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AMD Forms Radeon Technologies Group To Enhance Focus on Graphics And Immersive Computing Under The Leadership of Raja Koduri (Wednesday Sep. 16, 2015)
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Crossbar Closes Series D Funding of $35 Million (Tuesday Sep. 15, 2015)
Crossbar, Inc., the Resistive RAM (RRAM) technology leader, today announced it has completed a $35 million Series D funding round.
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Rambus Reveals Smart Data Acceleration Research Program (Tuesday Sep. 15, 2015)
Rambus today announced the Smart Data Acceleration (SDA) Research Program designed to tackle major issues facing data centers in the age of Big Data.
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Open-Silicon Joins Synopsys ARC Access Program (Monday Sep. 14, 2015)
Through its OpenMODEL(TM) process, Open-Silicon constantly strives to enable customers to utilize the best technology available by providing system designers with pre-validated solutions that enable the delivery of the energy-efficient, always-on processing required for IoT applications. This process has been extended to include support for Synopsys DesignWare® ARC Processors and Sensor and Control IP subsystem in Open-Silicon's Spec2Chip IoT offering.
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Freescale Accelerates Its Solutions for Crashless and Autonomous Vehicles with the Acquisition of CogniVue (Friday Sep. 11, 2015)
To solidify its strong position in solutions for the autonomous vehicles/advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) market, Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) today announced the acquisition of Ottawa, Canada-based CogniVue Corporation, a leading developer of image cognition IP for automotive and consumer applications.
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CAST and Boost Valley Partner for Better Verification of IP Cores (Thursday Sep. 10, 2015)
Reusable intellectual property (IP) has proven essential for electronic system design. Verifying the correctness of IP cores and their proper working in a system, however, remains a significant challenge. Now one of the oldest and most experienced IP providers—CAST, Inc.—has joined forces with one of the newest and most forward-thinking verification IP developers—Boost Valley, LLC—to work together on developing and delivering class-leading IP verification solutions.
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Open-Silicon Partners With Silicon Catalyst (Tuesday Sep. 08, 2015)
Open-Silicon announced today a partnership with Silicon Catalyst, the world’s first incubator for semiconductor solution start-ups. Open-Silicon has joined forces with Silicon Catalyst to enable semiconductor start-ups to increase silicon innovation rates and pursue big ideas.
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MediaTek Announces Tender Offer for Richtek (Monday Sep. 07, 2015)
MediaTek announced its Board of Directors had approved a Letter of Intent (“LOI”) with Richtek Technology Corporation (TSE: 6286; hereinafter “Richtek”) today. Per the LOI, MediaTek and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively and individually, hereinafter, “MediaTek”) shall launch a tender offer for Richtek common stock.
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ARM and Thundersoft Open First IoT Ecosystem Accelerator in China (Monday Sep. 07, 2015)
ARM has partnered with Thundersoft, a world leader in smart device platforms, to establish the ARM Innovation Ecosystem Accelerator. The collaboration creates an Internet of Things (IoT) one-stop shop for startups and established OEMs, providing integrated hardware and software expertise as well as resources from the ARM® ecosystem.
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IBM and ARM Collaborate to Accelerate Delivery of Internet of Things (Thursday Sep. 03, 2015)
IBM today announced an expansion of its Internet of Things (IoT) platform – called IBM IoT Foundation - through an integration with ARM (LSE: ARM, NASDAQ: ARMH.US), providing out of the box connectivity with ARM® mbed-enabled devices to analytics services. This fusion will allow huge quantities of data from devices such as industrial appliances, weather sensors and wearable monitoring devices to be gathered, analyzed and acted upon.
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Credo Raises $8 Million in Series A Funding (Monday Aug. 31, 2015)
Credo Semiconductor, a global innovation leader in Serializer-Deserializer (SerDes) technology, today announced that it has raised over $8 million in Series A funding led by global venture capital firm, Walden International.
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Cavendish Kinetics raises $36 million, transforms LTE Smartphones (Tuesday Aug. 25, 2015)
Building on the market success of its high performance RF MEMS antenna tuners, Cavendish Kinetics announced today, that it has completed its final funding round with a strategic raise of $36 million, to accelerate the development of its next generation RF components.
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TSMC to Cease Solar Manufacturing Operations (Tuesday Aug. 25, 2015)
TSMC today announced that TSMC Solar, its 100% owned subsidiary, will cease manufacturing operations at the end of August 2015 as TSMC believes that its solar business is no longer economically sustainable.
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HP to Cut More Jobs (Monday Aug. 24, 2015)
Hewlett-Packard (HP) plans to reduce a further 5% of its workforce in addition to the 55,000 jobs it already plans to eliminate.
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Docea Power has been acquired by Intel Corporation (Friday Aug. 14, 2015)
Docea Power has been acquired by Intel Corporation. The transaction was completed on July 31, 2015.
