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Andes Technology Takes the Lead in Launching RISC-V Total Solutions and Driving Industry-Academia Collaboration with over 120 Projects (Thursday Jan. 09, 2020)
Andes Technology (TWSE: 6533), a leading supplier of high efficiency, low-power 32/64-bit RISC-V processor cores, has cooperated with more than 70 universities worldwide to date, after signing the first contract of industry-academia cooperation with National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in 2010.
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Synopsys to Acquire Certain IP Assets of INVECAS (Wednesday Jan. 08, 2020)
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain IP assets of INVECAS, headquartered in Santa Clara, California. This acquisition will broaden Synopsys' DesignWare® Logic Library, General Purpose I/O, Embedded Memory, Interface and Analog IP portfolio.
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Omni Design Joins TSMC IP Alliance Program (Tuesday Jan. 07, 2020)
Omni Design Technologies, a leading provider of high-performance, low-power mixed-signal Intellectual Property (IP) solutions, today announced it has joined the TSMC IP Alliance Program, a key component of TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP)
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SiFive and CEVA Partner to Bring Machine Learning Processors to Mainstream Markets (Tuesday Jan. 07, 2020)
Joint silicon development through SiFive's DesignShare Program combines IP and design strengths of both companies to develop Edge AI SoCs for a range of high-volume end markets including smart home, automotive, robotics, security, augmented reality, industrial and IoT
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Siemens partners with Arm to accelerate the future of mobility by redefining design capabilities for complex electronic systems (Tuesday Jan. 07, 2020)
Siemens Digital Industries Software today announced a partnership with global semiconductor IP leader Arm, that will bring leading edge IP, methodologies, processes and tools together to help automakers, integrators and suppliers collaborate, design and bring to market their next-generation platforms much faster.
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Arm puts loss-making cyber security venture up for sale (Monday Dec. 23, 2019)
Smartphone chip designer Arm is courting bidders for its loss-making security joint venture as it continues its transformation under the ownership of SoftBank’s Vision Fund.
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Atmosic Technologies Raises $28.5 Million in Latest Round of Funding (Thursday Dec. 19, 2019)
Atmosic completes Series B funding to fuel R&D development and accelerate the deployment of Atmosic’s award-winning M2 and M3 series Bluetooth 5 SoC solutions
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eMemory Joins Arm Ecosystem for Secure IoT Chips (Thursday Dec. 19, 2019)
eMemory Technology, one of the world’s top-ten providers of semiconductor intellectual property (IP), is working with Arm to create new state-of-the-art secure solutions for Internet of Things (IoT) chips.
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Apple Buys Image Fusion Startup Spectral Edge (Tuesday Dec. 17, 2019)
Cambridge, UK, based Spectral Edge, an image fusion startup which was spun out of the University of East Anglia in 2014, has been acquired by Apple for an undisclosed amount.
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Intrinsic ID Raises 2.5 Million Euros for Internet of Things Security (Tuesday Dec. 17, 2019)
Intrinsic ID has raised a € 2.5 million financing from BOM Brabant Ventures. The company, specialized in cyber security, intends to use the capital for further development and commercialization of its patented SRAM PUF technology
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Intel Acquires Artificial Intelligence Chipmaker Habana Labs (Tuesday Dec. 17, 2019)
Intel Corporation today announced that it has acquired Habana Labs, an Israel-based developer of programmable deep learning accelerators for the data center for approximately $2 billion.
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Lattice and SiFive Announce Collaboration to Allow Lattice FPGA Developers Easy Access to RISC-V Processors (Thursday Dec. 12, 2019)
SiFive and Lattice Semiconductor today announced they have agreed to collaborate to enable easy availability of SiFive scalable Core IP for developers using Lattice FPGA product families, including Lattice’s new 28 nm CrossLink-NX™ FPGAs.
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Dialog Semiconductor and Flex Logix Establish Strategic Partnership for Mixed Signal Embedded Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (eFPGA) (Wednesday Dec. 11, 2019)
Dialog Semiconductor plc (XETRA:DLG) and Flex Logix® Technologies, Inc. today announced a strategic agreement for Dialog to license Flex Logix’s EFLX Embedded Field-Programmable Gate Array (eFPGA) technology for use in high volume semiconductor Integrated Circuits (ICs), and the EFLX Compiler to program these embedded FPGAs.
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PLDA Announces Augmented Presence in Asia with Increased R&D, Support and Sales, and a New Chinese Language Website (Tuesday Dec. 10, 2019)
PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express® and high-speed interconnect solutions, today announced an augmented presence in the APAC region, focused on expanding their R&D, Sales and Support staff, and on the launch of a new, Chinese-language version of the PLDA website.
