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Tiempo, Specialist in Asynchronous Design, Raises $1.6M (Tuesday Feb. 05, 2008)
Tiempo develops and markets asynchronous IPs (microcontrollers, crypto-processors, interfaces) and EDA tools that allow semi-conductor companies to design ultra-low power, ultra-low noise, robust and secured chips.
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Freescale Enters Into Definitive Agreement to Acquire SigmaTel (Monday Feb. 04, 2008)
Freescale Semiconductor today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Freescale to acquire SigmaTel., a leading provider of analog intensive, mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) for the digital multimedia market.
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Transmeta Corporation Receives Unsolicited Indication of Interest from Riley Investment Management (Friday Feb. 01, 2008)
Transmeta today confirmed that it has become aware of a letter from Riley Investment Management LLC (RIM) expressing interest in seeking to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Transmeta not already owned by RIM or its affiliates for $15.50 per share in cash, subject to numerous conditions.
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ARM Achieves 10 Billion Processor Milestone (Tuesday Jan. 22, 2008)
ARM today announced that the total number of processors shipped by its Partners has exceeded ten billion. The company developed its first embeddable RISC core, the ARM6™ processor, in 1991, and its semiconductor Partners currently ship almost three billion ARM Powered® processors each year.
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IPextreme Breaks New Ground with Core Store (Monday Jan. 21, 2008)
IPextreme today announced that select intellectual property cores are now available for purchase through their new online marketplace, the Core Store.™
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Fujitsu to Realign and Strengthen LSI Business (Monday Jan. 21, 2008)
Fujitsu Limited announced today its decision to pursue the reorganization of its LSI business divisions into a new subsidiary scheduled to be established within March 2008.
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GDT joins Xilinx Alliance with H.264 EBH (Thursday Jan. 17, 2008)
Global Digital Technologies S.A, today announced that it has joined the Xilinx Alliance Program with its H.264 EBH video encoder IP core, which conforms to ISO/IEC 14496-10 (ITU-T H.264 or MPEG-4 Part10 /AVC) standard.
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RF Engines Ltd (RFEL) progress with advanced DSP strategy (Tuesday Jan. 15, 2008)
RF Engines has announced significant new contract awards in line with its product-led strategy announced earlier last year. RFEL is continuing to major on innovative signal processing on FPGA, but has added full product developments to their range of capabilities.
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Wireless semiconductor IP companies Coresonic and SySDSoft announce joint marketing agreement for WiMAX solutions (Monday Jan. 14, 2008)
Two experts in highly optimized, power-efficient semiconductor IP for WiMAX and emerging wireless standards will offer joint solution combining baseband processor firmware and MAC layer plus protocol stacks as a complete wireless technology package for system-on-chip developers
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GSA Reports Semiconductor Industry CYQ3 2007 Revenue Totaled $71.9B (Monday Jan. 14, 2008)
Semiconductor revenue totaled $71.9 billion, with fabless and IDM revenue accounting for 20 percent and 80 percent ofthe CYQ3 2007 semiconductor sales total, respectively.
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Catalytic Inc. Acquires ESL Business from Celoxica (Friday Jan. 04, 2008)
Under terms of the agreement, a cash consideration of $3 million will be paid to acquire DK Design Suite, PixelStreams and Agility Compiler software products and the RC Series of FPGA development and prototyping boards.
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Unicorn Investment Bank acquires 75% equity stake in Open-Silicon (Monday Dec. 24, 2007)
Unicorn announces the investment of US$190 million to acquire a 75% equity stake in Open-Silicon. Unicorn is partnering with Open-Silicon’s senior management team to fulfill the company’s next phase of growth, which includes global expansion.
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CEVA, Inc. to Divest Equity in GloNav, Inc. Following GloNav's Acquisition By NXP Semiconductors for $110 Million (Friday Dec. 21, 2007)
CEVA today announced that the Company will divest its ownership stake in GloNav following GloNav's acquisition by NXP Semiconductors
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Verigy Purchases Moore Microprocessor Patent Portfolio License (Friday Dec. 21, 2007)
Alliacense today announced that Verigy Ltd. has purchased a Moore Microprocessor Patent™ (MMP) Portfolio license from The TPL Group. Verigy is a premier automated test equipment company with two decades of heritage in semiconductor test.
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Fabless, Analog IC Provider Silicon Line Secures Funding to Pursue Fast-Growing Markets for Its Patented PHY Layer Chips (Thursday Dec. 20, 2007)
Silicon Line has developed PHY-layer ICs for power critical optical data transport applications in portable systems and devices. The company plans to use the proceeds of this financing to pursue fast-growing markets for its patented PHY-layer ICs and to accelerate the growth of its organization.
