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The Week In Review: Manufacturing
By Mark LaPedus - 08 Jan, 2016 - Comments: 0

2016 is starting off on the wrong foot. Samsung disclosed its preliminary results for the forth quarter. Samsung expects a difficult business environment in 2016, according to reports. Plus, Apple is seeing lower than expected demand. “We are lowering our March quarter iPhone units to 45M units (prior 54M) to reflect incremental softness and recent production cuts. Our sense is that iPhones a... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 08 Jan, 2016 - Comments: 0

EDA & IP EDA revenues increased 7.1% for Q3 2015, according to the EDA Consortium, upping the number to $1957.5 million, compared to $1828.1 million in Q3 2014. The four-quarters moving average also jumped by 8.8%. IC Physical Design & Verification saw the biggest gains, with a 14% increase compared to Q3 2014 and $407.9 million in revenue for the quarter. IP was runner up, with $652... » read more

EDA, IP Numbers Strong
By Ed Sperling - 06 Jan, 2016 - Comments: 0

EDA and IP sales were 7.1% in Q3 across all major segments and all geographical regions, increasing to $1.957 billion compared with $1.828 billion in the same period in 2014, according to just-released numbers from the EDA Consortium. The four-quarter moving average was up 8.8%. "This was an excellent quarter for EDA," said Wally Rhines, board sponsor for the EDA Consortium's Market Statisti... » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 6
By Jesse Allen - 06 Jan, 2016 - Comments: 0

Mobile is not just about handsets, but also cloud datacenters and the networking to move data back and forth. Cadence's Paul McLellan takes a look at the future of traditional dataservers with the rise of microservers and the use of FPGA accelerators. Mentor's Jay Gorajia has ideas for how to best leverage manufacturing analytics, but says that care must be taken in deciding which data shoul... » read more

The Week In Review: Manufacturing
By Mark LaPedus - 01 Jan, 2016 - Comments: 0

Samsung Electronics is expected to demonstrate three new technologies at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The technologies are part of Samsung’s so-called Creative Lab (C-Lab) projects. The first project, dubbed WELT, is a healthcare belt that helps people manage their waist size by measuring their daily habits and behaviors. “WELT is a smart wearable healthcare belt that looks... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 01 Jan, 2016 - Comments: 0

Intel completed its $16.7 billion acquisition of Altera this week. Check out our analysis of why this may be the most important M&A deal of 2015 for the semiconductor industry, and the challenges faced in making it work. NXP uncorked its latest multi-protocol NFC frontend, incorporating ISO/IEC 15693, Felica, MIFARE and ISO/IEC 14443A/B. According to NXP, it delivers four times more outp... » read more

Behind The Intel-Altera Deal
By Ed Sperling - 31 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 3

Intel completed its $16.7 billion acquisition of Altera this week, wrapping up what is arguably the semiconductor industry's most important M&A transaction of 2015. Time and numbers will tell exactly how important. There are two big challenges to making this deal work. One involves a big shift in direction away from simply shrinking features to include new architectures and packaging approac... » read more

Blog Review: Dec. 30
By Jesse Allen - 30 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

It's been a quiet week on the blog front. If you're looking for a bit of downtime while you enjoy the New Year, we present thoughts on what's happened this year and what may be to come from last week's System-Level Design newsletter: Editor in Chief Ed Sperling finds acquisitions and the leading edge of design defined 2015, but other changes are ahead. Technology Editor Brian Bailey obser... » read more

The Week In Review: Manufacturing
By Mark LaPedus - 24 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

South Korea’s SK Hynix led the initial charge in the development of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), a 3D DRAM technology based on a memory stack and through-silicon vias (TSVs). SK Hynix has been shipping HBM parts in the market. Now, SK Hynix and Samsung are readying the next version of the technology, dubbed High Bandwidth Memory 2 or HMB2, according to a report from The Electronic Times of So... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Ed Sperling - 24 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Acquisitions Synopsys acquired Australia's Goanna Software, a security company focused on static code analysis tools for improving code quality. Synopsys said the acquisition is part of its strategy to improve software sign-off, but the acquisition also expands Synopsys' presence in Australia and the Asia/Pacific region. Terms of the deal were not made public. Synopsys has been steadily build... » read more

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