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MPEG LA Offers HEVC Patent Portfolio License (Tuesday Sep. 30, 2014)
MPEG LA, LLC today announced the availability of the HEVC Patent Portfolio License (“HEVC License”). The joint license includes patents that are essential to the High Efficiency Video Coding standard (HEVC, also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2) designed to improve video coding and transmission efficiency for the benefit of Internet, television, and mobile service providers and consumers with increased speed and capacity.
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Lenovo Set to Close Acquisition of IBM's x86 Server Business (Monday Sep. 29, 2014)
Lenovo and IBM announced today that conditions for Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM’s x86 server business have been satisfied and the parties anticipate they will begin closing the transaction effective on October 1, 2014.
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SiTime Raises $25 Million (Friday Sep. 26, 2014)
SiTime today announced that it has closed $25 million in new financing, which consisted of a combination of structured debt facility of $15 million provided by Capital IP Investment Partners LLC (“CapIP”) and strategic equity investment from other investors.
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Intel and Tsinghua Unigroup Collaborate to Accelerate Development and Adoption of Intel-based Mobile Devices (Friday Sep. 26, 2014)
The purpose of the agreements is to expand the product offerings and adoption for Intel-based mobile devices in China and worldwide by jointly developing Intel® Architecture and communications-based solutions for mobile phones. Intel also has agreed to invest up to RMB 9 billion (about US$1.5 billion) for a minority stake of approximately 20 percent of the holding company under Tsinghua Unigroup which will own Spreadtrum Communications and RDA Microelectronics, subject to regulatory approvals and other closing conditions.
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ChaoLogix Opening India Engineering Center To Meet Global Demand for ChaoSecure Technology That Boosts Semiconductor Chip Security (Wednesday Sep. 24, 2014)
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Algotronix and Adaptive Micro-Ware Announce Partnership (Wednesday Sep. 24, 2014)
Algotronix and Adaptive Micro-Ware announced today that they have reached an agreement to co-operate on combining their encryption and video IP cores to provide unique solutions for secure video transmission.
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Ericsson discontinues development of modems - shifts part of investment into radio networks (Friday Sep. 19, 2014)
Ericsson today announced it will discontinue future development of modems and shift parts of resources in modems to radio network R&D to better capture growth opportunities in this area.
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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Memoir Systems (Thursday Sep. 18, 2014)
Cisco’s intent to acquire privately held Memoir Systems, a company that develops semiconductor memory intellectual property (IP) and tools that enable ASIC vendors to build programmable network switches with increasing speeds. This acquisition will enable the proliferation of affordable, fast memory for existing Cisco switch ASICs and will help advance Cisco’s ASIC innovations necessary to meet next-generation IT requirements.
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MegaChips to Acquire certain Smart Connectivity Products based on DisplayPort technology from STMicro (Wednesday Sep. 17, 2014)
MegaChips America announced that following the signature of an agreement with STMicroelectronics and final closing on September 2, it has acquired 9 smart connectivity products based on DisplayPort™ technology that ST decided to discontinue last year, along with its related assets, business and products in development.
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Imagination Technologies:Interim Management Statement (Wednesday Sep. 17, 2014)
Imagination Technologies is today issuing its Interim Management Statement for the period from 1 May 2014 to 16 September 2014.
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Entropic to Explore Strategic Alternatives (Tuesday Sep. 16, 2014)
Entropic today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the evaluation of strategic alternatives to enhance shareholder value.
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Authorized As the Distributor of ARM Keil Tools, Faraday Provides the Complete Family of ARM Development Tools (Thursday Sep. 11, 2014)
Faraday Technology Corpor today announced the agreement with ARM to distribute the ARM® Keil® tools suite in Taiwan. This agreement builds on Faraday’s long-standing partnership with ARM which features distribution rights for the complete family of ARM development tools in Taiwan.
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Mobiveil Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire the IP assets of Proton Digital Corporation. (Wednesday Sep. 10, 2014)
Mobiveil today announced that it entered into a letter of intent with Proton Digital Systems, a technology leader in Flash Reliability solutions to license and subsequently acquire their IP assets and merge their business interests.
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KnCMiner announces finalized Series A investment round (Friday Sep. 05, 2014)
KnCMiner announces the completion of our USD14m Series A investment round. After expanding operations from hardware design into software, app and cloud services, the Series A investment round will enable KnCMiner to accelerate in all areas of business.
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Momentum Builds For the Next Generation of ARM Processors (Monday Sep. 01, 2014)
ARM® is celebrating the signing of the 50th licensing agreement for its ARMv8-A technology, which includes support for 64-bit computing. A total of 27 companies have signed agreements for the company's ARMv8-A technology as industry momentum builds for greater compute capability across a wide range of applications.
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CSR confirms approach from Microchip Technology Inc (Thursday Aug. 28, 2014)
The Board of CSR plc ("CSR") notes recent press speculation and confirms that it has received an approach regarding a possible offer for the company from Microchip.
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Sibridge Technologies expands to Europe (Thursday Aug. 28, 2014)
Sibridge Technologies, a leading provider of Design and Verification IPs, with expertise in ASIC/SoC Design, Verification and Embedded solutions, today announced that it has appointed Garry Tuttle as In-charge of Europe sales.
