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Microbridge Completes $5 Million Extension Round of Funding From an International Syndicate of Investors, Raises $12.5 Million to Date (Tuesday Feb. 13, 2007)
Microbridge, the leading manufacturer and licensor of next step electronic calibration products and solutions, announced it closed a planned extension of its Series B equity financing, raising an additional US$5 million in venture capital and US$12.5 million to date.
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Five Billionth ARM Processor for Mobile Devices (Monday Feb. 12, 2007)
More than 90 percent of all mobile handsets shipped today contain ARM processors and are supported by a strong network of ARM Connected Community Partners.
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Saifun Board of Directors Authorizes the Repurchase of Up to 1.5 Million of Saifun Ordinary Shares (Friday Feb. 09, 2007)
Such repurchases will be made using the Company's own cash resources. As of December 31, 2006, the Company had cash and cash equivalents, short term investments and marketable securities of approximately $231 million and 31.5 million shares outstanding
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Rambus Receives Stay from NASDAQ for Continued Listing (Thursday Feb. 08, 2007)
Rambus Inc. today announced that, on February 6, 2007, The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. notified the Company that its common stock will continue to be listed on The NASDAQ Global Select Market pending a stay and a review by the NASDAQ Listing and Hearing Review Council of an earlier decision of the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel, dated January 19, 2007.
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India’s IC Design Services Industry Growing At Over 20% A Year According to In-Stat (Tuesday Feb. 06, 2007)
Cost advantages and availability of skilled manpower have compelled integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) to either outsource part of their design activities to third-party design firms in India, or set up their own captive centers in the country, the high-tech market research firm says.
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Silicon Image Agrees to License Advanced Digital TV System-on-a-Chip Intellectual Property From Sunplus (Tuesday Feb. 06, 2007)
By strengthening Silicon Image's portfolio of intellectual property and its engineering workforce, the sci-worx and Sunplus transactions are expected to enhance and accelerate Silicon Image's ability to provide top-tier consumer electronics customers with a full line of integrated circuits, ranging from industry-leading discrete High-Definition Multimedia Interface(TM) (HDMI(TM)) chips, new integrated front-end TV input processors and fully-integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC) DTV products that advance a new architecture for premium HD content access throughout the home and mobile environment.
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Transmeta Corporation Streamlines Operations to Focus on Core Business of IP Licensing (Monday Feb. 05, 2007)
On Friday, February 2, 2007, Transmeta began the initial phase of its re-alignment by decreasing its worldwide workforce by approximately 39 percent, or 75 employees, most of whom worked in the Company's engineering services business. The Company also took the initial steps to close its sales and support offices in Taiwan and Japan.
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Faraday Announces SoC Alliance with Palmchip Design Services (Monday Feb. 05, 2007)
System houses and chip manufacturers can thus leverage Palmchip design services to realize complex SoC designs for high volume manufacturing by Faraday Technology Corporation.
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Faraday Expands Commitment to ARM with V5TEJ and 926EJS Licenses (Thursday Feb. 01, 2007)
Faraday expects its products based on the ARM926EJ-S processor for 0.13um HS and 90nm at its primary foundry, UMC, to be available in Q2 and Q3 2007 respectively. Faraday's own proprietary implementation of the ARMv5TEJ instruction set, the FA626TE CPU cores, will also be available in Q3 2007
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CEVA Reports Record Unit Shipments of CEVA-Powered Chipsets in 2006 (Wednesday Jan. 31, 2007)
CEVA today announced that CEVA IP was shipped in over 190 million customer chipsets in 2006, representing a 45% increase on 131 million units shipped in 2005.
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OKI, Faraday Technology, and UMC/UMCJ Partner to Deliver 90 nm and Below Design-to-Manufacture Services for consumer market (Monday Jan. 29, 2007)
The three-way partnership will allow customers to leverage the synergies of Faraday's extensive IP selection, Oki's front-end design expertise, and pervasive sales channels, and UMC/UMCJ's manufacturing excellence.
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Beceem and Elliptic collaborate on WiMAX security (Monday Jan. 29, 2007)
Beceem Communications, the leading supplier of chipsets for the Mobile WiMAX terminal market and Elliptic, the leading supplier of security IP products, will extend their collaboration on WiMAX security.
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ST decides to import CMOS, change Crolles function (Thursday Jan. 25, 2007)
Carlo Bozotti, chief executive officer of STMicroelectronics NV, told analysts Wednesday (Jan. 24) that ST would align with ''industry leaders'' to obtain a 32-nm CMOS process for use in its wafer fabs and as a platform for specialized extensions.
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VeriSilicon and Chips&Media Announce a Strategic Partnership to Provide Advanced Multimedia Solutions for Consumer Devices (Tuesday Jan. 23, 2007)
Under the terms of the partnership, VeriSilicon will add Chips&Media video offering to its IP and ASIC platform portfolio, while Chips&Media will add ZSP(R) to its silicon offerings.
