Week In Review: Design, Low Power


Nvidia's proposed acquisition of Arm is officially off. The deal faced significant pushback from regulatory agencies in the UK, USA, and Europe, which feared it would reduce or limit competition in areas like data center. Nvidia indicated it would continue working with Arm, and it will retain a 20-year Arm license. (SoftBank will retain the $1.25 billion prepaid by Nvidia.) SoftBank said it wil... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power


M&A Microchip Technology acquired LegUp Computing, a provider of a high-level synthesis compiler that automatically generates high-performance FPGA hardware from software. The LegUp HLS tool will be used alongside Microchip’s VectorBlox Accelerator Software Design kit and VectorBlox Neural Networking IP generator to provide a complete front-end solution stack for C/C++ algorithm develope... » read more

When The Chips Are Down, Software-Defined Data Centers Can Ease R&D Creases


The design team of a fabless semiconductor company seemed to go into a tizzy every 6 months. They had to deliver the latest chips to their end customer amid extremely aggressive deadlines. They realized that if they needed the might of the millennials to bump up their bottom line, they would have to give their models and designs a makeover (read upgrade) every few months. To read more, click... » read more