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MegaChips Joins Imec and Holst Centre's research and development program on Ultra-low Power Radio (Thursday Nov. 27, 2014)
Nanoelectronics research center imec/Holst Centre and MegaChips, a fabless company focusing on the development of system LSIs and products that incorporate original algorithms and architecture, announced today that they have signed a strategic partnership for joint R&D on ultra-low power (ULP) short radio technology for smart homes and buildings.
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NXP Semiconductors Acquires Wearable and Bluetooth Low Energy IC Business of Quintic (Tuesday Nov. 25, 2014)
NXP Semiconductors today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Quintic to acquire assets and IP related to its Wearable and Bluetooth Low Energy (BTLE) IC business.
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DELTA Microelectronics and Smartest GmbH cooperate in the Fabless market (Monday Nov. 24, 2014)
DELTA Microelectronics and Smartest has made a partnership by which both parties can offer more services and flexibility to the Fabless market. The cooperation model enables DELTA Microelectronics and Smartest to continue business as usual, but also to explore the synergies between the two companies.
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Moortec Semiconductor Sign Representative Agreement with Titus in South Korea (Monday Nov. 24, 2014)
Moortec Semiconductor announce that it has signed a representative agreement with Titus, of Seoul, Korea. Titus provide design-driven sales for companies in the semiconductor sector, with a particular focus on PC-peripheral, consumer and cellular phone markets
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NGCodec Raises Funds in New Financing Round (Tuesday Nov. 18, 2014)
NGCodec Inc., a pioneer in Next Generation video Codec (compressor-decompressor) technology, announced today that it has received several million dollars in new financing from Belmore Capital.
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TVS' new US office represents continued global expansion and commitment to customers worldwide (Tuesday Nov. 18, 2014)
TVS today announced that it is opening an office in Silicon Valley, USA. In a move that exemplifies and underpins its global expansion, TVS’ US based office will be staffed by technical experts able to offer the company’s range of products and services to customers in North America.
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Vidatronic Joins GLOBALFOUNDRIES' GLOBALSOLUTIONS Ecosystem as a Design Services Partner (Monday Nov. 17, 2014)
Vidatronic today announced that it has been selected by Global Foundries to join the GLOBALSOLUTIONS Ecosystem as a trusted design services partner. This partnership will make Vidatronic’s power management IP portfolio and circuit design expertise available to Global Foundries customers.
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Kili Technology and DeviceFidelity Merge to Create World Mobile Payment Solutions Company (Thursday Nov. 13, 2014)
Kili Technology Corporation, a rapidly growing developer of secure, low-cost payment processing solutions announced today that it has acquired DeviceFidelity, Inc., the leader in plug-and-play Near Field Communication (NFC) and mobile security solutions.
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Cavendish Kinetics Secures Funding to Accelerate the Growth of RF MEMS Market (Thursday Nov. 13, 2014)
Cavendish Kinetics, the leading provider of high-performance RF MEMS tuning solutions for mobile and wearable devices, today announced the closing of a $7 million funding round as well as the appointment of Gilles Delfassy to its board of directors.
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GUC Opens New Japan Design Center (Thursday Nov. 13, 2014)
Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) expanded its global presences with the opening of a new Design Center on November 1st in Yokohama, Japan
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Ambiq Micro Announces $15 Million Funding Round Led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (Wednesday Nov. 12, 2014)
Ambiq Micro today announced that it has closed a $15 million Series C funding round to accelerate the development and marketing of its SPOT™ (Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology) platform.
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Ineda Systems Secures Additional Series B Funding (Tuesday Nov. 11, 2014)
Ineda Systems, a developer of low-power SoCs for use in the fast-growing wearables and Internet of Things (IoT) market segment, today announced additional funding from Cisco Investments to bring the round of Series B funding to a total of $19M.
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EZchip Completes Acquisition of Tilera, a Leader in High-Performance Multi-Core Processors (Friday Nov. 07, 2014)
EZchip Semiconductor today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Tilera Corporation, a privately-held US-based company that develops high-performance multi-core processors, intelligent network interface cards and white-box appliances for data-center networking equipment.
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NetSpeed Systems Accelerates SoC Innovation with Funding from Top-Tier Investors (Wednesday Nov. 05, 2014)
NetSpeed Systems has completed Series B financing with investments from Walden-Riverwood Ventures and Intel Capital. The Company will use the funds to expand and support its rapidly growing community and user base worldwide, and to further invest in product development for its system-on-chip (SoC) design platform and advanced on-chip network intellectual property (IP) cores.
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SGA Innovations Partners with CEVA to offer a DSP-based Wireline and Wireless Communication Solution for the IoT Market (Tuesday Nov. 04, 2014)
CEVA and SGA Innovations Ltd have partnered to offer a DSP-based wireless and wireline communication IP supporting Zigbee and PLC (Power Line Communication).
