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Chip market grew 9.9% in 2014
Chip market grew 9.9% in 2014
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The global semiconductor market was worth $335.8 billion in 2014, an increase of 9.9 percent over the 2013 total of…
Chip market grew 9.9% in 2015
Chip market grew 9.9% in 2015
Market news |
The global semiconductor market was worth $335.8 billion in 2014, an increase of 9.9 percent over the 2013 total of…
Yugo Systems externalizes FPGA debug with new hardware
Yugo Systems externalizes FPGA debug with new hardware
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For the last 10 years, Belgium company Byte Paradigm has operated as a design centre for high-end FPGA-based systems as…
“Virtual-lab” environment provides exemplars of advanced PCB design flows
“Virtual-lab” environment provides exemplars of advanced PCB design flows
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Mentor Graphics has secured the participation of a number of industry players who make leading-edge – especially, high-speed signalling –…

Yugo Systems externalises FPGA debug with new hardware
Yugo Systems externalises FPGA debug with new hardware
Feature articles |
For the last 10 years, Belgium company Byte Paradigm has operated as a design centre for high-end FPGA-based systems as well as a provider of test and debug solutions for…
FPGA-based I/O expansion and bridging starter kit
FPGA-based I/O expansion and bridging starter kit
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Presented as the most affordable product of its type available, Lattice Semicondutors’s Programmable kit enables easy and quick evaluation of MachXO3L FPGAs. The kit includes pre-loaded reference designs, design tools,…
Samsung, Apple dominated chip buying in 2014
Samsung, Apple dominated chip buying in 2014
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Between them Samsung and Apple consumed 17 percent of total semiconductor production by value in 2014, according to Gartner Inc.
Toshiba structured arrays designed into NEC backhaul products
Toshiba structured arrays designed into NEC backhaul products
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Toshiba has announced commercial production of its FFSATM for NEC’s iPASOLINK microwave backhaul products.
China bigger than Europe, Japan in fabless chip market
China bigger than Europe, Japan in fabless chip market
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Chinese companies' share of the fabless chip market is bigger than that of European and Japanese fabless chip companies combined according to market research firm IC Insights.
Design-in puts Toshiba structured arrays in NEC microwave link
Design-in puts Toshiba structured arrays in NEC microwave link
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Toshiba has announced commercial production of its FFSATM for NEC’s iPASOLINK microwave backhaul products.
China bigger than Europe plus Japan in fabless chip market
China bigger than Europe plus Japan in fabless chip market
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Chinese companies' share of the fabless chip market is bigger than that of European and Japanese fabless chip companies combined according to market research firm IC Insights.
Xilinx targets next gen ASICs with 4M logic cell FPGA
Xilinx targets next gen ASICs with 4M logic cell FPGA
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Xilinx is now shipping what the FPGA vendor claims to be the industry's first 4M logic cell device, offering over 50M equivalent ASIC gates and four times more capacity than…
Xilinx ships largest FPGA to date; 4million logic cells
Xilinx ships largest FPGA to date; 4million logic cells
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Xilinx has announced that it has delivered a 4million-logic cell programmable device – equivalent, the company says, to over 50 million “equivalent ASIC” logic gates – which is positioned as…
Gartner predicts a softer chip market in 2015
Gartner predicts a softer chip market in 2015
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Market research firm Gartner Inc. has cut back its previous estimate of annual growth for the worldwide semiconductor market in 2105 predicting softness in consumer electronics markets.
Global chip market growth softened in November
Global chip market growth softened in November
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The growth of the global chip market, which was been cruising along at about 10 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2014, softened in three-month average results for November…
Europe’s 300mm IC manufacturing falls below 1% of world output
Europe’s 300mm IC manufacturing falls below 1% of world output
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Europe's presence in leading-edge chip manufacturing is practically insignificant at 2 percent by ownership of 300mm-diameter wafer fab and less than 1 percent by location, according to market research firm…
Samsung catching Intel fast in top 20 chip vendor ranking
Samsung catching Intel fast in top 20 chip vendor ranking
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The global semiconductor market will be worth more than $350 billion in 2014, an increase of 9.4 percent, driven by broad-based demand but including strength of memory sales, according to…
Low-power, “always listening” voice detection/recognition on FPGA
Low-power, “always listening” voice detection/recognition on FPGA
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Aimed at mobile devices, Lattice says it can implement programmable human voice detection and command recognition solutions as small as 2.1 x 2.1 mm with power consumption about two-thirds less…
Altera design software release adds support for DSP & FPU blocks
Altera design software release adds support for DSP & FPU blocks
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Quartus II Software v14.1 enables, Altera says, teraFLOP performance to be achieved in the company’s FPGAs with “hard” floating point arithmetic blocks.
Sensors, big data, medical are hot in 2015, says KPMG
Sensors, big data, medical are hot in 2015, says KPMG
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Cautious optimism characterizes the outlook for 2015 according to the annual Global Semiconductor Industry Survey conducted by audit and consultancy firm KPMG LLP.
Foundry sales growing faster than chip market
Foundry sales growing faster than chip market
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Global foundry IC revenues will grow by 13 percent to $47.9 billion in 2014, following on from annual growth of 13 percent in 2013 and 18 percent in 2012, according…
Rambus develops lensless image sensor for IoT
Rambus develops lensless image sensor for IoT
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Image sensors for objects don't necessarily need to see the world the same way, or in as much detail, as humans. They can use lower cost image sensors and a…
Mobile phones will remain IC market driver
Mobile phones will remain IC market driver
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Although the markets for ICs to go in the Internet of Things and wireless networks will show the strongest growth rates over the next few years they will not come…
Chip market forecast raised for 2014, 2015
Chip market forecast raised for 2014, 2015
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The global chip market is doing better than previously thought and so WSTS has raised its forecast for the market this year and next but has had to reduce its…
Europe splutters as global chip market pushes on
Europe splutters as global chip market pushes on
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The European chip market was down in October 2014 – both sequentially and year-on-year – while the global chip market reversed a recent trend and saw its rate of growth…
Get started with FPGA design
Get started with FPGA design
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This month, Arrow Electronics is giving away ten BeMicro Max 10 FPGA evaluation boards together with an integrated USB-Blaster, each package worth 90 Euros, for EETimes Europe's readers to win.
FPGA-based functional safety boards, IP and industrial reference designs
FPGA-based functional safety boards, IP and industrial reference designs
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Altera FPGAs and IP, with a functional safety development board from NewTec, speed time to market for IEC61508 functional safety applications: reference designs reduce SIL 3 development and certification costs…
US, China pushing industrial chip market growth, says IHS
US, China pushing industrial chip market growth, says IHS
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The industrial chip market had a good 2Q14 in the US and China more than compensating for European weakness and raising expectations for the full year at analysis firm IHS.


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