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Arteris is now ArterisIP (Wednesday Apr. 05, 2017)
Arteris Inc., the innovative supplier of silicon-proven commercial system-on-chip (SoC) interconnect IP, today announced that it will now be known as ArterisIP.
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Imagination Technologies: Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement (Monday Apr. 03, 2017)
Imagination Technologies has been notified by Apple Inc. (“Apple”), its largest customer, that Apple is of a view that it will no longer use the Group’s intellectual property in its new products in 15 months to two years time, and as such will not be eligible for royalty payments under the current license and royalty agreement.
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AMPHION appoints AVANT Technology as its distributor for the China and Taiwan markets (Friday Mar. 31, 2017)
Amphion Semiconductor today announced the appointment of Avant Technology as the distributor of its video codec silicon IP for the China and Taiwan marketplaces. Avant will also represent Amphion in Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore.
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Barco Silex Partners With Accelize, Enabling Encryption-as-a-Service and More for Cloud Service Providers (Thursday Mar. 30, 2017)
Barco Silex today announces a partnership with Accelize, the leading enabler of FPGA Acceleration-as-a-Service. Barco Silex enters the QuickAlliance™ ecosystem, joining a growing number of world-class IP providers that offer their IP cores through Accelize’s platform for plug-and-play configuration of FPGA accelerators.
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TDK's subsidiary TDK-Micronas to acquire ASIC specialist ICsense to further grow its sensor business (Tuesday Mar. 28, 2017)
TDK Corporationannounced today that TDK’s wholly-owned subsidiary TDK-Micronas GmbH (“TDK-Micronas”), a leading supplier of Hall-effect sensors based in Freiburg, Germany, and ICsense NV have signed an agreement of acquisition of shares, to which TDK-Micronas will make ICsense NV a wholly-owned subsidiary.
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ATTOPSEMI Technology Joins FDXcelerator Program to Deliver Advanced Non-Volatile Memory IP to GLOBALFOUNDRIES 22 FDX Technology Platform (Tuesday Mar. 28, 2017)
ATTOPSEMI Technology, Ltd. today announced that it has joined GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ FDXcelerator™ Partner Program, to provide a scalable, non-volatile one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP to be compatible with GF’s 22FDX® technology.
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Aura Semiconductor Announces Partnership with Mindtree to Deliver Advanced Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) Solutions for IoT Devices (Monday Mar. 27, 2017)
Aura Semiconductor, a provider of high-performance Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver solutions, in partnership with Mindtree has announced a complete Bluetooth Low Energy (BTLE) 5 wireless connectivity solution for Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
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Mythic Launches AI Platform and Announces $9M Funding Round to Enable Datacenter-Scale Local AI in the Smallest Form Factor on Any Device (Thursday Mar. 23, 2017)
Mythic (formerly Isocline), a local AI platform provider, today unveiled details about its breakthrough technology platform and announced it has closed a $9 million series A funding round led by DFJ.
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Peregrine Semiconductor, A Murata Company, Acquires Arctic Sand Technologies (Monday Mar. 20, 2017)
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp., a Murata company and the founder of RF SOI (silicon on insulator), today announces the acquisition of Arctic Sand Technologies. An MIT spin-off, Arctic Sand designs and manufactures low-power semiconductors for use in DC-DC power conversion applications.
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Andes Technology Corporation Goes IPO On the Taiwan Stock Exchange (Tuesday Mar. 14, 2017)
Andes Technology Corporation, the leading Asia-based supplier of small, low-power, high performance 32-bit embedded CPU cores, today made an initial stock listing of 40,611,915 shares at a price of NT$65.10 per share.
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Innovium Raises $38.3M in Oversubscribed Series C Funding and Announces Advisory Board (Tuesday Mar. 14, 2017)
Innovium announced today that it has raised $38.3 million in Series C funding from new lead investor, Redline Capital, new strategic investors and existing investors Greylock Partners, Walden Riverwood Ventures, Capricorn Investment Group, Qualcomm Ventures and S-Cubed Capital.
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Intel to Acquire Mobileye (Monday Mar. 13, 2017)
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) and Mobileye N.V. (NYSE: MBLY) today announced a definitive agreement under which Intel would acquire Mobileye, a global leader in the development of computer vision and machine learning, data analysis, localization and mapping for advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving.
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Cypress Closes Sale of Minnesota Wafer Fabrication Facility (Monday Mar. 06, 2017)
Cypress Semiconductor today announced it has sold the subsidiary that owns its semiconductor wafer fabrication facility in Bloomington, Minnesota to SkyWater Technology Foundry for $30 million.
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Merger Agreement Approved by Shareholders of Lattice Semiconductor (Wednesday Mar. 01, 2017)
Lattice Semiconductor today announced that its shareholders have approved the adoption of the agreement and plan of merger, dated November 3, 2016, by and between Lattice, Canyon Bridge Acquisition Company, Inc. ("Canyon Bridge") and Canyon Bridge Merger Sub, Inc. ("Merger Sub"), and the merger of Merger sub with and into Lattice (the "Merger") upon the satisfaction or waiver of the remaining conditions to the closing of the Merger.
