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MIPS, Imagination team up to wrestle with ARM
MIPS Technologies and Imagination Technologies will announce at the Embedded Systems Conference a non-exclusive marketing alliance geared to support chip designers using cores from both companies in a shot across the bow to their mutual competitor, ARM Ltd., which is developing its own graphics cores.
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Freescale takes aim at TI's DSP market
Aiming at the heart of DSP leader Texas Instruments' business, Freescale will show 45-nm, StarCore-based digital signal processors at the Embedded Systems Conference that reportedly outperform TI's equivalents but will sell for roughly half the price.
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AMD rolls seven embedded CPUs at ESC
Advanced Micro Devices will roll out at the Embedded Systems Conference embedded versions of PC chip sets, graphics and as many as seven x86 processors, including AMD's first embedded chips to support DDR3 memory and the HyperTransport 3 interconnect.
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Winners, losers in 2009 foundry rankings
The 2009 downturn had a huge impact on the silicon foundry market and the top-10 rankings.
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TI beats estimates in Q1
Texas Instruments Inc. reported first-quarter revenue of $3.21 billion, up 54 percent from a year ago and up 7 percent from the previous quarter.
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Applied rules in deposition equipment
Applied Materials Inc. ruled the overall deposition equipment market in 2009, according to a report from Barclays Capital, which cited Gartner Inc. as its source.
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ASML extends share lead in litho
ASML Holding NV extended its market share lead over Nikon Corp. and Canon Inc. in lithography for 2009, according to a report from Barclays Capital, which cited Gartner Inc. as its source.
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Philips sells EUV source unit to Ushio
Japan's Ushio Inc. has acquired Royal Philips Electronics' extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source business.
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Taiwan's PC, LCD makers see rebound
Taiwan's PC and LCD industries rebounded in the first quarter after a bad 2009.
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CebaTech rolls protocol acceleration subsystems
Embedded system solutions provider CebaTech launched a series of PCI Express-enabled subsystem boards said to boost protocol processing performance in data networking and enterprise storage systems by up to 10 fold.
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Freescale partners with Enea, Green Hills, Mentor
Freescale Semiconductor will announce partnerships with embedded software companies Enea Systems, Green Hills Software and Mentor Graphics just one day before Wind River Systems, software supplier to the lion's share of Freescale's customers, is expected to release the first of a family of embedded software packages initially only for the Intel x86.
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ESC: Keynoter sketches out vision for electric cars
In 10 years as many as a third of all new cars sold could be battery-operated electric vehicles, according to startup Better Place that will sketch out its vision in a keynote address at the Embedded Systems Conference.
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| Course: From FPGA to ASIC |
| There are two reasons for migrating from FPGAs to ASICs, and many more reasons why that migration could easily go astray. The Fundamentals of FPGA-to-ASIC conversion presents the principles and the tools available to do it right, including a real-world example using Altera's HardCopy ASICs.
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Dylan McGrath is editor of the EE Times Newsletter, which brings you the latest semiconductor and design news.
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