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Business Definition for: ASIC

  • Australian Securities and Investments Commission

Wiktionary Definition for: ASIC

  • application specific integrated circuit

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ASIC Takes Centro Directors to Court
The corporate watchdog has commenced legal action against current and former directors and executives of Centro Properties Group and Centro Retail Group for allegedly falsely stating about $2.1 billion of liabilities in the 2007 financial accounts.The Australian Securities and Investments Commission ASIC launched civil penalty proceedings in the Federal...
Tags: Liability, Financial, Director, ASICs, Balance Sheets, Financial Accounting, Semiconductors, Hardware, Financial Statements, Finance, AAP
News items 2009-10-21
Samsung Electronics Licenses Synplicity's ASIC Synthesis Software; Samsung Adopts High-Performance Synplify ASIC Software, Enabling Customers to Achieve Outstanding Quality of Results
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Synplicity Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP), a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, today announced its Synplify ASICR synthesis software has been adopted by Samsung Electronics Co. and may now be used by Samsung's ASIC customers. As a part of the relationship between the two...
Tags: ASIC, high-performance, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., software
Research articles 2005-04-06
Strategy Analytics: growing Automotive ASIC market provides $2.4 billion opportunity; Mixed-signal and digital automotive ASIC opportunities attract niche and major semiconductor players.
M2 PRESSWIRE-6 May 2005-Strategy Analytics, Inc: Strategy Analytics: growing Automotive ASIC market provides $2.4 billion opportunity; Mixed-signal and digital automotive ASIC opportunities attract niche and major semiconductor playersC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05052005 Boston, MA - The latest Strategy Analytics report,...
Tags: ASICs, HARDWARE, Semiconductors, Strategy Analytics
Research articles 2005-05-06
Newbridge Networks Acquires a 30% Stake in Comverse Technology Subsidiary Applied Silicon "ASIC"; ASIC Plans to Introduce Digital Video Networking Technology for Video Transmission Over Data and Telecommunications Networks
WOODBURY, N.Y.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 10, 1996--Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:CMVT) announced that Newbridge Networks Corp. (NYSE:NN) has acquired a 30% equity interest in Applied Silicon Inc. Canada ASIC, a Comverse subsidiary, for CDN$2 million. Comverse now holds a 47.6% interest in ASIC.The three-company alliance calls for ASIC to introduce digital video...
Tags: Comverse Inc., Comverse Technology Inc., Newbridge Networks
Research articles 1996-07-10
ASIC management now at Publicis Dialog.
Publicis Dialog took over daily management of ASIC on July 1. In a letter to professional members, ASIC President Brian Vinchesi wrote: "In 1999, JWT Communications conducted market research and strategic planning with the ASIC Board of Directors. One of the recommendations of...
Tags: Publicis Dialog
Research articles 2001-08-01
Strategy Analytics: Growing Automotive ASIC Market Provides $2.4 Billion Opportunity; Mixed-Signal And Digital Automotive ASIC Opportunities Attract Niche And Major Semiconductor Players
BOSTON -- The latest Strategy Analytics report, "Automotive ASIC Competitive Environment," reveals the growing opportunities in the automotive semiconductor market for ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit vendors with specialized mixed-signal capabilities. Mixed signal devices represent the fastest growing demand in this $2.4 billion automotive ASIC sector. Both niche and major...
Tags: ASIC, semiconductor, Strategy Analytics
Research articles 2005-05-05
ASIC watches credit card advertising.
Nov 14, 2006 (Choice - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Securities and Investments Commission ASIC has met with two credit card companies in October 2006. ASIC met with GE Money and Aussie Home Loans because of concerns over each company's adver Nov 14, 2006...
Tags: advertisement, ASIC, credit card, General Electric Co.
Research articles 2006-11-14
Mitel Semiconductor - adds embedded microcontroller ASIC to SystemBuilder capability - Product Announcement
Mitel Semiconductor has added an embedded microcontroller ASIC to the company's SystemBuilder capability. The ASIC integrates an ARM7TDMI core, microcontroller peripherals, memory and customer-defined logic on a single chip. The ASIC is based on a 0.35-micron CMOS manufacturing process and has a density ranging from 20,000 to more than 2...
Tags: ASIC, Mitel Networks, semiconductor
Research articles 1998-08-31
ProDesign Joins Synopsys in-Sync Program to Enable Unified ASIC Prototyping and Verification; Common ASIC Flow Optimized for Customer Productivity
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- ProDesign USA, a leading supplier of high-speed FPGA-based ASIC verification platforms, today announced that it has joined the Synopsys in-SyncR program to improve the complete design flow between Synopsys Design CompilerR FPGA DC FPGA Synthesis software, the VCSR comprehensive RTL verification solution and ProDesign CHIPitR ASIC...
Tags: ASIC, FPGA, ProDesign
Research articles 2005-04-04
ASIC makers step up software support; Fujitsu, Harris, Motorola introduce third-party suites. (application-specific integrated circuits) (product announcement)
