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Rambus and TES Electronic Solutions Sign Joint Marketing Agreement (Tuesday Apr. 17, 2007)
The partnership expands the customer support for Rambus intellectual property (IP) through TES' extensive network of worldwide design centers. Under the agreement, TES will market and integrate Rambus IP products as part of its IC and system designs.
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Cosmic Circuits announces tie-up with SUPERTEC of Israel (Monday Apr. 16, 2007)
Cosmic Circuits engages with customers world-wide and this partnership helps increase its WW presence into Israel, through Supertec Electronics as its representative.
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LogicVision Receives Letter from Nasdaq Regarding Noncompliance with Minimum Bid Price Rule (Friday Apr. 13, 2007)
Nasdaq stated in its letter that, in accordance with the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules, LogicVision will be provided 180 calendar days, or until October 9, 2007, to regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Rule. This notification has no effect on the listing of the Company's common stock at this time.
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Vector Capital Completes Acquisition of SafeNet, Inc. (Thursday Apr. 12, 2007)
Vector Capital today announced that it has completed the acquisition of SafeNet in a transaction valued at approximately $634 million. The two-step acquisition consisted of a tender offer by Stealth Acquisition Corp., an affiliate of Vector, for all outstanding shares of SafeNet, Inc. into which more than 83% of the outstanding common shares of the Company were tendered and not withdrawn, followed by a merger of Stealth Acquisition Corp. with and into SafeNet.
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Gartner's Final Semiconductor Market Share Results Show Industry Grew 10 Percent in 2006 (Thursday Apr. 05, 2007)
Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $262.7 billion in 2006, a 10.2 percent increase from 2005 revenue of $238.3 billion, according to final results by Gartner, Inc. Strong DRAM and Wireless Communications Sales Offset Slowing PC Processor Revenue
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ARC Acquires Teja Technologies To Create Software Platforms and Development Environments For the VRaptor Multicore Architecture (Monday Apr. 02, 2007)
ARC International today announced that it has acquired the key assets of Teja Technologies. The acquisition includes Teja's software products, key customer contracts, its engineering team, and patents for Teja's award-winning technology.
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ARC Announces Strategic Organizational Changes: Appoints Meyer to COO, Establishes ''Office of the CTO'' (Monday Apr. 02, 2007)
Derek Meyer has been appointed to Chief Operating Officer. Formerly Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Meyer’s new role expands to include worldwide engineering activities as well as ARC’s technology initiatives. Executives reporting to Meyer include Paul Holt, who assumes the newly created role of Vice President of Product Development and Services, and David Doyle who will take the role of Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations.
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Altera to Initiate a Dividend and Repurchase Additional Shares (Thursday Mar. 29, 2007)
Altera today announced that its board of directors has authorized a common stock dividend and an increase in the number of shares that may be repurchased under the company’s ongoing share repurchase program.
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MOSAID Completes Sale of Memory Test Assets to Teradyne (Wednesday Mar. 28, 2007)
MOSAID Technologies Incorporated today announced that the Company has concluded the sale of certain assets of its Systems Division's automatic test equipment (ATE) business to Teradyne, Inc. for $20 million in cash.
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Silicon and Software Systems (S3) to invest €9 Million in R&D with support from Enterprise Ireland (Wednesday Mar. 28, 2007)
The investment will be used for Research and Development of advanced technologies used for Set-Top Boxes, Personal Video Recorders, High Definition Television, TV on Mobile, and Silicon Chip Design. The company is also to create 20 new high-value R&D roles at their facilities in Dublin and Cork.
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Wi-LAN and Tri-Vision Announce Merger (Tuesday Mar. 27, 2007)
On a fully-diluted basis, the Transaction values Tri-Vision at approximately $108 million.
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Intel To Build 300mm Wafer Fabrication Facility In China (Monday Mar. 26, 2007)
Intel Corporation today announced plans to build a 300-millimeter (mm) wafer fabrication facility (fab) in the coastal Northeast China city of Dalian in Liaoning Province. The $2.5 billion investment for the factory designated Fab 68 will become Intel's first wafer fab in Asia and adds significant investment to Intel's existing operations in China.
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Federal Trade Commission Grants Partial Stay in Rambus Case (Tuesday Mar. 20, 2007)
Commission clarifies remedy does not limit royalties on SDRAM or DDR SDRAM arising from use prior to the order, nor require refund of royalties already paid
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MPEG LA Issues VC-1 Patent Portfolio License (Thursday Mar. 15, 2007)
As a convenience to the marketplace, the VC-1 Patent Portfolio License offers fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to essential VC-1 intellectual property owned by multiple patent holders in a single license as an alternative to negotiating separate licenses.
