China foundry unique in growing last year

China was the only region  to register pure-play foundry market growth in 2019, says IC Insights. With the rise of the fabless IC companies in China  over the past 10 years, the demand for foundry services has also risen in that country. Figure 1 shows that the China market was the only major region that ...

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Synopsys buying INVECAS IP

Synopsys is to acquire certain IP assets of INVECAS of  Santa Clara, California. The acquisition will broaden Synopsys’ DesignWare Logic Library, General Purpose I/O, Embedded Memory, Interface and Analog IP portfolio. The acquisition will also add a team of experienced R&D engineers to accelerate Synopsys’ physical IP roadmap across a range of process technologies to ...

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