ARC International (St Albans, England) is to lay off 35 employees and close several of its locations in a major restructuring that sees the licensor of multimedia IP cores reduced to 115 direct staff, excluding its Adaptive Chips joint venture in India. The company also revealed it is readying a new processing range that will be launched in November.
ARC said its 600 processor range, which on average uses 25 percent less power than its nearest competitor for embedded subsystem applications, will be the basis of an instruction-set compatible new generation development aimed at a further halving of power-performance ratio. The new processor range will be designated the ARC 6000 series.
