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Arteris Announces Completion of $7.5M Series C Investment (Wednesday May. 21, 2008)
DoCoMo Capital Joins Existing Investors, Synopsys, Crescendo, TVM Capital and Ventech to Fund the Leading NoC Interconnect Solution Provider
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Cissoid Completes Second Round of Investment (Tuesday May. 20, 2008)
CISSOID, a leader in high temperature semiconductor solutions and the pioneer of Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) products, announced today they completed a second round of investment with their initial investors.
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ChipVision Closes on $4.5 Million Series B Round (Friday May. 16, 2008)
Known for its breakthrough power optimization design tools, ChipVision will use the funds to introduce its newly announced PowerOpt™ and P-SAM power optimization design tools to market, and to further its research and development efforts.
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Mentor Graphics Acquires Assets of Ponte Solutions -- Technology to be Integrated into Calibre DFM Solutions (Thursday May. 15, 2008)
Mentor Graphics today announced it has acquired the assets of Ponte Solutions, the developer of model-based design for manufacturing (DFM) solutions
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Government agency BICRO supports Xylon project with $1 Million (Monday May. 12, 2008)
Funding will enable Xylon to develop logi3D graphic accelerator optimized for FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). The logi3D will assure shorter development cycles and greater flexibility within lower cost. The use of logi3D is applicable in automotive, medical, industrial, military and entertainment electronics.
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ARM Extends Its Long-Term Investment In India With A Dedicated VLSI Test Lab (Thursday May. 08, 2008)
The new VLSI test lab will provide analysis of VLSI libraries and ARM® physical IP to correlate design to silicon behavior. This activity has increasingly become a Partner requirement prior to SoC tapeout as technologies have increased in complexity and mask costs have escalated.
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Virage Logic Announces Stock Repurchase Program (Tuesday May. 06, 2008)
Virage Logic Corporation announced today that its board of directors has authorized a stock repurchase program under which the Company has the option to repurchase up to $20,000,000 in market value of the Company's common stock through May 2009.
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Synopsys Invests In Prover Technology (Tuesday May. 06, 2008)
Synopsys and Prover Technology AB today announced that Synopsys has invested in Prover, which supplies signaling design automation solutions for engineering the safety critical systems that control trains, switches and signals.
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ARM job-cutting moves on to tools group (Monday May. 05, 2008)
Having embarked on a restructuring of its physical intellectual property division (PIPD), processor licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) is now moving on to restructure its development systems business, according to Warren East, CEO and president.
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NXP mulls IP licensing for its Mifare platform (Friday May. 02, 2008)
NXP Semiconductors is looking seriously at licensing to other semiconductor companies its Mifare contactless chip card platform technology for use in SIM cards and NFC applications such as ticketing, payment and access management.
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DoD may push back on Apple's P.A. Semi bid; PowerPC variant designed into many military systems (Thursday Apr. 24, 2008)
Apple Inc. may have to face the ire of the U.S. Department of Defense following its planned acquisition of P.A. Semi Inc. The startup's PWRficient processor is designed into DoD programs in every major branch of the armed services, said one P.A. Semi customer who expects Apple will end production of the parts.
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Apple enters IC market, buys PA Semi (Wednesday Apr. 23, 2008)
Taking a big step in the IC business, Apple Computer Inc. has acquired PA Semi Inc., a supplier of embedded microprocessors, for $278 million in cash, according to Forbes.
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QuickLogic and Sital announce development Partnership for MIL-STD-1553 core (Monday Apr. 14, 2008)
QuickLogic is partnering with Israel-based avionics technology leader Sital Technology to optimise Sital’s MIL-STD-1553 controller design with QuickLogic’s ViaLink programmable fabric.
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GSA Reports 2007 Semiconductor Industry Revenue Totaled $267.5 B (Wednesday Apr. 09, 2008)
Semiconductor revenue totaled $267.5 billion, with fabless and IDM revenue accounting for 20 percent and 80 percent of the 2007 semiconductor sales total, respectively
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Springsoft and Novas Agree to Merge (Tuesday Apr. 01, 2008)
Under the terms of the agreement, and pending customary shareholder and regulatory approvals, Springsoft will pay $2.25 USD per share ($28,629,409) to the other Novas shareholders, giving Springsoft ownership of 100% of the shares. Novas will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Springsoft, and will be renamed Springsoft USA.
