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Dolphin Design, a leader in Edge Computing and AI platforms for the Internet of Things (IoT), is expanding into Asia and opens a processing center in Singapore (Wednesday Jan. 05, 2022)
Dolphin Design, a company specialized in advanced chip design, will open its new dedicated Edge Computing and AI branch in Singapore at Pasir Ris where the France-based semiconductor company Soitec operates a fab.
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AMD and Xilinx Provide Update Regarding Expected Timing of Acquisition Close (Friday Dec. 31, 2021)
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today released the following statement related to the status of global regulatory approvals for AMD’s proposed acquisition of Xilinx.
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Kneron Announces $25 Million Funding To Advance Smart City Technology For Auto (Wednesday Dec. 22, 2021)
Kneron, the San Diego-based full-stack AI company, today announces new funding of $25 million. The world-leading provider of smart life solutions, LITEON Technology, is investing as a strategic partner.
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Renesas Completes Acquisition of Celeno (Tuesday Dec. 21, 2021)
Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the successful completion of acquisition of Celeno Communications (“Celeno”), the leading provider of smart, innovative Wi-Fi solutions, as of December 20, 2021.
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Creonic GmbH is Heavily Invested in the Expansion and Research of 6G Technologies (Monday Dec. 20, 2021)
Creonic GmbH recently joined the 6GKom Industry Advisory Board, along with Airbus, Ericsson, and Vodafone. 6G KOM is the first R&D project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to develop D-band frontend modules and new baseband architectures as well as to investigate novel localization concepts for 6G.
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SiPearl awarded a €17.5M funding from the EIC Accelerator program (Monday Dec. 20, 2021)
SiPearl has been awarded a €2.5 M grant and up to €15M in equity investments from the European Commission EIC Accelerator program.
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Kandou Closes $75 Million in Series D Funding (Friday Dec. 17, 2021)
Kandou, an innovative leader in high-speed, energy-efficient, chip link solutions, today closed its Series D round of funding, resulting in $75 million raised in the round.
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Synopsys Initiates $200 Million Accelerated Share Repurchase Agreement (Thursday Dec. 16, 2021)
Synopsys, Inc. today announced that it has entered into an accelerated share repurchase agreement (ASR) with HSBC Bank USA, National Association to repurchase an aggregate of $200 million of Synopsys stock.
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Secure Thingz and Intrinsic ID Partner to Ensure Supply Chains of Trust for the Embedded Industry (Thursday Dec. 16, 2021)
Secure Thingz, an IAR Systems® Group company delivering advanced development and provisioning platforms to secure the IoT, today announced their partnership with Intrinsic ID, the leading provider of Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) security IP.
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SEMIFIVE Acquires Hanatec (Tuesday Dec. 14, 2021)
SEMIFIVE, a leading design solution provider and pioneer of platform-based custom silicon solutions, today announced it has acquired Hanatec Co. Ltd., an official Samsung Foundry Design Solution Partner (DSP) and leading provider of ASIC design services.
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Silex Insight to divest their video business to Audinate (Monday Dec. 13, 2021)
Silex Insight, a leading provider for flexible security IP cores, is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement to divest its video business to Audinate Group Limited (ASX:AD8), based in Australia.
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Expedera Raises $18M Series A Funding to Advance Its Deep Learning Accelerator IP (Thursday Dec. 09, 2021)
Expedera Inc. today announced a $18 million Series A funding round led by Dr. Sehat Sutardja and Weili Dai (founders of Marvell Technology Group) and other prominent semiconductor industry investors.
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proteanTecs Expands into Mobile and Boosts Management to Accommodate Growth (Thursday Dec. 09, 2021)
proteanTecs, a leading developer of deep data solutions for electronics health and performance monitoring, announced today it has expanded its penetration in the mobile and consumer electronics space with customer deployments underway.
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Intel Announces Intent to Take Mobileye Public (Thursday Dec. 09, 2021)
With the full support of Intel’s board of directors, Intel today announced its intention to take Mobileye public in the United States in mid-2022 via an initial public offering (IPO) of newly issued Mobileye stock.
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FTC Sues to Block $40 Billion Semiconductor Chip Merger (Friday Dec. 03, 2021)
The Federal Trade Commission today sued to block U.S. chip supplier Nvidia Corp.’s $40 billion acquisition of U.K. chip design provider Arm Ltd. Semiconductor chips power the computers and technologies that are essential to our modern economy and society.
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Alphawave IP: Acquisition of Precise-ITC and completion of major milestones for China Product Partnership (Thursday Dec. 02, 2021)
Alphawave IP (LN:AWE), a global leader in high-speed connectivity for the world’s technology infrastructure is pleased to announce the acquisition of Precise-ITC and the completion of significant milestones for the China Product Partnership (“CPP”).
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Key ASIC Signed LOI to Acquire Wafer FAB in The US (Tuesday Nov. 30, 2021)
Key ASIC Berhad announced today that it has issued a Letter of Intent (LOI) to a US foundry to acquire up to 100% of its shares and the said company has accepted the LOI. The foundry is a fab with Silicon Carbide (SiC) and developing Gallium Nitrite (GaN) technologies.