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CAST Partners with S2C for IP Distribution in China (Thursday Mar. 15, 2007)
S2C will provide CAST customers in China with a secure evaluation platform for IP reference designs using S2C's innovative FPGA-based ESL products. The CAST H.264 encoder core reference design is already available on the S2C TAI Logic Module(TM), a scalable rapid FPGA prototyping module. S2C plans to make more CAST IP available in the future.
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MIPS Technologies Granted Stay to Remain Listed on Nasdaq (Thursday Mar. 15, 2007)
MIPS Technologies Granted Stay to Remain Listed on Nasdaq
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Wi-LAN Closes $40 Million Bought Deal Financing (Tuesday Mar. 13, 2007)
The shares were issued on a bought deal basis, at a price of $7.00 per common share, for gross proceeds of $40,000,100.
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Cosmic Circuits announces tie-up with MA-Plus of Japan (Tuesday Mar. 13, 2007)
Cosmic Circuits, a provider of best-in-class differentiated Analog and Mixed-Signal IP cores, today announced its partnership with MA Plus, as a representative for Cosmic Circuits in Japan.
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EtherWaves Acquires Sonarics Labs' Digital Radio Technology (Monday Mar. 12, 2007)
EtherWaves today announced that it has completed the acquisition of all the assets of Sonarics Labs, a company specializing in Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB)/Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) technology. EtherWaves develops and licenses Digital Radio and Mobile TV Intellectual Property (IP), targeting the Automotive and the System-On-Chip (SoC) markets.
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Rambus Receives NASDAQ Notice of Non-Compliance (Friday Mar. 09, 2007)
Rambus Receives NASDAQ Notice of Non-Compliance
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Impinj Raises $19 Million in Private Funding Round; Prepares for Increased Demand for Item-level RFID Technology (Wednesday Mar. 07, 2007)
The new financing brings Impinj’s total venture and strategic investment to $98 million and will be used to escalate product development and delivery of the GrandPrix™ UHF item-level RFID solution comprising Speedway™ readers, tags powered by Monza™ chips, and application-specific near-field reader antennas.
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SafeNet to be Acquired by Private Equity Firm Vector Capital for $634 Million (Tuesday Mar. 06, 2007)
SafeNet today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an investor group led by Vector Capital in a transaction valued at approximately $634 million
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Virage Logic Expands in China with Distributor Relationships (Monday Mar. 05, 2007)
Expansion to Better Service Existing Customers and Meet the Increasing Demands of China's Rapidly Growing Fabless Semiconductor Market
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Imagination Technologies Opens Development Centre in Pune, India (Friday Mar. 02, 2007)
Imagination Technologies Group plc – a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property announces the opening of its first development centre outside the UK
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Over 200 Million SoCs Now in Production Using Sonics SMART Interconnect Solutions (Thursday Mar. 01, 2007)
Semiconductor Suppliers and OEMs Fuel Accelerated Growth
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MOSAID Wins Competitive Bid for Essential WiFi and WiMAX Patents from Agere Systems (Friday Feb. 23, 2007)
MOSAID will pay Agere US$25 million during MOSAID's fiscal 2007 fourth quarter, US$5 million in the fiscal 2008 fourth quarter, and eight subsequent annual payments of US$5 million, creditable against Agere's 20% of royalty revenues earned under a revenue sharing formula. The portfolio includes patents that are essential to the 802.11 family of WLAN (or WiFi) standards, and the 802.16 family of WiMAX standards.
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MOSAID to Sell Memory Test Assets to Teradyne; Focused on Intellectual Property (Friday Feb. 23, 2007)
Teradyne is purchasing the assets and intellectual property associated with a MOSAID high performance tester platform. Teradyne will also receive an exclusive license to certain patented and non-patented intellectual property associated with MOSAID's current ATE product lines, and a non-exclusive patent license for Teradyne's ATE products.
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Wi-LAN Announces $40 Million Bought Deal Financing (Wednesday Feb. 21, 2007)
The net proceeds from the offering will be used to fund acquisitions of patent portfolios identified as strategic to the Company’s business and for working capital and general corporate purposes.
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CoFluent Design closes $2.6 million in its first round of funding (Monday Feb. 19, 2007)
Funds Will Be Used To Expand Marketing and Sales, Boost Research and Development, and Deliver Advanced Architecture Exploration and Performance Analysis Solutions to Customers Worldwide
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Chipidea to Acquire Data Converter Business Unit from Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Thursday Feb. 15, 2007)
Nordic Semiconductor and Chipidea today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Chipidea to acquire the assets of Nordic Semiconductor's Data Converter IP Business Unit for $6 million in cash.