processor, SATA3 interface, and Double Data Rate, ONFiTM flash, the new TeraDrive PT3 offers a significant leap in performance over drives offered just a few months ago. The union of these 3 new technologies has forever changed the storage landscape. Right out of the gate, this new generation SSD stretches well within the new found bandwidth promised by … Read More → "SuperTalent Introduces Gen.Next SATA 3.0 SSD"
Bath UK – 27 JUNE 2011 – Picochip and InterDigital are collaborating on delivering advanced broadband traffic management solutions across cellular femtocells with embedded Wi-Fi access. During the Femtocells World Summit 2011 in London both companies successfully demonstrated how InterDigital’s converged gateway technology, integrated on Picochip’s 3G femtocell with Wi-Fi, delivers novel offloading solutions by intelligently managing data flows across multiple physical transports or networks and simultaneously enhances the overall user experience.
Only over the last few years have network operators started to embrace cellular and Wi-Fi as complementary technologies in delivering the ever-growing volume … Read More → "Picochip and InterDigital demonstrate converged gateway with integrated 3G femtocell and Wi-Fi at Femtocells World Summit 2011"
