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NEUCHATEL, Switzerland and MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, today announced that CSEM, Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology, has joined its "Design Star Awards Program," a design center partnership program offered to leading independent design centers. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20120213/511140 ) With this close cooperation, CSEM will be able to support their customers in an optimal...

SHANGHAI, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation ("SMIC"; NYSE: SMI; SEHK: 0981.HK), China's largest and most advanced semiconductor foundry, Brite Semiconductor (Shanghai) Corporation ("Brite"), a leading IC design and turnkey service provider, and Zhejiang University IC and Basic Software Research Institute ("Zhejiang University") today announced the founding of a joint IC research program. The IC research program will provide a...

HSINCHU, Taiwan and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Unichip Corp. (GUC; TW:3443), the Flexible ASIC Leader(TM) and Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, today announced the tape out of 30 customer devices during the past four years using a combination of Synopsys' DesignWare® IP and GUC's ASIC design services. This milestone marks GUC's...

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced delivery of the industry's first high-performance 28-nm FPGAs in production. Stratix® V FPGAs are the only FPGAs manufactured using TSMC's 28HP process, delivering a one-speed grade advantage over competing solutions. The performance benefits offered by Altera's high-end FPGA combined with its leading-edge process technology and features advantage enables Stratix V FPGAs to displace...

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Changing how bandwidth-intensive applications can be designed and built, Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the world's first demonstration of the company's Optical FPGA technology. Developed in conjunction with Avago Technologies, the demonstration shows how Altera's optically interconnected programmable devices can significantly increase interconnect bandwidth while reducing overall system complexity, power, and...

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the industry's first single-chip, dual 100G transponder solution implemented in a 28-nm high-performance Stratix® V FPGA. Altera's solution integrates two independent 100G transponders into a single FPGA, enabling optical equipment manufacturers to keep pace with network performance and bandwidth demands while lowering capital costs. A live hardware demonstration of Altera's dual...

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced it will demonstrate its industry-leading optical transport network (OTN) and IP solutions at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC) in Los Angeles, California. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101012/SF78952LOGO) Experts from Altera will share information on key building blocks that enable...

NEW YORK, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SHAPE, the leading active lifestyle magazine for women and one of American Media, Inc.'s (AMI) most popular titles, announced today that beginning with the March issue, readers will be able to directly connect with one of SHAPE's celebrated editorial sections, Get Fit. Get Fit will be "interactive" in every sense of the word - offering readers deeper engagement with editorial content in a variety of ways, including instructional how-to...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced its breakthrough 28nm Virtex®-7 2000T device was named FPGA Product of the Year in the Digital Processor/DSP/FPGA category at the China Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards 2012. Product award winners were selected through public online voting from a shortlist of finalists chosen by a panel of senior industry analysts from EE Times-China. (Logo:...

SHANGHAI and CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Brite Semiconductor (Shanghai) Corporation, a leading IC design and turnkey service provider, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation ("SMIC"; NYSE: SMI; SEHK: 0981.HK), and ARM today jointly announced the first tape out of a dual-core ARM(®) Cortex(TM)-A9 MPCore(TM) test chip using SMIC's 40nm low leakage process technology. The test chip is an implementation of a dual-core Cortex-A9...