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Everspin Technologies and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Extend MRAM Joint Development Agreement to 12nm (Thursday Mar. 12, 2020)
Everspin Technologies today announced an amendment of it’s Spin-transfer Torque (STT-MRAM) joint development agreement (JDA) with GLOBALFOUNDRIES® (GF®), the world’s leading specialty foundry.
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AI Chipmaker Hailo Raises $60 Million in Series B Funding (Monday Mar. 09, 2020)
Hailo, the leading AI chipmaker delivering unprecedented performance to edge devices, today announced it has raised $60 million in Series B funding.
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Tessolve strengthens its VLSI Design services with the acquisition of T&VS (Thursday Mar. 05, 2020)
Tessolve consolidated its position as a leading multinational engineering solution provider with the acquisition of Test & Verification Solutions (T&VS). Tessolve, a part of the Hero Electronics group will now be in a better position to provide full turnkey VLSI design services from RTL to GDSII.
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Mellanox to Acquire World Leading Network Intelligence Technology Developer Titan IC to Strengthen Leadership in Security and Data Analytics (Wednesday Mar. 04, 2020)
Mellanox today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Titan IC, the leading developer of network intelligence (NI) and security technology to accelerate search and big data analytics across a broad range of applications in data centers worldwide.
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Graphcore secures additional $150 million in new capital Reports Fiscal 2019 business highlights (Thursday Feb. 27, 2020)
Graphcore has secured an additional $150 million in new capital to secure its position as the leading pure-play machine intelligence AI processor company.
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Synopsys Initiates $100 Million Accelerated Share Repurchase Agreement (Thursday Feb. 27, 2020)
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that it has entered into an accelerated share repurchase agreement (ASR) with JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association to repurchase an aggregate of $100 million of Synopsys stock.
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SambNova Systems Announces $250 Million Series C as it Continues to Set a New Course for the Future of Enterprise Computing (Tuesday Feb. 25, 2020)
SambaNova Systems, the company building the industry’s most advanced systems platform to run artificial intelligence (AI) and data-intensive applications from the datacenter to the edge, announced today a $250 million Series C funding round to further accelerate the software capabilities of SambaNova’s next-generation computing platform.
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NXP Announces Lead Partnership for Arm Ethos-U55 Neural Processing Unit for Machine Learning (Monday Feb. 24, 2020)
NXP Semiconductors today announced its lead partnership for the Arm® Ethos™-U55 microNPU (Neural Processing Unit), a machine learning (ML) processor targeted at resource-constrained industrial and Internet-of-Things (IoT) edge devices.
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Xilinx Recommends Rejection of TRC Capital's "Mini-Tender" Offer (Monday Feb. 24, 2020)
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that it has been notified of an unsolicited "mini-tender" offer by TRC Capital Investment Corporation to purchase up to 1.5 million shares of its common stock (approximately 0.6 percent of outstanding shares) at $81.75 per share.
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Dialog Semiconductor to Acquire Adesto Technologies, Broadening Presence in the Industrial Internet of Things Market (IIoT) (Thursday Feb. 20, 2020)
Dialog Semiconductor and Adesto Technologies today announced they have signed a definitive agreement for Dialog to acquire all outstanding shares of Adesto.
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Vintage Investment Partners, Verizon Ventures, Maersk Growth, PepsiCo and NTT DOCOMO Ventures Join Top Tier Investors Backing Wiliot's Postage Stamp Sized Computer (Tuesday Feb. 18, 2020)
This latest investment round brings Wiliot’s B Round of funding total up to $70m as Wiliot preps for mass production of its battery-free Bluetooth sensor tags, powered by recycling radio waves.
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SiPearl launches its development with 6.2m euros of European funds (Tuesday Feb. 18, 2020)
SiPearl, the designer of the microprocessor for the European exascale1 supercomputer, has been awarded €6.2m of support from Europe under the Horizon 2020 programme2. These funds are enabling Philippe Notton, the company’s founder, to launch its development with solid foundations in place. To achieve the goal to release its first range of microprocessors on the market by 2022, SiPearl is preparing to carry out a significant round of fundraising alongside this.
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Launch of SiPearl, designing the microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer (Monday Feb. 17, 2020)
Created by Philippe Notton, SiPearl is the company that is bringing to life the European Processor Initiative (EPI) consortium project, designing the high-performance, low-power microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer.
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Cadence Furthers Expansion in 5G RF Communications with Acquisition of Integrand (Friday Feb. 14, 2020)
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired Integrand Software, Inc. to further accelerate innovation in the 5G RF communications space.
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Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Certain IP Assets from INVECAS (Friday Feb. 14, 2020)
Synopsys today announced that it has completed its acquisition of certain IP assets from INVECAS. This acquisition broadens Synopsys' DesignWare® Logic Library, Embedded Memory, General Purpose I/O, Analog, and Interface IP portfolio.
