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Silicon Creations Named 2017 TSMC Partner of the Year for Analog Mixed Signal IP

Partnership

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), was awarded the 2017 TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) Partner of the Year Award for Analog/Mixed Signal IP at the recent TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum in Santa Clara, Calif.
 
Silicon Creations has collaborated with TSMC

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TSMC Dr. Morris Chang Announces Retirement in June 2018

TSMC

TSMC Chairman Morris Chang today announces: “I will retire from the Company immediately after the Annual Shareholders Meeting in early June, 2018. I will not be a director in the next term of the board of directors. Nor will I participate in any TSMC management activities after the Annual Shareholders

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TSMC to Build 3nm Fab in Taiwan

Taiwan-based semiconductor foundry TSMC announced it will build its cutting-edge semiconductor fabrication plant in Tainan, ending speculation that it might skip Taiwan and invest in the U.S.
 
“Following careful evaluation, the Company’s planned advanced 3nm fab will be located in the Tainan Science Park to fully leverage the company’s

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SIDE-CHANNEL ATTACKS: How Differential Power Analysis (DPA) and Simple Power Analysis (SPA) Works

Examining a microchip

There are many techniques available for hackers to gain access to a system and obtain secret keys or other proprietary information– from invasive methods, such as microprobing, to non-invasive methods, such as cryptoanalysis. However, one of the easiest and most effective ways to extract the contents of a chip is

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Sale of MIPS and update on Formal Sale Process

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG, “Imagination”, “the Group”), a leading multimedia, processor and communications technology company, has agreed to sell its worldwide MIPS CPU business (“MIPS”), including all MIPS Intellectual Property (“IP”) and patents, to Tallwood MIPS Inc, a company indirectly owned by Tallwood VC of Palo Alto, CA

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Moortec’s Expansion Continues with New UK Headquarters

Moortec www.moortec.com, specialists in embedded in-chip subsystem solutions, are continuing their expansion with a move to a new UK Headquarters.
 

The new state of the art facility is located in the Plymouth Science Park which is the largest Science & Technology centre in the South West.
 
“The

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Sondrel Expands into India

Sondrel, a UK headquartered IC Design Consultancy, today announced the establishment of an entity in India, having opened its first engineering design centre in Hyderabad. The company provide concept to silicon design services to an international client base.
 
The continued rapid growth of Sondrel has seen new design centres

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Pure-Play Semiconductor Foundry Growth Is At <40nm Process Nodes

growth

IC Insights has just released its September Update to The McClean Report.  This 32-page Updateincludes a detailed look at the pure-play foundry market and an analysis of the historical DRAM price-per-bit trends.  Shown below is an excerpt from the Update that examines the IC technology trends in the pure-play foundry market.
 
In 2017, the 7% increase

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CoreHW accelerates growth – Panostaja invests in CoreHW by purchasing a majority shareholding

Investment budget local government

On Friday 15th September, CoreHW has signed an agreement on selling the shares in CoreHW to Panostaja Plc. After the transaction Panostaja will own 63 per cent of the new group to be formed through the transaction.
 
Panostaja is an investment company developing Finnish SMEs in the role of an

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AFuzion and HDL Design House Joint Webinar: Optimizing DO-254: October 4, 2017, 4 pm CEST

Aeroplane

Belgrade, Serbia – September 19th, 2017 – AFuzion, the safety-critical systems and certification company and HDL Design House, provider of digital, analog, and back-end design and verification services and products in numerous areas of SoC, will host a joint webinar on DO-254 best practices and verification optimization for avionics hardware

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