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Analog Devices Acquires Innovasic (Monday Oct. 31, 2016)
Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) today announced the acquisition of Innovasic Inc., a leading provider of Deterministic Ethernet semiconductor and software solutions. The acquisition adds a suite of multiprotocol Industrial Ethernet solutions and key enabling technologies to ADI’s Smart Automation Solutions portfolio for industrial automation and Industrial Internet of Things (IoT).
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Qualcomm to Acquire NXP (Thursday Oct. 27, 2016)
Qualcomm and NXP Semiconductors today announced a definitive agreement, unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies, under which Qualcomm will acquire NXP.
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BrainChip Raises A$5.355 Million Through an Oversubscribed Placement (Thursday Oct. 27, 2016)
BrainChip Holdings Ltd ("BrainChip" or the "Company") (ASX: BRN), a leading provider of software and hardware accelerated solutions for Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications, is pleased to announce that it has successfully raised A$5.355 million through an oversubscribed placement to institutional and sophisticated investors.
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EnSilica opens specialist Design Centre for RF and low power sensing applications based near Oxford (Tuesday Oct. 25, 2016)
EnSilica, a leading independent provider of semiconductor solutions and IP, has further expanded its network of specialist design centres with the establishment of a new facility near Oxford (UK) focusing on RF and low power sensing applications.
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Chipus Microelectronics becomes an official Silterra's design partner (Tuesday Oct. 25, 2016)
Working in cooperation for the last 5 years and serving several Silterra customers with key Analog and Mixed-Signal Ultra-Low-Power IPs, Chipus was recognized for its effort and success by Silterra as an official Design Partner.
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Netspeed Raises $10M in Series C Funding Led by Intel Capital to Bring Machine learning to SoC design and architecture (Monday Oct. 24, 2016)
NetSpeed Systems Inc., announced today it has closed a $10 million Series C funding round led by Intel Capital with participation from investors SK Hynix and Walden-Riverwood Ventures.
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SoC Solutions joins asicNorth's IoT Design Ecosystem (Monday Oct. 24, 2016)
SoC Solutions is teaming with asicNorth as part of a complete development ecosystem for custom Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Joining SoC Solutions and asicNorth are Faraday Technology, Silicon Creations, and UMC.
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asicNorth announces a Development Ecosystem to streamline the creation of mixed-signal IoT SoC's (Thursday Oct. 20, 2016)
asicNorth announced today they have created a complete development ecosystem specifically targeted toward custom “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices.
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Chongqing Yubei District fuels mass entrepreneurship and innovation through a new ARM IP Pool (Wednesday Oct. 19, 2016)
The Yubei District of Chongqing has announced it has set up an ARM® IP Pool in the XTB Valley (Xiantao Big Data Valley) to support the local electronics industry. IC design companies in Yubei District will now be eligible for financial support on ARM IP and tools purchases, technical services and training to enable them to bring forward innovative new projects.
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Neural computing technology leader BrainChip appoints T2M for global marketing, representation and business development (Monday Oct. 17, 2016)
BrainChip Holdings Limited (ASX: BRN), developer of a revolutionary embeddable semiconductor solution enabling hardware-based autonomous learning systems and applications, has signed a commercial marketing agreement with T2M, the world’s largest independent global semiconductor technology provider.
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BaySand Introduces Enhanced FPGA to ASIC Conversion Program With IP Partners and Supporting Tools (Wednesday Oct. 12, 2016)
BaySand to introduce an enhanced methodology that enables FPGA designers to efficiently convert FPGA designs to ASIC in short time and low risk. The Metal Copy-28 (MC-28) product line is based on the BaySand FG65L technology that can meet and exceed the performance of 28nm FPGAs and deliver up to 50% lower power at the fraction of the FPGA unit price.
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Chips&Media and Goke Microelectronics partner to provide video codec IP (Wednesday Oct. 12, 2016)
Chips&Media today announced a new strategic partnership with Goke Microelectronics, a Chinese SoC provider of IP camera, STB, SSD and IoT. The partnership combines the strengths of two industry leaders to deliver vastly improved multimedia SoC products for consumer market and industry applications.
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TTTech Acquires Chip IP Specialist Flexibilis to Strengthen Position in Industrial Domain and to Expand Towards Smart Grid Market (Tuesday Oct. 11, 2016)
TTTech, a global leader in the field of robust networking and safety controls, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Finnish chip IP specialist Flexibilis.
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Mentor Graphics Acquires Galaxy Semiconductor (Monday Oct. 10, 2016)
Mentor Graphics today announced that it has acquired Galaxy Semiconductor, a leading provider of test data analysis and defect reduction software for the semiconductor industry.
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Nokia bolsters its base station power efficiency by acquiring Eta Devices (Thursday Oct. 06, 2016)
Nokia has acquired Eta Devices, a US-based start-up specializing in power amplifier efficiency solutions for base stations, access points and devices. Eta Devices will bolster Nokia's push to enhance base station energy efficiency, an increasingly important area for operators on the path to 4.9G and 5G.
