PC Market Beats Expectations with Mild Improvement in Business Outlook, According to IDC

.2013 – Worldwide PC shipments totaled 81.6 million units in the third quarter of 2013 (3Q13). In year-on-year terms, the market contracted -7.6%, ahead of a projected decline of -9.5% for the quarter, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. While shipments remained weak during the early part of the quarter, the market was somewhat buoyed by business purchases, as well as channel intake of Windows 8.1-based systems during September.
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UPDATE: Cadence Introduces New Family of Silicon-Proven High Performance Data Converter IP for Advanced 28nm Node

UPDATE: Cadence Introduces New Family of Silicon-Proven High Performance Data Converter IP for Advanced 28nm Node

SAN JOSE, CA — (Marketwired) — 10/10/13 — Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS)Highlights:IP family delivers up to 10x faster conversion rate than available competing IP solutionsHigh-performance cores enable next-generation applications, such as WiGig (802.11ad)Broad IP family offering for consumer, mobile, infrastructure and industrial marketsCadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, today introduced a suite of ultra-fast, low-power