March 7, 2012 PMC-Sierra has introduced an end-to-end symmetric 10G-EPON fibre access System-on-Chip (SoC). The highly integrated PAS9000 Optical Networking Unit (ONU) and PAS8000 Optical Line Terminal (OLT) SoCs claim to be the industry's first to support 10Gb/s downstream and 10Gb/s upstream access connectivity. The performance and feature integration enables carriers to provide advanced triple-play video on demand, high-speed Internet access and Voice-over-IP services to residential and business customers. Read more

March 5, 2012 MIPI Alliance has announced the Low Latency Interface (LLI) specification for mobile devices, which offers a point-to-point interconnect between the application processor and modem/baseband processor. Read more

March 1, 2012 Freescale has developed two DSP and processor cores to support a single chip that can handle a complete basestation including the emerging LTE-Advanced standard. Read more

February 24, 2012 Octasic Inc., has announced that it has partnered with Deltenna Limited to create cutting edge small cell basestation solutions. At Mobile World Congress 2012, they are introducing what is claimed to be the world’s smallest Microcell/Small cell platform, the WhiteStar, available to OEMs, integrators and operators. Read more

February 22, 2012 Samsung gave an early peek at its first quad-core mobile application processor at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference. The unannounced chip is Samsung’s first to use its 32 nm high-k metal gate process and sports advances in performance and battery life over its existing 45 nm Exynos chips. Read more

February 14, 2012 Intel tipped plans for a communications systems SoC, aiming to compete with the likes of Cavium, Freescale and OEM ASICs for high-end packet processing. Crystal Forest will have up to 16 x86 cores and be capable of handling up to 160 million packets per second of Layer 3 traffic. Read more

February 6, 2012 Mobile data usage nearly doubles each year, but mobile operators cannot increase expenditures at that rate. At the same time, data rates (a key metric of perceived quality) are affected by the proximity of a device to a cell. These two realities make the use of small cells necessary creating a battleground as multiple chip architectures are in pursuit of the small cell market. For SoC vendors, the battle is worth waging. Read more

January 11, 2012 Intel has provided details of its Medfield 32-nm platform for smartphones claiming that the main SoC consumes less than 800-mW worst case. It has also announced that it has deals in place with Lenovo and Motorola for products based on Medfield to appear in 2012. Read more

January 9, 2012 Fast growing multimedia chip designer MediaTek has launched its first WiFi product following its recent acquisition of Taiwanese wireless chip maker Ralink. The RT6856 enables Gigabit wireless on a dual-band concurrent Wi-Fi access point or router, or a CPU-offloading intelligent NIC for connected consumer electronics products. Read more

January 4, 2012 GreenPeak Technologies has launched the company's new GP570 chip that allows the development of low cost motion-enabled remote controls, addressing the growing demand for smarter and intuitive navigation of interactive entertainment services offered by operators. Read more

December 5, 2011 Texas Instruments (TI) has unveiled an expansion of its KeyStone multicore architecture for emerging cloud radio access network (C-RAN) applications and network server developers. Specifically, TI is scaling its KeyStone SoC architecture for the emerging paradigm of C-RAN base stations, enabling the creation of device pools with immense capacity for manufacturers to develop high performance and power efficient C-RAN base station clusters. Read more

November 24, 2011 Design services and intellectual property licensor S3 Group Ltd., formerly known as Silicon & Software Systems, has announced that Nationz Technologies Inc., has licensed mixed-signal IP for use in a mobile television chip and that the chip is now available. Read more

October 7, 2011 STMicroelectronics and the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology have presented the results of an advanced R&D project targeting a low-power microprocessor technology at the 2011 European Solid-State Circuits Conference in Helsinki, Finland. Read more

September 28, 2011 Cavium has announced the Celestial™ CNC1800L multi-format, high definition Set Top Box System-on-a-Chip (SoC) processor is sampling to customers for Over the Top (OTT), IPTV, and Digital Cable Set Top Box applications. Read more

