Industry News (2013/03)
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Imagination works with TSMC to develop FinFET process
Published:2013/3/27 3:24:00 Author:Ecco
According to Processor IP licensor Imagination, it will work with foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. to develop reference design flows using PowerVR Series 6 GPUs for manufacturing processes including the forthcoming 16-nm FinFET process. Imagination announced that the use of high bandwidth memory channels and 3-D IC assembly will be part of the collaboration and should allow the two compa... (View)
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XMOS pushes event-driven MCUs with lower price
Published:2013/3/4 3:04:00 Author:Ecco
According to XMOS Ltd., it has a new event-driven microcontroller which has a lower price. The model is XS1-L4-64. XMOS indicates that the chip can be used as the lowest-cost multicore microcontroller. The chip has a single physical ALU but support in terms registers and other circuitry for four time-sliced virtual processors. Time slicing is done to better match memory access to the ALU pipeline performa... (View)
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