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Altera has bought fabless power-management specialist Enpirion in an expansion intended to support its core business of FPGAs.

ARM could see shipments of embedded processors based on its architecture begin to outpace its rump market in mobile within four years if growth continues at current levels.

Cadence-and-Synopsys co-founder and Freescale's new CEO join the DAC 2013 program, while Qualcomm and TI line up to discuss their work in mobile comms as well as taking your questions.

Synopsys users will be gathering at a series of SNUG meetings across Europe over the next month to share insights and experience of using Synopsys tools

NXP Semiconductors has decided to buy tools supplier Code Red Technologies to help build up software support for its ARM-based microcontrollers.

Globalfoundries will port Infineon Technologies’ flash technology to 40nm to support the manufacture of automotive and security microcontrollers (MCUs).

DAC 2013 will offer a series of dedicated training courses in SystemVerilog, SystemC, and ARM-based design as well as its regular management day bridging the gap between technology and business.

Half the price, a 1GHz processor, 2GB of integrated storage and some 'interesting' plug-in capes. All for $45. Let the wild Linux-Making begin.

AMD has stepped back into the market for embedded processors with a quad core design derived from its desktop APUs, which combine a general-purpose x86 subsystem with a GPU.

ARM has decided to put together a package deal for some of the components that will let prospective customers implement a multiprocessor subsystem in a single SoC design