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News Release from: ARC International
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 April 2006
Taiwanese developers opt for
configurable cores
ARC International has signed three new licensing agreements with leading Taiwan-based semiconductor companies.
On the heels of the sold out ConfigCon Taiwan developers conference and a series of other strategic initiatives in Greater China, ARC International has signed three new licensing agreements with leading Taiwan-based semiconductor companies All have adopted ARC's patented configurable subsystem or processor technology over competitive "fixed" architecture or configurable offerings
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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And, each customer is using ARC's products for leading-edge multimedia system-on-chip (SoC) design: Skymedi Corp, Taifatech and VXIS Corp.
Colley Hwang, founder and president of Digitimes - Taiwan's influential daily industry newspaper - cited in his ConfigCon keynote presentation how Taiwan's semiconductor industry is taking a leadership role in growth markets, such as digital TV and mobile media players.
Keys to the future success of Taiwan's chip companies serving these segments, according to Hwang, will be their ability to leverage innovation and differentiation as competitive strategies.
These are primary reasons for the growing adoption of configurability by Taiwan's fabless chip industry, and ARC's increasing momentum in Greater China.
"ConfigCon Taiwan highlighted the hunger of Taiwanese semiconductor companies for a new way to design next-generation SoCs", said Derek Meyer, ARC's Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
"ARC's patented configurable CPU technology fosters innovation and provides protection from cloning and piracy, which are benefits unmatched by 20th century fixed architectures".
"These new agreements are the result of the region's move toward configurability, and our ongoing efforts to educate the market on the 21st century's SoC design methodology".
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