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Verimatrix Completes Sale of its Silicon IP Business Unit to Rambus (Monday Dec. 09, 2019)
Verimatrix (Euronext Paris: VMX), formerly known as Inside Secure, a global provider of security and analytics solutions that protect devices, services and applications, today announced the completion of the sale of its Silicon IP and Secure Protocols business unit to Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS) for a total cash consideration of $65 million including an earn-out.
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Rambus Completes Acquisition of the Verimatrix Silicon IP, Secure Protocols and Provisioning Business (Monday Dec. 09, 2019)
Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a premier silicon IP and chip provider making data faster and safer, today announced the completed acquisition of the silicon IP, secure protocols and provisioning business from Verimatrix, formerly Inside Secure
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WiLAN Subsidiary and CXMT Enter into License and Acquisition Agreements (Monday Dec. 09, 2019)
Wi-LAN and ChangXin Memory Technologies, Inc. ("CXMT"), today announced that Polaris Innovations Limited ("Polaris"), a wholly owned subsidiary of WiLAN, and CXMT have entered into a patent license agreement and an independent patent acquisition agreement, each relating to certain Dynamic Random Access Memory ("DRAM") patents developed by former DRAM manufacturer Qimonda AG ("Qimonda").
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Lift off: De-RISC to create first RISC-V, fully European platform for space (Tuesday Dec. 03, 2019)
Combining a multicore system-on-chip by leading space solutions provider Cobham Gaisler with fentISS’ space-qualified XtratuM hypervisor, De-RISC will create a market-ready platform to power future space and aeronautical applications with made-in-Europe technology.
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Cadence to Acquire AWR Corporation from National Instruments to Accelerate System Innovation for 5G RF Communications (Tuesday Dec. 03, 2019)
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) and National Instruments Corporation (Nasdaq: NATI) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Cadence expects to acquire AWR Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of National Instruments (NI).
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Intel Completes Sale of Smartphone Modem Business to Apple (Monday Dec. 02, 2019)
Intel Corporation today announced it has completed the sale of the majority of its smartphone modem business to Apple. This transaction, valued at $1 billion, was announced on July 25, 2019.
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SiFive Announces SiFive Learn Initiative (Monday Dec. 02, 2019)
SiFive today unveiled its SiFive Learn initiative, a program designed to enable makers and universities with low-cost, fully-featured RISC-V hardware supported by comprehensive learning materials.
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EnSilica and Macnica Europe GmbH Sign Distribution Agreement for Custom ASIC Design and Supply Services (Monday Dec. 02, 2019)
With this agreement EnSilica will be able to offer custom ASIC based solutions to Macnica’s OEM customers, with Macnica providing global fulfilment and logistics services that meet the demanding requirements of automotive and industrial customers.
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Dolphin Design is ISO 9001 and EN 9100 certified (Monday Dec. 02, 2019)
Dolphin Design renewed their certifications ISO 9001 for the complete offering, and EN 9100 for their ASIC/SoC design services.
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Netherlands Energy Harvesting Semiconductor Firm Nowi Reaches $14 Million in Funding (Monday Nov. 25, 2019)
Investors from Disruptive Technology Ventures (DTV) announce a substantial additional Series A investment round for semiconductor firm Nowi.
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NUVIA Raises $53 Million to Reimagine Silicon Design for the Data Center (Monday Nov. 18, 2019)
NUVIA today announced the close of its Series A funding round raising $53 million. The funding round was co-led by prominent Silicon Valley investors Capricorn Investment Group, Dell Technologies Capital, Mayfield and WRVI Capital, with additional participation from Nepenthe LLC.
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Synopsys Completes Acquisition of DINI Group (Friday Nov. 15, 2019)
Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) today announced it has completed its acquisition of DINI Group, an established leader in FPGA-based boards and solutions, headquartered in La Jolla, California.
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Blaize Emerges from Stealth to Transform AI Computing (Tuesday Nov. 12, 2019)
Blaize, formerly known as Thinci, unveils the first true Graph-Native silicon architecture and software platform built to process neural networks and enable AI applications with unprecedented efficiency
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eSilicon to be Acquired by Inphi and Synopsys (Monday Nov. 11, 2019)
eSilicon announced today the signing of a definitive agreement with Inphi Corporation to acquire eSilicon. Concurrently, Synopsys announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire eSilicon’s embedded memory (SRAM, TCAM, multi-port memory compiler) and interface (HBM and HBI™) IP assets.
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Synopsys to Acquire Certain IP Assets from eSilicon (Monday Nov. 11, 2019)
Synopsys today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain IP assets from eSilicon. This acquisition will expand 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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Inphi to Acquire eSilicon, a Leading Provider of 2.5D Packaging, SerDes and Custom Silicon (Monday Nov. 11, 2019)
Inphi Corporation (NYSE: IPHI), a leading provider of high-speed data movement interconnects, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire eSilicon for $216 million in both cash and the assumption of debt.