ASIC makers step up software support Three major ASIC suppliers have introduced design software suites that employ third-party and proprietary tools linked by a common user interface and operating protocol. Back-end data management differs, as ASIC makers step up...
Tags: ASIC, Fujitsu Ltd., integrated circuit, Motorola Inc., software, supplier, tool
Research articles 1989-08-24
IBM Targets CE with Low-Power 65nm ASIC (Electronic News)
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- IBM will today announce a move to 65nm ASIC offerings, including the company's first comprehensive low-power ASIC. ANAHEIM, Calif. -- IBM will today announce a move to 65nm ASIC offerings, including the company's first comprehensive low-power ASIC.
Tags: ASIC, IBM Corp.
Research articles 2005-06-20
[305] Tax compliance: Tax Office steps up ASIC collaboration and its Operation Wickenby role.
Byline: Terry Hayes Mar 08, 2006 (Weekly Tax Bulletin - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Taxation Office ATO has announced a higher level of co-operation with the Australian Securities...
Tags: ASICs, Australian Taxation Office, collaboration, compliance, HARDWARE, Semiconductors, tax
Research articles 2006-03-08
Michael Kohl Joins ViewLogic as Vice President of ASIC Solutions; Ex-VLSI, Motorola ASIC Expert To Lead Viewlogic's ASIC 2000 Project
LAS VEGAS--BUSINESS WIRE--June 3, 1996--Viewlogic Systems Inc. today announced that Dr. Michael Kohl has joined the company to spearhead the newly-formed ASIC 2000 project within the company's High Level Design HLD Group.
Tags: ASIC, Motorola Inc.
Research articles 1996-06-03
ProDesign Announces PCI Express Kit for High-Speed ASIC Prototyping System; New PCI Express Kit Accelerates ASIC Design Verification for PCI Express Development Program
MUNICH, Germany & SAN JOSE, Calif. -- ProDesign, leading supplier of high-speed ASIC and SoC verification platforms, today announced the availability of the PCI Express Kit for its ASIC prototyping system.
Tags: PCI, PCI Express, ProDesign
Research articles 2006-04-10
NEC Electronics introduces high-speed, high-density QB-8 ASIC; new proprietary gate architecture delivers bipolar speeds at CMOS prices
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 18, 1995--NEC Electronics Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corp., the largest worldwide application-specific integrated circuit ASIC supplier a, Monday introduced the QB-8 ASIC family incorporating a new proprietary gate architecture called "PUZZLE" to create a high-speed, high-density, low-power ASIC.
Tags: CMOS, NEC Electronics Corp.
Research articles 1995-09-18
Synopsys endorses ASIC initiative - application specific integrated circuit
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. Synopsys last week said it supports the Cadence-sponsored VHDL Initiative Towards ASIC Libraries Vital as long as that group encourages the development of a VHDL ASIC library standard. The company said it is prepared to contribute technical expertise and experience in ASIC libraries for synthesis, simulation and...
Tags: ASIC, integrated circuit
Research articles 1993-01-11
Hitachi to enter DRAM-on-ASIC club - Hitachi America's HG73M - Product Announcement
Brisbane, Calif.--Hitachi America will today introduce its first ASIC with embedded DRAM for the U.S. market, thereby joining a growing list of ASIC vendors offering embedded DRAM. Hitachi, which will offer up to 140 megabits of DRAM memory on a single chip, also gave Electonic News a preview of what...
Tags: ASIC, DRAM, Hitachi Ltd.
Research articles 1997-07-21
Mentor, VLSI ink 5-year ASIC design pact - Mentor Graphics and VLSI Technology will develop integrated, top-down ASIC designs
SAN JOSE, CALIF.--Mentor Graphics and VLSI Technology signed a five-year agreement to work closer together on integrated, top-down ASIC design offerings. The deal is another in a recent series of cooperative agreements between ASIC manufacturers and electronic design automation tool vendors--two parties that often had opposing interests a decade ago.
Tags: Mentor Graphics Corp., VLSI
Research articles 1994-09-26
Japan's Leading ASIC Supplier, Fujitsu LSI Technology Ltd., Becomes Exemplar's First ASIC Partner; Fujitsu Certifies Its ASIC Libraries for Exemplar's Leonardo and Offers Exemplar's Windows NT Solution to Its Japan Customers
PALO ALTO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 27, 1997--Exemplar Logic Inc., a supplier of logic synthesis software, today announced that Exemplar and Fujitsu LSI Technology Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan), a subsidiary of Fujitsu Ltd., a leading ASIC solution supplier, have signed a major business and technology agreement.
Tags: ASIC, Fujitsu Ltd., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, supplier
Research articles 1997-01-27
NEC Electronics Inc. Debuts High-Density ASIC With CBA Architecture; CMOS-8LHD Ideal for High-Integration Designs
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 26, 1995--NEC Electronics Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corp., the largest worldwide application-specific integrated circuit ASIC supplier, today introduced CMOS-8LHD, a low-power ASIC family incorporating a new high-density architecture. The new ASIC provides up to 60 percent more density than competing products. ...
Tags: ASIC, NEC Electronics Corp.
Research articles 1995-06-26
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