The historic Apollo 11 spacecraft, which placed the first human on the moon, was powered by a computer that weighed 70 pounds, had 64 kilobytes of memory, and a few tens of thousands of transistors. Compared to this, an average smartphone with a couple of gigabytes of RAM and the
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IC Insights recently released its September Update to the 2020 McClean Report that presented the second of a two-part analysis on the global IC foundry industry and included a look at the pure-play foundry market by region.
China was responsible for essentially all of the total pure-play foundry market increase in 2018. In
SAN MATEO, Calif.–OpenFive, the leading provider of customizable, silicon-focused solutions with differentiated IP, along with AnalogX, a provider of SerDes interface IP, today announced a complete sub-system solution and implementation for Chip-to-Chip (C2C) interface with ultra-low latency and power. This solution can be optimized for various bandwidth requirements of
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SAN JOSE, CA, October 6, 2020 — Movellus announced today that Everactive has adopted Movellus’ ultra-low power clocking solution for its batteryless Machine Health Monitoring (MHM) IoT product. Everactive’s core SoC is clocked by Movellus ultra low power PLL.
Everactive MHM’s core SoC is clocked by Movellus’ 700-nanowatt phase-locked loop
At the recent TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum and Technology virtual events, TSMC re-affirmed their previous prediction that 5G is going to be a multi-year silicon mega-trend with the biggest drivers being the ramp up of 5G handsets, supporting infrastructure and the continued growth of high performance computing (HPC).
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Sondrel is known for designing very large digital chips and the secret to lies in its ability to ensure that data flows around the chip between blocks correctly using a Network on Chip (NoC). Without a NoC, a chip could need up to ten times more memory to operate in
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