Chipmaker

STMicroelectronics pushes on with FDSOI despite dissolution of ST-Ericcson joint venture that provided the lead customer for the process.

Lime Microsystems has decided to join the open-source hardware movement in the hope of building an RF analog of the Arduino.

Intel's announcement that it will make FPGAs for Altera in an upcoming 14nm finFET process will reshape the programmable logic, and foundry, businesses.

Some conservative decisions were important parts of AMD's design strategy for the 28nm core that's just been specified in PlayStation 4

The paper on the 32nm upgrade to Big Blue's family of server chips also detailed how the company is tackling BTI.

Keynoter Lisa Su spun a whimsical idea to serious intent as AMD looks to promote its model for heterogeneous architectures

The Multicore Association has launched a guide to programming multicore systems in C and C++.

GlobalFoundries has signed deals to let the foundry offer power-saving clocks, a massively parallel floating-point processor and interface IP from Rambus. They are "uncommon solutions" to come from a foundry, the company claims.

GlobalFoundries and Samsung described how they are readying finFETs for production at CPTF 2013 and how the 28nm processes will have a long shelf life.

Cadence Design Systems has built into its latest Virtuoso update features designed to tackle the problems of working with the 20nm generation of processes with finer control over layout-dependent effects, double patterning and new types of local interconnect.