Posts Tagged ‘TSMC’
Thursday, October 17th, 2013
A brief sampler of recent announcements on the IP front reveal distinct themes in the marketplace. IP development and integration require a viable ecosystem of suppliers and tool vendors; automotive, audio and mobile apps continue to be important targets for IP developers whose customers seek better safety, longer battery life, and truer sound (particularly for sporting events and concerts of aging rockers); IP interfaces remain crucial; and platform-based design totally depends on further enhancements in IP technologies.
Additionally, acquisitions definitely pan out for the companies smart enough to snap up the good ones: Synopsys/ARC, Cadence/Tensilica, and Imagination/MIPS.
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Tags: Altera, ARC, ARM, ASSET InterTech, Cadence, CAST, Dolby, Freescale Semiconductor, Geir Skaaden, Geoff Lees, Imagination Technologies, IPextreme, Jack Guedj, John Couling, John Koeter, Martin Lund, Mentor Graphics, MIPS, Nikos Zervas, Pete Hutton, Suk Lee, Synopsys, Tensilica, Tom Halfhill, Tony King-Smith, TSMC, Warren Savage, Xilinx
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Thursday, April 11th, 2013
Years ago, an editor/mentor advised me never to cover legal battles between companies in this industry. He’d always say, “There’s no good to be had from covering this stuff. The story’s always so much more complicated than anybody every fesses up to, so just don’t go there.”
So, how about this? Shall we accentuate the positive and decentuate the negative? You think that’s stupid, naive, not gritty enough? Well, y’all know where to go if you want to accentuate the negative and decentuate the positive. Y’all know where to go if you want the rumors and innuendo.
If, however, you’d rather start off your week with something a bit more upbeat, stick around.
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Tags: AMD, Barracuda Networks, Cadence, Dana Reyes, Emerson Hsiao, Fairchild Semiconductor, Faraday, Fujitsu, Host Analytics, James Lindstrom, Kilopass, Linh Hong, MagnaChip Semiconductor, MAZ Brandenburg, Samsung, Shanghai Haier IC, Sidense, Tatsuya Yamazaki, Tom Schild, TSMC, ZMDI
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Thursday, April 4th, 2013
Despite grumbling to the contrary, even some that I myself put forth in a blog earlier this year, there will indeed be a daily dose of IP information doled out at DAC in Austin in June. If you’re interested in IP, DAC 2013 actually promises to be quite informative. You can arrange your schedule so as to attend a single significant session each day devoted to various aspects of IP with all of its promise and particulars.
Here’s your DAC planning guide …
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Tags: Arteris, Atrenta, Chris Rowen, DAC 2013, Dan Kochpatcharin, David Murray, Duolog Technologies, Frank Ferro, Freescale, Hans Bouwmeester, IPextreme, John Eaton, John Swanson, Jose Nunez, Kamlesh Kumar Pathak, Keith Odom, Laurent Moll, Magillem Design Services, McKenzie Mortensen, Michael Cizi, Mike Gianfagna, Nagendra Gulur, National Instruments, Open-Silicon, Ouabache Designworks, Sonics, Southwest Reuse, STMicro, Sylvain Duvilliard, Synopsys, Tensilica, TI, TSMC, Vasant Kumar Easwaran, Warren Savage
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Thursday, March 28th, 2013
The best part of attending a conference like SNUG is plunging into a room of hundreds of anonymous lunch munchers and striking up a conversation with a stranger. Over the course of the meal, you’ll learn a little bit about somebody’s career, their expertise, and their concerns.
This week’s networking lunch at the Santa Clara Convention Center was no different. I had a chance to converse for 30 minutes with a lunch companion at a table full of strangers. By the end of the meal, I had heard first-hand about a really big problem for small IP vendors attempting to succeed in the current market – they can’t. According to my lunch companion, it’s nigh-on impossible to compete against ARM.
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Tags: ARM, GlobalFoundries, SMIC, SNUG, TSMC, UMC
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