Altera will have 45nm product out next year, according to John Daane, the company’s chairman, president and CEO
Programmable Logic and Asic
Altera challenges Asics with serial transceiver FPGAs
In a bid to further challenge Asics and ASSPs, Altera is launching FPGAs containing high-speed serial transceivers for PCI Express, Gigabit Ethernet and serial Rapid IO
Nallatech says FPGAs are good for defence systems
The increasing computational needs of digital processing engines is opening the defence systems market to FPGA-based designs
ARM targets first core at FPGA designs
ARM has developed its first processor specifically targeted at FPGAs. The Cortex M1 core takes up less space than the previous ARM7 core already available on Actel FPGAs
RF Engines recruits designers to support growth
Isle of Wight FPGA signal processing firm RF Engines is looking to recruit specialist staff as demand increases
Altera lines up Hardcopy III in attack on Asic market
Altera has a new version of its Hardcopy structured Asic product family in the pipeline as the FPGA firm restates its commitment to the lower cost Asic technology
Is the Asic over?
“Can anything save Asic?” was the question asked at a panel session at the Globalpress Summit meeting in Monterey
Cost now driving factor in semiconductors
Cost used to be something the C-level executive suite dealt with after semiconductors went from design to manufacturing. That approach to making chips is changing, sometimes with unpredictable results
ChipX eyes embedded Asics with Oki deal
ChipX signs agreement to acquire the US-based Asic business of Oki Semiconductor
Dual view screen for cars uses Altera FPGA
Allowing a car driver and the front-seat passenger to see two different images on the same screen was being performed by an FPGA on the Altera stand at Embedded World in Nuremberg today