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ON Semiconductor to Acquire AMIS Holdings in an All-Stock Transaction Valued at Approximately $915 Million (Thursday Dec. 13, 2007)
ON Semiconductor and AMIS Holdings, parent company of AMI Semiconductor, today announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement providing for the acquisition of AMIS by ON Semiconductor in an all-stock transaction with an equity value of approximately $915 million.
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STMicroelectronics to Acquire Genesis Microchip (Tuesday Dec. 11, 2007)
STMicroelectronics and Genesis Microchip Inc. announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement for STMicroelectronics to acquire Genesis Microchip.
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Mobius Microsystems Raises $10.22 Million in Series B Financing (Tuesday Dec. 11, 2007)
Mobius Microsystems, Inc. announced today that it closed its Series B round of financing in the amount of $10.22 million. Mobius will use the funds to expand operations to support the production release of its patented CMOS Harmonic Oscillator (CHO™).
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Virage Logic Partners with MTEK I&C to Bring Its Advanced Silicon Aware Intellectual Property (IP) to the Korean Design Community (Monday Dec. 10, 2007)
Virage Logic and Korean-based MTEK I&C today announced a partnership agreement to service the IP needs of Korean design engineers. The agreement will enable MTEK I&C to sell and support Virage Logic’s advanced IP solutions in the Korean SoC market
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Virage Logic and Marketech International Corporation (MIC) Partner to Provide Silicon Aware Intellectual Property (IP) to Rapidly Growing China, Singapore, and Taiwan Markets (Monday Dec. 10, 2007)
Under the terms of the agreement, MIC is establishing a new division dedicated to providing IP solutions to the region's design community. Virage Logic's Silicon Aware IP offering will enable MIC to offer a robust, silicon-proven portfolio of semiconductor IP.
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Moortec Announce route2IP - a Collaborative Initiative for Sub-Picosecond Jitter PLL Design (Friday Dec. 07, 2007)
Since its inception in May 2005, Moortec has provided mixed-signal IP blocks for consumer, medical and automotive applications. With "route2IP" Moortec offers an alternative to the common IP delivery model used by IP vendors.
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New Intel group will drive system-chip design (Thursday Dec. 06, 2007)
Intel has created a new system-on-chip enablement group under Gadi Singer, a veteran executive who has led many high profile projects for the company. The move comes at a time when the company is accelerating efforts both in multicore PC processors as well as a range of SoCs for sockets outside its traditional PC markets.
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CORTUS, DOLPHIN Integration and RAISONANCE form a partnership for the cores of price-sensitive high-performance SoC (Monday Dec. 03, 2007)
DOLPHIN Integration announces their partnership with CORTUS extending to high-end Controllers their cooperation with RAISONANCE. Dolphin thus extends its microcontrollers range, from the legacy i8051 already enriched as Flip8051/251, to the APS3-2051: it enables a cost-effective move toward the 32-bit microcontroller market
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Motorola Taps IPextreme to Bring Advanced Semiconductor Technology to Market (Monday Dec. 03, 2007)
IPextreme, Inc. today announced that the company is bringing advanced Motorola clock generation technology to market in the form of licensable semiconductor intellectual property (IP)
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New partner for OpenCores.org (Tuesday Nov. 27, 2007)
ORSoC will continue to develop and improve OpenCores. We will dedicate resources to work with the site/community which will ensure that the development of IPs will ramp up and the quality of projects and verification will become even higher.
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MindTree Consulting Acquires TES-Purple Vision (Wednesday Nov. 14, 2007)
Purple Vision is a 150-person subsidiary of TES Electronic Solutions, providing differentiated services in the IC Design area. Founded in 2000, Purple Vision was acquired by TES in 2005. The company has achieved multiple, full-chip turnkey designs and has participated in over 150 silicon designs with an unprecedented success rate of over 95% in the first pass silicon.
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Netronome Announces Licensing Agreement fro High-End Network Processor Technology (Monday Nov. 12, 2007)
Netronome Systems to continue development of the Intel IXP28XX product line of network flow processors, ensuring continuation of the product roadmap and support for current and future customers
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Dolby Laboratories to Acquire Coding Technologies (Friday Nov. 09, 2007)
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Coding Technologies AB, a privately held provider of audio compression technologies for the mobile, digital broadcast, and Internet markets, for a purchase price of approximately $250 million net of cash
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Ireland's Duolog flips to an EDA business model (Thursday Nov. 08, 2007)
Duolog Technologies Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) a provider of 802.11 wireless LAN intellectual property and design services, with offices in Dublin, Galway, and Budapest, Hungary has changed into an EDA company
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Rambus Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Intel (Thursday Nov. 08, 2007)
Rambus Inc., one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in high-speed memory architectures, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Intel to explore possible uses for Rambus' family of XDR™ memory solutions.