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Terminus Circuits and Truechip partner for comprehensive verification of High Speed Serial Protocols, viz.: PCIe Gen4 and USB 3.1 (Tuesday Feb. 28, 2017)
Truechip Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (“Truechip”), the Verification IP specialist and Terminus Circuits, a leading provider of High Speed Serial (HSS) Link IP products announced partnership for PCIe Gen4 and USB 3.1 verification. The two companies enter into a partnership to provide the end customers a solution that is comprehensively tested and risk free.
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Blu Wireless Technology secures backing from ARM (Wednesday Feb. 22, 2017)
Blu Wireless Technology has received a significant investment from ARM and other strategic and private investors. This will allow the companies’ mutual customers to deploy high performance mmWave and software defined networks (SDN) demanded for the cost-effective deployment of the forthcoming 5G standard.
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Truechip Partners with SoAR Solution Inc. to Market Verification IP Products in Korea (Thursday Feb. 16, 2017)
Truechip Solutions, the Verification IP specialist, announced partnership with SoAR Solution Inc. Truechip has appointed SoAR Solution Inc. as its authorized sales representative for Korea.
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QuickLogic Signs Agreement with Second Top-Tier Foundry for ArcticPro eFPGA IP (Tuesday Feb. 14, 2017)
QuickLogic today announced that it has signed an agreement with a second top-tier foundry to port, and market for licensing, the company's ArcticPro embedded FPGA (eFPGA) technology.
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IDT to Buy Optical Interconnect IC Vendor GigPeak (Tuesday Feb. 14, 2017)
IDT and GigPeak today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for IDT to acquire GigPeak, Inc., for total cash consideration of $3.08 per share, or approximately $250 million in cash.
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Ford Invests in Argo AI, a New Artificial Intelligence Company, in Drive for Autonomous Vehicle Leadership (Monday Feb. 13, 2017)
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) today announces it is investing $1 billion during the next five years in Argo AI, an artificial intelligence company, to develop a virtual driver system for the automaker’s autonomous vehicle coming in 2021 – and for potential license to other companies.
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES Expands to Meet Worldwide Customer Demand (Friday Feb. 10, 2017)
GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced plans to expand its global manufacturing footprint in response to growing customer demand for its comprehensive and differentiated technology portfolio. The company is investing in its existing leading-edge fabs in the United States and Germany, expanding its footprint in China with a fab in Chengdu, and adding capacity for mainstream technologies in Singapore.
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Intel Supports American Innovation with $7 Billion Investment in Next-Generation Semiconductor Factory in Arizona (Thursday Feb. 09, 2017)
Intel Corporation today announced plans to invest more than $7 billion to complete Fab 42, which is expected to be the most advanced semiconductor factory in the world. The high-volume factory is in Chandler, Ariz., and is targeted to use the 7 nanometer (nm) manufacturing process.
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HOPU-ARM Innovation Fund officially launched (Thursday Feb. 09, 2017)
ARM and HOPU Investments have launched the HOPU-ARM Innovation Fund with investments from a leading Chinese sovereign wealth fund and international and domestic Chinese investment institutions and companies.
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Qualcomm Extends Cash Tender Offer for All Outstanding Shares of NXP (Wednesday Feb. 08, 2017)
Qualcomm today announced that Qualcomm River Holdings B.V. , an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, has extended the offering period of its previously announced cash tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding common shares of NXP Semiconductors N.V.
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Telit adds Wi-Fi and low-power solutions for IoT with acquisition of GainSpan to extend end-to-end IoT solutions reach (Thursday Feb. 02, 2017)
Telit today announced that it has agreed to acquire Silicon Valley-based GainSpan. GainSpan is a wireless connectivity solution provider that specializes in the design and development of ultra-low power Wi-Fi technology.
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Sonics Collaborates with GLOBALFOUNDRIES to Accelerate Adoption of Power and Performance Capabilities of the 22FDX Process by SoC Designers (Thursday Jan. 26, 2017)
Sonics today announced it will collaborate with GLOBALFOUNDRIES on energy processing unit (EPU) product development that leverages the power and performance optimization capabilities of the 22FDX® process technologies for the system-on-chip (SoC) design community.
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Silicon Labs Acquires Wi-Fi Innovator Zentri (Tuesday Jan. 24, 2017)
Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leading supplier of silicon, software and solutions for a more connected world, announces the acquisition of Zentri, an innovator in low-power, cloud-connected Wi-Fi technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Neurala Announces $14 Million Series A to Bring Deep Learning Neural Network AI Software to Drones, Self-Driving Cars, Toys and Cameras (Friday Jan. 20, 2017)
Neurala, the software company that has invented The Neurala Brain, a deep learning neural networks platform that is making smart products like toys, cameras and self-driving cars more autonomous, interactive and useful, today announced the closing of a $14 million series A funding round.
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Faraday: World's First ISO 26262 Certified ASIC Service Company (Thursday Jan. 19, 2017)
Faraday Technology has received the certificate of ISO 26262 (Road vehicles-functional safety) from SGS-TÜV Saar on its design development process. Faraday is the first ASIC design service company in the world approved to ISO 26262; it demonstrates that Faraday is capable of implementing the automotive functional safety standard on its hardware design from product concept to mass production.
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Sidense Receives Coveted ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System Certification (Monday Jan. 16, 2017)
Sidense Corp., a leading developer of Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) One-Time Programmable (OTP) IP cores, today announced that with a first-time successful registration audit it has met ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System (QMS) Certification.