A cold and changing world for silicon IP

By _EDN Practical Chip Design

December 29, 2009

At this point in the year it is customary to sit back, ponder the year's events, and try to divine some trends: some patterns in the flocks of news releases, meeting notes, and conversations that now gather, take wing in the chill air, and turn South—out of the summer country of short-term memory and toward the cold land of yesterday. To be fair it is not from any improved perspective that we work this augury, but merely from the cold fact that in this bridging week there is so little news.

It need not be said, but to 2009: good riddance. This year has seen many fine engineers take up consulting. It has watched promising companies scratch for revenue, find none, and quietly begin shopping their IP around as the precious capital drips away.

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