Ricky Su's List: News_200908

• A uPP enables high-speed connection to data converters, FPGAs or other C6742/C6746/C6748/ OMAP-L138 processors

• failing to "get the tools right
• targeting too narrow a market niche
• not just silicon R&D, but software R&D as well
• Market watcher Gartner Inc. estimates that Xilinx Inc. and Altera Corp. together accounted for nearly 87 percent of the programmable logic market in 2008 (holding 51.2 percent and 35.5 percent, respectively).
• wo smaller but well-established players, Actel Corp. and Lattice Semiconductor Corp., each held about 6 percent
• startups need to demonstrate clear and compelling technology advantages
• stability and familiarity
• Nobody in his right mind would want to be in a price war with those two companies, with all of the money they have," he said.

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