EE Times (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Pact XPP Technologies AG, a developer of a reconfigurable highly parallel processor architecture, has filed a law suit against FPGA vendor Xilinx Inc. and distributor Avnet Inc. in the Eastern District court of Texas, claiming patent infringement. The case was filed Dec 28, 2007.
EE Times (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Recognizing that many fabless chip startups are looking to avoid the cost of developing their own system-on-chip, but wish to create value in design, Xilinx is considering allowing such companies use its field programmable gate arrays as their means of delivery and to cobrand the chips.
EE Times (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Xilinx Inc.'s Virtex-5 FXT FPGA platform is now fully compliant with version 2.0 of the PCI Express standard thereby supporting the 5Gbps version of the serial interconnect standard.
DeepMarket Stock Market Blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
Seasonal Patterns found for the following stocks: Monolithic Power Systems (MPWR) over the next 6 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for Monolithic Power Systems in context. Comstock Resources Inc (CRK) over the next 9 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for Comstock Resources Inc in context. TD Ameritrade Holding Corp (AMTD) over the [...]
EE Times (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Nabeel Gareeb, president and chief executive of MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., has resigned from the silicon wafer maker.
EE Times (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
... 2007. For Q4, Altera's sales are projected to be up 1 percent to down 3 percent. Recently, rival Xilinx Inc. announced net revenues of $483.5 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2009, down 1 percent sequentially from the prior quarter and up 9 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago. Second quarter net income was $81.8 million, or $0.29 per diluted share, including a $29.0...
EE Times (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
... the FPGA price point record. Its entry-level FPGA line sold for as little as 99 cents. Then, rival Xilinx Inc. recently broke that record by claiming to sell a complex PLD device for 50 cents. Actel claims to have regained the record. In high volumes, pricing for the company's new 10,000-gate A3PN010 starts at $0.69 in a QNG48 package and $0.49 in a known good die offering. In fact,...
