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Innovative Silicon Secures $25M in Series C Funding (Tuesday Nov. 06, 2007)
Innovative Silicon announced today that Wellington Partners Venture Capital has joined with all existing investors to lead a $25M Series C round of investment in the company. ISi will use the financing to expand its engineering and customer support initiatives worldwide.
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VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. Secures $20 Million in Financing (Tuesday Nov. 06, 2007)
VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd., a System-on-A-Chip (SoC) platform based integrated circuit design foundry, today announced that it raised US$20 million in its Series D financing, bringing the total amount of venture funding received to US$58 million since the company's inception in 2001.
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S3 Opens Design Center in Silicon Valley (Monday Nov. 05, 2007)
The company is currently recruiting engineers and sales/business development professionals to serve S3’s consumer systems and semiconductor clients in their high-growth interconnected target markets: home, healthcare, mobile, silicon and networking.
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Mentor Graphics and Avery Design Team to Deliver Comprehensive PCI Express and Serial ATA IP Solutions (Monday Nov. 05, 2007)
Avery Design Systems and Mentor Graphics today announced a cooperative effort to deliver comprehensive design and verification IP solutions for PCI Express® (PCIe®) and Serial ATA (SATA-IO) IP standards.
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Avnet ASIC Israel and Elliptic Partner to Offer Security Solutions to Israeli Customer (Monday Nov. 05, 2007)
Avnet ASIC Israel (AAI), an ASIC and COT design, backend, and turnkey manufacturing services provider, and Elliptic, a silicon IP core and software provider, have teamed up to bring Elliptic's portfolio of security solutions to market in Israel.
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On2 Technologies Completes Business Combination with Hantro Products (Friday Nov. 02, 2007)
On2 Technologies announced today that it has completed its business combination with Finland-based Hantro Products. The transaction, which was accomplished by an exchange of shares, was finalized on November 1, 2007. Hantro has now become a wholly-owned subsidiary of On2.
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Bluespec Closes Series C Funding (Wednesday Oct. 31, 2007)
Bluespec today announced it has raised $4.25 million in Series C funding. This brings the total amount raised in three rounds of financing to $17.25 million from investors Atlas Venture and North Bridge Venture Partners.
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S3 Acquires Acacia Semiconductor S.A. (Wednesday Oct. 31, 2007)
With the acquisition of Acacia, S3 will add higher speed, higher resolution and lower power data converters to its extensive IP portfolio, optimized for integration into SoCs (System-on-Chips) targeting consumer, wireless connectivity and digital broadcast applications. End markets served by existing S3 clients include WiFi, WiMAX, mobile digital broadcasting, High-Definition (HD) video applications and power-line communications.
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MIPS Technologies Enters 32-bit Microcontroller Market (Tuesday Oct. 30, 2007)
With a broad array of processor cores and a comprehensive, diverse library of proven analog IP blocks gained through its recent acquisition of analog IP leader Chipidea, MIPS Technologies has the largest offering of both processor and peripheral IP from a single supplier-providing customers with a total system solution for 32-bit MCU applications.
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Gennum Acquires Snowbush Microelectronics (Tuesday Oct. 30, 2007)
This acquisition accelerates Gennum’s new product introductions for 2008 and beyond, creating a compelling value proposition to customers as they gain access to an array of high-performance analog and mixed-signal solutions. This transaction further strengthens Gennum’s design expertise and expands its engineering team in the greater Toronto area.
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NXP to shift more chip development to India (Monday Oct. 29, 2007)
Development of several product lines at NXP Semiconductors' home electronics division unit are being moved out of Europe, mostly to Asian countries, according to Christos Lagomichos, executive vice president and general manager of the division.
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Rambus Regains Compliance with Nasdaq (Monday Oct. 22, 2007)
This determination is based on the Company having filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended June 30, 2006 and September 30, 2006 on September 14, 2007, and having filed its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2007 and June 30, 2007 on October 17, 2007.
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TSMC buys memory IP firm, says report (Monday Oct. 15, 2007)
Continuing to expand its intellectual-property (IP) efforts, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) has acquired Emerging Memory Technologies Inc. (EMT), according to a report from the Ottawa Citizen.
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Saifun to Operate as Wholly Owned Subsidiary and Drive Spansion's Technology Licensing Business (Monday Oct. 08, 2007)
Spansion Inc., the world's largest pure-play provider of Flash memory solutions and Saifun Semiconductors Ltd., a provider of intellectual property solutions for the non-volatile memory (NVM) market, today announced that they have signed a definitive merger agreement for Spansion Inc. to acquire Saifun Semiconductors Ltd.
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APT Strengthens Licensing Business Development Division (Wednesday Oct. 03, 2007)
Audio compression specialist APT today announced the appointment of Mike Canevaro as Vice President, Licensing Business Development. Based in California, Canevaro will be responsible for driving forward and implementing the APT Licensing Business Strategy within the Consumer Electronics, Mobile and Broadcast industries and is set to significantly strengthen APT’s position in the IP Licensing markets.