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ANSYS, Inc. Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Ansoft Corporation (Monday Mar. 31, 2008)
ANSYS and Ansoft announced today that they signed a definitive agreement whereby ANSYS will acquire Ansoft for a purchase price of approximately $832 million in a mix of cash and ANSYS common stock.
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Synopsys to Acquire Synplicity, Inc. (Thursday Mar. 20, 2008)
Under the terms of the agreement, Synopsys will pay $8 cash per Synplicity share, resulting in a gross transaction of approximately $227 million, and approximately $188 million net of cash acquired
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Spansion Inc. Closes Acquisition of Saifun Semiconductors (Tuesday Mar. 18, 2008)
The addition of the Saifun offering will expand Spansion's product portfolio, and enable Spansion's immediate entry into the technology licensing business, significantly expanding Spansion's market opportunity.
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eASIC Raises $48 Million in Latest Financing Round (Thursday Mar. 13, 2008)
eASIC today announced it has raised $48M in late stage financing. The financing round was lead by Advanced Equities Incorporated.
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ARM Extends Design Center In India (Thursday Mar. 13, 2008)
ARM today announced the opening of larger offices in India to house expanded operations that will lead to its becoming the second largest design center for the company outside its Cambridge, UK headquarters.
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Sidense Raises $6 Million in Venture Capital to Expand Global Reach (Wednesday Mar. 05, 2008)
Sidense announced today that it has raised $6 million in a venture capital financing round co-led by Vertex Venture Capital, a leading Israeli venture capital firm, and Tech Capital Partners of Waterloo, Canada.
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Faraday and Mixel Announce IP Development and Licensing Partnership (Monday Mar. 03, 2008)
Mixel is licensing its high performance LVDS De-Serializer transceiver IP to Faraday for use in their customer ASIC designs. The IP is designed in UMC 90nm process technology. This is intended to be the first of many IP development collaboration between Faraday and Mixel.
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Convergence of Graphics, Video and GPS to Drive Next Generation Personal Navigation Devices (Monday Mar. 03, 2008)
Imagination Technologies today revealed further information about its partnership with SiRF and its views on the development of the Portable Navigation Device (PND) market, where developments in multimedia technology are set to play a significant role.
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Wisair Secures $24 Million in Funding (Wednesday Feb. 27, 2008)
Wisair, a leading provider of single-chip based Ultra Wideband (UWB) and Wireless USB (WUSB) solutions, today announced that it has secured $24 million in its latest round of funding.
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Lightspeed Logic Ceases Operations -- Licenses Technologies and Patent Rights (Monday Feb. 25, 2008)
Lightspeed Logic today announced that it ceased development operations on February 22, 2008. Lightspeed Logic provided mask reconfigurable logic IP and I/Os as well its patented AutoTest® architecture and its timing-driven DesignBuilder EDA tool which enabled the industry's densest and highest performance reconfigurable logic solution.
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TES Announces New Direction and Leadership in India (Monday Feb. 25, 2008)
TES launched its new initiatives and management in its Bangalore based facility. Following the sale of the VLSI design services team to MindTree in December 2007, TES is now boosting its activities and focus to align with its global strategy of providing leading edge Custom Design and Manufacturing Services.
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MIPS Technologies Announces Strategic Alliance with NXP Semiconductors for HDMI Technology (Wednesday Feb. 20, 2008)
Under the terms of the agreement, MIPS Technologies will license NXP's advanced HDMI receive technology, which is currently used in the company's DTV ICs. This allows MIPS Technologies to further develop and offer HDMI receive IP solutions in advanced geometries for integration onto SoCs as part of the Analog Business Group's HDMI product portfolio.
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ARC Acquires Sonic Focus (Tuesday Feb. 12, 2008)
Together with technologies from previous acquisitions, Sonic Focus’s audio enhancement software builds on ARC’s ability to bring higher quality audio and video solutions to companies throughout the consumer electronics value chain.
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Motorola Invests in DesignArt Networks (Monday Feb. 11, 2008)
Motorola today announced that it has made an equity investment in DesignArt Networks, an emerging and leading supplier of silicon system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for WiMAX radio access network infrastructure.
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Transmeta Corporation Announces Engagement of Financial Advisor (Thursday Feb. 07, 2008)
Transmeta today announced that it has engaged Piper Jaffray & Co. to work with the Company’s Board of Directors and management team to help identify options to enhance shareholder value.