Ansys subsidiary Apache Design recently introduced its RedHawk-3DX design tool to meet the power, performance and price demands of low-power mobile, high-performance computing, consumer...
With mobility and smart devices being the hottest trends in the IT industry, power consumption is driving the entire semiconductor food chain, from the manufacturer to the designer...
Over the next 30 years, the world's middle class (defined as per capita income of more than US$8,000 a year) will grow to include four billion people, meaning that 170 people are...
The semiconductor industry will accelerate towards the adoption of 28nm process in 2012, and begin its transition to the next technology node in 2013, according to Chi-Ping Hsu, a...
EDA software developer SpringSoft has had its Laker and Verdi platforms adopted by China-based foundry Hua Hong NEC Electronics as part of its PDK (process design kit), and therefore...
Globalfoundries has announced that it successfully taped out a 20nm test chip using flows from EDA partners Cadence Design Systems, Magma Design Automation, Mentor Graphics and Synopsys...
SpringSoft has announced consolidated revenue of NT$561.08 million (US$19.39 million), net income of NT$134.45 million, and EPS of NT$0.65 for the second quarter ended June 30, 201...
SpringSoft on August 24 announced Winbond Electronics has adopted its Laker layout tools and design flows for its mobile memory devices such as SDR, low power DDR and cellular RAM.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on June 9 introduced two reference flows - Reference Flow 11.0 and Analog/Mixed Signal (AMS) Reference Flow 1.0 - a day after announcing...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has made available several unified and interoperable electronic design automation (EDA) technology files for its 65nm, 40nm and 28nm...
SpringSoft, a global supplier of specialized IC design software, today introduced two new products aimed at addressing the increasing challenge of designing custom chips that contain...
Taiwan-based IC design house Sunplus Technology has announced Synopsys has become its primary EDA partner. Under the new multi-year agreement, Sunplus will consolidate on Synopsys'...
Mentor Graphics considers the Asia Pacific as the world's key foundry and IC design market, and is seeking to expand its customer and partner portfolio in the region, according to...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is making efforts to make its OIP (Open Innovation Platform) - a technology platform for integrated services from IC design to manufacturing...
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has been working closely with customers, including FPGA specialist Xilinx, to volume produce 45/40nm products at its 300mm (12-inch) fabs,...
