Mali for power-constrained products
ARM’s Mali-470 GPU is for power-constrained products, including smart watches, home gateways and appliances, industrial control panels and healthcare monitors. It is available for immediate licensing, with the first Mali-470 enabled devices expected in late 2016. “ARM scrutinizes every milliwatt across the entire SoC to enable OEMs to optimize energy-efficiency and open up new opportunities,” ...
Surprising IDT stats underpin product strategy
IDT has put together some extraordinary stats to underpin its product strategy in FIFOs, multiport memories, memory interfaces and timing products. Phones are checked 100 billion times a day by the six billion people (80% of the world population of 7.4 billion people) who own a mobile phone. Facebook gets nine billion visits a day; WhatApp gets ...
Mentor massively accelerates verification
Ever-increasing chip sizes and complexity are increasing the need for full-chip verification in the early stages of software validation, according to Jean-Marie Brunet, Mentor’s marketing director. “Networking chips are now the biggest chips out there – they can be bigger than 20x20mm and have more than 400 million gates,” says Brunet. “Simulation is insufficient because ...
Mentor massively accelerates verification
Ever-increasing chip sizes and complexity are increasing the need for full-chip verification in the early stages of software validation, according to Jean-Marie Brunet, Mentor’s marketing director. “Networking chips are now the biggest chips out there – they can be bigger than 20x20mm and have more than 400 million gates,” says Brunet. “Simulation is insufficient because ...
CBI calls for increased government R&D spend
The CBI is pressing the Government to prioritise innovation and science funding in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). Raising total research and development spending to 3% of GDP will help achieve this, buttressed by a dedicated and long-term industrial strategy. Both are growth-enhancing measures that contribute to increased productivity. The CBI is calling on ...
CBI calls for increased government R&D spend
The CBI is pressing the Government to prioritise innovation and science funding in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). Raising total research and development spending to 3% of GDP will help achieve this, buttressed by a dedicated and long-term industrial strategy. Both are growth-enhancing measures that contribute to increased productivity. The CBI is calling on ...
Broadcom brokers home automation standards peace treaty
Broadcom is acting as an honest broker in trying to get the various ecosystems aimed at delivering home automation technology to agree common standards. “Everyone is trying to solve the problem in different ways,” says Broadcom evp for worldwide sales, Mike Hurlston, “it has to be solved and it will be solved.” Heavyweights like Apple, ...
Broadcom brokers home automation standards peace treaty
Broadcom is acting as an honest broker in trying to get the various ecosystems aimed at delivering home automation technology to agree common standards. “Everyone is trying to solve the problem in different ways,” says Broadcom evp for worldwide sales, Mike Hurlston, “it has to be solved and it will be solved.” Heavyweights like Apple, ...
Broadcom brokers home automation standards peace treaty
Broadcom is acting as an honest broker in trying to get the various ecosystems aimed at delivering home automation technology to agree common standards. “Everyone is trying to solve the problem in different ways,” says Broadcom evp for worldwide sales, Mike Hurlston, “it has to be solved and it will be solved.” Heavyweights like Apple, ...
SanDisk is up for sale and has three interested potential buyers – Micron, Western Digital and Tsinghua Unigroup. SanDisk will cost a lot less with a market cap of about $12.6bn and is expected to go for $17bn. Micron’s flash technology partner, Intel, has paid $1.5bn for a 20% shareholding in Tsinghua Unigroup’s semiconductor subsidiary ...
