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Technology Leaders Join Forces to Bring an Open Acceleration Framework to Data Centers and Other Markets (Monday May. 23, 2016)
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD), ARM (NASDAQ:ARMH), Huawei, IBM (NYSE:IBM), Mellanox (NASDAQ:MLNX), Qualcomm Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), and Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) have joined forces to bring a high-performance open acceleration framework to data centers
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INSIDE Secure to sell its semiconductor business to Swiss cybersecurity expert WISeKey (Thursday May. 19, 2016)
INSIDE Secure (Euronext Paris: INSD), a leader in embedded security solutions for mobile and connected devices, today announced it is about to reach an agreement to sell its semiconductor business to WISeKey International Holding Ltd, a Swiss cybersecurity company listed in Zurich (SIX Swiss Exchange market: WIHN), for an enterprise value of CHF 13 million ($13.2 million), net of transferred cash.
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Sivers IMA signs agreement with Blu Wireless Technology (Thursday May. 19, 2016)
Sivers IMA today announced that it has signed an agreement with Blu Wireless Technology (Blu), a company that designs and licenses baseband modem IP for mmWave applications – including the 802.11ad standard within the Wi-Fi Alliance (also known as WiGig®).
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Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Simpleware (Wednesday May. 18, 2016)
Synopsys today announced it has completed its acquisition of Simpleware Ltd., a privately held, leading provider of software products for the conversion of 3D scan data into high-quality computer models used for engineering design and simulation.
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ARM Acquires Apical - a Global Leader in Imaging and Embedded Computer Vision (Wednesday May. 18, 2016)
ARM has acquired Apical, a global leader in imaging and embedded computer vision technology that will allow next generation devices to understand and act intelligently on information from their environment. Apical is one of the UK's fastest-growing technology companies* and its advanced imaging products are used in more than 1.5 billion smartphones and approximately 300 million other consumer/industrial devices including IP cameras, digital stills cameras and tablets.
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Xilinx Board Of Directors Increases Repurchase Authorization By $1 Billion (Tuesday May. 17, 2016)
Xilinx today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to an aggregate $1 billion of the Company's debt and equity securities. In the past five years, the Company has repurchased approximately 43 million shares of common stock for approximately $1.8 billion.
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HDL Design House Appoints New Representative for Central Europe, Nordic Region and the US (Tuesday May. 10, 2016)
HDL Design House, provider of digital, analog, and back-end design and verification services and products in numerous areas of SoC, today announced that it has signed a representative agreement with Mr. Stefan Büchmann, the founder of a sales representative firm offering international sales and business development services.
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InvenSense and ARM Innovation Ecosystem Accelerator Partner to Advance China's IoT Industry (Monday May. 09, 2016)
InvenSense, Inc. (NYSE: INVN), a leading provider of MEMS sensor platforms and ARM Innovation Ecosystem Accelerator (ARM Accelerator), founded by ARM (NYSE:ARMH) in 2015 and Thundersoft Software Technology Co., Ltd (Thundersoft), as a co-investor, have partnered to accelerate development and innovation in the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart hardware segments in China.
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NetSpeed Systems expands presence in Taiwan through partnership with Maojet Technology (Tuesday May. 03, 2016)
NetSpeed Systems Inc., the supplier of on-chip network IP that is streamlining SoC design, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Maojet Technology to provide local front-line sales for NetSpeed’s products in Taiwan.
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Cypress to Acquire Broadcom's Wireless Internet of Things Business (Thursday Apr. 28, 2016)
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) and Broadcom Limited (Nasdaq: AVGO) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement under which Cypress will acquire Broadcom's Wireless Internet of Things (IoT) business and related assets in an all-cash transaction valued at $550 million.
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Cadence Completes Acquisition of Rocketick Technologies (Thursday Apr. 28, 2016)
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Rocketick Technologies, Ltd., an Israel-based pioneer and leading provider of multicore parallel simulation.
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Microsemi and Mercury Systems Announce Scheduled Closing for Microsemi's Sale of its Embedded Security, RF and Microwave, and Custom Microelectronics Businesses to Mercury (Thursday Apr. 28, 2016)
Microsemi and Mercury Systems today provided an update on the closing of the previously announced sale by Microsemi of its embedded security, RF and microwave, and custom microelectronics businesses to Mercury, for $300 million in cash (subject to a customary purchase price adjustment).
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Peraso Raises $20M Series C Financing Co-Led by Integrated Device Technology (IDT) and Roadmap Capital (Monday Apr. 25, 2016)
Peraso Technologies Inc., a leader in Wireless Gigabit (WiGig®) chipsets, announced today that it has raised a $20 million funding round. The round was co-led by US semiconductor company IDT (IDTI on NASDAQ), and existing investor Roadmap Capital (Roadmap), with additional financing from iNovia Capital.
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DENSO, eSOL, and NEC Communication Systems Form Joint Venture To Enhance Development of In-vehicle Electronic Systems Software (Thursday Apr. 21, 2016)
DENSO Corp., eSOL Co., Ltd., and NEC Communication Systems, Ltd. will form a joint venture to develop basic software (BSW) that can support high-speed data communication, high-quality security, and high-performance microcomputers, in order to advance in-vehicle systems used for automated driving and other control actions.
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Server and Cloud Leaders Collaborate to Create China-based Green Computing Consortium (Monday Apr. 18, 2016)
Leading server and cloud solution providers along with key China academic institutions today announced the China-based Green Computing Consortium (GCC). The GCC plans to build an open and innovative ecosystem in China for green computing and drive key application development for big data, enterprise and cloud computing on platforms based on the ARM® architecture.
