Applied Materials names new CEO; Synopsys adds Dolby on ARC; Arteris wins China deal; Freescale rolls out comms processor with Cadence DFM; Mentor focuses on hybrid and electric vehicles.
By Ed Sperling
Manufacturing Equipment giant Applied Materials added three extra letters company president Gary Dickerson’s title—CEO. Mike Splinter, who has served as the company’s CEO since 2003, will become executive chairman of the board of directors. Dickerson was the CEO of Varian, which Applied Materials acquired in 2011.
Synopsys introduced a Dolby decoder for its ARC processor, which provides makers of TV and set-top box audio processors with support for all Dolby formats.
Arteris won a deal with China’s Allwinner Technology, which licensed its network-on-chip IP for tablet and mobile device SoCs.
Freescale Semiconductor taped out a 28nm 1.8GHz communications processor using Cadence’s DFM and signoff tools. The new SoC has hierarchical blocs and 12 Power Architecture 64-bit processors.
Mentor Graphics unveiled its agenda for the upcoming Integrated Electrical Solutions Forum for the automotive market. New this year is a track for electric and hybrid vehicle design.
An upbeat industry at the start of the year met one of its biggest challenges, but instead of being a headwind, it quickly turned into a tailwind.
Continuous design innovation adds to verification complexity, and pushes more companies to actually do it.
The semiconductor industry will look and behave differently this year, and not just because of the pandemic.
Experts at the Table: Any chip can be reverse-engineered, so what can be done to minimize the damage?
More than $1.5B in funding for 26 startups; December was a big month for AI hardware.
Experts at the Table: The open-source ISA is gaining ground in multiple markets, but the tool suite is incomplete and the business model is uncertain.
Taiwan and Korea are in the lead, and China could follow.
An upbeat industry at the start of the year met one of its biggest challenges, but instead of being a headwind, it quickly turned into a tailwind.
New data suggests that more chips are being forced to respin due to analog issues.
New horizontal technologies and vertical markets are fueling the opportunities for massive innovation throughout an expanding ecosystem.
Rising costs, complexity, and fuzzy delivery schedules are casting a cloud over next-gen lithography.
Experts at the Table: The current state of open-source tools, and what the RISC-V landscape will look like by 2025.
Nvidia-Arm is just the beginning; more acquisitions are on the horizon.
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