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EnSilica teams with BaySand to provide ASIC UltraShuttle-65 multi-project wafer customers with configurable IP solutions (Wednesday Aug. 17, 2016)
EnSilica has teamed with BaySand, the leader in application configurable ASICs, to provide customers of BaySand’s newly launched ASIC UltraShuttle-65 multi-project wafer (MPW) customers with a range of IP solutions that can be configured to their specific application requirements.
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Intel to Acquire Deep Learning Nervana (Wednesday Aug. 10, 2016)
Intel will announce its intention to acquire Nervana Systems at its Intel Developer Forum next week (IDF 2016, San Francisco, Calif., August 16-to-18)—a bid to obsolete the graphics processor unit (GPU) for deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
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Rambus Completes Acquisition of Snowbush IP Assets (Tuesday Aug. 09, 2016)
Rambus today announced it has successfully completed the acquisition of the assets of Semtech’s Snowbush IP. The closing purchase price totaled $32 million, including additional payments based upon specific new product sales through the end of 2022.
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Semtech Completes Divestiture of Its Snowbush IP Business (Tuesday Aug. 09, 2016)
Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq:SMTC), a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today announced it completed the previously announced divestiture of its Snowbush IP business (previously part of the Company's Systems Innovation Group) to Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS) on August 5, 2016.
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Rambus Completes Acquisition of Inphi Memory Interconnect Business (Friday Aug. 05, 2016)
Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) today announced it has successfully completed the acquisition of all the assets of Inphi Memory Interconnect Business, including product inventory, customer contracts, supply chain agreements, and intellectual property. The closing purchase price for Inphi Memory Interconnect Business was $90 million in cash.
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INSIDE Secure signs a binding agreement to sell its semiconductor business to Swiss cybersecurity expert WISeKey (Tuesday Aug. 02, 2016)
INSIDE Secure (Euronext: INSD), a leader in embedded security solutions for mobile and connected devices, announced today that it has executed a binding agreement to sell its semiconductor business to WISeKey International Holding Ltd, a Swiss cybersecurity company listed in Zurich (SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN).
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Faraday Receives ISO9001: 2015 Plus Award, Proving the High Quality of its Design Service for Customers (Monday Aug. 01, 2016)
Faraday Technology has recently received ISO9001 Plus Award (QMS Knowledge Management Benchmark). ISO9001: 2015 is the most significant renewal in 15 years.
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ARM expands IoT security team in Israel (Monday Aug. 01, 2016)
ARM is expanding its Internet of Things (IoT) engineering team at the Kfar Netter design center in Israel one year on from its opening when ARM acquired Sansa Security.
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STMicroelectronics Acquires ams' NFC and RFID Reader Assets (Friday Jul. 29, 2016)
STMicroelectronics, (NYSE: STM) , a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronic applications, today announced that it has acquired ams’ (SIX: AMS) assets related to NFC and RFID reader business.
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Analog Devices and Linear Technology to Combine Creating the Premier Analog Technology Company (Wednesday Jul. 27, 2016)
Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) (“Analog Devices”) and Linear Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: LLTC) (“Linear Technology”) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Analog Devices will acquire Linear Technology in a cash and stock transaction that values the combined enterprise at approximately $30 billion(1).
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ams acquires MAZeT (Tuesday Jul. 26, 2016)
ams AG (SIX: AMS), a leading provider of high performance sensors and analog ICs, has closed the transaction to acquire 100% of the shares in the color and spectral sensing systems specialist MAZeT GmbH for an undisclosed amount in cash.
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Bessemer Venture Partners Invests $15 Million in Kandou (Tuesday Jul. 26, 2016)
Kandou Bus, S.A., the world’s highest performance and lowest energy SerDes technology company, has announced that it has completed a $15M investment with Bessemer Venture Partners. The resources will enable Kandou to expand research and accelerate the development, productization and deployment of Kandou’s Chord™ signaling SerDes technology.
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Kazan Networks Closes $4.5M Series A Funding Round (Monday Jul. 25, 2016)
Kazan Networks Corporation announced today it has closed a $4.5M Series A funding round led by Samsung Ventures, with participation from Intel Capital and Western Digital Corporation.
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Test and Verification Solutions expands its operations in Silicon Valley, USA (Wednesday Jul. 20, 2016)
Test and Verification Solutions LLC (T&VS), a leading hardware verification and software testing solutions and services provider, today announced the opening of its new office in San Jose, CA. This is the second expansion and a key strategic location in the US, where T&VS is able to provide onsite/nearshore support for its California location based customers.
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Recommended acquisition of ARM by SoftBank (Monday Jul. 18, 2016)
The boards of directors of SoftBank Group Corp. ("SoftBank") and ARM Holdings plc ("ARM") are pleased to announce that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended all cash acquisition of the entire issued and to be issued share capital of ARM by SoftBank (or, at SoftBank's election, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SoftBank).
