Start with the news release Fairchild camera switches solve design challenges from Fairchild Semiconductor, which we summarised at the time by saying "Fairchild Semiconductor's camera-switch portfolio solves design challenges in 3G smart phones, cell phones, set-top boxes, security cameras and notebooks. ". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release TSMC adopts Synopsys's HSIM circuit simulator from Synopsys: "Synopsys has announced that TSMC has adopted its HSIM hierarchical Fastspice circuit simulator for its sub-40nm memory intellectual-property (IP) characterisation flow.".
 
In March 2009, we covered the news from Synopsys - take a look at Synopsys IP cores pass compliance testing which says: "Synopsys has announced that the Designware USB 2.0 NanoPHY IP and PCI Express 1.1 PHY are the first internet protocol (IP) cores to achieve compliance in UMC's 65nm SP and LL process technologies.".
 
Take a look also at the news release from Anritsu (UK), MS4640A covers frequencies of 70 kHz to 70 GHz, as well as Advanced simulator maintains Spice accuracy from Cadence Design Systems, and Chip-scale packaging first for RF amplifiers from Avago Technologies.