Posts Tagged ‘ARM’
Thursday, January 19th, 2017
At the ESD Alliance panel on the Cadence campus Wednesday night, it was Vista Ventures’ Jim Hogan who suggested the little open-source processor architecture called RISC-V will prove itself to be a plucky survivor when looming market realities hit 800-pound proprietary vendors like ARM and Intel. Hogan suggested RISC-V is positioned to survive that pending apocalypse just like “the mammals after the asteroid.”
Pretty dramatic stuff.
Hence it should not have been surprising, at the end of the 75-minute discussion on stage between Jim Hogan and Microsemi’s Ted Speers and SiFive’s Yunsup Lee, that I raised my hand and asked why Simon Segars was not in the room. After all, Simon Segars is both CEO of ARM and a key member of the Board of the Alliance that organized the Hogan-Speers-Lee program – a program where the emerging RISC-V movement was described as poised to upend the primacy of ARM etc.
Hogan responded to my question without answering: “Look, ARM is challenging by serving the low-cost processor market. License fees, royalty fees – that is what ARM wants for their low-power edge-based device. I think it was Simon, for example, who started talking to The Street about his economic strategy. It’s not really about what the best technology is, but about the economics. This is what gets the traction, and ARM will respond in an economic way.”
“Yes,” Ted Speers added, “and Intel and Imagination will also respond.”
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Tags: ARM, Dave Paterson, ESD Alliance, Imagination Technologies, Intel, Jim Hogan, John Hennessy, Linley Group, Microsemi, Olivier Bernard, Rick O'Connor, RISC-V, RISC-V Foundation, SiFive, Simon Segars, Stanford, Ted Speers, U.C. Berkeley, Vista Ventures, Yunsup Lee
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Thursday, January 5th, 2017
One of your New Year’s Resolutions should be to further understand the philosophy, technology, and implications of the RISC-V movement. And there will be no better way to follow through on that resolution than to attend the upcoming ESD Alliance discussion on the topic.
In a nod to the best in situational irony, the Alliance is hosting an evening event in Silicon Valley on January 18th specifically to discuss this open source processor architecture, which per some has the potential to turn ARM’s market dominance on its ear.
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Tags: ARM, BSD License, DAC, Dave Patterson, ESC Boston, ESD Alliance, Google, IoT Meetup, Jim Hogan, Krste Asanovic, MIT, Oracle, Rick O'Connor, RISC-V, RISC-V Foundation, SiFive, U.C. Berkeley, Yunsup Lee
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Thursday, November 10th, 2016
Next Tuesday, November 15th, is the deadline for submitting research abstracts for the IP track at DAC 2017 in Austin in June. Paper manuscripts are due the following Tuesday. IP-themed session proposals are also due on that Tuesday, November 22nd, while Designer & IP Track proposals are due December 14th.
[NOTE: The December 14th date listed above is for invited Design Track & IP Track proposals. All other proposals for DAC 2017 Design Track & IP Track content can be submitted for review up until January 14, 2017. Thank you to DAC Press Chair Michelle Clancy for this important clarification.]
In other words, if you want to present within the IP Track at the 54th Design Automation Conference, you need to get going now.
The committee that will be overseeing review of these proposals is being headed up by Lattice Semiconductor’s Claude Moughanni – his group taking seriously their role in assembling an IP program that’s both informative and cutting edge.
Moughanni’s committee members include IPnest’s Eric Esteve, Synopsys’ Marc Greenberg, ARM’s Simon Rance, Freescale’s Henning Spruth, Mentor’s Farzad Zarrinfar, Intel’s Ty Garibay, Samsung’s Kelvin Low, Silvaco’s Warren Savage, and Cadence’s Karamveer Yadav – an impressive group who are indeed subject experts.
So, why should you go to all the effort to submit something for review by this group? Is there really any benefit in taking the time to participate at DAC, next year or ever?
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Tags: 54DAC, AdaptIP, ARM, ARM TechCon, Cadence, CDNLive, Claude Moughanni, Design Automation Conference, Eric Esteve, Farzad Zarrinfar, Henning Spruth, Karamveer Yadav, Kelvin Low, Mac McNamara, Marc Greenberg, Mentor, Simon Rance, SNUG, Synopsys, Ty Garibay, Warren Savage
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Thursday, October 27th, 2016
Raise your hand if you think innovation comes out of small, nimble, edgy startups. Keep your hand up if you think consolidation is antithetical to the inventive culture closely associated with small, nimble edgy startups where everybody works outside of their job description and above their grade. Now put your hand down and tell us what you think about yet another merger in the semiconductor industry.
Yes, happy for investors that Qualcomm is buying NXP, but the end result will be a nasty one for technical innovators in EDA. Yet another reduction in the number of customers for EDA tools. Not necessarily a reduction in the number of seats, but a reduction in the number of actual separate corporate entities looking for tools for chip design.
Of course, for those who love large, lumbering organizations with almost as many people in the typing pool as in the engineering pool – more consolidation is great news for the semiconductor business and for the electronic design automation business, as well.