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Kilopass, Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Announce Technology Development Partnership (Thursday Apr. 14, 2016)
In this phase of the agreement, Kilopass will port its OTP NVM Intellectual property (IP) to MIFS’s 40-nanometer (nm) low-power (40LP) process. Designers using the MIFS 40LP process will be able to integrate Kilopass’ XPM 128kbit to optimize power efficiency and performance of their designs.
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Cadence to Acquire Rocketick, Delivering Revolutionary Parallel Logic Simulation Speed-up (Monday Apr. 11, 2016)
Cadence today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rocketick Technologies Ltd., an Israel based pioneer and leading provider of multicore parallel simulation.
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TSMC to Sell 5.1% of Xintec Inc. (Monday Apr. 11, 2016)
TSMC today announced to sell 5.1% ownership of Xintec Inc (“Xintec”). TSMC obtained 10.2% Xintec ownership from its purchase of OmniVision Technologies, Inc.’s 49.1% ownership in VisEra Holding Cayman, Ltd. and 100% ownership in Taiwan OmniVision Investment Holding Co. Inc. (renamed as Chi Cherng Investment Co., Ltd.) on November 20, 2015.
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Chips&Media's Video IP powered SoCs reached 140 Million shipments in 2015 (Wednesday Apr. 06, 2016)
Chips&Media Inc., the world’s leading company in video IP technology announced that SoCs embedded with their video core had been shipped over 140 million units in 2015. Chips&Media Inc. dominated the market rapidly since start of their business 10 years ago by introducing best performance video IPs and advanced technology every year and became a competitive video IP provider.
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Intel Acquires Yogitech for IoT Functional Safety (Wednesday Apr. 06, 2016)
The YOGITECH team, based in Italy, will soon join Intel’s Internet of Things Group. This acquisition furthers our efforts to win in ADAS, robotics and autonomous machines for market segments like automotive, industrial and other IoT systems that require functional safety and high performance.
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GigOptix, Inc. to Acquire Magnum Semiconductor, Inc. (Monday Apr. 04, 2016)
GigOptix today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Magnum Semiconductor, Inc., a privately-held Milpitas, California-based provider of silicon ICs, SoCs, software, and IP for the professional video broadcast and IoT camera markets, in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $55 million net based upon the average closing price of GigOptix stock for the trailing thirty day period ended April 1, 2016.
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Faraday's MIPI IP Subsystem Shipment Reaches Fifteen Million (Thursday Mar. 31, 2016)
Faraday Technology today announced that its MIPI IP subsystem has been adopted widely and accumulated the shipment of fifteen million. The customers include giant system companies and leading fabless vendors around the globe, and cover applications of mobile, surveillance and Digital Still Camera (DSC).
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Dolphin Integration Gets the EN 9100 Certification for its Service Activity of ASIC/SoC Integration (Thursday Mar. 31, 2016)
The company announces having passed the EN 9100 certification for its service activity in design and integration of specific integrated circuits, in accordance with its customers' demand, in the aeronautics and military domains. This new certification partakes naturally in a process of excellence and complements the ISO 9001 certification granted in 2008.
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Andes Technology Corporation Reaches 1.4 Billion Cumulative Shipments of AndesCores Through Over 100 Customers Worldwide (Tuesday Mar. 29, 2016)
Andes Technology Corporation, the leading Asia-based supplier of small, low-power, high performance 32-bit embedded CPU cores, today announced that its customer base of 100 licensees have now shipped over 1.4 billion SoCs containing AndesCore 32-bit CPUs.
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Microsemi Announces Definitive Agreement to Divest Business to Mercury Systems, Inc. (Thursday Mar. 24, 2016)
Microsemi today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to divest a non-strategic component of a board level systems and packaging business to Mercury Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRCY), for $300 million in cash (subject to a customary purchase price adjustment).
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ReRAM Startup in Reverse Takeover for Funds (Monday Mar. 21, 2016)
Australian firm Radar Iron Ltd. is set to acquire Weebit Nano Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel), a company founded in 2014 to commercialize silicon dioxide resistive RAM technology.
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Analog Devices Enhances IoT Sensing Portfolio with SNAP Sensor Acquisition (Monday Mar. 21, 2016)
Analog Devices today announced the acquisition of SNAP Sensor SA, a privately held company based in Switzerland that specializes in highly innovative vision sensing technologies. The acquisition will advance Analog Devices' leadership position in sensing and signal processing and build upon platform-level Internet of Things (IoT) solutions such as ADI's award-winning Blackfin Low Power Imaging Platform (BLiP).
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Imagination Technologies: Restructuring update (Thursday Mar. 17, 2016)
On 8 February 2016, the Group announced that it will reduce total operating costs of its ongoing businesses by £15 million in the next financial year, ending April 2017. These cost reductions will be implemented by the end of the current financial year, ending April 2016. The Group has seen considerable interest in Pure, its consumer electronics business, which it is planning to sell by the end of 2016.
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TSMC and MediaTek Extend Collaboration on Ultra-Low Power Technology to Capture the Emerging IoT Market (Tuesday Mar. 15, 2016)
TSMC and MediaTek today announced their commitment to a long-term partnership to continue developing innovative products for Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable products with TSMC's industry-leading and most comprehensive ultra-low power (ULP) technology platform.
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Flex Logix Announces Program for Fast-Track Evaluation and Prototyping (Monday Mar. 14, 2016)
Flex Logix Technologies, Inc., innovative developer of patented FPGA-in-SoC technology, announced today a program to make it easier for IC and Systems customers to evaluate and prototype with EFLX IP for reconfigurable RTL in their chip designs. An initial IP evaluation license is free, and a fast-track license for an evaluation prototype costs $50,000 (for USA customers).