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NXP acquires BlueStreak microcontroller product line from Sharp; Second acquisition this year by NXP strengthens lead in ARM7 and ARM9 MCUs (Monday Jul. 09, 2007)
The acquisition expands NXP’s extensive ARM Powered® microcontroller portfolio to 50 products – the world’s largest portfolio of ARM7 and ARM9 processor-based microcontroller products. The transaction closed on July 3, 2007. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
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AMD Makes Strategic Investment in Transmeta (Friday Jul. 06, 2007)
Transmeta Corporation and AMD today announced that AMD has invested $7.5 million in Transmeta in exchange for Transmeta preferred stock.
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Wi-LAN Completes Tri-Vision Acquisition (Tuesday Jul. 03, 2007)
With the acquisition, Wi-LAN now owns critical patents relating to the V-chip technology, the only solution to parental controls that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has mandated be built into all digital TV receivers, set-top boxes, VCRs and digital video recorders sold or used in the United States effective March 2007.
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Worldwide Chip Sales in May Grew by 2.4 Percent from 2006 (Monday Jul. 02, 2007)
Worldwide sales of semiconductors of $20.3 billion in May were 2.4 percent higher than the $19.8 billion reported for May of 2006, and 1.2 percent higher than the $20.0 billion reported for April 2007, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported today
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LSI Announces Strategic Restructuring to Align Resources With Opportunities and Reduce Operating Expenses (Thursday Jun. 28, 2007)
LSI Corporation announced today a broad restructuring and an acceleration of merger related synergies to further reduce its operating expenses. As part of these cost savings, LSI announced that it will eliminate approximately 900 positions or about 13 percent of its non-production workforce across all business and functional areas on a global basis.
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picoChip closes growth round funding of $27 million (Thursday Jun. 21, 2007)
Founded in 2000, picoChip has developed the world's highest performance multi-core DSP, and is a supplier of complete femtocell, picocell and macrocell reference designs for WiMAX and HSPA.
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SiRF Technology to Acquire Centrality Communications to Strengthen its Multifunction Location Platform Strategy (Thursday Jun. 21, 2007)
SiRF Technology Holdings today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Centrality Communications Inc for a total consideration of $283 million in stock and cash.
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Jetstream and HiTech Global Sign Distributorship Agreement (Thursday Jun. 21, 2007)
Under the agreement, HiTech Global will distribute Jetstream Media Technologies' entire family of security IP cores, including AES, AES/CCM, AES/GCM, XTS-AES, 3DES, Configurable Secure Hashing cores supporting MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512, a PKC accelerator for RSA, and additional multi-function cores.
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Arteris Completes $8.1M Series B Investment Round (Tuesday Jun. 19, 2007)
Synopsys Leads Investment Along with Existing Venture Firms: Crescendo, TVM Capital and Ventech. Synopsys' investment was driven by the desire of both companies to lower the cost and risk of designing complex system-on-a-chip (SoC) integrated circuits and to foster industry-wide IP reuse capability. The Arteris NoC supports a wide array of IP protocols including ARM® AMBA® 3 AXI(TM), ARM AMBA 2 AHB(TM) and OCP(TM) protocols, which can be used concurrently without modification.
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Chipidea Marks 10th Year Anniversary By Announcing World's First Analog Intellectual Property (IP) Foundry(TM) (Monday Jun. 18, 2007)
Recognizing the semiconductor industry's need for an open market approach to providing comprehensive analog intellectual property (IP) solutions, Chipidea®, the world leader in analog/mixed-signal subsystems and IP, today announced it has created the first Analog IP Foundry(TM) to help customers circumvent the challenges of analog and mixed-signal design.
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Synopsys Acquires ArchPro Design Automation (Monday Jun. 18, 2007)
ArchPro's Power Management Technologies to Enhance Synopsys' Low Power Design and Verification Solution
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ARC Acquires Tenison to Speed Time to Market of Customers' Complex SoC Designs; Establishes Cambridge Engineering Center (Friday Jun. 15, 2007)
New Products will Model and Simulate ARC Customers' Chips that Integrate ARC with Non-ARC Intellectual Property
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Industry Ships 25 Million XDR DRAM Memory Devices (Monday Jun. 11, 2007)
Rambus today announced that its customers have shipped over 25 million XDR DRAM (extreme data rate dynamic random access memory) devices worldwide
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Mentor Graphics Acquires Sierra Design Automation; Answers Industry Need for Design-to-Fab Flow for 65 and 45 Nanometers (Monday Jun. 11, 2007)
The company was purchased for $90 million, payable 50 percent in cash and 50 percent in Mentor Graphics common stock.
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Synplicity Announces Agreement to Acquire HARDI Electronics AB (Friday Jun. 01, 2007)
Synplicity today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of HARDI Electronics for $24.2 million in cash. The ASIC prototyping market is one the fastest growing segments of the EDA industry, and this acquisition makes Synplicity the leader in this part of the ASIC verification market.
