The Week In Review: April 13
By Ed Sperling
Cadence rolled out a low-power reference flow for SMIC’s 40nm process, from RTL to GDSII. What’s particularly noteworthy is just how fast SMIC moved ahead in process technology.
Arteris won a deal with MtekVision, which licensed its MIPI Low Latency Interface inter-chip link IP for multiple SoCs. The big selling point on LLI is it reduces the bill of materials by an entire memory chip.
TSMC’s net sales increased 9% in March compared with February, while revenue for Q1 increased 1.7% over the same period in 2011.
Intel inked a joint development agreement with the Beijing municipal government and the Chinese Academy of Sciences for research into a Chinese “Internet of Things.”
