MEDIATEK LICENSES SONICS’ NoC AND MEMORY SCHEDULER IP
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MEDIATEK LICENSES SONICS’ NoC AND MEMORY SCHEDULER IP

San Jose, Calif. – January 10, 2017 –  Sonics, Inc., the world’s foremost supplier of on-chip network (NoC) and power management technologies and services, today announced that MediaTek Inc., a market leader in developing innovative systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile device, home entertainment, connectivity and IoT products, has licensed multiple copies of SonicsSX® NoC and the MemMax® memory scheduler IP.

“MediaTek continues to be a strong Sonics customer. As one of the world’s leading fabless semiconductor companies, they have deep technical expertise in developing SoCs for many markets and applications,” said Grant Pierce, CEO of Sonics. “We are excited that MediaTek is deepening adoption of Sonics’ products. Using our NoC and memory scheduler enables MediaTek’s system architects and IC engineers to deliver the performance, power, and security required in the silicon as well as by the consumer electronic products these chips will ultimately drive.”

About Sonics, Inc.

Sonics, Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) is the trusted leader in on-chip network (NoC) and power-management technologies used by the world’s top semiconductor and electronics product companies, including Broadcom®, Intel®, Marvell®, MediaTek, and Microchip®. Sonics was the first company to develop and commercialize NoCs, accelerating volume production of complex systems-on-chip (SoC) that contain multiple processor cores. Based on the ICE-Grain™ Power Architecture, Sonics’ ICE-G1™ is the industry’s first complete Energy Processing Unit (EPU), which enables rapid development of SoC power management subsystems. Sonics is also a catalyst for ongoing discussions about design methodology change via the  Agile IC Methodology LinkedIn group. Sonics holds approximately 150 patent properties supporting customer products that have shipped more than four billion SoCs. For more information, visit  sonicsinc.com