Semiconductor IP Industry News
December, 2014

Shanghai, December 23, 2014 – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI), the world's leading secure connection solution provider, recently announced the adoption of its mobile payment solution by China Merchants Bank (CMB) for its latest financial product ‘All in One Mobile’. The move enables NXP to become a core partner of ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands, December 22, 2014 - NXP Semiconductors N.V. (Nasdaq:NXPI) today unveiled the winning applications for the NFC Windows Application Contest (NFC-WAC) launched together with Microsoft Corp., Identiv and Lenovo earlier this year. From healthcare to gaming applications, the contest revealed a number of potential practical use cases for near ...

BANGALORE - Dec. 18, 2014 - Real Intent, whose RTL verification solutions accelerate electronic design sign-off, eliminate complex failures in SoCs, and lead the market in performance, capacity, accuracy and completeness, will exhibit its breakthrough Ascent and Meridian products at the 28th International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID) in Bangalore, ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands and San Jose, Calif, December 18, 2014 — NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) – co-inventor of NFC and a global leader in enabling secure connections for smart devices in the home, car, payments, health and more – announced today it will showcase its latest innovations at the 2015 ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, today announced the appointment of Janice D. Chaffin to its board of directors, effective December 12, 2014. Ms. Chaffin is an experienced ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, today announced that the open Verdi® debug solution has achieved the milestone of more than 100 debug and analysis apps developed through the ...

December 16, 2014 – CHICAGO – Newark element14 announces the global launch of a high-performance full NFC expansion board, EXPLORE-NFC, allowing users of Raspberry Pi to experiment and simply add NFC functionality to their designs. The new product supports all three NFC modes: Reader mode, Peer-to-Peer modes and Card Emulation ...

Grenoble, France - December 8, 2014 - The ever-growing smartcard market is perpetually facing the challenge of protecting asset confidentiality and data integrity against hackers and pirates. It demands a perpetual renewal of secured platforms from fabless IC suppliers for smartcards, always offering more numerous and more upgraded security features.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced it will present, together with Calsoft Labs, a high performance Network Function Virtualization (NFV) solution at the 2014 Carrier Network Virtualization Event. The joint presentation will highlight the performance ...

Virtualizer Enables Faraday Design Services' Customers to Start Software Development up to 12 Months before Hardware Availability

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 4, 2014 -

Highlights:

• Synopsys Virtualizer enables Faraday to quickly create and deliver Virtualizer Development Kits (VDKs) to its customers
• VDKs are software development kits that use a virtual prototype as a ...

Trac Pham Appointed Chief Financial Officer

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 3, 2014 - Synopsys, Inc., a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, today announced that Brian Beattie has been promoted to executive vice president, business operations and chief administrative officer. ...

Will Showcase IPs Fast Access Speed, Megabits of Capacity, 10 Years of Data Retention, Flexible Programming Options

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. - December 2, 2014 - Kilopass Technology Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor logic non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP) will exhibit at the China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA) ICCAD 2014 ...

Shanghai, China, December 2, 2014 – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) visited Rudong, Jiangsu province, China to exchange ideas on strengthening the development of smart manufacturing in Rudong. NXP Semiconductors representatives met with Mr Pan Jianhua, Rudong Governor and member of National People’s Congress Committee.

Headquartered in Rudong Economic Development ...