Recycling a business model
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Engineering design automation (EDA) companies take different approaches when providing chip makers with integration of reusable semiconductor components called intellectual property (IP) cores. Cadence Design Systems Inc. and Mentor Graphics Inc. illustrate two different ways of providing IP integration services. Cadence provides only integration services and does not own any IP. Chip companies, fearing misappropriation of their intellectual property, may choose EDA companies like Cadence. Mentor Graphics, on the other hand, has purchased IP core companies and acts as both the integrator and the owner of IP. Mark Bolby, Alliance Core product manager for Xilinx Corp. a Mentor client, stated that Mentor's ownership of small IP companies provides them with financial backing and extensive support. Some chip companies fear that EDA company ownership of IP could constrain development.
Publication Name: Electronic Business Today
Subject: Electronics and electrical industries
ISSN: 1085-8288
Year: 1997
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The grandaddy of spinoffs is spun off
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National Semiconductor announces plans to spinoff Fairchild Semiconductor, a move analysts suggest is designed to allow each company to better concentrate on its respective market. The industry's major semiconductor firms all originally came from Fairchild's ranks, including Intel, AMD and LSI Logic. Fairchild will continue its development efforts in the memory, discrete and logic semiconductor markets, and National will continue its focus on creating combination mixed-signal and analog integrated solutions. Fairchild executives intend to ensure the company remains committed to developing new product innovations, offering global logistical services for outsourcing operations and nurturing the product design skills of its employees. Fairchild credits its system of managing production based on electronically fed customer forecasts for its resurgent profitability.
Publication Name: Electronic Business Today
Subject: Electronics and electrical industries
ISSN: 1085-8288
Year: 1997
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Chips, chips everywhere
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The microcontroller industry is booming, jumping from taking twenty years to produce its first billion units to producing its second billion units in a single year. The range of products incorporating microcontrollers includes any number of household appliances and will soon expand to include any product with electricity running through it or a battery powering it, according to Microchip Technology president and CEO Steve Sanghi. The reason for the shift is that the price of microcontrollers dropped to under $1 in 1996, making it easier to cost-effectively design them into low-end consumer appliances, according to Motorola. Microcontrollers are said to be replacing mechanical and electro-mechanical devices, like switches.
Publication Name: Electronic Business Today
Subject: Electronics and electrical industries
ISSN: 1085-8288
Year: 1997
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