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News Release from: ARC International
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 02 February 2006
Market report vindicates ARC's strategy
A new market report predicts a big future for configurable 32bit CPUs.
Semico Research Corporation has released a new market report on configurable 32bit CPUs Semico, a leading semiconductor analyst and research company based in Arizona, has concluded that system-on-chips (SoCs) incorporating one or more configurable 32bit processors will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 45.9% between 2003 and 2009, far outpacing the projected increase of less than 10% for chips with fixed architecture 32bit cores
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Oct 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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According to Tony Massimini and Richard Wawrzyniak, the Semico analysts who authored the study, protection from piracy and cloning and the ability to develop highly optimised chips are primary reasons for the rapid adoption of configurability.
"One of the realities of the high tech market is reverse engineering", said Massimini, chief of technology at Semico Research.
"Companies need to protect their life blood, namely their intellectual property".
Massimini will present more details about the fundamental shift toward using configurability for SoC design at ConfigCon Taiwan 2006, which will be held on 23rd February 2006 in Hsinchu Taiwan.
"At the dawn of the 21st century, it's clear that the global semiconductor market is undergoing a paradigm shift in design methodology", said Carl Schlachte, President and CEO at ARC International.
"OEMs and semiconductor companies are rapidly moving away from using one-size-fits-all IP toward a solution that better enables their success, not that of their third party suppliers".
"Semico's report underscores this trend, which ARC sees unfolding on a daily basis".
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