Actel's (NASDAQ: ACTL) low-power ProASIC^®3 and ProASICPLUS^® field-programmable gate array (FPGA) families have been designed into flight-critical applications on the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner commercial airliner. Flight computers, cockpit displays, engine control and monitoring systems, braking systems, safety warning systems, cabin pressurization and air conditioning systems, and power control and distribution systems all make use of Actel's highly reliable Flash-based FPGAs.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (NYSE: AMD) introduced the ATI Radeon™ E4690 mobile Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Express Module (MXM) for graphics-intensive embedded systems. The industry-standard MXM 3.0 specification for graphics subsystems calls for reduced power, improved cooling capability and a lower z-height, enabling designers to create smaller, more efficient embedded systems and speed time-to-market. The ATI Radeon E4690 MXM features more than triple the 3D graphics performance of previously available solutions with low central processing unit (CPU) utilization and brilliant picture quality.

austriamicrosystems (SWISS: AMS) selected the AS3693A and AS3693B light-emitting diode (LED) driver ICs for TV models introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The innovative AS3693 family helps facilitate extremely flat liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs with the highest possible contrast ratios, resulting in outstanding picture quality. A patented power-saving technology actively regulates the LED power supply and minimizes power dissipation in the system.

Bourns' expanded product portfolio offers enhancements to the company's industry-leading components such as guitar potentiometers, commercial panel controls, slide potentiometers and rotary encoders to meet the professional audio market demand. Bourns is committed to provide the professional audio market with high-quality components for reliable sound.

Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) introduced highly integrated digital terrestrial converter box system-on-chip (SOC) solutions designed for Japan's upcoming transition to digital TV broadcast transmission. Featuring an Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) tuner, Broadcom's highly integrated, single-chip solutions address Japan's analog broadcast shut-off program, and meet the requirements for ISDB-T digital programming worldwide via cost-effective, low-power chip solutions.

Addressing emerging consumer electronics applications and the increasing demand for high-definition (HD) content, C2 Microsystems introduced the CC1200 full HD media processor family for broadband-connected set-top box and digital TV applications. The CC1200 family is designed for the most demanding rich media applications that require full HD video decoding and presentation in conjunction with high-performance applications processing.

Cypress Semiconductor (NASDAQ: CY) announced that its TrueTouch™ touchscreen solution implements the touchscreens for new KDDI mobile phones manufactured by Sharp Communication Systems Group. The SH003 phone offers a 12.1-megapixel camera and leverages the TrueTouch solution to deliver user-friendly multi-touch gestures to manipulate photo images and control other functions.

Dialog Semiconductor's (FWB: DLG) DA9035 IC for power management and audio was designed into LG Electronics' GW880 smartphone. This design-in is the latest in a series of LG 3G mobile platforms to benefit from Dialog's chips over the past 12 months.

Discera raised $11 million in a Series D financing round. The round was led by initial investors Scale Venture Partners, Horizon Ventures and Ardesta, as well as Lurie Investments, the private investing arm of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Foundation.

eSilicon successfully took the Achronix Speedster 1.5GHz FPGA to commercial production. Achronix selected eSilicon to leverage the company's world-class physical design and supply chain expertise. The first member of the Speedster family, the SPD60, is currently in production on TSMC's 65nm G-Plus process technology.

Exar (NASDAQ: EXAR) released the industry's fastest (52Mbps) single-chip multi-protocol serial transceiver, the SP510. The transceiver supports high-speed data traffic, leading industry interface standards, adjustable logic-level flexibility (eliminates unnecessary discrete components) and has outstanding electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection. These characteristics and other advanced features make the product ideal for routers, frame relay, wide area network (WAN) access, voice-over Internet protocol-private branch exchange (VoIPPBX) gateways, amongst others.

Fresco Microchip added the FM1151, the industry's first single-chip global receiver for hybrid television, to its field-proven FM1100 family. The FM1151 sets a new benchmark for superior broadcast reception and advanced design flexibility while significantly lowering system solution costs. The company's chipsets are featured in the latest tuner modules designed by several of the world's leading and largest TV tuner manufacturers, including LG Innotek, the world's largest tuner manufacturer; Panasonic Electronic Devices, the world's quality leader for consumer electronics; and NuTune, the largest independent tuner manufacturer.

