SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 10, 2011 – Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that eSilicon Corporation, the largest independent semiconductor value chain producer (VCP), used Magma software to tape out a three-way microprocessor cluster based on MIPS’ leading-edge MIPS32® 1074Kf™ Coherent Processing System (CPS). Typical performance of the cluster is expected to be approximately 1.5GHz with worst-case performance of 1GHz. By leveraging Magma’s Talus® IC implementation platform and the Talus-Flow-Manager-Based Reference Flow for GLOBALFOUNDRIES' 28nm-SLP process technology, eSilicon was able to achieve an impressive performance goal while optimizing power consumption. The Magma Quartz™ DRC and Quartz LVS products’ support for GLOBALFOUNDRIES' DRC+ (a silicon-validated, yield-critical pattern-based design for manufacturing low) streamlined physical verification of the chip.

November 10th 2011 - Yell and UK Trade & Investment(UKTI) today announce an exciting partnership to provide vital support and guidance to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) looking to expand internationally. The aim of the partnership – called ‘Open to Export’ – is to provide a dedicated platform that enables UK-based companies to collaborate and share intelligence about export market opportunities, means of entry and participation.

Speaking at the UKTI event “SMEs Exporting and Growth” in central London today, Prime Minister David Cameron said:

“UKTI is working with Yell to develop an online service called Open to Export which will provide SMEs with access to more information, advice and support from intermediary organisations like many of you here today.”

- Responding to research that more than half of US consumers would sue a firm if it lost their personal information, Avecto says that companies on both sides of the Atlantic – and their IT departments – now need to sharpen their ideas on the management of data.

According to Paul Kenyon, chief operating officer with the Windows privilege management specialist Avecto, the Unisys survey – which took in responses from 1,000 US citizens – found that 53 per cent would turn to their lawyers to remediate data compromise situations involving their own data.

The manual administration of firewalls is hurting the purse strings!   That’s according to the preliminary results (Take the survey, help us learn more http://svy.mk/pTZuEp ) of the Tufin survey which is conducted every year called the “firewall operations and compliance survey”, which shows that IT is getting seriously stung in terms of cost and time when it comes to manually auditing and managing rule changes on firewalls – all completely unnecessarily.

The survey found that every second firewall admin is locating firewall rules that overlap or are redundant by manually inspecting the policy. Not only that this is very much time consuming , the human mind just can't calculate all the permutations that a machine can calculate in milliseconds.