September 27, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced new sub-1 GHz 6LoWPAN solutions, aimed at providing a gateway for remote, low-cost wireless sensors to connect to the Internet and a wireless extension of wired IPv6 infrastructures. By operating in the sub-1GHz band, TI’s 6LoWPAN solutions offer longer wireless range at lower power levels than traditional 2.4 GHz-based 6LoWPAN offerings. Read more

August 30, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has launched ten Bluetooth low energy technology (Bluetooth v4.0) profiles with associated sample applications to boost market development of Bluetooth low energy-compliant sensor devices. The Bluetooth low energy application software is a part of TI's BLE-Stack, and is available royalty-free to all using TI's CC2540 Bluetooth low energy system-on-chip (SoC). Read more

August 4, 2011 Qualcomm rebranded its Snapdragon processors and indicated some of its 28nm chips are now sampling. The company now places its integrated applications processors with names like the MSM7225 into four broad buckets, organized by performance and feature sets. Read more

August 2, 2011 LTE software licensing company, mimoOn, has announced that its 3GPP compliant LTE PHY software will be supplied ready-integrated by Texas Instruments for its KeyStone multicore architecture, with a special focus on latest SoCs which target small base stations in the enterprise, pico and metro markets. Read more

July 20, 2011 DesignArt Networks has announced the availability of several complete compact base station reference designs for the DAN3000 SoC family, including the availability of the DAN3000 LTE PHY software pack. Reference designs include several RF module options for the design of compact in- and outdoor LTE small cell products. Read more

June 15, 2011 Texas Instruments has introduced the second device in the family of PurePath™ Wireless audio products for consumer, portable and high-end audio applications. The 2.4 GHz CC8530 radio frequency (RF) system-on-chip transmits uncompressed wireless audio over a robust RF link, and supports digital streaming for up to four audio channels. Read more

June 2, 2011 The first device in Freescale Semiconductor's MC1323x family optimised for consumer applications using ZigBee RF4CE technology is now available in production quantities. A MC1323x development kit with integrated Synaptics TouchPad technology is also available to help accelerate design cycles and ease the migration from infrared (IR) to radio frequency (RF) technology. Read more

March 16, 2011 As DesignArt Networks is introducing its ground-breaking 40-nm DAN3000 SoC family, with the launch of five distinct SoC chips, the company has announced a ground breaking advance in mobile backhaul technology – the DAN3200. Read more

March 11, 2011 Freescale Semiconductor claims to have introduced the industry's first system-on-chip for the two-way radio market. The MC13260 consists of an integrated 32-bit ARM-9™ processor, a software defined modem, an RF transceiver and audio converters specifically designed for the two-way radio market. Read more

March 2, 2011 As DesignArt Networks introduces its ground-breaking 40-nm DAN3000 SoC family with the launch of five distinct SoC chips, the company is announcing its third base station SoC platform – the DAN3300. Read more

February 9, 2011 DesignArt Networks has recently unveiled its ground-breaking 40-nm 4G SoC family with the launch of five distinct SoC chips. Today the company released its second open SoC platform – the DAN3400. Read more

February 1, 2011 DesignArt Networks takes the wrapper of its ground-breaking 40-nm 4G SoC platform family with the launch of five distinct SoC solutions. Read more

February 1, 2011 Toumaz launched the TZ1053 Telran, an ultra-low energy (ULE) radio for wireless sensor networks, remote controls, green energy solutions, smart meters, and environmental monitoring. Built on the company’s proprietary AM Mixed Signal technology, the sub-1 GHz radio SoC offers 1 V operation using a single button cell battery and consumes less than 3mW continuous use power consumption. Read more

December 15, 2010 Telegent Systems has introduced its fourth generation TLG1123 analog mobile TV receiver. This mobile TV chip introduces new algorithms for improving TV picture quality and viewing experience while continuing to reduce size and power consumption compared to the widely adopted TLG1120. Read more