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Mentor Graphics, Northwest Logic, and Krivi Semiconductor Announce Availability of Complete DDR4 SDRAM IP Design and Verification Solution (Thursday Oct. 06, 2016)
Mentor Graphics® Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT), Northwest Logic and Krivi Semiconductor today announced the availability of a complete DDR4 SDRAM IP design and verification solution that enables ASIC and FPGA design teams to quickly design and verify DDR4 memory subsystems in the Mentor Graphics IP Partnership Program.
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Silicon Labs Acquires Leading RTOS Company Micrium (Monday Oct. 03, 2016)
Silicon Labs today announced the acquisition of Micrium, a leading supplier of real-time operating system (RTOS) software for the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Rambus Signs License Agreement With Xilinx (Monday Oct. 03, 2016)
Rambus today announced it has signed a license agreement with Xilinx Inc., the world's leading provider of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs and 3D ICs, covering Rambus' patented memory controller, SerDes, and security technologies.
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INVECAS to Enable ASIC Designs for Tomorrow's Intelligent Systems on GLOBALFOUNDRIES' FDX Technology (Thursday Sep. 29, 2016)
INVECAS Inc. and GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced today that INVECAS will provide IP and end-to-end ASIC design services as a part of the foundry’s FDXcelerator™ Partner Program, an ecosystem designed to facilitate 22FDX SoC designs for tomorrow’s intelligent systems. The collaboration accelerates the adoption of FDX technology in applications spanning Internet-of-Things (IoT), mobile, RF connectivity, and networking markets.
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Shanhai Capital to Acquire Analogix Semiconductor (Friday Sep. 23, 2016)
Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. and Beijing Shanhai Capital Management Co, Ltd. (Shanhai Capital), today jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which a consortium led by Shanhai Capital will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Analogix for over $500 million.
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Brite Semiconductor Settled in Hefei to Jointly Build an IC Industrial Park (Thursday Sep. 22, 2016)
The 3rd Global Sensor Summit & China IoT Applications Summit was grandly held in Hefei, China on September 22, 2016. More than 1000 attendees from over 500 organizations, including IC industry administration, domestic and international renowned sensor and IoT applications companies, system houses, scientific research institutions and investment institutions, gathered together to discuss the development of sensor and IoT Industry.
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INSIDE Secure completes the sale of its semiconductor business to Swiss cybersecurity expert WISeKey (Wednesday Sep. 21, 2016)
INSIDE Secure (Euronext: INSD), at the heart of security solutions for mobile and connected devices, announced today that it has completed the sale of its semiconductor business to WISeKey International Holding Ltd, a Swiss cybersecurity company (SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN).
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ON Semiconductor Successfully Completes Acquisition of Fairchild Semiconductor for $2.4 Billion in Cash (Tuesday Sep. 20, 2016)
ON Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: ON) (“ON Semiconductor”) and Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. (Nasdaq: FCS) (“Fairchild”) jointly announced today that ON Semiconductor has successfully completed its previously announced $2.4 billion cash acquisition of Fairchild.
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Inova Semiconductors licenses APIX3 to Socionext (Thursday Sep. 15, 2016)
Socionext is pleased to announce that it is the first licensee for Inova Semiconductors latest APIX3 technology. APIX3 is the latest generation of Inova’s well-established APIX SerDes (Serializer/Deserializer) technology for in-vehicle video and data communications.
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Renesas to Acquire Intersil to Create the World's Leading Embedded Solution Provider (Tuesday Sep. 13, 2016)
Renesas and Intersil today announced they have signed a definitive agreement for Renesas to acquire Intersil for US$22.50 per share in cash, representing an aggregate equity value of approximately US$3.2 billion (approximately 321.9 billion yen at an exchange rate of 100 yen to the dollar).
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Intel Spins out Security Group (Thursday Sep. 08, 2016)
Intel Corp. will sell 51% of its security group to a private equity company for $3.1 billion in cash, spinning it off as an independent company to be called McAfee. Under former chief executive Paul Otellini, the x86 giant bought McAfee in 2010 for $7.68 billion.
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Ridgetop Group and BaySand Partner to Expand Mixed-Signal IP Portfolio and Services into Silicon Valley, Asia (Wednesday Sep. 07, 2016)
Group, Inc. and Silicon Valley-based BaySand Inc., the leader in application configurable application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), today announced they will work cooperatively to develop a series of new applications to increase their existing mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) portfolios.
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Intel to Acquire Movidius: Accelerating Computer Vision through RealSense for the Next Wave of Computing (Tuesday Sep. 06, 2016)
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Mobile Sensor Technology Company Acconeer AB Closes $7M Investment Round (Monday Aug. 29, 2016)
Acconeer AB, a leading innovation company in the area of mobile sensors, announces that it has closed a SEK 60 million investment round. The new capital will be used to fund the completion of Acconeer's 3D sensor A1 for commercial launch and mass production, which is planned for early 2017.
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Renesas Sets Sights on Intersil (Tuesday Aug. 23, 2016)
The Japanese economic newspaper Nikkei, reported early Monday that Renesas Electronics is “in the final stages of negotiations to acquire Intersil.”