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Significant Leap Forward in Performance and Power Efficiency Reported Using Altera High-end FPGAs with Hard Floating Point DSP Blocks San Jose, Calif., —February 23, 2015 — Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is using Altera Arria® 10 FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays), to achieve compelling performance-per-Watt in data center acceleration based on […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE) — FotoNation Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tessera Technologies, Inc. (TSRA) and the leading provider of computational imaging solutions for smartphones and digital still cameras, today announced its acquisition of Smart Sensors Limited (“SSL”), an award winning developer of iris recognition biometric technology, a transaction that closed in the fourth

New UltraScale+ FPGA, SoC, and 3D IC applications include LTE Advanced and early 5G wireless, terabit wired communications, automotive ADAS, and industrial IoT SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced its 16nm UltraScale+™ family of FPGAs, 3D ICs, and MPSoCs, combining new memory, 3D-on-3D and multi-processing SoC (MPSoC) technologies,

Cadence executives and partners to present and demonstrate the latest processors, IP and more. SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — WHO: Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CDNS) is scheduled to demonstrate its latest advancements and solutions for mobile technology challenges, in collaboration with customers and partners, at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015. To sign

Qualcomm Extends Snapdragon Brand to Modem Chipsets; Introduces Premium Features and Performance to High Volume Tiers SAN DIEGO, Feb. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has introduced four new Qualcomm® Snapdragon(TM) processors aimed at enhancing user experience and connectivity for high-performance and high-volume mobile

Hannover and Lübeck, Germany, February 20, 2015, – Videantis and gestigon today announced a partnership that teams videantis’s low-power vision processing IP platform with gestigon’s unique skeleton tracking and gesture recognition algorithms. The videantis and gestigon CEOs sealed the partnership last month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Besides targeting consumer electronics, the

LONDON, Feb. 17, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) announces its line-up of demonstrations and activities planned for Embedded World 2015, the world's largest embedded technology conference for designers, developers and decision makers in the embedded market. Who: Imagination, a global leader in multimedia, processor, communication and cloud technologies. Imagination will showcase the next

Presentations and demonstrations to feature solutions for smarter automotive, industrial, and vision-based applications. SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 11, 2015–Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) and over 30 Alliance Program Members will showcase Zynq® All Programmable SoCs at Embedded World 2015. Through a series of presentations and demonstrations, Xilinx will feature solutions for smarter automotive, industrial, and vision-based

Licensing driven by strong demand for vision and connectivity products Growing shipments of CEVA-powered LTE and 3G WCDMA smartphones 2014 licensing and related revenues up 27% year-over-year MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of DSP and IP platforms for cellular, multimedia and connectivity, today announced its

Videantis provides key semiconductor technology for next-generation Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and Infotainment Hannover, Germany, January 29, 2015 – Videantis today announced it has joined the Automotive Cluster organization, a key automotive supply network of the Metropolitan Region of Hannover, Braunschweig, Göttingen, and Wolfsburg. This region houses the headquarters of companies such as Volkswagen, Robert