GigOptix's (OTCBB: GGOX) GX3440, a 45G differential limiting amplifier, is now shipping in full production. The GX3440 was designed to be used in 40G differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) and 40G differential quadrature phase-shift keying (DQPSK) telecom receivers, and can also be used in numerous instrumentation applications. It is the first of GigOptix's family of differential and transimpedance amplifiers to be released to production that comprehensively addresses customers' requirements for telecom and datacom receiver amplifier solutions.

Himax Technologies (NASDAQ: HIMX) introduced infinity color technology (iCT), an innovative and proprietary image processing technology which enables significant power saving for thin-film transistor (TFT)-LCD TVs and monitors, regardless of cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) or LED backlights, while enhancing image quality.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) expanded the technology and business of its LotusLive cloud collaboration platform through a new research and development (R&D) pipeline from IBM Research and plans to open the LotusLive suite to new partners. LotusLive cloud services provide integrated e-mail, Web conferencing, social networking and collaboration with IBM's focus on security, reliability and enterprise integration.

Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX) announced sample delivery of SMARTi™ UE2, the latest generation multi-band High-Speed Packet Access+/Enhanced Data Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) Evolution/General Packet Radio Service (HSPA+/EDGE/GPRS) radio frequency (RF) transceiver for mobile devices. Its groundbreaking digital architecture reduces the number of power amplifiers from five to one and integrates all low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) and interstage filters.

Integrated Device Technology (NASDAQ: IDTI) premiered the next-generation Hollywood Quality Video™ (HQV) Benchmark DVD. The de-facto industry standard test disk has been used by journalists, reviewers and consumers worldwide as a trusted source for evaluating the picture quality, processing and performance of standard definition and HD products, including displays, DVD and Blu-ray players, audio/video (A/V) receivers, projectors and video processing boxes.

Jennic released its active radio frequency identification (RFID) reference design platform, providing a comprehensive solution for monitoring and tracking assets. Based upon Jennic's proprietary JenNet networking solution, the platform allows low-power wireless technology to be evaluated for active RFID tags in an asset management application.

LSI (NYSE: LSI) and Wichita State University (WSU) opened the Center for Storage Networking Research (CSNR) at the WSU campus. The CSNR represents collaboration between industry and academia to facilitate state-of-the-art theoretical and experimental research in storage networking. The research will focus on storage system advancements in areas such as performance, scalability, energy efficiency and security, and will potentially influence the design and evolution of future data storage systems.

Skiff and Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) released Skiff's reader development kit (RDK), which is designed to enable manufacturers to more easily create innovative reading devices with various display sizes, faster performance and reduced overall component costs. It does this by leveraging the world's first eReading SOC with an integrated electronic paper display (EPD) controller.

Microsemi (NASDAQ: MSCC) announced that the Defense Supply Center, Columbus (DSCC) qualification has been granted for its 200V, 400V and 600V family of Military Performance Specification (MILPRF)-19500/590 ultra-fast rectifiers in a compact thermally matched glass package. Microsemi's MIL-PRF-19500/590 rectifiers maintain ultra-fast switching characteristics even at extremely high temperatures.

Mindspeed Technologies (NASDAQ: MSPD) announced that TeamF1's Secure Gateway Solution (SGS) is now available on Mindspeed's Comcerto 1000 packet processor, enabling a new class of multi-service business gateways (MSBGs) and other converged appliances.

NetLogic Microsystems (NASDAQ: NETL) was awarded its 400th United States patent. NetLogic Microsystems' portfolio includes over 600 worldwide patent issuances and pending filings. These achievements mark a significant milestone in the company's history of being at the forefront of technological and innovation leadership in high-performance semiconductor solutions that perform highly differentiated tasks for advanced 3G/4G mobile wireless infrastructure, data center, enterprise, metro Ethernet, edge and core infrastructure networks.

NXP Semiconductors agreed to license and deploy a hardware intrinsic security (HIS) solution in its next-generation SmartMX™ security chip technology. The partnership enables NXP to utilize Intrinsic-ID's Quiddikey™ solution to secure SmartMX-powered assets against cloning, tampering, theft-of-service and reverse engineering.

ON Semiconductor (NASDAQ: ONNN) introduced a family of low-side protected metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) that feature high levels of integrated protection. Qualified in accordance with the Automotive Electronics Council (AEC)-Q101 standard, devices in the NCV840x family are ideal for use in switching applications operating in harsh automotive and industrial environments.