However, for those who still remember when EDA was a Wild West full of crazy startups, wacky business ideas, and loads of shifting sands between a constantly morphing/re-morphing population of EDA startups and an also-always morphing/re-morphing population of chip-design customers – take note: Those days are gone. Forever.
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Tags: ARM, Cadence, Mentor Graphics, NXP, Qualcomm, Synopsys
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Thursday, October 13th, 2016
Next week, DVCon is once again in Europe, October 19-20 in Munich. A marvelous agenda has been laid out for this year’s 2-day conference, including three keynoters that pretty much sum up the state of things in the industry here in 2016. If you want to know where to apply your resources – both human and material – over the next decade, look no farther than these three talks.
It’s a tiring trip from Silicon Valley to Bavaria, but the quality of these presentations, combined with the rest of the content at DVCon Europe, will make the trip well worth the effort. Hope you’re going.
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Tags: AMIQ, ARM, Bob Smith, Cadence, DVCon Europe 2016, ESD Alliance, Hobson Bullman, Juergen Weyer, Mentor Graphics, NXP Semiconductors, Synopsys
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
Geoff Tate, founding CEO at Rambus, is busy – again. These days he’s leading the charge with a new FPGA-based enterprise that, per Tate, wants to be “the first to the party” – a party that’s all about providing FGPA-based IP to a market increasingly in need of these products.
When Tate and I spoke by phone recently, he offered the Flex Logix elevator pitch, and then focused on the company’s August press release.
“We are like the ARM of FPGA,” Tate said, and then laughed. “No, we are not expecting to be acquired by SoftBank anytime soon.”
“However, ARM was the first to successfully embed processors,” he said, “and at Flex Logic we are [doing that] with FPGAs.”
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Tags: AMD, ARM, Cadence, Cheng Wang, Cypress Semiconductor, Dan Markovic, Eclipse Ventures, eFPGA, Flex Logic, Geoff Tate, Lux Capital, Mellanox, Mentor Graphics, Microchips, National Semiconductor, Pierre Lamond, Rambus, reconfigurable RTL blocks, SoftBank, Synopsys, TSMC 40ULP, UCLA
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Thursday, August 25th, 2016
This week’s blog post is authored by Bill Finch, Senior VP at CAST, Inc., long-time provider of IP cores and platform IP products. The discussion below maps the evolution of technologies and strategies that produced today’s IoT to the critical road map needed to achieve tomorrow’s.
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IoT: The Second Coming
The second wave of the IoT is about to start. In the first wave, there was little clarity about what functionality really mattered. Engineers were tasked with getting products out ASAP. Because of the uncertainty and rush, most first-wave products were built around off-the-shelf parts made by IDMs (Integrated Device Manufacturers). The emphasis was on getting things working, not on optimization.
This will not be true in the second wave.
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Tags: ARM, Bill Finch, CAST Inc., Internet of Things, IoT, Masayoshi Son, Nikos Zervas, SoftBank
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Saturday, July 23rd, 2016
The semiconductor IP industry is reeling at news of the tragic death of Mark Templeton while white water kayaking last weekend in Oregon. Well known, widely admired, and held in great esteem for both his intelligence and unassuming style, Templeton will be sorely missed, not just in the IP industry, but across the entire tech sector.
Per the Press Release: “Mark R. Templeton, 57, was a highly respected venture capitalist in Silicon Valley who used his background as an engineer to foster scientific advancement. In his capacity as a director and board member of numerous tech companies and organizations, he was instrumental in driving growth in the intellectual property market through a combination of technical and business innovation.”
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Tags: Ablesky, Adaptive Sound Technologies, ARM, Artisan Components, DAC, DXCorr Design, Fabbrix, Jerry Ardizzone, Liam Goudge, Lucio Lanza, Mark Templeton, Neal Carney, Si2, Silicon Compiler Systems, Takumi
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Monday, July 18th, 2016
Yep, it’s happened. More astonishing than Brexit. Faster than a skyrocketing market cap. Stronger than any ties to Merry Old England, Apple, or ESDA. Able to leap over continents in a single bound.
Holy All-Cash-Deal, Sir Robin, ARM’s been bought by SoftBank!
For a mere 24.3 billion pounds.
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Tags: ARM, ARM Connected Community, Batman, Brexit, ESD Alliance, Fabulous wealth, Robin, Simon Segars, Sir Robin Saxby, SoftBank, Superman
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2016
At this writing, midnight is approaching here in California, it’s June 23rd, and highly anticipated news is arriving out of the UK. It’s Friday morning there and the results of the Should I stay or Should I go referendum have been announced. To the astonishment of some subset of the world, and undoubtedly their stock markets, the UK is leaving the European Union.
And so a page turns, another chapter begins, and now there’s a twist in the plot line that few saw coming. Although it’s a dark and starry night here, the sun is up in the UK and the future looks suddenly different, no matter if you’re standing on the streets of London, York, Edinburgh – or Cambridge.
The very same Cambridge where ARM Ltd. is headquartered.
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Tags: ARM, Brexit, Cadence, Cambridge, EU, Mentor Graphics, The Clash
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