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Edgewater Expands into Licensing of Breakthrough IP (Thursday Sep. 05, 2019)
Edgewater Wireless Systems today announced the launch of its Licensing program including access to its breakthrough IP and expertise.
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Veriest collaborates with MINRES on RISC-V development (Thursday Sep. 05, 2019)
Veriest Solutions, a leading international Electronics Design Services house, and MINRES Technologies, a provider of next-generation Virtual Prototype solutions announced today a collaboration framework.
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Vidatronic and IP-Semantics Join Forces in California's Silicon Valley (Thursday Sep. 05, 2019)
Vidatronic partners with IP-Semantics for representation across North America and India. IP-Semantics, based in California’s Silicon Valley, currently offers a variety of IP solutions, including end-to-end RF and high-end SerDes for 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
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Verimatrix Enters into Exclusivity Agreement to Sell its Silicon IP Business Unit to Rambus (Wednesday Sep. 04, 2019)
Verimatrix, formerly known as Inside Secure, today announced it has entered into an exclusivity agreement to sell its Silicon IP and Secure Protocols (“SIP”) business unit to Rambus Inc. for a transaction consideration of $65 million in cash.
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Rambus to Acquire Silicon IP and Secure Protocols Business From Verimatrix, Creating Global Authority in Semiconductor Security IP (Wednesday Sep. 04, 2019)
Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a premier silicon IP and chip provider making data faster and safer, today announced it has entered into an exclusivity agreement to acquire the Silicon IP, Secure Protocols and Provisioning business from Verimatrix, formerly Inside Secure
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Brite Semiconductor and Synopsys Extend IP OEM Partnership (Tuesday Sep. 03, 2019)
Brite Semiconductor and Synopsys today announced a multi-year extension of their IP OEM partner agreement, which provides Brite Semiconductor with continued access a wide range of high-quality DesignWare® IP and expert technical support from Synopsys.
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Synopsys Initiates $100 Million Accelerated Share Repurchase Agreement (Thursday Aug. 29, 2019)
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that it has entered into an accelerated share repurchase agreement (ASR) with Wells Fargo Bank, NA to repurchase an aggregate of $100 million of Synopsys stock.
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Rambus Completes Acquisition of Northwest Logic, Extending Leadership in Interface IP (Tuesday Aug. 27, 2019)
Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a premier silicon IP and chip provider making data faster and safer, today announced the completion of the previously-disclosed acquisition of Northwest Logic, a leading supplier of memory, PCIe and MIPI digital controllers.
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Porsche Invests in Israeli Startup TriEye to Increase Road Visibility and Safety (Thursday Aug. 22, 2019)
Israeli startup TriEye, whose Short-Wave-Infra-Red (SWIR) sensing technology enables vision in adverse weather and night-time conditions, has expanded its Series A round to $19 million with an investment from the German sports car manufacturer Porsche.
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Alphacore To Develop Rad-Hard CMOS Standard Cell Library, Meeting DOD Standards, For U.S. Navy (Monday Aug. 19, 2019)
Alphacore, a leader in robust radiation hardened analog, mixed-signal and RF designs for strategic and space missions, will develop a complete library of radiation-hard standard cells implemented for fabrication of deep sub-micron processes like the GlobalFoundries GF22FDX.
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Everspin and Seagate Sign IP Patent Assignment and Licensing Agreements (Monday Aug. 12, 2019)
Both companies hold an extensive portfolio of IP that is further strengthened by this agreement including the assignment and licensing of MRAM patents from Seagate to Everspin as well as licensing of specific Tunneling Magnetoresistance (TMR) patents from Everspin to Seagate.
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StarHub and Temasek to Bolster Ensign's Cyber Security Capabilities with D'Crypt (Monday Aug. 12, 2019)
StarHub Ltd (“StarHub”) announced today an agreement for Temasek to acquire D'Crypt Pte. Ltd. (“D'Crypt”) from StarHub and D'Crypt's founding shareholders, Dr Antony Ng, Ms Chew Hwee Boon, and Dr Pang Liang Teck (“Founding Shareholders”).
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Synopsys to Acquire QTronic GmbH (Wednesday Aug. 07, 2019)
Synopsys today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire QTronic GmbH, a leader in simulation, test tools, and services for automotive software and systems development headquartered in Germany.
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Andes Records Rapid Growth of RISC-V Processors Licensing Agreements in the First Half of 2019 (Tuesday Aug. 06, 2019)
Andes Signed over 60 RISC-V IP License Contracts in the First Half of 2019 Serving Multiple Applications throughout Many Countries Worldwide
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CEVA and Immervision Enter into Strategic Partnership for Advanced Image Enhancement Technologies (Tuesday Aug. 06, 2019)
CEVA, the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies, today announced that it entered into a strategic partnership agreement with privately owned Immervision, Inc. of Montreal, Canada.
