Ever-bullish Malcolm Penn, founder and principal analyst with Future Horizons Ltd. (Sevenoaks, England) believes the market forces are at last moving into place to deliver a couple of years of booming growth for the semiconductor industry.

Board design services in India are expected to grow to $458 million this year, driven by OEMs doing multiple designs for both the local market and overseas customers.

A 4 million euro (about $6.4 million) European collaborative research project called Project Galaxy has begun to develop a design process for globally asynchronous, locally synchronous (GALS) architecture chips together with novel network-on-chip capabilities.

ORSoC AB (Stockholm, Sweden), a design house that took over responsibility for maintaining the OpenCores website, www.opencores.org, in November 2007, has released a "Virtual Ubuntu Linux" installation which installs and configures a VMWare virtual machine on the OpenRISC 1200 processor

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Comms chip specialist Mindspeed Technologies (Newport Beach, Calif.) has sold off a bunch of what it says are "non-core" patents for $10 million.

Hi-Tech Software takes the wraps off an "omniscient" ANSI C compiler for 32-bit MCU code that it claims boosts real-time performance by more than 25 percent as well as nearly doubling code density.

As end products get smaller, designers are increasingly integrating analog and mixed-signal functionality onto SoCs. Analog IP suppliers must support design teams' lack of in-house integration expertise and guide them throughout the entire design cycle to ensure and expedite successful

The global market for semiconductors was $20.53 billion in May 2008, according to data from World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), up 9.2 percent on May 2007. This is considerably more than the three-month moving average data for May published by