The 3rd Party Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) market has continued to increase its importance to designers for System-on-a-Chip (SoC) through its ability to help reduce the design time and overall costs for these complex silicon solutions.  The growth experienced in 2007 will continue during the next five years as the [...]

An interesting article appeared in the Korean Times this week that expressed concern over the continuing investments of Taiwanese memory manufacturers. As stated in the article, “While South Korean chip giants such as Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor have recently clashed over the issue of a “technology transfer’’ to overseas rivals, Taiwan-based computer chipmakers [...]

The much anticipated MPU designs from Intel, Silverthorne and Diamondville, have been announced by Intel. The MPU will be marketed under the brand name Atom. The MPU is a single core 80×86. Atom is a new low-power microarchitecture. It represents a new family of processors designed from the ground-up for low-power [...]