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Rambus Receives Exception from Nasdaq Listing and Hearing Review Council (Thursday May. 31, 2007)
Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq: RMBS) today announced that the Nasdaq Listing and Hearing Review Council has granted the Company an exception, under Rule 4802(b), to demonstrate compliance with the Nasdaq Stock Market continued listing requirements, including the requirement that Rambus provide Nasdaq with reports filed with the SEC within the time periods required by SEC rules, until July 18, 2007.
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Commsonic pushes IP in China (Tuesday May. 29, 2007)
Following a nine-month engagement, IP developer, Commsonic, has successfully delivered broadcast modulator solutions to its first three Chinese customers. The solutions have been customised to meet the individual needs of each customer.
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On2 Technologies Announces Acquisition of Hantro Products, a Leader in Embedded Video Technology (Tuesday May. 22, 2007)
The acquisition is intended to accelerate the deployment of On2's technology on semiconductor chipsets that power mobile and embedded devices and to further On2's strategy for establishing a leadership position in the distribution and consumption of video on all three major device platforms used by consumers: PCs, mobile/portable devices and television.
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Rambus Receives NASDAQ Notice of Non-Compliance (Wednesday May. 16, 2007)
Rambus Receives NASDAQ Notice of Non-Compliance
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MIPS Technologies Receives Additional Notice from NASDAQ (Wednesday May. 16, 2007)
MIPS Technologies today announced that the company is in receipt of a Nasdaq Additional Staff Determination letter dated May 14, 2007, advising the company that it is not in compliance with the filing requirements for continued listing as set forth in Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(14)
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Cosmic Circuits and SINOSTAR partner for Analog IP in China (Friday May. 11, 2007)
Cosmic Circuits, a provider of best-in-class differentiated Analog and Mixed-Signal IP cores, today announced its partnership with SinoStar Technologies as a representative for Cosmic Circuits in Taiwan and Greater China.
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Wi-LAN Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Tri-Vision (Friday May. 11, 2007)
Under the agreement, Tri-Vision will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wi-LAN. The agreement provides for the payment of termination fees by Tri-Vision and Wi-LAN in certain circumstances. It is a condition of the completion of the transaction that Tri-Vision shall have acquired the V-chip patents, certain rights of which are currently licensed to Tri-Vision, from a company controlled by Tri-Vision Chairman, Tim Collings.
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Wi-LAN Acquires OFDM Patents from Bristol University (Friday May. 11, 2007)
The patents, which are related to radio receivers using OFDM technology, further extend Wi-LAN's portfolio coverage in Europe and Japan. Currently no other parties are licensed to these patents.
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ARM Java and Graphics Acceleration Technology Licenses to be Transferred to Sun Microsystems via Acquisition of SavaJE Technologies (Wednesday May. 09, 2007)
ARM announces that Sun Microsystems, a member of the ARM Connected Community, has licensed its Java and graphics acceleration as a part of Sun's recent acquisition of the assets of SavaJE Technologies. The planned acquisition further expands Sun's partnership with ARM and will enable the company to use ARM technology to deliver vertical solutions targeted for high-performance multimedia and converged devices.
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MOSAID and LSI Sign Exclusive Patent Licensing Agreement (Tuesday May. 08, 2007)
Effective immediately, MOSAID has the exclusive right to sub-license more than 50 LSI patents relating to memories, digital signal processors (DSPs), microprocessors, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and semiconductor processing technology.
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Wi-LAN Comments on Recent Market Activity (Wednesday May. 02, 2007)
Wi-LAN remains in discussions on a number of initiatives, including the acquisition of patents, although all such discussions remain preliminary at this time. Wi-LAN is also in negotiations with a number of companies which have expressed an interest in its Early License Program. Under the Program, Wi-LAN is offering patent licenses at reduced rates to those companies who conclude license agreements by July 31, 2007.
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First Quarter Global Chip Sales Grew by 3.2 Percent from 2006 (Monday Apr. 30, 2007)
Worldwide sales of semiconductors of $20.3 billion in March were 1.0 percent higher than the $20.1 billion reported for February, and 3.2 percent higher than the $19.7 billion reported for March 2006, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported today
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Hidden IP: booby trap or buried treasure? (Monday Apr. 30, 2007)
If the process by which technology standards are forged and implemented isn't broken, it is surely straining under the weight of globalization, relentless technological change, patent-infringement and antitrust lawsuits as well as increasingly noisy standards battles among competing industry consortia.
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Silicon Hive spins out from Philips; New Venture Partners leads $10 million investment round, joined by TVM Capital and Philips (Wednesday Apr. 25, 2007)
The investment enables Silicon Hive B.V. to implement its ambitious growth plans by scaling its commercial operations worldwide, and allowing further investments into new product development. As an independent semiconductor IP supplier, Silicon Hive has the freedom to license to the entire electronics industry. The new company will have offices in Eindhoven (The Netherlands), Silicon Valley (United States), Seoul (Korea) and Bangalore (India).
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DSP Chip Market Is Forecast to Grow a Moderate 8% In 2007, According To New Forward Concepts Study (Tuesday Apr. 24, 2007)
The market for general-purpose digital signal processor (DSP) chips is forecast to grow 8% in 2007 to the $9 billion level according to a new market study from Forward Concepts, here. That growth is in contrast to the lackluster overall integrated circuit growth of 3.5% predicted for 2007.