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    Smart mobile SoCs: Intel 

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    Don Dingee
    Published on 05-16-2012 01:59 PM
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    Talk about an unusual position. Intel finds themselves very much currently outside when it comes to mobile SoCs for phones and tablets. After several attempts at soul-searching and a true understanding of the term “low-power” (not meaning 3W, but instead < 1W), they finally have a part – in the form of “Medfield”, aka the Atom Processor Z2460 - that can technically compete for business while their roadmap develops. ...
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    DSP IP core? CEVA is the undisputed worldwide leader, with 90% market share 

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    Eric Esteve
    Published on 05-16-2012 08:54 AM
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    Anybody working in the wireless handset segment probably knows that CEVA is the provider of DSP IP cores, and if you are simply a wireless handset user, you should know that the baseband digital signal processing is the function allowing your phone to process the RF (analog) signal coming from the outside world. If you have been involved in the wireless segment before 2002, you may remember a company named DSP Group: ...
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    Analyzing Cortex Performance 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-16-2012 05:45 AM
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    CPAK sounds like something politicians create to collect money, but in fact it is a Carbon Performance Analysis Kit. It consists of models, reference platform, initialization software (for bare metal CPAKs) or OS binary (for Linux and Android based CPAKs). They are (or will soon be) available for ARM Cortex A9, ARM Cortex A15 and ARM big.LITTLE (which is an A15 and an A7). ...
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    Piper Jaffray Chip Analyst Spanks Intel! 

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    Daniel Nenni
    Published on 05-15-2012 05:30 PM
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    This just in from Tech Trader Daily, quoting Piper Jaffray chip analyst Gus Richard:

    The whole issue for Qualcomm, based on Richard’s conversations with industry types, is that the company has started making its “MSM8960″ chip with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (    TSM) only two to three quarters after TSM introduced its new “28-nanometer” chip-making technology. That’s faster than the five to six quarters Qualcomm waited ...
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    View from the top: Michael Buehler-Garcia 

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    daniel_payne
    Published on 05-15-2012 08:30 AM
    1. Categories:
    2. EDA,
    3. Mentor Graphics
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    Yesterday I met with Michael Buehler-Garcia, Director of Marketing at Mentor Graphics for Calibre in Wilsonville, Oregon to get an update on what's coming up at DAC, the premier conference and trade show for our industry.



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    Cadence Update 2012! 

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    Daniel Nenni
    Published on 05-14-2012 07:00 PM
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    What’s new at Cadence? Quite a bit actually. I have always been a Cadence fan, I mean really, they gave birth to modern EDA. Unfortunately, Cadence really lost me during the Avant! legal action, the Mike Fister years, and EDA360. Recently, however, Cadence has made some big changes that will definitely get them back on my good side. The most recent change being the hiring of Martin Lund, SVP of the SoC Realization Business Unit.

    SoC Realization is a strategic growth area for Cadence,” ...
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    TSMC Tops Intel, Samsung in Capacity! 

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    Daniel Nenni
    Published on 05-13-2012 05:00 PM  Number of Views: 2458 
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    While I was marlin fishing in Hawaii last week I missed some interesting comments from TSMC executives at the Technology Symposium in Taiwan, a much different show than the one here in San Jose I’m told. It is good to see TSMC setting the record straight and taking a little credit for what they have accomplished! I’m sorry I missed it but I know quite a few people who didn’t and they were quite impressed.

    Y.P. ...
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    Intel Foundry All Hat No Cattle? 

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    Daniel Nenni
    Published on 05-11-2012 10:19 PM
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    If you look real close at the #49 DAC floor plan you will see the tiny Intel booth dwarfed by those of TSMC, GlobalFoundries, Samsung, and ARM. The number one semiconductor company in the world does not have the budget for the cornerstone conference of the semiconductor ecosystem? Oh my…... Intel has a big foundry hat and no cattle this year.

    Now in its 49th year (this will be my 29th), the Design Automation Conference features a wide array of technical presentations, tutorials, and ...
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    ♫ If you are going to San Francisco, be sure to.... 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-10-2012 06:00 PM
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    Well, you can wear flowers in your hair if you like, but it is a bit sixties. However, here are some things that I do recommend that you be sure to do.

    Some of these recommendations require you to find a given numbered pier. The Ferry Building at the end of Market Street is effectively pier 0. Odd numbers go north (including pier 1½ ). Even numbered piers go south (although many are missing). I used ...
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    Only slight growth in 2012 semiconductor market 

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    BillJewell
    Published on 05-09-2012 09:24 PM
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    The world semiconductor market declined 2.2% in 1Q 2012 from 4Q 2011, according to WSTS. The market ended 2011 on a down slide, with 4Q 2011 down 7.7% from 3Q 2011. The year 2011 semiconductor market was up only 0.4%.

    Three major events contributed to the weakness in 2011:

    1. March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan disrupted electronics and semiconductor production.
    2. Floods in Thailand
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