Posts Tagged ‘EZchip’
Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
Last week the International Consumer Electronics Show returned to Las Vegas, where it has been a major event for nearly 40 years. Nearly everyone calls this show CES, to the extent that its home page doesn’t even tell you what the acronym means anymore. So CES it is, one of the largest and best-known technology-oriented conferences in the world. Its sheer size makes it a test of stamina for exhibitors and visitors alike.
When people think of CES, they think of wandering the aisles and being overwhelmed by all the cool products on display. From massive HDTV screens down to the smallest Internet of Things (IoT) devices, this show appears to have it all. It seems to me, however, that CES has evolved into an event that’s almost as much about the underlying silicon as it is above the consumer-oriented end products. I’d like to explore that idea in today’s post.
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Tags: Breker, Broadcom, CES, Consumer Electronics Show, Cypress, EDA, EZchip, functional verification, Intel, Internet of Things, IoT, Marvell, MaxLinear, Omnivision, Qualcomm, semiconductor, Sigma Designs, SoC, SoC verification, system-on-chip, Texas Instruments, TI, Toshiba
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
Earlier this year, we published an analysis of the semiconductor landscape that became one of the most-read posts in the history of The Breker Trekker. That’s not too surprising, since business topics tend to have wider appeal than detailed discussions about verification techniques. That post focused on the top 20 semiconductor companies and the many changes in that list over the last 15 years. We mentioned a number of noteworthy mergers, acquisitions, and spin-outs that contributed significantly to the dynamic nature of the market.
The first three quarters of this year have seen a huge uptick in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity among semiconductor companies. Although many of these deals have involved second-tier players, at least a few are significant enough to result in changes to the next Top 20 listing. Since we follow the chip industry closely, we thought we’d summarize some of the recent announcements and speculate a bit on what it all means.
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Tags: Altera, Avago, Breker, Broadcom, chip, EDA, EZchip, Freescale, functional verification, Hynix, IC Insights, IHS, Intel, Internet of Things, IoT, iSuppli, LSI, Marvell, MediaTek, Mellanox, mentor, Micro, Micron, MStar, NVIDIA, NXP, PLX, PMC-Sierra, Qualcomm, Renesas, semiconductor, Skyworks, SoC, SoC verification, Top 20
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