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Microsemi Corporation Reiterates its Superior $11.88 Per Share Cash and Stock Bid for PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Tuesday Nov. 03, 2015)
Microsemi today announced it is disappointed the PMC-Sierra board of directors has chosen not to deem its $11.88 per share bid a Superior Proposal.
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EnSilica establishes new regional office and centralised design centre for analog and mixed-signal IC design in Bristol (UK) (Thursday Oct. 29, 2015)
EnSilica has established a new regional office and design centre in Bristol (UK) to complement its existing headquarters facility in Wokingham (UK), and verification centre of excellence and design centre in Bangalore (India).
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IDT to Acquire ZMDI for $310 Million (Tuesday Oct. 27, 2015)
IDTI today announced an agreement to acquire privately held ZMDI for total consideration of $310M in cash. The acquisition provides IDT with a highly regarded Automotive & Industrial business, and extends their technology leadership in high performance programmable power devices and timing & signal conditioning.
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Rambus Initiates Accelerated Share Repurchase Program (Tuesday Oct. 27, 2015)
Rambus today announced it has initiated an accelerated share repurchase program with Citibank, N.A. to repurchase an aggregate of approximately $100 million of its common stock, with an initial delivery of approximately 7,812,500 shares.
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Brite Semiconductor Acquires Architectural License to Uniquify's DDR Technology to Consolidate Core IP Technology (Tuesday Oct. 27, 2015)
Brite Semiconductor today announced that it has acquired an architectural license to DDR (double data rate) technology developed by Uniquify. The architectural license gives Brite a proven foundation to develop DDR solutions for their customers targeting Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation’s (SMIC) 40nm and 28nm processes.
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Flex Logix Secures $7.4 Million in VC Financing (Monday Oct. 26, 2015)
Flex Logix Technologies today announced it has secured $7.4 million in equity financing. The company’s EFLX Arrays enable FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) to be easily embedded into any SoC (system-on-chip), allowing key functions to be optimized or customized after the device is completely fabricated – even updating logic after a device is installed into a system in the field.
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Andes Technology and INVECAS Enter Into a High Value Collaboration to Win Designs for GLOBALFOUNDRIES 22FDSOI and 14LPP Processes (Wednesday Oct. 21, 2015)
Andes Technology and INVECAS today announced a high value collaboration. Andes and INVECAS will develop platforms on GLOBALFOUNDRIES' advanced process nodes enabling customers to reduce their risk and time to market.
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ARM to Offer Cycle-Accurate Virtual Prototyping for Complex SoCs Through an Asset Acquisition from Carbon Design Systems (Tuesday Oct. 20, 2015)
ARM has acquired the product portfolio and other business assets of Carbon Design Systems (Carbon), a leading supplier of cycle-accurate virtual prototyping solutions, to deliver design optimization, time-to-market and cost-efficiency gains for its partners. As part of this acquisition, Carbon’s staff will transfer to ARM.
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Innovasic and OmniPhy Announce Collaboration on Automotive Ethernet Solutions (Tuesday Oct. 20, 2015)
By combining the OmniPhy physical layer IP with Innovasic’s programmable 2-port switch IP, a complete communication interface is available to support the emerging IEEE 802.1 TSN (Time Sensitive Networking) Ethernet standards and 802.3 100Base-T1 physical layer. By integrating Innovasic and OmniPhy IP with an appropriate CPU core, it is possible to create SoC solutions that address new automotive Ethernet network designs.
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AXSEM AG is now a part of ON Semiconductor (Tuesday Oct. 20, 2015)
AXSEM AG, a provider of low-power radio frequency (RF) devices, is now a part of ON Semiconductor. AXSEM’s portfolio of low-power sub 1 gigahertz (GHz) RF solutions (SIGFOX, enocean, wireless M-Bus, AT and proprietary) enhance ON Semiconductor’s existing 2.4 GHz (ZigBee) and wired (MBus, KNX and HART) offerings
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Microsemi Corporation Announces Superior Proposal to Acquire PMC-Sierra, Inc. for $11.50 Per Share With Intent to Close in December 2015 (Monday Oct. 19, 2015)
Microsemi today announced that it submitted an offer to acquire PMC-Sierra, Inc (Nasdaq: PMCS) in a cash and stock transaction.
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VeriSilicon to Acquire Vivante Corporation in All-Stock Transaction (Tuesday Oct. 13, 2015)
VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. and Vivante Corporation today announced a definitive merger agreement under which the companies will be combined in an all-stock transaction. The combined company, to be called VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd., will offer robust IP-centric, platform-based custom silicon solutions and end-to-end semiconductor turnkey services.
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Sony Acquires Belgian Innovator of Range Image Sensor Technology, Softkinetic Systems S.A., in its Push Toward Next-Generation Range Image Sensors and Solutions (Monday Oct. 12, 2015)
Sony is announcing that it has completed the acquisition of Softkinetic. With this acquisition, Softkinetic - which possesses time-of-flight ("ToF") range image sensor technology, as well as related systems and software - has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony.