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Agile Analog Awarded Innovate UK Grant to Accelerate Semiconductor IP Development (Tuesday Jul. 30, 2019)
Agile Analog, a Cambridge-based Analog IP company, announces it has successfully been awarded funding from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, to accelerate their new product development.
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Rambus to Acquire Northwest Logic, Extending Leadership in Interface IP (Monday Jul. 29, 2019)
Rambus today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Northwest Logic, a market leader in memory, PCIe and MIPI digital controllers.
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SCALINX new ASIC design center in SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS, France (Monday Jul. 29, 2019)
To support its fast growth, SCALINX opened this month, in addition to its ASIC design centers in Paris and Caen, the third one in Sophia-Antipolis, France, offering services for custom designed Integrated Circuits.
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TSMC to Boost Recruitment by More Than 3,000 New Hires (Monday Jul. 29, 2019)
TSMC today announced a large-scale hiring plan to support the Company’s business growth and technology development, aiming to recruit more than 3,000 new employees in Hsinchu, Taichung, and Tainan.
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Silvaco Partners with Incubator Silicon Power Technology to Accelerate Success of Semiconductor Startups (Wednesday Jul. 24, 2019)
Silicon Power Technology, a Sino-foreign joint venture and technology incubator, and Silvaco Inc., a leading supplier of EDA software and design IP, today announced their partnership to support the growth of the next generation of power semiconductor companies in China.
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CEVA Acquires Hillcrest Labs Intelligent Sensor Technologies Business from InterDigital (Monday Jul. 22, 2019)
CEVA today announced the acquisition of the Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. (Hillcrest Labs) business from InterDigital, Inc. Hillcrest Labs is a leading global supplier of software and components for sensor processing in consumer and IoT devices.
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UltraSoC-led consortium secures £2m Innovate UK funding to develop cybersecurity solutions for connected and autonomous vehicles (Thursday Jul. 18, 2019)
UltraSoC today announced that it has secured £2m ($2.51m) in support from Innovate UK (the innovation agency of the UK Government), for an ambitious co-funded project that will improve the safety and security of tomorrow’s connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs).
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Arm Flexible Access gives chip designers the freedom to experiment and test before they invest (Tuesday Jul. 16, 2019)
Arm announced today it is expanding the ways existing and new partners can access and license its technology for semiconductor design. Arm Flexible Access is a new engagement model enabling SoC design teams to initiate projects before they license IP and pay only for what they use at production.
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Dolphin Integration and Maple Solutions announce their reseller partnership to support South Korean semiconductor companies (Monday Jul. 15, 2019)
Maple Solutions, a highly qualified distributor, and Dolphin Integration, a leading provider of semiconductor IPs, announce their reseller partnership, bringing Dolphin Integration’s IP platform to south Korean companies designing energy-efficient SoC/ASICs.
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Cisco Intends to Acquire Acacia Communications (Wednesday Jul. 10, 2019)
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Acacia Communications (NASDAQ: ACIA) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Cisco has agreed to acquire Acacia.
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Think Silicon secures Seed investment round led by Metavallon VC (Tuesday Jul. 09, 2019)
Metavallon VC is excited to be leading the first investment round into Patras, Greece based Think Silicon®, an IP-licensing, semiconductor technology company. Think Silicon specializes in developing ultra-low power graphics units, display controller and machine learning accelerator technology for display / vision devices in applications with high performance and ultra-low power consumption needs.
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Omni Design Technologies opens design center in Bangalore, India (Monday Jul. 08, 2019)
U.S.-based Omni Design Technologies, a developer of high-performance ultra-low-power analog and mixed-signal IP cores continues its rapid expansion of core R&D capability with the inauguration of ODT India Center of Excellence, Pvt Ltd, in Bangalore, India.
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SiFive Expands DesignShare IP Ecosystem to 20 Partner Companies (Monday Jul. 01, 2019)
Signature third-party IP ecosystem allows low-cost, rapid prototyping and innovative IP licensing for AI, edge computing.
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Inside Secure Announces Group Company Name, New Identity and New Trading Symbol (Monday Jul. 01, 2019)
Inside Secure announced that it has officially changed its corporate name to Verimatrix and is trading on the Euronext Paris exchange under the ticker symbol “VMX,” effective today.
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AI Startup Preps Inference Chip (Thursday Jun. 27, 2019)
Add NeuroBlade to the dozens of startups working on AI silicon. The Israeli company just closed a $23 million Series A, led by the founder of Check Point Software and with participation from Intel Capital.