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Synopsys Acquires Sandwork Design (Tuesday Oct. 02, 2007)
Sandwork's products, combined with Synopsys' industry-leading Discovery™ AMS solution, deliver a comprehensive environment for verification and debug. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed.
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APT Announce Licensing Agreement with Sierra Automated Systems (Tuesday Oct. 02, 2007)
Audio codec and coding specialist, APT, today announced a Licensing and Business Development Agreement with California-based Sierra Automated Systems (SAS). In addition to SAS licensing APT’s low delay Enhanced apt-X® algorithm, the deal will involve joint development to ensure interoperability of routing, console and codec equipment worldwide.
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MoSys Announces Executive Organizational Changes: Creates Chief Operating Officer Role (Monday Oct. 01, 2007)
MoSys today announced the appointment of Mehdi Bathaee as Chief Operating Officer. This new position was created to more tightly integrate the various functional areas of the company as it grows from a supplier of 1T-SRAM(R) intellectual property to also delivering embedded flash and a range of embedded mixed-signal solutions.
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OKI and Wipro Form Strategic Partnership for Semiconductor Design Services (Friday Sep. 28, 2007)
As part of this partnership, Wipro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Oki Techno Centre Singapore Pte. Ltd.(OTCS) including its own Intellectual Property Rights in an all cash deal over a period of one year. Wipro will also establish a dedicated Development Centre for OKI.
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New CEO and new funding for Coresonic (Wednesday Sep. 26, 2007)
Coresonic has announced that it has appointed industry veteran, Rick Clucas, as its CEO. Clucas has over 22 years industry experience with over 17 in the semiconductor IP industry most notably as founder and CTO of ARC International.
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Avnet ASIC Israel and Aurora VLSI Partner to Offer Expanded ASIC and SoC Solutions (Monday Sep. 24, 2007)
Avnet ASIC Israel (AAI) and Aurora VLSI have teamed up to enhance each other’s offerings to the System-on-Chip (SoC) market.
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ARC Acquires Alarity Corporation; Establishes Multimedia Development Center In St. Petersburg, Russia (Monday Sep. 24, 2007)
ARC International today announced that it has acquired Alarity Corporation. Alarity is a privately held U.S. multimedia company that has a renowned team of close to 40 personnel based in St. Petersburg, Russia specializing in codec software, firmware, and advanced multimedia architectures.
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Transmeta Announces $12.8 Million Securities Offering (Friday Sep. 21, 2007)
The securities in the offering include up to 2,000,000 shares of Transmeta common stock and warrants to purchase up to 1,000,000 shares of Transmeta common stock, which securities are being offered in “units” at a price of $6.40 per unit.
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Xilinx Adds India Centre as Global R&D Hub (Tuesday Sep. 18, 2007)
The move will help Xilinx strengthen its current global R&D ecosystem, and expand its presence in the high-growth Asia Pacific region.
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Wi-LAN Acquires Essential Wireless Patent Portfolio (Friday Sep. 14, 2007)
The portfolio purchase was brokered through the law firm of Goldstein, Faucett & Prebeg, LLP for a purchase price of U.S. $7,000,000 with the potential of additional consideration of up to U.S. $4,000,000 based on meeting certain licensing milestones.
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Wipro-NewLogic Reinforces Its Worldwide Leadership in Bluetooth and Wireless LAN Intellectual Property (Thursday Sep. 13, 2007)
As the leading vendor, Wipro-NewLogic with 61% market share has more than three times the share of its nearest competitor in Wireless LAN. Gartner also rates Wipro-NewLogic as the number one worldwide supplier of Bluetooth based on Design IP revenue commanding 59% market share in 2006.
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PLDA Announces Innovative Business Expansion Into "Application IP" (AIP) Bringing their Bus IP Design Expertise to High-Growth Vertical Markets (Wednesday Sep. 12, 2007)
Profitable since its inception, PLDA is the world's largest PCI IP core vendor (Gartner; 2005), designing and selling a wide range of FPGA and ASIC interfacing solutions to some of the most widely recognized companies in the industry. PLDA’s successful PCI business model will be used as the basis for the successful launch of the new “Application IP” (AIP) division.
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Impinj Tops 600 Million Logic NVM Units Shipped (Tuesday Sep. 11, 2007)
Leading logic nonvolatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP) supplier, Impinj, Inc., today announced that the company’s customers have shipped more than 600 million chips containing Impinj’s AEON NVM cores since 2003.
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Rambus Reaches Settlement in Securities Class Action (Monday Sep. 10, 2007)
The settlement provides for a payment by Rambus of $18 million and would lead to a dismissal with prejudice of all claims against all defendants in the litigation. In addition, Rambus has been and will continue to be in discussions with its insurers concerning their contribution of a portion of the settlement amount.
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Global Unichip Announces Opening of the GUC Shanghai Office in China (Thursday Sep. 06, 2007)
To meet the potential needs of SoC design service in China, GUC completed the expansion plans and officially started to provide SoC design service through the GUC Shanghai Office today.