December 9, 2010 ASIX Electronics has announced it is now delivering the AX220xx family, a single chip microcontroller with TCP/IP and 802.11 WLAN MAC/baseband. The AX220xx is the latest member being added to ASIX's embedded network SoC product portfolio. Read more

November 10, 2010 The cellular base station market is heating up – worldwide. As this happens, the competition between Texas Instruments and Freescale Semiconductor over base station SoCs is accelerating. The companies are intensifying efforts to promote novel designs for DSP cores, accelerators and microprocessors – to enable flexible and powerful 3G and LTE/4G base stations Read more

October 27, 2010 Renesas Electronics Corporation has announced that it has decided to spin off, through an absorption-type separation, its Mobile Multimedia SoC Business Division and transfer the business to a new consolidated subsidiary, Renesas Mobile Corporation, effective as of December 1, 2010. Read more

October 20, 2010 DesignArt Networks has announced that its latest and disruptive DAN3000 4G SoC family employs multiple customized processor cores from Tensilica®. The result is the first fully integrated 40 nm multi-layer, multi-core SoC platform, delivering more than 1 Gbps in mobile broadband data throughput, ready for LTE Advanced applications. Read more

September 13, 2010 Avago Technologies has announced production availability for its ADNS-7630 Bluetooth® (BT) 2.1 LaserStream System-on-Chip (SoC) navigation sensor for wireless mouse applications. It claims to be the industry's first laser navigation sensor to integrate a BT 2.1 transceiver, stand-alone baseband processor and VCSEL surface illuminator into a single package. Read more

August 25, 2010 As consumer demands for more integrated home entertainment devices and hidden peripherals increase, manufacturers of RF-based devices are designing better performing, more efficient and less expensive solutions to meet that demand. Read more

August 10, 2010 Building on its rich heritage of collaboration with ARM, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has confirmed that it was the first company to partner with ARM in the conception and definition of the next generation ARM® Cortex™-A series processor core (also known as "Eagle") to be announced later this year. TI intends to use the new processor to further strengthen and extend its future OMAP™ platform offerings. Read more

July 22, 2010 Silicon Laboratories has introduced an EZRadio® wireless IC solution designed to reduce the cost and complexity of one-way wireless links used in a wide range of consumer, industrial and automotive systems. Read more

June 22, 2010 Texas Instruments is developing new femtocell devices based on its recently announced multicore System-on-a-Chip (SoC) architecture, which integrates both fixed and floating point capabilities in the industry's highest performing central processing unit (CPU). Read more

June 17, 2010 At this week's 2010 Symposium on VLSI Circuits in Hawaii, Intel Corp. has put a new twist on its previously-announced 32-nm process: It claims the technology is suitable for radio-frequency (RF) and system-on-a-chip (SOC) integration. Read more

June 8, 2010 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has extended its Open Innovation Platform(™) with another focus on system-level design, analog/mixed-signal (AMS)/RF design and two-dimensional/three-dimensional integrated circuit (2-D/3-D IC) implementation. Read more

June 1, 2010 Myriad Group AG has announced availability of a high-performance full method-based Dalvik Turbo virtual machine (VM) optimised for the MIPS architecture. Myriad’s Dalvik Turbo VM replaces the standard Android Dalvik engine and is claimed to accelerate Android applications running on MIPS based devices by up to 5x. Read more

May 4, 2010 Synopsys has announced the immediate availability of the DesignWare® MIPI® 4G DigRFSM Master Controller IP. By complementing its current silicon-proven DesignWare MIPI 3G DigRF Controller and PHY IP, Synopsys becomes the first vendor to offer a comprehensive IP portfolio for both the MIPI DigRF v3 and v4 standards. Read more

March 24, 2010 Synopsys has announced that Nationz Technologies, Inc. has successfully achieved first-pass silicon success of a 2.5-GHz, 126-channel RF transceiver system-on-chip (SoC) design by using Synopsys' CustomSim™ mixed-signal and VCS® functional verification solutions, part of Synopsys' Discovery™ Verification Platform. Read more