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Morse Micro Partners with SiFive to Host Tech Symposium on RISC-V in Sydney

Semiconductor startups SiFive and Morse Micro are joining forces to host a one-day tech symposium focusing on the RISC-V processor architecture. The event will take place in Sydney on Friday, June 21 at The Warren Centre for Advance Engineering at the University of Sydney, and will feature presentations by industry

CSEM and MIFS demonstrate world-record lows in energy consumption for a microcontroller.

Neuchatel, 19 June 2019—Combining CSEM’s ultra-low-power ASIC design experience with the Extreme-Low Power (ELP) DDC technology from MIFS enables new world records in power consumption. A complete process design kit, along with a range of mixed-signal silicon IPs, is now available.
 
The phenomenal growth of the Internet of Things

Can We Believe The Hype About China’s Domestic IC Production Plans?

In the wake of tariffs and trade tension between China and the United States, government officials and company representatives throughout China have doubled down on their resolve to quickly and meaningfully grow the nation’s domestic IC business in order to reduce its dependence on critical IC components currently supplied by

Silex Insight now supports 1GbE, 2.5GbE & 10GbE with their AV over IP OEM boards

Silex Silex Insight, a leading provider of AV over IP solutions, announces the extension of its family of ultra-low latency Audio/Video over IP OEM boards (called Viper), with the support of 2,5Gb and 10Gb Ethernet (in addition to 1GbE).
 
The Viper solution consists of encoder and decoder boards that

HDL Design House Adds New Representative in Europe

Belgrade, Serbia – June 11th, 2019 – HDL Design House, provider of digital, analog, and back-end design and verification services and products in numerous areas of SoC and complex FPGA designs, today announced the appointment of a new sales representative, Mr Wim Rijlaarsdam, for the territory of Belgium, the Netherlands and Israel.
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Overview and Types of Capacitors in ASIC Design

On-chip capacitors are a critical element in analog and mixed signal ASIC designs and playing a key role in helping engineers reach target performance.  On-chip capacitors are limited in their quality and size and often introducing design challenges where engineers need to compromise capacitor type, chip cost and performance. This

SiFive Secures $65.4 Million In Series D Funding

SiFive, Inc., the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, today announced it raised $65.4 million in a Series D round led by existing investors Sutter Hill Ventures, Chengwei Capital, Spark Capital, Osage University Partners and Huami, alongside new investor Qualcomm Ventures LLC. This Series D round

Communications IC Market to Again Surpass Computer IC Market

IC Insights will release its June Update to the 2019 McClean Report later this month.  This Update includes a 2017-2023 IC database that segments the actual 2017 and 2018 and forecasted 2019-2023 IC market by major product type by Consumer, Auto, Computer, Industrial, Communications, and Government/Military end-use applications in the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Asia-Pacific

Infineon to acquire Cypress, strengthening and accelerating its path of profitable growth

Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) and Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: CY) today announced that the companies have signed a definitive agreement under which Infineon will acquire Cypress for US$23.85 per share in cash, corresponding to an enterprise value of €9.0 billion.
 
Reinhard Ploss, CEO of Infineon,

BrainChip Announces the Availability of Advanced AI Intellectual Property

BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN), the leading AI EDGE company, today announced the availability of the Company’s Akida Neural Processing Core (“NPC”) as intellectual property available for licensing. This introduction marks a major development in the Company’s market presence.

The Akida NPC is now available to license as an