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Xilinx, CoWare team on LTE basestation design
ESL design software vendor CoWare Inc. and FPGA vendor Xilinx Inc. have signed an agreement under which CoWare is integrating and distributing models of Xilinx's LTE baseband IP portfolio with its SPW LTE solution.
Not enough LTE base stations shipping, says ABI
LTE base stations are shipping in small volumes, but not high enough to sustain the wireless infrastructure market, notes ABI Research
Synopsys to acquire ESL vendor CoWare
EDA and IP vendor Synopsys announced its second major acquisition in two weeks, saying it signed a definitive agreement to acquire electronic system-level design software vendor Coware. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Actel CEO East to retire
Actel Corp. on Thursday (Feb. 4) said that John East will retire as president and chief executive of the FPGA house and as a member of the board.
Full-year chip sales fell 9% in 2009, says SIA
Global semiconductor sales were $226.3 billion in 2009, a decline of 9 percent from 2008 when sales were $248.6 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The full-year decline was as had been expected in the last month but much less than had been predicted in the first months of 2009.
ASIC pioneer reinvents 3-D FPGAs
By building a three-dimensional field-programmable FPGA with an ultra-dense anti-fuse interconnect, NuPGA claims to be able to achieve the density of an ASIC at a fraction of the cost.
Chip makers swing to profitability
Chip makers including Sandisk, Maxim Integrated Products, Cypress Semiconductor and Lattice Semiconductor swung to profit in the calendar fourth quarter of 2009—compared to losses suffered at the height of the downturn in late 2008. But memory technology licensor Rambus posted a wider loss after retroactively recognizing previously withheld royalties in the year-ago period.
Altera tops estimates, touts advantage at 40-nm
Programmable logic vendor Altera Corp. Tuesday (Jan. 26) reported sharp increases in fourth quarter 2009 revenue and profit and the company's chief executive predicted that its lead in 40-nm FPGAs would help drive growth in 2010.
Former Cavium, Xilinx exec named CEO of MIPS
Processor intellectual property licensor MIPS Technologies Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has announced the appointment of Sandeep Vij as president, chief executive officer and director, replacing interim CEO Anthony Holbrook who will continue to serve as chairman.
Xilinx posts record quarterly sales
Programmable logic vendor Xilinx posted record sales in the quarter ended Jan. 2, with the company's top executive crediting in large part sales of its Virtex-5 FPGAs.
Study gives mixed marks to high-level synthesis
High-level synthesis tools for FPGA design deliver excellent results and are very usable, but do not fully abstract users from the FPGA RTL flow, according to a study conducted by benchmarking and analysis firm BDTI.
Court 'hits reset' in Xilinx-IRS case
An appellate court's decision to withdraw an opinion entered last year in favor of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service against programmable logic vendor leaves the resolution of the matter in limbo, pending further guidance from the court, according to specialists in transfer pricing tax.
Xilinx to go with TSMC at 28-nm, says analyst
Market-leading programmable logic vendor Xilinx is set to use TSMC for foundry services at the 28-nm node, according to one analyst.
Analyst: Intel may acquire FPGA vendor
Intel may look to acquire an FPGA supplier such as Xilinx or Altera in 2010 in an effort to expand its presence in the embedded market as well as SoCs, according to a Wall Street analyst.
Private equity fundraising hits six-year low
Private equity fundraising in the U.S. hit a six-year low in 2009, according to a report that comes as one veteran investor is calling for greater transparency in venture capital investing.
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