There has been a surge in demand for tablet-use SoC solutions in the China market thus far in 2012, benefiting local IC design companies such as Allwinner Technology, Rockchip Technology...
Maxim Integrated Products recently introduced Zeus, an advance in integration and security protection for the smart grid. Zeus is a complete smart-meter system-on-a-chip (SoC) that...
Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, observes that the growth in performance of mobile GPUs, such as its PowerVR IP cores, is driving...
Intel is already set to launch its next-generation Haswell-based processors, comprehensively designed for IT products such as tablets, notebooks, ultrabooks, desktops and servers,...
Samsung's acquisition of part of CSR has established it as a new player in the connectivity market, specifically in the key battleground of the smartphone. Whilst Broadcom has been...
Ardentec, a Taiwan-based provider of wafer and mixed-signal IC testing services, has been eager to obtain orders from US- and Japan-based IDM firms. The testing house is looking to...
Imagination, one of the world's three largest makers of multimedia and communications semiconductor intellectual property (IP) cores recently held a technology forum in Taiwan's northern...
Semiconductor startup Algotochip, specialists in converting C models of algorithms directly to a complete SoC silicon IP, recently announced delivery of a SoC silicon solution for...
IC design house ALi has guided its second-quarter sales will decrease up to 10% on quarter with a possibility of flat growth. Sales were particularly high in the first quarter of...
Lantiq has introduced its XWAY ARX300 device family for ADSL2/2+ customer premise equipment (CPE) designs. The Lantiq XWAY ARX300 family includes four system-on-chip (SoC) derivatives...
The SSD controller market is rapidly expanding, creating huge opportunities for the semiconductor industry. However, the design of complex chips and ever-increasing performance/functional...
Taiwan-based ALi has introduced a lineup of new set-top box (STB) system-on-chip (SoC) solutions targeting growing demand for digital TV broadcasting in emerging markets, while fellow...
MIPS Technologies, a provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications, has announced that it has joined the Renesas...
Because of their capability to save energy and to improve the efficiency of electrical grids, power utilities are expected to rapidly adopt smart electricity meters, causing global...
MediaTek has launched MT5931, a SoC with integration of 802.11n Wi-Fi MAC, baseband, radio, embedded PU and power management unit. The chip also integrates several external components...
