IPextreme's Core Store Completes One Year

Silicon Valley, Calif. based IPextreme, Inc., has announced that its groundbreaking online store for semiconductor IP, the Core Store, has successfully completed one year of operation.

 

Through this store, IPextreme licenses semiconductor IP (intellectual property) and methodologies developed by large semiconductor companies to global system-on-chip designers worldwide. 

 

Recently, TMCnet reported that Gartner (News - Alert) Inc.’s April 2008 report included IPextreme, Inc. in the list of “Cool Vendors.”

 

Through the Core Store, IPextreme has sold more than 35 ColdFire microprocessor cores in addition to a range of AMBA peripherals to companies worldwide.

 

Since it was unveiled in January last year, the store has seen a 40 percent per month (compounded) rise in traffic and has sold dozens of copies of CoReUse Foundation eBooks which offer an enterprise-class design reuse methodology to develop and use semiconductor IP.

 

The Core Store eliminates the hassle of legal and price negotiations for customers who wish to view available IP cores and pricing.

 

Rick Tomihiro, vice president of marketing for IPextreme expressed his delight over the success of the store. “Customers and vendors alike are very pleased with the success of this breakthrough technology for packaging, ordering, delivering, and supporting IP,” said Tomihiro.

 

“The whole model has been working so well that we were able to use it to deliver the free program by which Altera (News - Alert) Cyclone III users can license the ColdFire V1 core. With the use of third-party IP increasing in SoCs, we expect to continue to expand our offerings on Core Store.”