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Andes Partners with eMemory to Provide Hardware Security Solution for the Internet of Things Market (Tuesday May. 12, 2015)
Andes Technology today announced a partnership with eMemory to provide a hardware security solution for designers building Internet of Things system on chip (SoC) devices.
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AAC Technologies Acquires WiSpry (Tuesday May. 12, 2015)
AAC Technologies announced the completion of its acquisition of WiSpry. WiSpry is a leader in high-performance tunable radio frequency (“RF”) semiconductor products for the wireless industry and a pioneer of RF micro-electro-mechanical systems (“MEMS”) solutions, with products relating to antenna tuning and filters for mobile devices. Immediately
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Microchip Technology To Acquire Micrel (Monday May. 11, 2015)
Microchip and Micrel today announced that Microchip has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Micrel for $14.00 per share.
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M31 Announces Partnership with AST Aiming for Israel’s Semiconductor Industry (Tuesday May. 05, 2015)
M31 Technology today announced the partnership with Advanced Semiconductor Technology (AST), the leading provider of ASIC design and manufacturing services, advance IPs for ASIC projects in Israel.
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OmniVision to be Acquired by Hua Capital Management, CITIC Capital and GoldStone Investment for $29.75 per share in Cash (Friday May. 01, 2015)
OmniVision Technologies today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by a consortium composed of Hua Capital Management Co., Ltd. (“Hua Capital Management”), CITIC Capital Holdings Limited (“CITIC Capital”), and GoldStone Investment Co., Ltd. (“GoldStone Investment”) (collectively, the “Consortium”).
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Microsemi Successfully Completes Vitesse Tender Offer (Tuesday Apr. 28, 2015)
Microsemi announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary LLIU100 Acquisition Corp. successfully completed its previously announced tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of Vitesse Semiconductor for $5.28 per share in cash.
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Inomize Becomes TSMC Design Center Alliance Partner (Tuesday Apr. 28, 2015)
Inomize, a leading provider of turnkey ASIC/SoC design services, announced today it has been selected as a TSMC Design Center Alliance (DCA) partner.
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Imagination Revolutionizes CPU Architecture Education with Free and Open Access to a Modern MIPS CPU (Monday Apr. 27, 2015)
Through MIPSfpga, Imagination is transforming CPU architecture education in universities around the globe by offering them free and open access to a fully-validated, current generation MIPS CPU in a complete teaching package.
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Leading edge technology company in India will Design, Build and License Semiconductor IP products and Services in 14nm Technology (Thursday Apr. 23, 2015)
INVECAS Technologies (INVECAS), a spec-to-silicon solution company involved in complex SoC design, high speed interface and memory IPs for multiple high-volume market segments today announced the opening of its high-technology Semiconductor IP and solutions design centers in Hyderabad and Bengaluru.
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Synopsys to Acquire Software Security Company Codenomicon (Monday Apr. 20, 2015)
Synopsys today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Codenomicon. Based in Finland, Codenomicon Oy is well-known and highly respected in the global software security world with a focus on software embedded in chips and devices.
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Netspeed Systems Accelerates Global Adoption of its On-Chip Network IP with new Office in Tokyo (Monday Apr. 20, 2015)
NetSpeed Systems Inc., the supplier of on-chip network IP that streamlines SoC design, today announced the launch of its Japanese office located in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, and led by Kenichi Sakamaki, Japan Country Manager.
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Open-Silicon Streamlines ASIC Quotation Process (Thursday Apr. 16, 2015)
In an effort to facilitate and improve the turnaround time for ASIC quotations, Open-Silicon has designed a web portal. This environment provides the customer with an intuitive web interface to submit real system requirements including the choices in IP, packaging, manufacturing process, system voltage and power limitations.
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ARM Announces Acquisition of Wicentric and Sunrise Micro Devices (Thursday Apr. 16, 2015)
ARM today announced the acquisition of Wicentric, a Bluetooth® Smart stack and profile provider, and Sunrise Micro Devices (SMD), a provider of sub-one volt Bluetooth radio intellectual property (IP).
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INSIDE Secure and Presto Engineering to sign a partnership agreement to outsource INSIDE Secure’s semiconductor operations and supply chain activities to specialist provider, Presto Engineering (Wednesday Apr. 15, 2015)
INSIDE Secure and Presto Engineering today announced their intention to enter into a partnership agreement whereby INSIDE Secure would transfer its French-based semiconductor operations activities and its worldwide supply-chain management to Presto Engineering, which specializes in delivering such services.
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Movidius Raises $40 Million in Funding to Accelerate Adoption of Visual Sensing in the Internet of Things (Tuesday Apr. 14, 2015)
Movidius, the leading vision processor company serving the growing need for visual sensing in connected devices, today announced that it has raised $40 million in new funding.
