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Chip Design Outsourcing Firms Need New Skills and Products
White Papers To survive as chip design moves to higher levels of integration, chip design outsourcing firms must develop new capabilities and new products, such as intellectual property and software. Design services companies have, for many years, provided a...
[October 5, 2009, 0:00]
Chip design: Humans not allowed
News The Silicon Valley stalwart, opening the doors to its HP Labs on Tuesday, showed a glimpse of a technology that converts a computer program into a chip tailored to run that program -- a method that bypasses laborious human fiddling with the...
[June 13, 2001, 14:56]
ARM hands new chip design to Intel, TI
News Chip designer ARM Holdings announced Monday that it has licensed the next version of its processor architecture to Intel and Texas Instruments. ARM has also made inroads into the handheld market, in large part because of Intel, whose StrongARM chip...
[July 31, 2001, 9:18]
AMD opens up chip design on two fronts
News The chipmaker this summer established a new chip design team at its Boston Design Centre here, a continent away from its Silicon Valley base, as part of a worldwide effort to strengthen its ability to deliver new processors and boost its sales.
[September 21, 2004, 14:25]
Xilinx licenses communications chip design
News API NetWorks, a company that sells chip designs enabling use of the high-speed HyperTransport connection technology developed by AMD, has licensed its design to chipmaker Xilinx, the companies are scheduled to announce on Monday.
[August 13, 2001, 11:11]
Toshiba goes straight on chip design
News Toshiba has chosen the road less traveled for a new chip-design method. The company on Monday announced X Architecture, a new design method that promises to increase the performance and reduce the size and power consumption of system-on-a-chip...
[June 5, 2001, 9:05]
Intel invests in UK chip-design firm
News Intel has invested $10m (£5m) in UK chip-design company Mirics Semiconductor. Intel has been pouring cash into chip-making facilities of late, including a plant in China and a $300m (£150m) chip-testing factory in Vietnam.
[July 3, 2007, 13:59]
IBM lands $100m military chip design deal
News The relationship is designed to combine Raytheon's focus on military and aerospace electronics with IBM's expertise in chip design, software development, large systems computer architecture and network integration, the companies said.
[August 6, 2003, 13:45]
Intel: Heat critical issue in chip design
News Also at the conference, Intel will present papers describing McKinley, a 64-bit server chip coming out in samples later this year. Meanwhile, IBM will discuss a 1.1GHz Power4 server processor that contains two processor cores while Sun will present...
[February 5, 2001, 14:11]
Shaking up the art of chip design
News Once an engineer completes a design with Prado, it gets merged into a licensee's system-on-chip product. You don't want to become the guy who has a hammer and (then) every problem becomes a nail," said Al Fazio, principal engineer for the process...
[April 21, 2002, 7:31]
Intel finalises design of Penryn chip
News Intel has completed the design of Penryn, a 45-nanometre (nm) chip that will be out toward the end of next year. They aren't out of the fab yet, but they are in the fab," said Mark Bohr, director of process technology at Intel, referring to chip...
[November 30, 2006, 8:43]
Latency-Guided On-Chip Bus Network Design
White Papers Second, ultra-high level of integration mandates design of systems-on-chip that encompass numerous design blocks of decreased functional granularity and increased communication demands. This paper has developed an on-chip bus network design...
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
Analytical Evaluation and Automated Design of Networks-on-Chip
White Papers As Systems-on-Chip (SoC) become more prevalent, and as computer architecture as a whole makes a shift to more modular and parallel designs, on-chip interconnection networks are seen more and more frequently,.
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
UK leads Europe in chip design
News These firms, including well-known names such as ARM Holdings, rely on third-party manufacturers, focussing their efforts on chip design. Contract design companies are used by large manufacturers as a dedicated source of chip designs.
[August 6, 2002, 15:09]
The future of chip design
News A blazingly fast chip, a colorized plastic display, and a six million-pixel image sensor will take center stage at an upcoming gathering of engineers touting the latest ideas from their research labs.
[October 13, 1999, 15:01]
A Year Ago: The future of chip design
News A blazingly fast chip, a colorized plastic display, and a six million-pixel image sensor will take center stage at an upcoming gathering of engineers touting the latest ideas from their research labs.
[October 13, 2000, 7:00]
Layout-Accurate Design and Implementation of a High-Throughput Interconnection Network for Single-Chip Parallel Processing
White Papers A Mesh of Trees (MoT) on-chip interconnection network has been proposed recently to provide high throughput between memory units and processors for single-chip parallel processing. This paper reports the findings in bringing this concept to silicon.
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
Basic transistor flaw could hobble chip design
News The basic rules by which chips are being designed could be wrong, physicists have warned. Researchers at the US National Institute of Science and Technology have warned that a flaw exists in transistor noise models which could fundamentally affect...
[May 28, 2009, 11:34]
Parthus and Psion unveil 'breakthrough' chip
News Ireland's Parthus Technologies Wednesday announced a breakthrough in chip design it hopes could thrust it to the forefront of the mobile communications revolution. Parthus unveiled a single chip computer design called Infostream, which could drive...
[October 18, 2000, 9:30]
Intel gets systematic
Blog The Israeli design chip behind Timna went on to make Banias, the heart of Centrino and the guiding light for nearly everything Intel's done well since, so it's true what they say about some mistakes being instructive.
[December 17, 2007, 16:01]
