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Aims Technology Joins ARM Connected Community (Thursday Mar. 12, 2015)
Aims Technology today announced it is a new member in the ARM® Connected Community, the industry’s largest ecosystem for ARM-based technology and services. As part of the ARM Connected Community, Aims Technology will gain access to a full range of resources to help it market and deploy innovative solutions that will enable developers to get their ARM-based products to market faster.
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Square Acquires Kili Technology (Thursday Mar. 12, 2015)
Square has acquired Kili Technology, a company that has developed silicon, electronics, and software that simplify and optimize payment processing.
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NXP Acquires Athena SCS (Thursday Mar. 12, 2015)
NXP Semiconductors today announced that it will acquire Athena SCS Ltd., a provider of solutions securing the rapidly expanding connected world. The acquisition will further strengthen NXP’s offering in providing secure solutions across a multitude of applications in the areas of Internet of Things (IoT), portable & wearables, and automotive.
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Lattice Semiconductor Closes Acquisition of Silicon Image (Tuesday Mar. 10, 2015)
Lattice today announced the close of its acquisition of Silicon Image and the results of the related tender offer. For the first time in the semiconductor industry, a single company now combines the design flexibility and time to market benefits of FPGAs, with the highly integrated, function and cost optimization benefits of ASSPs.
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MPEG LA Introduces License for DisplayPort (Friday Mar. 06, 2015)
MPEG LA, LLC today announced the availability of the DisplayPort Patent Portfolio License. The DisplayPort License provides coverage for a variety of digital interface technology standards used in connecting audio/video sources among products such as computer monitors, video projectors, televisions, adaptors, personal computers, graphic cards, motherboards, storage devices, smartphones, tablets, flat panel displays and cameras.
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Imagination identifies six key trends at MWC 2015 (Friday Mar. 06, 2015)
Imagination Technologies identifies six trends driving industry momentum and related technologies at the recent Mobile World Congress 2015 (MWC) focused on security, IoT interoperability, wearables, computer vision, communications infrastructure, and ultra-low power connectivity.
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eASIC Passes Milestone of Shipping Twenty Million Custom ICs (Thursday Mar. 05, 2015)
eASIC, a fabless semiconductor company that delivers a custom integrated circuit (IC) platform (eASIC Platform), today announced that it has shipped over twenty million custom ICs.
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Semtech Announces Acquisition of Triune Systems (Thursday Mar. 05, 2015)
Semtech today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Triune Systems, a privately-held supplier of wireless charging and power management platforms targeted at high and low power, high efficiency applications.
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MediaTek Allocates US$300m to Invest in New Business Opportunities (Wednesday Mar. 04, 2015)
MediaTek, today announced the launch of MediaTek Ventures - a new strategic investment arm within the company. Headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, MediaTek Ventures will initially invest in startups in Greater China, Europe, Japan and North America, with a US$300m reserve.
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ViaSat Expands High-Speed Networking Security Portfolio with Acquisition of EAI Design Services (Tuesday Mar. 03, 2015)
ViaSat has expanded its capabilities in high-speed, low-power secure space-based ASIC and FPGA microprocessor design with the acquisition of the product and technology portfolio of EAI Design Services LLC.
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Mentor Graphics Acquires Tanner EDA (Tuesday Mar. 03, 2015)
Mentor Graphics today announced it has acquired the business assets of Tanner EDA, a leading tool provider for the design, layout and verification of analog/mixed-signal (AMS) and MEMS integrated circuits.
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Brite Semiconductor Secures Series C Round of Finance from Norwest Venture Partners, Gobi Partners and China-based Foundry SMIC (Tuesday Mar. 03, 2015)
Brite Semiconductor, an emerging ASIC design services firm headquartered in Shanghai, China, announced today it has raised $8 million in a Series C round of funding led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Gobi Partners, and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC, NYSE: SMI; SEHK: 981).
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NXP and Freescale Announce $40 Billion Merger (Monday Mar. 02, 2015)
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) and Freescale Semiconductor, Ltd. (NYSE: FSL) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which NXP will merge with Freescale in a transaction which values the combined enterprise at just over $40 billion.
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PLDA and Avery Design Systems Cooperate on PCI Express (Monday Mar. 02, 2015)
Avery Design Systems today announced PLDA and Avery Design Systems have engaged in collaboration to facilitate interoperability of PCI-Xactor VIP and XpressRICH IP and perform extended compliance validation using Avery PCIe compliance test-suite.
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Rambus Launches Partners-in-Open-Development Program to Accelerate Adoption of Lensless Smart Sensor Technology (Monday Mar. 02, 2015)
Rambus today announced its Partners-in-Open-Development (POD) program in collaboration with design firms frog and IXDS to promote the adoption of its lensless smart sensor (LSS) technology.
