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.
Rising costs and gaps in equipment emerge as technology scales; new tools under development.
Experts at the Table, part 1: Shrinking features isn’t enough anymore. The big challenge now is how to achieve economies of scale and minimize complex integration issues.
Explosion of data is forcing significant changes in where processing is done.
Researchers digging into ways around the von Neumann bottleneck.
Showing that a processor core adheres to a specification becomes more difficult when the specification is extensible.
Optimizing complex chips requires decisions about overall system architecture, and memory is a key variable.
Why data scrubbing and social issues could limit the speed of adoption and the usefulness of this technology.
Wally Rhines, Mentor’s CEO Emeritus, points to big shifts caused by AI, customization, uncertainty in the global economy and a changing customer base.
Smaller features and AI are creating system-level issues, but traditional ways of solving these problems don’t always work.
Agile development is gaining traction for developing hardware testbenches, but challenges remain.
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