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Japan's SoC effort dissolved (Friday Oct. 28, 2005)
Japan's 90-nm joint R&D research company, Advanced SoC Platform Corp. (Aspla), closed up shop and was quietly dissolved on Oct. 7.
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ARM Drives Momentum In Microcontrollers With Keil Acquisition (Friday Oct. 28, 2005)
ARM today announced it has acquired Keil, a leading independent provider of software development tools for the microcontroller (MCU) market
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Assertain success boosts investors' interest in TransEDA Assertion-Based Verification strategy (Wednesday Oct. 26, 2005)
This new funding brings investment in the company’s coverage and formal technologies to over $18M and demonstrates investors’ trust in TransEDA’s strategy of focusing on measuring the completeness of Assertion Based Verification flows
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Microbridge Technologies announces its Sales Team (Tuesday Oct. 25, 2005)
Tom Riedl, Vice President Sales and Marketing - Viren Gandhi, Director of Sales - Tim Warland, Sr. Applications Engineer
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ATEME opens a Japanese office (Monday Oct. 24, 2005)
ATEME Japan office will increase efficiency by providing local customer support and enabling the expansion of sales activities. Four new partners are expected to strengthen the distribution network before the end of the year
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Saifun Semiconductors Ltd. Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering (Friday Oct. 21, 2005)
Saifun Semiconductors Ltd. announced today that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of 5,000,000 of its ordinary shares
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Saifun filing shows IP business model success (Friday Oct. 21, 2005)
The company is already ahead of ARM Holdings plc in achieving net incomes in excess of 50 percent of revenues and looks set to join ARM as a leading light of the intellectual property based company rankings.
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Freescale exec says central design pays dividends (Friday Oct. 21, 2005)
Changes in Freescale Semiconductor's approach to chip design, including centralization of methodologies and tools and the appointment of a renowned design manager, are contributing to improvements in the company's bottom line, according to Sumit Sadana, s
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IP startup, On Demand Microelectronics, seeks $20 million to go fabless (Monday Oct. 17, 2005)
Intellectual-property licensing company On Demand Microelectronics GmbH is seeking venture capital investment to help it transform itself into fabless chip company, a business model for which it believes the financial returns on its efforts will be higher
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ST Plans Chip Manufacturing In India, Says Report (Wednesday Oct. 12, 2005)
European chipmaker STMicrolectronics is planning a fully-fledged chip manufacturing facility in Greater Noida near New Delhi and has put down about $35 million to acquire a 25-acre plot of land to house the facility, according to a report on Wednesday (Oc
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Emerging Chip Interconnections Poised For Growth (Wednesday Oct. 12, 2005)
Three emerging chip-to-chip interconnections: HyperTransport, PCI Express, and RapidIO are being increasingly integrated into semiconductors and systems, and shipments bearing these technologies will grow over the next several years, reports In-Stat
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Global IP Sound Announces Major Inroads in the Voice-over-IP (VoIP) Hardware Market (Wednesday Oct. 12, 2005)
Solid Market Share and Proven Performance with VoIP Applications and ISPs Results in Rapid Adoption of GIPS Solutions in VoIP-Enabled Hardware
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MOSAID Acquires Virtual Silicon (Tuesday Oct. 11, 2005)
Under the terms of the definitive agreement, MOSAID has acquired Virtual Silicon for the purchase price of US$5.35 million
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Jennic opens third international sales office and appoints John Morris as vice president - Americas (Monday Oct. 10, 2005)
Jennic has appointed John Morris as vice president of it Americas operation, with the opening of its new office based in San Diego, CA
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eASIC Secured $17M Funding from New Investors Crescendo and Evergreen and from Existing Investors KPCB and Vinod Khosla (Thursday Oct. 06, 2005)
Crescendo and Evergreen have joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Vinod Khosla in supporting eASIC’s innovative Programmable ASIC products
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Oxford Semiconductor Acquires TransDimension; Acquisition Expands Portfolio of Connectivity Products Addressing High-Growth Markets (Wednesday Oct. 05, 2005)
Oxford Semiconductor Inc. today announced its acquisition of TransDimension Inc. a leading provider of USB connectivity solutions for embedded applications
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Kilopass Technology Inc. Closes Second Round of Venture Capital Funding (Tuesday Oct. 04, 2005)
U.S. Venture Partners Joins Prior Investors BlueRun Ventures, iGlobe Partners
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TI's Templeton dismisses alliances with other chip vendors (Wednesday Sep. 28, 2005)
Texas Instruments Inc.'s boss is betting the company's future on the strength of its advanced CMOS process technology and analog expertise rather than seeking alliances with other chip vendors
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Indian startup, Cosmic Circuits, ventures into analog IP (Tuesday Sep. 27, 2005)
In an unusual move for an Indian high-tech venture, Cosmic Circuits, a six month-old startup here, has ventured into developing analog circuits as intellectual property (IP)
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VOCAL, Ltd. Teams with SOC Technology GmbH & Co. KG for Production of VoIP Speaker Phone (Monday Sep. 19, 2005)
Fully-functional phone will feature BORSCHT, low-cost design
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2006 Signals Start of Next Growth Cycle (Semico Research) (Friday Sep. 16, 2005)
The upturn in the IPI began in May, when the IPI rose 4.6%
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Gov'T of Canada Invests $7M In Tundra Semiconductor to Develop Next-Generation RapidIO Technology (Thursday Sep. 15, 2005)
Tundra To Expand Portfolio of RapidIO System Interconnect Products
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Cypress Inaugurates Design Center in China (Wednesday Sep. 14, 2005)
New Center Will Leverage Local Talent to Design Products for Region
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TES Electronic Solutions announces acquisition of Purple Vision (Tuesday Sep. 13, 2005)
Purple Vision has a strong presence and customer base in India, Japan, and the US
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Arithmatica Expands Global Sales Network to Europe to Meet Demand for Efficient Silicon Math in Consumer Electronics ICs (Tuesday Sep. 13, 2005)
Ben Franklin LLC in Germany becomes Arithmatica representative
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In China IP issues still loom large (Monday Sep. 12, 2005)
The intellectual property issue cuts a wide swath across Chinese industry and hangs like a cloud over the music, film and entertainment industries as well as the electronics and IT and communications sectors
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iSuppli Trims 2005 Semiconductor Forecast (Thursday Sep. 08, 2005)
iSuppli now predicts that global semiconductor sales will rise to $232.7 billion in 2005, up 2.4 percent from $227.2 billion in 2004
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NemeriX S.A. receives EUR 25m in record Series-B financing (Thursday Sep. 08, 2005)
Cadence Design Systems and Oak Investment Partners joined as new investors
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Faraday and SafeNet Form Strategic Marketing Partnership in Security Processor Market (Wednesday Sep. 07, 2005)
Joint Promotion and Referral program the First of Multiple Initiatives to Expand Respective Businesses
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MIPS Technologies and Virage Logic Expand Alliance to Provide SoC Designers with Convenience of a Single License for MIPS® 32-Bit Cores and Virage Logic IP (Tuesday Sep. 06, 2005)
Together with Virage Logic’s Area, Speed and Power (ASAP) Memory™ and ASAP Logic™ semiconductor IP, the MIPS32® 4KEc® hard core offers an easy, cost-effective, low-risk design path for startups, fabless semiconductor companies, and system OEMs to rapidly