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T&VS and Blackpepper Technologies announce strategic partnership to provide turnkey end-to-end SoC implementation services (Friday Feb. 27, 2015)
T&VS, a leader in software test and hardware verification solutions, and Blackpepper Technologies, a leading silicon to system design service company, today announced a strategic partnership to provide turnkey end-to-end SoC implementation services.
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Dream Chip Technologies and Chips&Media partner to provide Premium Ultra HD (4k) video experience (Wednesday Feb. 25, 2015)
Dream Chip Technologies GmbH (DCT), the largest independent German Chip Design Service company, and Chips&Media Inc., a leading provider of video IP cores, are pleased to announce their new partnership.
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Microchip Licenses EtherCAT Technology (Wednesday Feb. 25, 2015)
Microchip strengthened its commitment to the industrial space by licensing the EtherCAT® technology for its next-generation Ethernet controllers. This license demonstrates Microchip's strategy for expanding its industrial-market presence with a continuing commitment to provide unique, leading-edge products tailored for industrial designers' needs.
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Logicircuit Offers First "Safe IP" Subscription Model (Monday Feb. 23, 2015)
Logicircuit today announced subscription access to the company’s Safe IP catalog. The Safe IP catalog contains the industry’s most extensive set of DO-254 certifiable intellectual property (IP) cores. Available March 1, 2015, the subscription model provides simple, affordable, and expanded access to the entire IP catalog.
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eASIC Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering (Monday Feb. 23, 2015)
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NXP and Chinese Private Equity firm JianGuang Asset Management to Establish Semiconductor Joint Venture (Thursday Feb. 19, 2015)
NXP Semiconductors and China state-owned investment company JianGuang Asset Management Co. Ltd (JAC Capital) today announced that they have signed an agreement with the intention to establish a joint venture (JV) in China.
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Arteris and YOGITECH Announce Strategic Partnership Enabling ISO 26262 Compliant Advanced Automotive Systems-on-Chip (Tuesday Feb. 17, 2015)
Arteris and YOGITECH today announced a strategic partnership to help semiconductor design teams develop automotive and industrial systems-on-chip (SoCs) more effectively.
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State of Madhya Pradesh, Cricket Semiconductor and IESA working towards India's first specialty fab (Tuesday Feb. 17, 2015)
IESA today disclosed details of their key role in enabling the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Cricket Semiconductor and the Govt. of Madhya Pradesh for an analog fab proposed to be set-up in the state.
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SMIC Receives Investment from China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund (Thursday Feb. 12, 2015)
SMIC today announced an investment agreement from China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Co., Ltd., (CICIIF), the national fund established to promote the IC industry in China. Under the agreement, CICIIF will acquire 4.7 billion new shares at a subscription price of 0.6593 HKD per share.
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Uniquify Joins GLOBALSOLUTIONS Ecosystem Program as Worldwide IP and ASIC Supplier (Thursday Feb. 12, 2015)
Uniquify today announced it has joined the GLOBALSOLUTIONS ecosystem as a worldwide IP and ASIC supplier. GLOBALSOLUTIONS is the sum of GLOBALFOUNDRIES' internal resources and ecosystem partners, combined to efficiently enable the fastest time-to-volume for GLOBALFOUNDRIES' customers.
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ReFLEX CES takes over PLDA Group's hardware business (Wednesday Feb. 11, 2015)
ReFLEX CES, a provider of Modified-Off-The-Shelf (MOTS) solutions and turnkey embedded systems, has added the hardware businesses of its sister companies in the PLDA Group, PLDA and Accelize. Effective from January 1st 2015, FPGA-based boards and the SOM (System-on-Module) product lines have been transferred to the ReFLEX CES portfolio.
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ARM buys Leading IoT Security Company Offspark as it Expands its mbed Platform (Monday Feb. 09, 2015)
ARM has signaled the importance of security in IoT with the acquisition of Offspark, the IoT's leading security software company. Offspark, a Dutch company, specializes in IoT communications security and its PolarSSL technology is already deployed in a wide variety of devices including sensor modules, communication modules and smartphones.
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Nantero Secures more than $30mm in Funding (Thursday Feb. 05, 2015)
Nantero, Inc., the nanotechnology company developing next-generation memory using carbon nanotubes, today announced the closing of an over $30 million Series E financing round. The round was substantially oversubscribed and included both venture and strategic corporate investors.
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Silicon Labs Acquires Bluegiga, a Leader in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Connectivity Solutions (Wednesday Feb. 04, 2015)
Silicon Labs today announced the acquisition of Bluegiga Technologies Oy. A privately held company based in Espoo, Finland, Bluegiga is one of the fastest growing independent providers of short-range wireless connectivity solutions and software for the IoT.
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IXYS Announces the Acquisition of RadioPulse (Wednesday Feb. 04, 2015)
IXYS, an international power semiconductor and IC company, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire RadioPulse. Based in Seoul, Korea, the fabless semiconductor company develops, manufactures and sells innovative wireless network technology solutions based on the ZigBee protocol (which combines MCUs and RF).