Synopsys continues security acquisitions; NXP-Freescale shareholders approve merger; Intel management changes.
Synopsys continued its expansion into security with the acquisition of security IP provider Elliptic Technologies. The Canadian company’s focus was cryptography cores, security protocol accelerators and processors, Root of Trust embedded security IP modules, secure boot and cryptography middleware as well as content protection IP for integration into SoCs.
NXP and Freescale shareholders approved the pending merger, clearing the way for one of the biggest deals of the year.
Intel announced some leadership and organizational changes. President Renee James and Arvind Sodhani, president of Intel Capital, both will step down in January. James will take on an external CEO role.
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Consortiums seek ways to ensure interoperability of hardened IP as way of cutting costs, time-to-market, but it’s not going to be easy.
No shortage of alternatives as materials, packaging and architectural options grow, and plenty of startups are jumping in.
AI-enabled systems are being designed to process more data locally as device scaling benefits decline.
Chips will cost more to design and manufacture even without pushing to the latest node, but that’s not the whole story.
Access to source code makes it attractive for custom applications, but gaps remain in the tool flow and in software.
Growing volume of data and limited improvements in performance create new opportunities for approaches that never got off the ground.
Semiconductor design lags behind other industries in adopting the cloud, but there could be some good reasons for that. Change is difficult.
Behind closed doors: Semiconductor executives talk about the bugs they fear the most and the problems solving them.
New data flow, higher switch density and IP integration create issues across the design flow.
While CPUs continue to evolve, performance is no longer limited to a single processor type or process geometry.
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