OSGi Alliance Supporter Class
The OSGi(TM) Alliance recently announced a new, free participation level. The new supporter level is the alliance’s third membership class. Each level offers a different set of benefits and value to members with different needs. OSGi Alliance members develop and facilitate the deployment of OSGi specifications, which serve as the platform for universal middleware in [...]
Design For Manufacturability Coalition
The Design For Manufacturability Coalition (DFMC) was recently formed to build on previous efforts to ensure that ICs can be manufactured in accordance with the original design. Founding members include Cadence, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Ponte Solutions, Samsung, Sagantec, ST Microelectronics, and Texas Instruments.
As semiconductor features shrink in size and pitch, the challenge of manufacturing them [...]
Happy Holidays from EDA Blog
IBM Acquires MRO Software
IBM will acquire MRO Software in an all-cash transaction at a price of approximately $740 million, or $25.80 per share. The acquisition is subject to MRO Software shareholder and regulatory reviews and other customary closing conditions. It is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2006.
MRO is the leading provider of asset and service [...]
Outsourced Fabs and Process Technology
There was an interesting statement in the TI blog yesterday. It appears TI doesn’t think too highly of outsourced fabs, especially the fabs in Taiwan and China. Here’s a blurb from the post:
“The bottom line is that we (TI) are putting millions of transistors on the silicon, which would be worthless if we couldn’t be [...]
Week in Review - 2006.06.30
Here are some of the interesting articles I found this week:
Intel Ranks First in Latest Supercomputer Rankings
According to the supercomputer rankings released at the International Supercomputer Conference, a total of 301 systems on the latest list use Intel processors, down from 333 systems just six months ago. Intel’s 64-bit x86 processors are being rapidly adopted [...]
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