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Presto Engineering Acquires DELTA Microelectronics Business from FORCE Technology (Thursday Feb. 06, 2020)
Presto Engineering, an outsourced operations provider to semiconductor and Internet of Things (IoT) device manufacturers, announced today that it has acquired the DELTA Microelectronics business unit of FORCE Technology, the European leader in ASIC supply chain services.
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Synapse Design's Continued Fast Growth Drives Opening of Two Offshore Semiconductor Design Centers (Tuesday Feb. 04, 2020)
Synapse Design, one of the largest independent semiconductor design partners, today announces the official opening of its newest semiconductor design centers: One in Ahmedabad, India and one in Penang, Malaysia.
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SmartDV Achieves Record Revenue in 2019 (Tuesday Feb. 04, 2020)
SmartDV™ Technologies today announced record revenue and increased profitability in 2019. Several multi-year agreements and 11 new customers in the U.S., Japan, Europe, China and Korea contributed to SmartDV’s success in a variety of market segments that include networking, storage, data conversion and mobile devices.
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Qorvo Acquires UWB Chip Provider Decawave for $400m (Monday Feb. 03, 2020)
With UWB expected to significantly proliferate as a result of the Apple effect, the Irish fabless chip company was an attractive acquisition target
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UltraSoC extends its commitment to Japanese market with appointment of Ryoden (Monday Feb. 03, 2020)
UltraSoC today announced it has appointed Ryoden as its technical representatives in Japan to bring its on-chip cybersecurity and embedded analytics architecture to more Japanese electronics manufacturers, particularly those targeting automotive applications.
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Creonic Joins German Center for Satellite Communications (DESK) (Thursday Jan. 30, 2020)
Creonic GmbH, a leading provider of IP cores in the satellite communications market, recently joined DeSK – Deutsches Zentrum für Satelliten-Kommunikation e.V. (German Center for Satellite Communications r.S.)
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QuickLogic Announces Restructuring Plan to Reduce Operating Expenses in Order to Achieve Profitability Goals for Fiscal Year 2020 (Tuesday Jan. 28, 2020)
QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), a developer of ultra-low power multi-core voice-enabled SoCs, embedded FPGA IP, and Endpoint AI solutions, today announced a restructuring plan that will significantly lower its annual operating expenses.
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Arteris IP Adds 17 New Licensees, Revenue Exceeds $31M in 2019 (Tuesday Jan. 28, 2020)
Arteris IP, the world’s leading supplier of innovative, silicon-proven network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect intellectual property, today announced that the company added 17 new licensees in 2019 for its Arteris® IP Ncore®, FlexNoC®, CodaCache®, AI Package, Resilience Package, and PIANO® Interconnect IP products.
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Kneron raises $40m for next-gen Edge AI chip (Monday Jan. 27, 2020)
Kneron, the San Diego and Taipei-based low-power edge AI startup, has raised $40 million in an A2 funding round. This funding round was led by previous backer Horizons Ventures and brings the company’s total financing to $73 million.
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Palma Ceia SemiDesign Signs Agreement with BLRLABS for Expansion to India (Monday Jan. 20, 2020)
Palma Ceia SemiDesign today announced it has entered into a sales and support representative agreement with BLRLABS of Bangalore, India. Under the terms of the agreement, BLRLABS will provide expanded sales and technical support for Palma Ceia SemiDesign’s NB-IoT products in India.
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Imagination Technologies expands with new design centre in Romania (Thursday Jan. 16, 2020)
Imagination Technologies has opened a new design centre in Timisoara, Romania. The centre will focus on IP designed for artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision. The team will initially focus on software and test activities, expanding in the future to areas such as system architecture and design.
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Cadence Completes Acquisition of AWR Corporation from National Instruments (Thursday Jan. 16, 2020)
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of AWR Corporation from National Instruments Corporation.
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Inphi Completes Acquisition of eSilicon (Tuesday Jan. 14, 2020)
Inphi Corporation (NYSE: IPHI), a leader in high-speed data movement interconnects, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of eSilicon, as announced on November 11, 2019, in a transaction valued at approximately $216 million in both cash and the assumption of debt.
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Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Certain IP Assets from eSilicon (Monday Jan. 13, 2020)
Synopsys today announced that it has completed its acquisition of certain IP assets from eSilicon. This acquisition expands Synopsys' DesignWare® Embedded Memory IP portfolio with TCAMs and multi-port memory compilers, as well as its Interface IP portfolio with High-Bandwidth Interface (HBI) IP.
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Synopsys Acquires Tinfoil Security to Expand DAST and Add API Security Testing (Friday Jan. 10, 2020)
Synopsys today announced it has completed the acquisition of Tinfoil Security, an innovative provider of dynamic application security testing (DAST) and Application Program Interface (API) security testing solutions, headquartered in Mountain View, California.