News & Analysis
Imagination passes 200 million unit milestone
Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies company, reports that cores from its current silicon IP families, META, ENSIGMA and POWERVR, have shipped in over 200 million system-on-chip (SoC) devices.
Murata Power Solutions appoints Chris Conlin as CEO
Murata Power Solutions has announced the appointment of Chris Conlin as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Conlin brings to the new role more than 25 years of marketing, sales and management experience in the electronic component and semiconductor industries.
Plextek launches environmental consultancy services
Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy has launched a range of strategic consulting activities to cover environmental advice and evaluation. Plextek is now able to help clients in communications equipment and services markets to evaluate technology options that both benefit the environment and make sense economically. A commercial advantage can also be generated thanks to the current dynamic regulatory envi...
Barco delivers its JPEG 2000 IP cores on all 40nm FPGA platforms
Barco Silex, Barco's center of competence for embedded video coding electronic and design services, announces the support of its JPEG 2000 IP cores on all high-performance and low-cost 40nm FPGA families. Barco Silex, announces the support of its acclaimed JPEG 2000 IP cores on all FPGA families using 40/45nm process nodes for both high-performance and low-cost applications.
Knowles Acoustics Ships 1 Billionth Sisonic Mems Microphone
Knowles Acoustics has reached a major milestone in the history of MEMS technology with the shipment of its 1 Billionth SiSonic surface mount MEMS microphone. Knowles Acoustics, which shipped its first MEMS Microphone in 2003, is currently ranked in the top 5 Global Market Share Suppliers of MEMS for Consumer and Mobile Applications (Source: iSuppli Corp. January 2009) and is the world leader in MEMS-based silicon microphone manufacturing.
Freescale to showcase advanced embedded processing solutions at IEC's Broadband World Forum Europe
Freescale Semiconductor plans a strong presence at the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) Broadband World Forum Europe 2009 with an array of advanced embedded processing solutions for the broadband industry. Freescale plans to demonstrate systems featuring processors built on Power Architecture and StarCore technologies, including the MSC8156 multicore DSP, which has been named an IEC InfoVision award finalist.
Adeneo Embedded and BEPS Engineering announce collaboration for the Italian market
Adeneo Embedded, a Microsoft Windows Embedded Gold Partner with facilities in Europe and the U.S., and BEPS Engineering, a Microsoft Windows Embedded Silver Partner based in Italy, announced today a collaboration designed to assist OEMs from Italy to achieve the best time to market for their Windows Embedded CE designs.
Toshiba - Advanced 2D and 3D graphics and high-speed APIX connectivity for automotive instrument clusters
Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced the latest device in the company’s Capricorn family of highly integrated, scalable system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for driving and managing high-quality automotive displays. Targeted at digital instrument clusters and head up display (HUD) applications, Capricorn-F is the first Capricorn device to provide support for 3D graphics and to incorporate APIX Gigabit digital serial data link transmission. ...
Portuguese Cities Expand Installation of LUXEON LED based Street Lights
The implementation of efficient LED street lighting in Portugal has gathered pace over the summer as EnergiaViva has completed installations of the new UrbanLED street light in ten towns and cities. Installation work in a further 20 Portuguese municipalities is expected to have been completed this fall.
Samsung selects NXP to power 240Hz LCD HD Panels
NXP Semiconductors today announced that Samsung Electronics has selected the NXP PNX5120 video co-processor for its 240Hz LCD panels to empower TV OEMs’ 240Hz Full HDTV. These panels, currently in mass production by Samsung Electronics, take advantage of NXP’s Motion Accurate Picture Processing (MAPP2) technology and full motion compensated up-conversion to deliver high-definition action scenes that are smoother and more realistic than ever b...