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ON Semiconductor, GainSpan & GEO Semiconductor Announce Strategic Partnership to Address Emerging Opportunities in IoT Space (Friday Oct. 09, 2015)
Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ON), driving energy efficient innovations, is collaborating with GainSpan and GEO Semiconductor to rapidly respond to the ever-growing potential of the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Vivante Vision Image Processor to Power Mass Market Surveillance Camera and Automotive Applications (Wednesday Oct. 07, 2015)
Vivante® Corporation announces the immediate availability of the VIP7000 family of Vision Image Processor IP cores. The VIP7000 has been designed into a range of products from a mass market IoT surveillance client SoC to an automotive imaging application.
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Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation to be Established (Wednesday Oct. 07, 2015)
Sony Corporation has been implementing a series of measures to reinforce its Devices segment, a key growth driver for the Sony Group. As part of these measures, Sony will adopt a new operational structure for its Devices segment.
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Altera Stockholders Approve Merger with Intel (Wednesday Oct. 07, 2015)
Altera today announced that its stockholders have overwhelmingly approved its pending merger with Intel Corporation, with more than 97 percent of votes cast in favor of the merger.
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Skyworks to Acquire PMC-Sierra for $2 Billion in Cash (Tuesday Oct. 06, 2015)
Skyworks Solutions and PMC-Sierra today announced a definitive agreement under which Skyworks will acquire PMC for $10.50 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $2 billion.
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Aquantia Raises $37 Million in Growth Capital Targeting the Billion Ethernet Port Opportunity in Data Center & Enterprise (Monday Oct. 05, 2015)
Aquantia, today announced it has secured $37 million in an oversubscribed Series H round of growth capital. New investors participating in this round include Credit Suisse's Direct Equity Partners, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, and Walden Riverwood along with existing investor Cisco Investments.
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CEVA, Inc. Announces All-Time High Revenues for the Third Quarter and Schedules Third Quarter 2015 Earnings Release and Conference Call (Monday Oct. 05, 2015)
CEVA today announced that its revenues for the third quarter of 2015 are approximately $16.2 million, an all-time high, and above the high end of the Company's previously issued revenue guidance of $15 to $16 million.
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AMD Cuts 5% of Global Employees (Friday Oct. 02, 2015)
Advanced Micro Devices has joined the list of large semiconductor companies handing out pink slips. A recently adopted restructuring plan to help improve poor fiscal results calls for a 5% reduction in the company’s global workforce.
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VIA Telecom Completes Sale of Part of Assets to Intel Corporation (Friday Oct. 02, 2015)
VIA Technologies, Inc. today announced that VIA Telecom has completed the sale of part of its assets to Intel® Corporation.
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Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire EZchip (Wednesday Sep. 30, 2015)
Mellanox and EZchip announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Mellanox shall acquire 100 percent of EZchip’s outstanding ordinary shares for a cash purchase price of $25.5 per share implying a transaction value of approximately $811 million (approximately $620 million net of cash).
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Qualcomm Commits Up To $150 Million to Strategic Venture Fund in India (Tuesday Sep. 29, 2015)
Qualcomm Incorporated today announced its intention to invest up to $150 million in Indian startup companies across all stages as part of its commitment to India during a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Digital Economy event in San Jose.
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Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Announces Significant Restructuring of Mobile Platform Business (Monday Sep. 28, 2015)
Marvell Technology today announced a significant restructuring of its mobile platform business in order to focus the mobile product line on anticipated more profitable opportunities and right-size its expenses in line with corporate targets.
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Moortec Semiconductor Limited Joins TSMC IP Alliance Program (Thursday Sep. 24, 2015)
Moortec Semiconductor, leading supplier of embedded monitoring and optimisation IP, are proud to announce its membership in TSMC’s Hard IP Alliance, a part of TSMC's Open Innovation Platform®.
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Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6 Billion (Monday Sep. 21, 2015)
Dialog Semiconductor and Atmel Corporation announced today that Dialog has agreed to acquire Atmel in a cash and stock transaction for total consideration of approximately $4.6 billion. The acquisition creates a global leader in both Power Management (2) and Embedded Processing solutions.
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Mentor Graphics Acquires Calypto Design Systems (Thursday Sep. 17, 2015)
Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that it has acquired its majority-owned subsidiary, Calypto Design Systems, Inc.
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Imagination Technologies Group plc -- Interim update (Wednesday Sep. 16, 2015)
Imagination Technologies is today issuing its Interim update for the period from 1 May 2015 to 15 September 2015.
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SMIC, CICIIF and Qualcomm Intend to Invest into SJsemi (Wednesday Sep. 16, 2015)
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Co., Ltd., (CICIIF), and a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated have announced the signing of a non-legally binding term sheet relating to a contemplated investment of $280 million dollars in the aggregate in SJ Semiconductor Corp. (SJsemi).