ST adopts ARM Cortex-A9 multicore processor to deliver high-performance SoCs for an enhanced HDTV experience for consumers, while raising the bar for power efficiency in home entertainment equipment

GENEVA and CAMBRIDGE, England, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) , one of the world’s leading set-top-box chip makers, and ARM [; (NASDAQ:ARMH) ], announced today that ST has adopted the ARM® Cortex(TM)-A9 MPCore(TM) processor, in addition to the Mali®-400 graphics processor, for its upcoming set-top-box and digital TV system-on-chip (SoC) ICs.
The Cortex-A9 MPCore processor provides ST with the scalable high performance … Read More → "STMicroelectronics and ARM Team Up To Power Next-Generation Home Entertainment"

Symmetricom’s Q-Advisor Delivers Advanced Reporting of Digital Video Quality for Cable Providers; Featured at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo – October 28-30, 2009 – Denver, Colo.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Oct. 28, 2009 — Symmetricom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM), a worldwide leader of precise time, synchronization and video quality management technologies that optimize next generation networks, today announced key enhancements to Q-Advisor, its Network Operations Center (NOC) management software for its V-Factor® Quality of Experience (QoE) monitoring platform. New advanced reporting capabilities enable video monitoring operators to prioritize specific troubleshooting actions and manage high impact outages, saving time, … Read More → "Symmetricom Announces Key Enhancements to Q-Advisor Digital Video Monitoring and Management Software"

New Research Discovery Paves Way for Scalable, Higher Density Phase Change Memory Products

2009 International Electron Devices Meeting
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & GENEVA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intel Corporation and Numonyx B.V. today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today’s various memory types. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated a 64Mb test chip that enables the ability to stack, or place, multiple layers of PCM arrays within a single die. These findings pave the way for … Read More → "Intel and Numonyx Achieve Research Milestone With Stacked, Cross Point Phase Change Memory Technology"

Broad DesignWare audio IP portfolio shipped in more than 100 million units

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—October 28, 2009— Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the availability of its 40th audio codec IP with the release of the DesignWare(r) 96 dB Hi-Fi Audio IP in the SMIC 65-nanometer (nm) process. Synopsys has been a leading provider of audio IP for more than twelve years and provides designers with high-quality audio IP solutions supporting 20 different process nodes, from 180-nanomenter (nm) to 65-nm processes and with performance … Read More → "Synopsys announces 40th DesignWare audio codec IP"

Design-centric yield management enables product engineers to achieve rapid yield ramp and provide cost-effective yield control in volume production

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—October 28, 2009— Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that NVIDIA Corp. has adopted Synopsys’ Yield Explorer solution for yield analysis and yield ramp. NVIDIA, which invented the graphics processing unit, selected Yield Explorer because of its ability to coherently combine and cross-correlate large volumes of data from the design, fab and test domains to quickly identify dominant failure mechanisms. This … Read More → "NVIDIA adopts Synopsys Yield Explorer to reduce time to volume"

— OpenGL® ES1.1, the industry-standard programming interface for graphics processing, is supported, allowing sophisticated and flexible 3-D graphics applications to be developed in less time–

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Renesas Technology America, Inc., today announced the SH7777 (SH-NaviJ3), the third product in the SH-NaviJ Series of system-on-chip (SoC) devices for compact portable navigation and infotainment systems and low- and mid-priced dashboard-mounted car navigation and infotainment systems. It speeds up development through OpenGL® ES1.1*1 support and offers enhanced multimedia functions such as terrestrial digital TV broadcast support. The SH7777 (SH-NaviJ3) makes it possible for developers … Read More → "Renesas Technology to Release SH7777 (SH-NaviJ3) SoC for Dashboard-mounted Car Navigation and Infotainment Systems Offering Enhanced Audio and Video Functions"