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Silistix Raises Additional $6M in a Final Series A Closing (Monday Jan. 15, 2007)
Oversubscribed Round Demonstrates Investor Confidence in Company's Self-Timed Interconnect Technology
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ADTechnology and videantis join their SoC competence in the fast-growing Korean video electronics market (Thursday Jan. 11, 2007)
ADTechnology synergises its competence in System on Chip integration for high quality multimedia products by a partnership with videantis, a leading video IP and software provider for mobile, home entertainment and multimedia applications.
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PLDA Continues North American Expansion with Launch of Austin Design Center (Wednesday Jan. 10, 2007)
Establishment of the Austin Design Center (or ADC) is the next step in PLDA’s strategy to enhance the company’s technical and executive presence in the North American market. The move follows the announcement last year of the relocation of PLDA cofounder and CTO Stephane Hauradou to San Jose, and the hiring of industry veteran Callan Carpenter as the VP of Business Development and North American Operations
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Silicon Hive Opens Offices in Bangalore India (Tuesday Jan. 09, 2007)
New office in Bangalore India spearheads efforts to expand global application software partnerships and provide local support to multi-national customers operating in and near the India Subcontinent theatre.
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Discretix Announces $20 Million Third Round Funding; Sequoia Capital Becomes Newest Discretix Investor (Monday Jan. 08, 2007)
Additional Funds will Take Embedded Security Solutions Leader into New and Direct Opportunities with Mobile Content Providers
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CDT Acquires Assets of Next Sierra, a P-OLED/OLED Display Driver Chip Design House (Monday Jan. 08, 2007)
Acquisition Will Accelerate CDT's Development of Total Matrix Addressing Chip
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Virage Logic Updates First-Quarter Outlook and Announces Executive Management Changes (Friday Jan. 05, 2007)
Adam Kablanian Resigns as President and CEO, Becomes Chairman of the Board; Dan McCranie Appointed President and CEO
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Silicon Image Acquires sci-worx, Strengthening its IP Portfolio, Engineering Resources and System-on-a-chip Design Capabilities (Friday Jan. 05, 2007)
Silicon Image paid approximately $13.5 million for sci-worx (including sci-worx’ net debt) in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition of sci-worx is expected to enhance and accelerate the expansion of Silicon Image’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) design capabilities for the storage, distribution and presentation of high-definition (HD) content in the consumer environment
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SinoStar and videantis sign sales distributor agreement (Thursday Jan. 04, 2007)
All videantis cores come with a wide choice of standard multimedia compression schemes, e.g., H.264/AVC, WMV9/VC-1, MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile & Simple Profile, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, H.263, M-JPEG, and video preprocessing and video post-processing.
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Outstanding Stock Options of Former Rambus CEO Terminated (Thursday Jan. 04, 2007)
Mr. Tate resigned from the Board of Directors on August 13, 2006, and thus his options would have expired by their terms on November 13, 2006. Prior to the expiration of the options, Mr. Tate and Rambus entered into an agreement to conditionally extend the exercise period of the options, subject to fulfillment by Mr. Tate of certain obligations.
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Faraday and Sidense Announce Joint Marketing Agreement; Faraday chooses Sidense as preferred Logic NVM supplier (Wednesday Jan. 03, 2007)
Under the agreement, Faraday will promote and embed Sidense's Logic NVM products including SiFUSE, a fuse replacement product and SiPROM, a high density, field programmable ROM, as part of their memory IP offering.
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Chipidea Secures 5M Euros in Series C Funding (Tuesday Jan. 02, 2007)
Chipidea plans to use the proceeds of this financing to further expand its business and pursue targeted strategic acquisitions to strengthen its worldwide R&D capabilities.
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EVE Acquires Tharas Systems Inc. (Tuesday Jan. 02, 2007)
The acquisition is driven to strengthen and expand EVE's position in the hardware-assisted verification market from leading supplier of extremely fast emulation/prototyping solutions to provider of best-in-class accelerators.
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Wi-LAN Completes Closing of $30 Million Bought Deal Financing (Friday Dec. 29, 2006)
Wi-LAN Inc. announced today that it has completed the previously announced sale of 6,666,700 common shares of the Company
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L&T Infotech Acquires GDA Technologies (Wednesday Dec. 13, 2006)
Larsen & Toubro Infotech today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire GDA Technologies, Inc., and all of its design centers in US and India.
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Innovative Introduces Breakthrough Pricing Model for Mixed Signal IP (Tuesday Dec. 12, 2006)
Flexible Model Allows Designers to Evaluate IP Cores Prior to Making a Full Licensing Commitment