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News Release from: ARM
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 January 2004
Acquisition to speed 32bit MCU moves
ARM has entered into an agreement to acquire Triscend Corp, a pioneer and leader in configurable system-on-chip devices and customisable microcontrollers.
ARM has entered into an agreement to acquire Triscend Corp, a pioneer and leader in configurable system-on-chip (CSoC) devices and customisable microcontrollers (MCUs) The completion of the acquisition is subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions including approval by the shareholders of Triscend
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Founded in 1997, Triscend is a 41-person, privately held, venture-capital-funded company based in Mountain View, California.
The company's single-chip platform delivers a ready-to-customise system-on-chip (SoC) with the flexibility of a field-programmable device and the price point of a standard product.
"Given the industry trend for upgrading 8 and 16bit MCU designs, ARM believes the 32bit MCU market will grow substantially over the next few years", said Warren East, CEO, ARM.
"By investing in this market now with the acquisition of Triscend, the ARM Partnership will be well positioned to take advantage of the anticipated growth".
The acquisition will bring ARM customer-proven MCU platform designs and supporting tools, enabling the company to deliver 32bit microcontroller solutions to satisfy increasing demand as engineers move to higher performance designs.
ARM will be able to proliferate the ARM architecture by selling configurable MCUs to OEMs for emerging applications.
A new programme, to be launched within the existing ARM partner programmes, will also offer a seamless migration path to take matured MCU designs into ARM partners' standard products and ASIC programmes for high-volume applications.
"ARM is widely recognised as the leading innovator in microprocessor IP and is the ideal company to move our technology forward.
With the rise in costs of ASIC design at 90 nanometres, we believe configurable MCU platforms will become a key solution which will benefit our mutual customers", said Reynette Au, CEO, Triscend Corp.
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