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Arasan is an Intel Custom Foundry IP Partner (Tuesday Apr. 14, 2015)
Arasan is an Intel Customer Foundry IP Partner. Arasan’s mobile storage and mobile connectivity IP is used by ICF customers.
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sureCore Limited Opens Leuven Design Centre (Tuesday Apr. 14, 2015)
sureCore Ltd., the low power SRAM IP company, today announced the opening of its new Design Centre in Leuven, Belgium.
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Microsemi Announces Expiration of HSR Waiting Period for Vitesse Tender Offer (Wednesday Apr. 08, 2015)
Microsemi announced the expiration, on April 7, 2015, of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended ("HSR Act") applicable to its proposed acquisition of Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq:VTSS) ("Vitesse") through its wholly-owned subsidiary LLIU100 Acquisition Corp.
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Barco Silex Partners with Rambus to Combat Security Threats in Point-of-Sale Market (Tuesday Apr. 07, 2015)
Rambus today announced that its Cryptography Research Division has entered into a partnership agreement with Barco Silex. Through this agreement, Barco Silex can develop DPA-resistant solutions that help accelerate time-to-market of security-based products.
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Imec and sureCore collaborate on SRAM Design IP (Tuesday Mar. 31, 2015)
sureCore Ltd., the low power SRAM IP company, and nanoelectronics R&D center, imec, today announced that they are collaborating on low-power SRAM IP. The collaboration includes the licensing of a set of imec SRAM design IP to sureCore to expand sureCore's IP portfolio and a participation in sureCore.
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Imagination reports strong momentum behind its Ensigma connectivity technologies in key markets (Friday Mar. 27, 2015)
Imagination Technologies reports that Toshiba Corporation’s family of TZ5000 series applications processors, which integrates a range of Imagination IP processors, including PowerVR graphics, video processors and Ensigma Explorer radio processors (RPU), has extended its series to include four additional applications processors.
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Cadence and ARM Announce Strategic IP Interoperability Agreement (Wednesday Mar. 18, 2015)
Cadence and ARM today announced the signing of a broad IP Interoperability Agreement. This multiyear agreement provides reciprocal access to relevant IP portfolios from the Cadence® IP Group and ARM. Additionally, the agreement grants both companies rights to manufacture test chips containing Cadence IP and ARM IP and to provide development platforms to customers.
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Microsemi Corporation to Acquire Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Wednesday Mar. 18, 2015)
Microsemi and Vitesse Semiconductor jointly announced today that Microsemi has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vitesse for $5.28 per share through a cash tender offer, representing a premium of 32 percent based on the average closing price of Vitesse's shares of common stock during the 30 trading days ended March 17, 2015
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Imagination Technologies: Interim update (Wednesday Mar. 18, 2015)
Imagination Technologies is today issuing an Interim update for the period from 1 November 2014 to 17 March 2015.
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Ericsson acquires telecom IT services business in China (Tuesday Mar. 17, 2015)
Ericsson has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the telecom business of Sunrise Technology, a provider of IT services in the operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS) domain. Sunrise Technology, which is headquartered in Guangzhou, China, will continue to exist as a separate entity - serving customers in sectors other than telecom.
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Kilopass Focuses on Market and Roadmap Expansion After Sidense Patent Litigation (Tuesday Mar. 17, 2015)
Kilopass acknowledges the recent ruling of the U.S. District Court awarding Sidense Corporation $5.5 million for patent litigation legal fees. Kilopass has set aside cash in the full amount of the award.
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ISSI Enters Into A Definitive Merger Agreement To Be Acquired By Consortium For $19.25 Per Share (Tuesday Mar. 17, 2015)
Integrated Silicon Solution, a global fabless semiconductor company, and a Chinese consortium of investors led by Summitview Capital today jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which the Consortium will acquire all of the outstanding shares of ISSI for US$19.25 per share in cash.
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T&VS and ESS announce strategic partnership to provide a complete security solution (Monday Mar. 16, 2015)
T&VS and Embedded Security Solutions today announced a strategic partnership to provide asureSECURE a complete security solution from hardened SoC to software applications.
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Cypress and Spansion Complete $5 Billion All-Stock Merger (Friday Mar. 13, 2015)
Cypress and Spansion today announced that they have closed the merger of the two companies in an all-stock, tax-free transaction valued at approximately $5 billion.
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Silicon Line GmbH Closes an Investment Round of 6.3 Million Euro (Thursday Mar. 12, 2015)
Silicon Line GmbH today announced that the Company successfully raised Euro 6.3 M from new and existing investors, Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij NV, Hasselt Belgium, MVP Fund I and II GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, and Capital-E I and II Arkiv Comm. V.A, Antwerp.