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Broadcom cuts 2,500 jobs to exit cellular market (Thursday Jul. 24, 2014)
Broadcom will lay off about 2,500 employees as part of a decision on June 2 to exit the cellular baseband business for which it could not find a buyer.
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Microsemi Acquires Mingoa (Wednesday Jul. 23, 2014)
Microsemi today announced it has acquired Cork, Ireland-based Mingoa, a leading provider of semiconductor IP for hardware accelerated Ethernet OAM and embedded tests. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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XMOS adds Bosch, Huawei and Xilinx as strategic investors to complete $26M investment round (Monday Jul. 21, 2014)
XMOS Ltd. the fabless semiconductor company and leader in intelligent multicore microcontrollers, has today announced the completion of a $26.2m Series-D investment round, adding Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH of Germany, Huawei Technologies, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider and Xilinx Inc. from the USA as strategic investors in the company
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Intel's Mobile Losses Mount (Tuesday Jul. 15, 2014)
Intel reported significant increases in net income during its second-quarter revenue report, as well as record quarterly microprocessor shipments. Despite a generally good quarter, the Santa Clara, Calif., company showed massive losses in its mobile unit.
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Qualcomm Snaps Up CSR's Imaging Team (Friday Jul. 11, 2014)
Cellphone chipmaker Qualcomm is buying the imaging operations of CSR plc, which are based in Israel, according to local reports. CSR announced it would be selling the business for $44 million on July 2.
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CEVA Acquires RivieraWaves, Expands IP Offering with Connectivity for Smartphones, Tablets, Small Cells and the Internet of Things (Wednesday Jul. 09, 2014)
CEVA today announced that it has acquired RivieraWaves, a privately held company and a leading provider of wireless connectivity IP for Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® technologies.
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Mentor Graphics Expands Automotive Portfolio, Acquires XS Embedded to Reduce Time to Start of Production (SOP) (Wednesday Jul. 09, 2014)
Mentor Graphics today announced the acquisition of XS Embedded GmbH (XSe), a technology leader in the creation of automotive system architectures and hardware reference platforms. XSe has over ten years of direct experience in the automotive electronics design industry across twenty automotive programs that combine hardware and software expertise.
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Atmel to Acquire Newport Media - Strengthening its Leadership Position in the IoT Market (Wednesday Jul. 09, 2014)
Atmel today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Newport Media, Inc. ("NMI"), a leading provider of high performance low power Wi-Fi and Bluetooth solutions, that will enable Atmel to offer the industry's most complete wireless portfolio of smart connected devices for the "Internet of Things."
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InvenSense To Acquire Movea, A Leading Provider Of Ultra-Low Power Motion And Data Fusion Software Platforms And Trusted Positioning, Inc., A Leader In Indoor/Outdoor Location Technology (Tuesday Jul. 08, 2014)
InvenSense, the leading provider of intelligent sensor solutions, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Movea, a privately-held company that is a leading provider of software for ultra-low power location, activity tracking and context sensing.
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Audience to Acquire Sensor Platforms (Tuesday Jul. 08, 2014)
Audience, the leader in advanced voice and audio processing, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sensor Platforms, subject to customary closing conditions, for consideration consisting of $41 million of cash.
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Qualcomm Bolsters Wi-Fi Leadership with 60 GHz Wireless for Mobile, Computing and Networking (Thursday Jul. 03, 2014)
Qualcomm has completed its acquisition of Wilocity, a leader in development of 60 GHz wireless chipsets based on the IEEE 802.11ad standard, also known as WiGig® technology.
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EZchip to Acquire Tilera, a Leader in High-Performance Multi-Core Processors (Tuesday Jul. 01, 2014)
EZchip Semiconductor, a leader in high-performance network processors, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 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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Dialog Semiconductor AMS Statement Regarding Possible Merger of Equals of Dialog Semiconductor and AMS (Thursday Jun. 26, 2014)
Dialog Semiconductor and AMS note the recent press speculation and confirm that the two companies are in preliminary discussions regarding a possible merger of equals of Dialog Semiconductor and AMS. These discussions are at a very preliminary stage and there can be no certainty that a transaction will be forthcoming.
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mCube Closes $37M Series C Financing Round (Thursday Jun. 26, 2014)
mCube, provider of the world’s smallest MEMS motion sensors, today announced it has closed a $37 million Series C financing round. Existing investors participating in the round include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, MediaTek, iD Ventures America, and DAG Ventures.
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Avago Technologies Limited to Acquire PLX Technology, Inc. for $6.50 per Share in Cash (Tuesday Jun. 24, 2014)
Avago Technologies and PLX Technology today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Avago will acquire PLX, a leader in PCI Express silicon and software connectivity solutions, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $309 million, or $293 million net of cash and debt acquired.
