Saturday, February 20, 2010

SJ Mercury News: Upturn in Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey

Silicon Valley captured nearly 40% of all venture capital in the U.S. during 2009, according to data from Pricewaterhouse Coopers that was published by the San Jose Mercury News. The report indicates the VC investments in the region rebounded slightly in the second half of last year following two years of declines. However, nationwide VC funding was down significantly again in 2009, reaching its lowest level since 1997.The Venture Capital Quarterly Report lists over Silicon Valley 190 companies receiving funding. A small sampling of notable...

TI Unveils Multicore Architecture for Communications Equipment

Texas Instruments unveiled a new System-on-a-Chip (SoC) architecture based on its multicore digital signal processors (DSPs) and designed for the next generation of wireless base stations, media gateways and video infrastructure equipment. Significantly, TI has integrated fixed and floating point capabilities, pushing beyond the traditional functionality of DSPs to take on the multilayer processing roles of network processors. This paves the way...