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Freescale Semiconductor has tuned the design of the KL02 microcontroller to produce a new design that is close to 20 per smaller.

Silicon Labs has brought development support for both its 8bit and ongoing 32bit microcontroller lines together using its Simplicity Studio IDE.

Imagination Technologies' MIPS group has launched processor cores that include support for virtualization and measures to prevent reverse engineering.

Inside Secure has developed a set of certification-ready hardware IP modules that can be used stand-alone or in conjunction with ARM's TrustZone

Industry-wide innovation is required to make scaling cost-effective at 7nm, says Qualcomm's VP of Technology. Time for a fat, cholesterol and MSG-free diet.

The complexity of on-chip interconnect and the relentless growth in software size will drive the move to a four-stage verification process as well as the increased use of formal techniques to speed up SoC-level testing, Mentor Graphics verification specialist Mark Olen claimed at the Verification Futures conference.

Microchip Technology has become the latest company to use easy access to middleware to encourage embedded-systems developers to move over to its platform.

TSMC stays the course with new co-CEOs as Morris Chang retains executive leadership for now while finFET, 3D and other new technologies settle in.

Dr Ron Black also discussed his experiences with the Internet of Things in a lively keynote at the GSA Memory+ Conference in Taipei

Oracle aims to reduce the incompatibilities between the two main embeddable versions of Java as the company tries to make the language the natural choice for IoT.