Open-Silicon acquired Silicon Logic Engineering (SLE) to enhance the company's derivative IC design capabilities. As part of Open-Silicon, SLE will increase the front-end capabilities for designing derivative ICs, which are increasingly in demand as semiconductor companies look to maximize the returns on their initial platform IC investments.

Plessey Semiconductors started trading from its semiconductor manufacturing facility in Roborough, Plymouth, UK. The Roborough fab currently produces 8-inch wafers for external customers on 0.35μm CMOS process technologies. Plessey Semiconductors was created from the acquisition of X-FAB and existing key engineering competence within a design and technology center located in Swindon, UK.

PLX Technology (NASDAQ: PLXT) exceeded shipping one million units to global customers. This landmark achievement validates broad consumer market adoption of PLX^® network-attached storage (NAS) solutions and reflects the rising demand of easily accessible, reliable and secure digital storage in the home.

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) was ranked 9th on the 13th annual 100 Best Companies to Work For list by FORTUNE. To pick the 100 best companies, FORTUNE partners with the Great Place to Work Institute to conduct the most extensive employee survey in corporate America.

RF Micro Devices (NASDAQ: RFMD) commenced pre-production shipments of high-performance gallium nitride (GaN)-based cable television (CATV) hybrid amplifiers to a major U.S.-based CATV equipment provider. Operators of hybrid fiber coax (HFC) networks are installing fiber capacity deeper into their networks ("fiber deep" networks) to address the increasing demand for higher throughput video and broadband services.

LG Electronics selected SanDisk's (NASDAQ: SNDK) 64GB SanDisk pSSDTM Gen2 as the solid-state drive (SSD) of choice for its new ultra-thin mobile PC. Unlike conventional hard disk drives (HDDs), SSDs have no moving parts, improving durability which helps prevent data loss resulting from drive failure.

Google's Nexus One mobile phone is leveraging several of Skyworks Solutions' (NASDAQ: SWKS) highly integrated power amplifier modules. These 3G solutions were incorporated in the Google platform as part of HTC's reference design.

Teknovus announced the availability of the TK3401, the intelligent Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) node controller. The TK3401 SOC facilitates evolution of the PON network by extending central office optical line terminal (OLT) to subscriber optical networking unit (ONU) distances up to 100km and by supporting connections to over 1,000 subscriber ONUs while supporting remote management, configuration and upgrade, protection switching and low-power operation.

Telegent Systems' analog mobile TV receiver was incorporated into two code division multiple access (CDMA) TV handset designs introduced in Q4 2009 by MobilMAX. With these designs, MobilMAX brings together its expertise in CDMA and GSM technologies and operator-grade solutions with a free-to-air TV feature that enables consumers to view the same live TV programming that they watch on conventional TV sets.

The GSM Association (GSMA) selected Ubidyne as a finalist for the Global Mobile Awards in the Best Network Technology Advance category for its development of the world's first antenna embedded radio for wireless communications. Ubidyne's antenna embedded radio integrates all the RF elements of the network directly into the antenna housing. The product, which is compatible with current and next-generation standards, completely eliminates the need for coaxial feeder cables, remote electrical tilt systems and additional amplifiers on antenna towers and masts.

ViXS Systems announced that Sony selected its XCode^® 3106 for the latest line of Vaio L multimedia PCs. The XCode^® 3106 provides advanced features such as HD transcoding of HD MPEG2 broadcast video to a HD MPEG4 Advance Video Coding (AVC) format for increased video storage. Video storage on the local HDD has increased by four times, as compared to a non-transcoding mode.

Wolfson Microelectronics (LSE: WLF) introduced the WM8595, a world-leading multi-channel audio codec designed to offer a complete high-performance audio solution in an ultra-thin package for consumer products, including HD digital televisions, DVD recorders and Blu-ray players.

Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX) announced the first shipments and availability of its Virtex-6 LX760 device. As the industry's largest FPGA available for delivery with immediate design tool support, the Virtex-6 LX760 device enables Xilinx customers who need raw logic density and industry-leading input/output (I/O) performance to get started on their projects today using the Xilinx ISE Design Suite 11.4.

Zoran's (NASDAQ: ZRAN) VaddisHD™ processor enables playback of HD video in JVC's new HD media player models CU-VS100 shipping to the U.S., Europe and Asia. JVC's new HD media player allows consumers to play their HD camcorder content on any television set.