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Peraso Closes Oversubscribed $20 Million Equity Financing Led by Roadmap Innovation Fund (Wednesday Oct. 29, 2014)
Peraso Technologies Inc., a leader in Wireless Gigabit (WiGig®) chipsets, announced today that it has closed a $20 million funding round. The oversubscribed round was led by new investor Roadmap Capital, with additional financing from existing investors Celtic House Venture Partners, Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund (OETF) and VentureLink Funds.
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SiTime to be Acquired by MegaChips for $200M (Wednesday Oct. 29, 2014)
SiTime Corporation, a MEMS and analog semiconductor company, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement under which MegaChips Corporation, a top 25 fabless semiconductor company based in Japan, will acquire SiTime for $200 million in cash.
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New entity Solid Sands B.V. in Amsterdam announces the acquisition of the SuperTest compiler test and validation suite operations from ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv (Tuesday Oct. 28, 2014)
Solid Sands announces its spin out of ACE, from which it has acquired the full SuperTest operations. In addition to serving the existing market of compiler developers, Solid Sands will address the growing demand for safety and security requirements as an independent company.
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China's VeriSilicon Files For IPO (Thursday Oct. 23, 2014)
VeriSilicon Holdings Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China), a Chinese fabless chip company with a design service, IP licensing and chip delivery business model, has filed to raise $75 million from an initial public offering of shares on the NASDAQ market. This is despite the fact that the company made a net loss in the first half of 2014.
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Videantis and VISCODA partner to showcase key automotive ADAS technology in Detroit (Thursday Oct. 23, 2014)
Videantis and VISCODA, both leaders in video analytics solutions for automotive ADAS systems, announced today they have joined forces and are demonstrating key automotive vision algorithms and processing technology at the Ethernet & IP @ Automotive Technology Day in Detroit on October 23 and 24.
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Discretix Technologies Ltd. Announces Company Name Change to Sansa Security, Inc. (Thursday Oct. 23, 2014)
Discretix Technologies Ltd. today announced it is changing its name to Sansa Security. The new brand reflects the company's mission to solve today's most vexing security challenges and broaden embedded security protection around evolving electronic devices that have increasingly-diverse feature sets and processing capabilities.
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HMicro Closes $5.5M in Series B Funding (Wednesday Oct. 22, 2014)
HMicro, a wireless solutions firm developing integrated products for medical, industrial and the broad Internet of Things, announced today that it has secured $5.5M in Series B funding.
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Blu Wireless Technology confirms new $3.7m investment (Tuesday Oct. 21, 2014)
60GHz wireless specialist, Blu Wireless has closed a $3.7m (£2.3m) funding round lead by a major international customer intending to exploit the company’s HYDRA baseband System IP for new 60GHz applications in 2016.
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES to Acquire IBM's Microelectronics Business (Monday Oct. 20, 2014)
IBM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced that they have signed a Definitive Agreement under which GLOBALFOUNDRIES plans to acquire IBM's global commercial semiconductor technology business, including intellectual property, world-class technologists and technologies related to IBM Microelectronics, subject to completion of applicable regulatory reviews.
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Qualcomm to Acquire CSR (Wednesday Oct. 15, 2014)
Qualcomm today announced that it has reached agreement with CSR regarding the terms of a recommended cash acquisition through which the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of CSR will be acquired by Qualcomm Global Trading Pte. Ltd, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated.
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S2C Announces Series C Financing to Advance Next Generation of Rapid Prototyping Systems (Tuesday Oct. 14, 2014)
S2C announced today the completion of US$4.6 million Series-C financing led by GVT Fund and Industrial Technology Investment Corp (ITIC).
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Spin Transfer Technologies Raises $70 Million To Accelerate Commercial Development (Friday Oct. 10, 2014)
Spin Transfer Technologies, Inc. (STT), a leading developer of breakthrough Orthogonal Spin Transfer Magneto-Resistive Random Access Memory technology (OST-MRAM™, today announced that it has successfully raised $70 million to accelerate commercial development.
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Kili Technology Signs Sales and Distribution Agreement with ATD Electronique (Wednesday Oct. 08, 2014)
Kili Technology Corporation, a rapidly growing developer of secure, low-cost mobile payment processing solutions, announced today it has signed a sales and distribution agreement with ATD Electronique.
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MaxLinear to Acquire Physpeed Co., Ltd. (Tuesday Oct. 07, 2014)
MaxLinear today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Physpeed Co., Ltd., a privately held developer of high-speed physical layer interconnect products addressing enterprise and telecommunications infrastructure market applications.
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Inphi Completes Acquisition of Cortina Systems (Monday Oct. 06, 2014)
Inphi today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Cortina Systems, Inc., including its High-Speed Interconnect and Optical Transport product lines, as announced on July 30, 2014, in a transaction valued at $131 million.