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Qualcomm Completes $2.4 Billion Acquisition of CSR (Thursday Aug. 13, 2015)
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Global Trading Pte. Ltd, has completed its acquisition of CSR plc (CSR), a leading fabless provider of end-to-end semiconductor and software solutions for the Internet of Everything (IoE) and automotive segments.
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Aricent Acquires SmartPlay - Accelerates R&D for Semiconductors, Embedded Systems and Internet of Things (Tuesday Aug. 11, 2015)
Aricent today announced the acquisition of SmartPlay Technologies, a fast-growing product engineering services firm with 1,200-plus employees and deep design expertise across semiconductors, embedded software and system design. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Altran acquires SiConTech, one of the fastest growing Indian technologies firms, specialised in semiconductor design services (Tuesday Aug. 04, 2015)
Altran has announced the acquisition of SiCon Design Technologies (SiConTech), an engineering services company specialised in semiconductor design. SiConTech currently works with seven of the top ten global semiconductor companies.
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Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Atrenta (Tuesday Aug. 04, 2015)
Synopsys has completed its acquisition of Atrenta, a provider of SoC realization solutions for the semiconductor and consumer electronics industries.
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ARM Expands IoT Security Capability with Acquisition of Sansa Security (Thursday Jul. 30, 2015)
ARM has acquired Israel-based Sansa Security, a provider of hardware security IP and software for advanced system-on-chip components deployed in Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile devices. The company currently enables security in more than 150 million products a year and Sansa Security technology is deployed across a range of smart connected devices and enterprise systems.
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UltraSoC partners with Tortuga Pacific to advance global SoC debug and analytics market (Monday Jul. 27, 2015)
UltraSoC and Tortuga Pacific today announced that they are partnering to develop the global SoC debug and embedded analytics market. Under the terms of the agreement, UltraSoC will use Tortuga’s revenue generation, strategic initiative and market-maker capabilities to bring its innovative UltraDebug® pre- and post-silicon debug and validation technologies to SoC designers in key global markets including North America and Japan.
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Global University Partners Alliance Launched by ARM in China (Monday Jul. 27, 2015)
ARM has launched a new university alliance partnership that allows industry partners to develop high quality teaching materials based on their own technologies for engineering students around the world. The hardware and software kits will be centered around ARM teaching materials and will offer the most up-to-date professional-standard platforms and tools.
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Qualcomm Plans 15% Layoffs (Thursday Jul. 23, 2015)
Qualcomm will lay off 15% of it employees, an estimated 4,700 people, as part of a restructuring plan that may include spinning off non-strategic parts of the company. The mobile giant announced the plan to cut $1.4 billion in annual costs by 2016 along with its quarterly results which were down significantly but in line with expectations.
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Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Seeker from Quotium (Tuesday Jul. 21, 2015)
Synopsys has completed its acquisition of certain assets of Quotium, including the Seeker® product and R&D team. The asset acquisition adds talent and technology that will accelerate Synopsys' efforts in the software application security market and extend the company's Coverity® platform with interactive application security testing (IAST) functionality.
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Synopsys Acquires Bluetooth Smart IP from Silicon Vision (Friday Jul. 17, 2015)
Synopsys today announced that it has acquired the Bluetooth Smart IP from Silicon Vision, a leading provider of high-performance, ultra-low-power wireless IP solutions.
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Semtech Announces Global Reduction in Force (Thursday Jul. 16, 2015)
Semtech today announced a worldwide reduction in force to align operating expenses with business conditions and leverage recent infrastructure investments.
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Palma Ceia SemiDesign to Partner With NEWRACOM in IP Development for Next-Generation WiFi Chipsets (Monday Jul. 13, 2015)
Palma Ceia SemiDesigN, a provider of analog and RF IP for next-generation WiFi and mobile communications, and NEWRACOM, a technology-intensive global startup in wireless technologies for making everything communicate and be connected, today jointly announced NEWRACOM has selected Palma Ceia as its IP partner in the development of next-generation WiFi chipsets.
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EnSilica announce new sales partnership with Beyond Electronics, Israel (Monday Jul. 06, 2015)
EnSilica have announced a new sales partnership with Beyond Electronics in Israel to to help grow its customer footprint within the region. Beyond will be offering the full range of EnSilica IPs to customers within Israel including eSi-RISC (16/32 bit embedded processor) , eSi-Crypto, eSi-Comms and eSi-Connect IPs.
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INSIDE Secure finalizes its partnership agreement with Presto Engineering (Thursday Jul. 02, 2015)
INSIDE Secure announces that it has completed its partnership agreement with Presto Engineering Inc. as intended.
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES Completes Acquisition of IBM Microelectronics Business (Wednesday Jul. 01, 2015)
GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced that it has completed its acquisition of IBM’s Microelectronics business. With the acquisition, GLOBALFOUNDRIES gains differentiated technologies to enhance its product offerings in key growth markets, from mobility and Internet of Things (IoT) to Big Data and high-performance computing.