INTERNATIONAL CES, Las Vegas, Nev. – January 5, 2010 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business … Read More → "ViXS Systems Teams with MIPS Technologies for High-Performance Processors used in Advanced Multimedia Applications"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Audience, Inc. a global provider of advanced voice and audio processors, today announced the latest generation of its industry-leading dynamic noise suppression solutions for mobile phones with the new A1026 Voice Processor chip.  Featuring improved performance features and a highly integrated, more compact and energy-efficient design, the A1026 processor significantly improves mobile call quality in noisy environments by suppressing background noise, intermittent sounds and echoes – whether surrounding the caller or the person they’re speaking with – to enable clear communications.

The third generation in the … Read More → "Audience Announces Next Generation Voice Processor for Mobile Phones"

Taipei, Taiwan, January 5, 2010 – VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the VIA EPIA-P820, the first Pico-ITX form factor board to feature the high performance, 64-bit VIA Nano processor, bringing industry-leading digital multimedia performance and virtualization capabilities to the smallest of spaces with the VIA AMOS-3001 chassis system.

The choice of VIA Nano processor means that the VIA EPIA-P820 offers a range of advantages over competitor offerings, including full 64-bit software support, a high-performance superscalar architecture and full support of the latest virtualization technologies for next generation … Read More → "Most Powerful Pico-ITX Board Ever Packs the VIA Nano Processor, Powers VIA AMOS-3001, Industry’s Most Compact & Fanless IPC"

UNTERPREMSTAETTEN, Austria–(BUSINESS WIRE)–austriamicrosystems (SIX:AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs for communications, industrial, medical and automotive applications, complements its power and audio management unit portfolio with the introduction of the AS3607, a highly integrated power management IC (PMIC). The AS3607 features a level of start-up sequence programmability not found in competing devices. This PMIC is suitable for portable navigation devices, portable media players, e-dictionaries, GPS devices, PDAs and a wide range of battery powered … Read More → "austriamicrosystems Introduces a Highly Integrated Power Management Unit with Configurable Start-up Sequences"

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Perfectus Technology, Inc., the leading provider of highest quality verification IPs for many industry standard protocols, today announced availability of SystemVerilog-based and Open Verification Methodology (OVM)-compliant PCI Express Gen3 verification IP (Genie-PCIe3 VIP) to help designers accelerate the verification of PCI Express Gen3-based products.

Genie-PCIe3 features a complete set of intelligent verification components for verifying PCI Express 1.1/2.0/3.0 and SR-IOV-based designs and it works in any verification environment, including SystemVerilog and OVM methodology. The Root complex and End Point Models, Comprehensive Test Suite … Read More → "Perfectus Announces Availability of Industry’s Most Powerful SystemVerilog-Based OVM-Compliant PCI Express 3.0 Verification IP"

Kirkland, WA/Seoul Korea – 4 January 2010 (for immediate release) Dynalith Systems (Korea) and Impulse Accelerated Technologies today announced the successful integration of a new tool kit for engineers simulating and prototyping high performance computer systems. Based on powerful Xilinx FPGAs, the kit supports a full development path from Visual Studio, GCC, and other compilers, through hardware/software partitioning to a deployable FPGA-based development board. The integrated tool flow streamlines development by creating an environment for hardware/software partitioning experimentation, and by automatically generating APIs. Software developers in particular are looking to accelerate algorithms in programmable platforms, but have been traditionally … Read More → "Xilinx-based Hardware/Software Co-simulation Accelerated on Dynalith/Impulse C to FPGA Prototyping System"

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Demonstrating its continued commitment to the mobile consumer electronics market, QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK) is showcasing a host of next-generation handheld and mobile consumer electronics (CE) devices based on QuickLogic’s Customer Specific Standard Product (CSSP) solutions during the CES show in Las Vegas, January 7-10, 2010. Among the technologies on display is the Visual Enhancement Engine (VEE™) and Display Power Optimizer (DPO) technology. QuickLogic’s VEE and DPO technologies bring a TV-quality visual … Read More → "QuickLogic Showcases Innovative CSSP-Enabled Handset and Mobile CE Products at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas"

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – December 30, 2009 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqGS: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for home entertainment, communications, networking and portable multimedia markets, today announced that Taiwan-based Realtek Semiconductor has licensed a wide range of MIPS32® Pro Series® cores for broadband, networking, digital home and multimedia SoCs. Realtek’s adoption of the MIPS32 34Kc™ Pro and 24Kf® Pro cores … Read More → "Realtek Licenses Wide Range of MIPS32® Pro Series® Cores to Develop High-Performance SoCs"