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TSMC 4nm (N4P) 1.2V/1.8V Basekit Libraries, multiple metalstacks
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Applied Micro Circuits Corporation Signs Major IP Monetization Contract (Tuesday Jul. 15, 2008)
AMCC announced it recently signed an agreement for the sale of certain patents which provides the Company with an "intellectual property revenue stream" totaling $33 million that will be payable over the next 3 years.
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Aeroflex Incorporated Announces the Purchase of Gaisler Research AB (Tuesday Jul. 15, 2008)
Aeroflex Incorporated today announced the acquisition of Gaisler Research AB, a privately held company, located in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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XHMicro Acquires Full Source Code and Development Rights to Improv System's Jazz-based DSP IP (Monday Jul. 14, 2008)
XHMicro, a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) and design services, today announced that it has received full source code and development rights to the innovative Jazz™ configurable semiconductor IP and development tool technologies developed by Improv Systems.
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TranSwitch Corporation to Acquire Centillium Communications, Inc. (Thursday Jul. 10, 2008)
With this acquisition, TranSwitch will further diversify its product portfolio to include rapidly growing Fiber-to-the-Home (“FTTH”) and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (“VoIP”) solutions
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Indian tech firms eye semi IP business (Tuesday Jul. 08, 2008)
Indian technology companies facing cost pressures from a global economic slump and domestic competition are seeking a way out by boosting R&D investments to develop semiconductor intellectual property.
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Carbon Design Systems Acquires SoC Designer from ARM (Monday Jul. 07, 2008)
ARM and Carbon Design Systems announced today an agreement under which Carbon will take over future development, support and sale of the SoC Designer tool.
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MIPS Technologies Completes Refinancing of Senior Credit Facility (Monday Jul. 07, 2008)
The new $25 million facility with Silicon Valley Bank includes a $15 million term loan and a $10 million revolving line of credit.
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Analysis: HP licenses imaging IP for camera phones (Friday Jul. 04, 2008)
BDTI analyzes HP's image enhancement IP--which it recently licensed for use in cellphone cameras--and ponders the future of cellphone cameras.
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Cash Offer for Flometrics by Mentor Graphics (Thursday Jul. 03, 2008)
Cash Offer for Flometrics by Mentor Graphics
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Patent pools may flow in wake of latest alliance (Thursday Jul. 03, 2008)
Allied Security Trust, a group of 11 high tech companies that have combined their clout to buy, license and sell strategic patents may point the way for more patent pools to come in a maturing market for intellectual property.
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Focus Enhancements Enters Agreement to Purchase Wireless Audio IP (Wednesday Jul. 02, 2008)
Focus Enhancements has entered into an agreement to purchase certain intellectual property rights for a prototype wireless audio product chipset developed by AudioMojo, Inc. and owned by Hallo Development Co.
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Virage Logic Acquires Impinj's Logic Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) IP Business (Monday Jun. 30, 2008)
Virage Logic has acquired Impinj's leading solutions for logic NVM IP and added more than 50 Impinj patents to its already robust IP portfolio. In addition to the acquisition of assets, Virage Logic has hired approximately 30 former Impinj employees who were responsible for the company's logic NVM IP business.
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ARC Launches New Annual Licensing Model For Multimedia Codecs (Thursday Jun. 26, 2008)
ARC's extensive portfolio of audio, video and imaging codecs are now packaged into annually licensable libraries. This helps simplify the planning of chip companies, allowing them to better meet the constantly changing requirements of evolving consumer electronics devices.
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Nokia to acquire Symbian Limited to enable evolution of the leading open mobile platform (Tuesday Jun. 24, 2008)
Nokia today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share.
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IP vendor Sonics scraps IPO (Tuesday Jun. 24, 2008)
Sonics Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.) has withdrew its plan for an initial public offering of its common stock, according to a filing from U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Veriest Verification (Israel) announces close collaboration with HDL Design House (Serbia) (Tuesday Jun. 24, 2008)
Veriest Verification and HDL Design House decided to collaborate closely on delivering design and verification services to the Israeli market.