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Lattice Acquires Mirametrix (Monday Nov. 15, 2021)
Lattice Semiconductor today announced it has acquired Mirametrix, Inc., a software company focused on advanced artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for computer vision applications, in an all-cash, accretive transaction.
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Net Insight teams up with intoPIX to develop next-generation JPEG XS compliant solutions (Friday Nov. 12, 2021)
Net Insight announces its partnership with intoPIX, the leading provider of innovative compression technology, to develop cutting-edge JPEG XS compliant solutions. intoPIX TICO-XS is fully compliant with the new JPEG XS standard and delivers pristine image quality and imperceptible latency within a highly portable software application framework.
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Cerebras Systems Raises $250M in Funding for Over $4B Valuation to Advance the Future of Artificial Intelligence Compute (Thursday Nov. 11, 2021)
Cerebras Systems, the pioneer in accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) compute, today announced it has raised $250 million in a Series F financing round, valuing the company at over $4 billion.
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Weebit undertakes capital raising to support accelerated growth; introduces major Israeli institutional investors onto the register (Wednesday Nov. 10, 2021)
Weebit Nano Limited (ASX:WBT) is pleased to announce a capital raising comprising a placement of approximately A$25.7 million to 4 Israel-based institutional investment and pension funds, and a pro rata non-renounceable entitlement offer to raise up to approximately A$9.0 million (before costs) if fully subscribed.
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Flex Logix Accelerates Growth With New Office In Austin; Prepares For Global Expansion Of Its Edge AI Inference Product Line (Tuesday Nov. 09, 2021)
Flex Logix® Technologies, Inc., supplier of the most-efficient AI edge inference accelerator and the leading supplier of eFPGA IP, today announced the official opening of its Austin office located just off Loop 360.
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sureCore-led consortium wins £6.5M Innovate UK grant to develop cryogenic CMOS IP to accelerate Quantum Computing scalability (Friday Nov. 05, 2021)
Innovate UK has awarded a grant of £6.5 million to a seven-member consortium led by sureCore with a remit to jointly develop advanced cryogenic semiconductor IP. This will dramatically accelerate the growth of the Quantum Computing (QC) industry by reducing the constrains associated with interconnects thus enabling efficient qubit/system scaling.
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Codasip Expands Ecosystem with XtremeEDA (Thursday Nov. 04, 2021)
Codasip, the leading supplier of customizable RISC-V processor IP, today announced that it has signed XtremeEDA - a Design and Functional Verification services to the ASIC, SoC, and FPGA hardware industry - as a Codasip Certified Design Services Company.
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IBM and NeuReality team up to build the next generation of AI inference platforms (Tuesday Nov. 02, 2021)
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NeuReality, an Israeli AI systems and semiconductor company, have signed an agreement to develop the next generation of high-performance AI inference platforms that will deliver disruptive cost and power consumption improvements for deep learning use cases.
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Synopsys Acquires AI-Powered, Real-Time Performance Optimization Leader Concertio (Tuesday Nov. 02, 2021)
To enrich its silicon lifecycle management solution with real-time, in-field optimization technologies, Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) today announced that it has acquired Concertio Inc., the leading provider of AI-powered performance optimization software.
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GlobalFoundries Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering (Tuesday Nov. 02, 2021)
GlobalFoundries® (Nasdaq: GFS) (GF®), a global leader in feature-rich semiconductor manufacturing, today announced the closing of its initial public offering of 55,000,000 ordinary shares, 30,250,000 of which were offered by GF and 24,750,000 of which were offered by GF’s existing shareholder, Mubadala Investment Company PJSC, at an initial public offering price of $47.00 per share.
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Andes Technology Issues GDR to Be Listed on Luxembourg Stock Exchange for Expansion Plan (Monday Nov. 01, 2021)
Andes Technology (TWSE: 6533; SIN: US03420C2089; ISIN: US03420C1099), a leading RISC-V CPU IP supplier, announced today that it successfully issued its overseas depositary receipts (GDR) on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange on September 13.
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SiPearl: collaboration with Intel to accelerate exascale supercomputing deployment in Europe (Thursday Oct. 28, 2021)
SiPearl, the company designing the microprocessor for European supercomputers, collaborates with Intel to accelerate exascale supercomputing deployment in Europe. The two partners will give European customers the opportunity to combine SiPearl’s CPU Rhea with Intel’s GPU Ponte Vecchio obtaining a high-performance heterogeneous HPC compute node. To enable this combination, SiPearl will use the open unified software stack, oneAPI.
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Rapid Silicon Announces Seed Funding of $15M (Thursday Oct. 28, 2021)
Rapid Silicon, a provider of AI-enabled application-specific FPGAs based on open-source technology, today announced $15 million in seed funding led by ChengWei Capital and Cambium Capital.