Start with the news release EASA certifies avionics unit with Altera processor from Altera, which we summarised at the time by saying "The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has certified a safety-critical avionics system that includes a DO-254/ED-80-certifiable version of Altera's Nios II embedded processor.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release FDS Software used in Fujitsu ASIC Reference Flow from Forte Design Systems: "Cynthesizer synthesis software has been selected for use in Fujitsu's application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) Reference Flow for the 40nm process technologies, along with 90 and 65nm. ".
 
In December 2010, we covered the news from Atmel - take a look at Atmel offers chipsets for 15in touchscreens which says: "Atmel has announced that it is shipping production quantities of the Atmel Maxtouch mXT1386 and mXT616 chipsets for large touchscreens up to 15in. ".
 
Take a look also at the news release from Altera, 28nm technology strategy targets wireless market, as well as Self-encrypting drive targets shared desktop PCs from Toshiba Storage Device Division, and Heavy-duty touchscreen for interactive displays from Zytronic.