Industry News (2013)

Imagination works with TSMC to develop FinFET process

Published:2013/3/27 3:24:00 Author:Ecco

According to Processor IP licensor Imagination, it will work with foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. to develop reference design flows using PowerVR Series 6 GPUs for manufacturing processes including the forthcoming 16-nm FinFET process. Imagination announced that the use of high bandwidth memory channels and 3-D IC assembly will be part of the collaboration and should allow the two compa...   (View)

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XMOS pushes event-driven MCUs with lower price

Published:2013/3/4 3:04:00 Author:Ecco

According to XMOS Ltd., it has a new event-driven microcontroller which has a lower price. The model is XS1-L4-64. XMOS indicates that the chip can be used as the lowest-cost multicore microcontroller. The chip has a single physical ALU but support in terms registers and other circuitry for four time-sliced virtual processors. Time slicing is done to better match memory access to the ALU pipeline performa...   (View)

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Intel brings upgraded 32-nm SoC for smartphones

Published:2013/2/26 3:06:00 Author:Ecco

At the Mobile World Congress, Intel brings an upgraded 32-nm smartphone processor. Intel indicates that it has made progress since it came to MWC a year ago without any Atom-based smartphone design wins. But the PC giant is still playing catch up in a segment dominated by ARM-based SoCs from Qualcomm, Nvidia and many others. Intel’s Clover Trail+, now shipping, sports three times the graphics of Intel’s cu...   (View)

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Micron pushes TLC 128-Gbit NAND flash

Published:2013/2/17 3:19:00 Author:Ecco

According to Micron Technology Inc., they have pushed a triple-level cell (TLC) 128-Gbit NAND flash memory in a 20-nm manufacturing process technology. And the company indicates that the technology is the world’s densest memory. At 146 square millimeters the memory die is more than 25 percent smaller than the company’s same-capacity MLC NAND memory and it is intended for use in removable storage, including...   (View)

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Intel will stop supplying desktop motherboards

Published:2013/1/24 21:28:00 Author:Ecco

The Intel Corp. had made a plan which would stop supplying PC motherboards, and the plan would be put into effect over the next three years. According to the statement of Intel, the company will not develop any new Intel branded desktop motherboards after completion of Haswell-based fourth generation Core products launch in 2013. The company said it would continue to support all products sold through the ...   (View)

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Processor market was expected to regain strength in 2013

Published:2013/1/22 1:18:00 Author:Ecco

The market research firm IC Insights indicated that the worldwide processor sales were expected to regain strength in 2013 and grow 12 percent to $65.3 billion after rising just 5 percent in 2012 to $58.2 billion. However, the slow growth may be caused by the weakness in the personal computer part of the market and global economic uncertainty. The market researchers think that the microprocessor market gain...   (View)

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It was reported that TSMC sales fall steeply

Published:2013/1/14 2:55:00 Author:Ecco

It is reported that the December sales of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. declined by 16.2 percent sequentially, putting the quarterly sales just above the top end of the guidance given at the time of the company’s third quarter financial results. The report indicated that the company’s net sales on an unconsolidated basis were approximately NT$36.56 billion (about $1.23 billion), a decrease of...   (View)

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Cisco, NXP work with auto wireless startup

Published:2013/1/7 0:43:00 Author:Ecco

It is reported that Cisco Systems Inc. and NXP Semiconductors have invested in Cohda Wireless Pty. Ltd., a specialist in wireless technology and applications for automotive safety. However, the particular investment was not known by others. According to the three companies, they have been collaborating on road-side and in-car wireless communications for some time, and said they will now join forces to offe...   (View)

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