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Maxscend Partners with CEVA to Offer Complete Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Solutions for Mobile Platforms, Wearables and IoT Devices (Tuesday Aug. 26, 2014)
CEVA today announced that Maxscend has joined the CEVAnet partner program. Together the companies will offer complete solutions for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy, consisting of Maxscend RF IPs and CEVA's connectivity platforms, targeting the growing markets of mobile devices, wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Murata to Acquire Peregrine Semiconductor for $12.50 Per Share in Cash (Monday Aug. 25, 2014)
Murata Electronics North America, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TSE/OSE: 6981), and Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation (Peregrine) (NASDAQ: PSMI) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Murata will acquire all outstanding shares of Peregrine not owned by Murata, for $12.50 per share in cash, or a total transaction value of $471 million ($465 million excluding Murata’s existing holding).
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mCube Creates New "Ten Degrees" Subsidiary to Focus on Indoor Navigation Business (Monday Aug. 25, 2014)
mCube, provider of the world’s smallest MEMS motion sensors, today announced the formation of a wholly-owned subsidiary, Ten Degrees, Inc., representing the first step towards the creation of an independent entity focused on indoor navigation.
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ON Semiconductor Completes Acquisition of Aptina Imaging and Provides Guidance for Third Quarter on Impact of Acquisition of Aptina Imaging (Monday Aug. 18, 2014)
ON Semiconductor today announced the completion of its acquisition of Aptina Imaging. The total consideration of approximately $400 million in cash for the acquisition of Aptina Imaging was funded by cash on the balance sheet and ON Semiconductor’s existing revolving line of credit.
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TSMC Board of Directors Meeting Resolutions (Tuesday Aug. 12, 2014)
TSMC today held a meeting of the Board of Directors, which passed the following resolutions: Approved capital appropriations of US$3,054.7 million for expansion of advanced capacity, conversion of certain logic capacity to specialty technologies, building and facility installation as well as capacity setup for advanced packaging and assembly, and fourth quarter 2014 R&D capital appropriations and sustaining capital appropriations.
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Sibridge Technologies expands with a New Design Centre in Bangalore (Tuesday Aug. 12, 2014)
Sibridge Technologies today announced opening up of a new design centre in Bangalore. The new design centre will focus on providing IP-based solutions for Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC), System on Chip (SoC), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), and embedded product design.
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Open-Silicon Establishes High-Speed SerDes Technology Center of Excellence (Monday Aug. 11, 2014)
Open-Silicon today announced it has established a SerDes Technology Center of Excellence (TCoE) to ensure rapid, cost-effective design and production of ASICs integrating high-speed serial technologies. The SerDes TCoE will enable new ASIC products with capabilities such as PCI Express (PCIe Gen 1/2/3/4), SATA, Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC), Interlaken and networking up to 100G.
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u-blox acquires IP for industrial Wi-Fi (Thursday Aug. 07, 2014)
Swiss u-blox (SIX:UBXN), a leading provider of wireless and positioning semiconductors and modules for the automotive, industrial and consumer markets, has acquired the company Antcor, a developer of Wi-Fi baseband intellectual property (IP).
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e2v technologies to acquire AnaFocus (Wednesday Aug. 06, 2014)
e2v technologies, the UK based leading provider of technology solutions for high performance systems, has announced that it has agreed to acquire AnaFocus. AnaFocus will become an integral part of the machine vision business within e2v’s fast-growing High Performance Imaging division, which grew by 26% last year.
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Ridgetop Group, Inc. Awarded Advanced Mixed-Signal Troubleshooting ATE Software Contract (Tuesday Aug. 05, 2014)
Ridgetop of Tucson, Arizona, announced that it has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the U.S. Air Force’s Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex (WR-ALC) in Georgia.
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ARM Concludes its Acquisition of Duolog Technologies (Friday Aug. 01, 2014)
ARM has concluded its acquisition of Duolog Technologies, a leader in design configuration and integration technology for the semiconductor industry. The acquisition strengthens ARM's IP configuration and integration capability, helping ARM partners design and deploy system IP and manage increasing SoC integration complexity.
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Inphi Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Cortina Systems, Inc. (Thursday Jul. 31, 2014)
Inphi, a leading provider of high-speed, mixed signal semiconductor solutions for the communications, data center and computing markets, and Cortina Systems, Inc. (Cortina®), a leader in network infrastructure for optical transport and high speed networking interconnects, today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement, under which Inphi will acquire Cortina’s High-Speed Interconnect and Optical Transport product lines for $52.5 million in cash and $73.5 million in stock.
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ViaSat Gains High-Rate Modem and Design Technologies with Acquisition of Assets of Gray Labs (Monday Jul. 28, 2014)
ViaSat has expanded its high-speed satellite data communication technology base with the acquisition of a high-rate modem product line and custom spacecraft technologies for earth observation from Gray Labs Inc. Gray Labs has been at the leading edge of this market for several decades and the technology continues to provide high performance in ISR and other applications.