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Wi-LAN Provides Mid-Quarter Update on Licensing Activities (Friday Jun. 20, 2008)
Company confirms eight license agreements signed at mid-point in third quarter
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Patriot Scientific Announces Agreement with NuPOWER Semiconductor to License Power Management IP Portfolio (Thursday Jun. 19, 2008)
Patriot Scientific today announced that it has entered into an initial agreement with NuPOWER Semiconductor, to commercialize its power management IP to other semiconductor and electronic systems suppliers.
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Mentor Graphics Responds to Proposal from Cadence Design Systems (Tuesday Jun. 17, 2008)
Mentor Graphics today acknowledged receipt of an unsolicited proposal by Cadence Design Systems to acquire Mentor Graphics at a price of $16.00 per share. Mentor Graphics confirmed that it previously rejected the proposal.
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Cadence Proposes to Acquire Mentor Graphics for $16.00 per Share in Cash (Tuesday Jun. 17, 2008)
The transaction price represents a total enterprise value of $1.6 billion on a fully diluted basis, which reflects Mentor Graphics' net debt of $69 million.
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Letter to Shareholders from Patriot Scientific President/CEO Rick Goerner (Tuesday Jun. 17, 2008)
Letter to Shareholders from Patriot Scientific President/CEO Rick Goerner
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Silvus Technologies and Fastrack Design Form Partnership to Benefit System-on-Chip Companies (Monday Jun. 16, 2008)
Silvus Technologies and Fastrack Design today announced the formation of a partnership that will offer their customers total turnkey PHY/MAC 802.11n IP solutions.
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Zoran Corporation Adds Frame Rate Conversion Technology Through Acquisition of Let It Wave (Thursday Jun. 05, 2008)
Zoran today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Let It Wave, a fabless semiconductor company based in Paris, France.
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Xilinx Completes Functional Reorganization (Wednesday Jun. 04, 2008)
As a result of the reorganization, Xilinx will eliminate approximately 250 positions, or about 7 percent of the Company's global workforce. The workforce reduction is expected to be completed by the end of the next fiscal quarter.
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CEVA and ARM Partner to Enhance Development Support of CEVA DSP + ARM Multiprocessor SoCs (Wednesday Jun. 04, 2008)
Support for CEVA DSPs in ARM CoreSight debug and trace solution significantly reduces cost of debug and time-to-market for multiprocessor SoCs
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DAFCA and Denali Software Announce Collaboration to Expand FlashPoint Platform Integration Features (Tuesday Jun. 03, 2008)
The collaboration focuses on accelerating the system-level transaction, function, and protocol validation of Denali’s Databahn™ NAND Flash memory controller.
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Tundra Semiconductor Terminates Product Acquisition and License Agreements with IBM (Tuesday Jun. 03, 2008)
The acquired product was to be based on an IBM Power Architecture™ 90 nm processor core. IBM recently notified Tundra that the performance of the core is lower than previously stated.
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MOSAID Announces Share Buyback Program (Friday May. 30, 2008)
MOSAIDtoday announced that it has amended the terms of its normal course issuer bid through the facilities of the Toronto Stock Exchange, commenced September 13, 2007, to increase the number of common shares to be purchased from 559,583 to 1,118,731.
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SpringSoft Completes Merger with Novas, Acquires More Technology and Channel Companies (Tuesday May. 27, 2008)
Largest Asian EDA company consolidates global channel and deepens portfolio of specialized EDA technology to drive growth
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MathStar, Inc. to Engage Investment Banker (Thursday May. 22, 2008)
No decision has been made as to whether MathStar will engage in a transaction resulting from its Board of Director's consideration of strategic alternatives, and there can be no assurance that any transaction will occur or, if undertaken, what the terms or timing of such a transaction would be.