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PLDA Announces its Newest Expansion with the Launch of PLDA Training, a Full Training Program that Provides Easy-to-access Design Methodologies for SoC, Board and Low-level Software Designs (Tuesday Jul. 05, 2016)
PLDA Training leverages PLDA’s industry expertise in IP Connectivity design to share best-in-class techniques on their customers’ own schedules to cost-effectively optimize their projects
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sureCore: Second direct investment into 'Emerging Star' from Enterprise Ventures portfolio (Friday Jul. 01, 2016)
Mercia is pleased to announce that it has agreed the Group's second direct investment from the portfolio of investments managed by Enterprise Ventures Group ("EVG") following its acquisition by Mercia on 9 March 2016. The syndicate investment into sureCore Limited ("sureCore"), a low power electronic memory design specialist, provides further confirmation of the strategic benefit EVG brings to Mercia, expanding Mercia's direct investment pipeline sourced via its third party funds significantly.
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Rambus to Acquire Memory Interconnect Business from Inphi (Thursday Jun. 30, 2016)
Rambus today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the Memory Interconnect Business from Inphi Corporation (NYSE:IPHI) for $90M in cash. The acquisition includes all assets of the Inphi Memory Interconnect Business including product inventory, customer contracts, supply chain agreements and intellectual property.
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Silvaco Group Acquires edXact for SPICE Simulation Speed-up (Tuesday Jun. 28, 2016)
Silvaco, Inc. today announced its wholly owned French subsidiary, Infiniscale SA, has acquired a majority stake in edXact, an innovator in parasitic reduction for integrated circuits. The edXact technologies complement Silvaco’s advanced node portfolio including SPICE simulation, 3D RC extraction for SRAM, and variation analysis solutions for analog and memory designs.
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SMIC Acquires LFoundry and Enters into Global Automotive Electronics Market (Friday Jun. 24, 2016)
SMIC jointly announces with LFoundry Europe GmbH ("LFE") and Marsica Innovation S.p.A. ("MI"), the signing of an agreement on June 24, 2016 to purchase a 70% stake of LFoundry for a consideration of 49 million EUR.
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BaySand to Acquire FalconX Accelerator, to Enhance Its Application Configurable Platform Offering with Configurable DSP Capabilities (Thursday Jun. 23, 2016)
BaySand, the leader in application configurable ASICs completed the acquisition of FalconX Accelerator, a provider of low power, high performance Digital Signal Processing (DSP) IP. The addition of FalconX to BaySand will be enhancing BaySand’s IP portfolio and Application Configurable ASIC solution offering.
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Cavium to Acquire QLogic (Thursday Jun. 16, 2016)
Cavium and QLogic today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Cavium to acquire all of the outstanding QLogic common stock. The transaction values QLogic at approximately $1.36 billion in equity value.
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Alma Technologies Discontinues Partnership with Cast (Monday Jun. 13, 2016)
Alma Technologies S.A., a company that designs, markets, sells and supports innovative semiconductor IP since 2001, has ended its partnership with Cast, Inc.
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ARM Extends Solutions for Custom SoC development in Embedded and IoT Markets (Monday Jun. 06, 2016)
ARM has expanded its ARM® DesignStart™ initiative to offer simplified and expedited access to EDA tooling and design environments from Cadence and Mentor Graphics. The new partnership, announced at DAC 2016, builds on the benefits of free access to ARM Cortex®-M0 processor IP offered through the DesignStart portal.
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Rambus to Acquire Snowbush IP Assets (Monday Jun. 06, 2016)
Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Semtech’s Snowbush IP for $32.5 million as well as additional payments based upon specific new product sales through the end of 2022.
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Former NASA Chief Dan Goldin's Neural Computing Company, KnuEdge, Emerges From Stealth to Transform Real-World Human-Machine Interaction (Monday Jun. 06, 2016)
After a decade of under-the-radar research and development with private funding totaling $100 million, Dan Goldin, the world-renowned innovator who led the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) throughout its renaissance in the 1990s, today announced the launch of KnuEdge™ Inc., a fundamentally groundbreaking neural technology innovation company.
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Silvaco Enters IP Market With Acquisition of IPextreme (Friday Jun. 03, 2016)
Silvaco, Inc., today announced the acquisition of IPextreme, a leader in the field of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) commercialization and IP management, and the formation of a new IP division to be headed by IPextreme founder and CEO Warren Savage.
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Innovium secures more than $50M in funding (Wednesday Jun. 01, 2016)
Innovium, Inc. announced today that it has raised over $50 million in funding across two oversubscribed rounds to develop breakthrough networking infrastructure products for next-generation data centers.
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INSIDE Secure and Rambus Collaborate to Protect Delivery of 4K and Ultra HD Premium Content (Monday May. 30, 2016)
INSIDE Secure today announced it is working with Rambus Cryptography Research Division to enable the delivery of over-the-top (OTT) 4K and Ultra High Definition (UHD) content that meets Secure Content Storage Association (SCSA) specifications.
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Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Gold Standard Simulations (Tuesday May. 24, 2016)
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Gold Standard Simulations Ltd. (GSS), a leading provider of TCAD and EDA simulation solutions for design technology co-optimization (DTCO) of advanced process nodes.