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GigOptix, Inc. to Acquire Tahoe RF Semiconductor, Inc. (Thursday Jun. 19, 2014)
GigOptix today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire for cash only, by way of assuming specified liabilities, substantially all of the assets of Tahoe RF Semiconductor, Inc., a provider of innovative, leading-edge RF/analog RFICs, IPs, and fully integrated systems and subsystems on a chip.
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Cadence Completes Acquisition of Jasper Design Automation (Monday Jun. 16, 2014)
Cadence today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Jasper Design Automation. The Jasper team, led by Kathryn Kranen, will join the System & Verification Group reporting to senior vice president Charlie Huang.
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ON Semiconductor to Acquire Aptina Imaging (Tuesday Jun. 10, 2014)
ON Semiconductor signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aptina Imaging, a leading provider of high-performance CMOS image sensors for automotive and industrial markets, which are the key areas of strategic focus for ON Semiconductor.
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Broadcom to Explore Strategic Alternatives for Cellular Baseband Business (Tuesday Jun. 03, 2014)
Broadcom today announced it is exploring strategic alternatives for its cellular baseband business, including a potential sale or wind-down. The company has engaged investment bank JP Morgan in connection with its efforts.
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ARM Establishes World-Class CPU Design Center in Taiwan (Monday Jun. 02, 2014)
Today ARM announced the establishment of a new CPU Design Center in the Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan. This is ARM's first CPU Design Center in Asia, and it will focus on the design, verification and delivery of the ARM® Cortex®-M processor series targeted at the Internet of Things (IoT), wearables and embedded applications markets.
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ARM to Acquire Duolog Technologies (Thursday May. 29, 2014)
ARM is acquiring Duolog Technologies, a leader in design configuration and integration technology for the semiconductor industry. The acquisition will expand ARM's position at the forefront of deploying complex system IP including debug and trace IP, and will help ARM partners design and deploy system IP and manage increasing SoC integration complexity.
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Microchip Technology Announces Acquisition of ISSC Technologies (Friday May. 23, 2014)
Microchip Technology and ISSC Technologies today announced that Microchip has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ISSC, a leading provider of low power Bluetooth and advanced wireless solutions for the Internet Of Things (IoT) market.
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Mentor Graphics Acquires Nimbic, Inc. (Wednesday May. 21, 2014)
Mentor Graphics today announced that it has acquired Nimbic, Inc., a leading provider of Maxwell-accurate, 3D full-wave electromagnetic (EM) simulation solutions. Nimbic’s high-performance high-end simulation capability and ability to accurately calculate complex electromagnetic fields will expand and strengthen Mentor’s chip-package-board simulation portfolio.
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Fingerprint Cards Acquires Anacatum Design (Tuesday May. 20, 2014)
Fingerprint Cards (FPC) has acquired all outstanding shares of Anacatum Design AB (Anacatum), a Linkoping-based Swedish technology licensing and ASIC developing company. FPC has previously announced that it has licensed Anacatum's industry-leading Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) technology and used the ASIC development services provided by Anacatum in the development of FPC's touch and swipe fingerprint sensors.
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Cadence and ARM Expand Collaboration for 64-bit Processor Designs (Tuesday May. 20, 2014)
Cadence today announced the signing of the first EDA Technology Access Agreement with ARM that includes access to the ARM v8-A 64-bit architecture in the ARM Cortex-A50 processor series. This agreement also provides access to ARMv7 32-bit processor technology, ARM Mali GPUs (graphic processor units), System IP and ARM Artisan® libraries.
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Silicon Image Completes Acquisition of UpdateLogic, Inc. (Wednesday May. 07, 2014)
Silicon Image today announced that it has completed the acquisition of privately held UpdateLogic®, Inc., a leading provider of Device Management Services (DMS) for Internet-connected consumer products such as Smart TVs, Blu-ray Disc™ players and set-top boxes that feature Over-the-top (OTT) streaming media content and services.
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Intilop announces Collaboration Agreement with Xilinx to provide TCP and UDP Networking Protocol Acceleration IP Cores and Solutions (Tuesday Apr. 29, 2014)
Intilop Inc., a leading developer and provider of advanced high complexity IPs and system solutions in Network Protocol Processing, Traffic Acceleration, Traffic Management and Network Security, announced a strategic collaboration with Xilinx, All Programmable solutions provider, to provide TCP and UDP Acceleration IP cores and solutions as a Xilinx Alliance Member in its Smarter Networks ecosystem.
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Cirrus Logic Agrees to Acquire Wolfson Microelectronics (Tuesday Apr. 29, 2014)
Cirrus Logic and Wolfson Microelectronics today announced the terms of a recommended transaction under which Cirrus Logic would acquire Wolfson at a price of £2.35 per share in cash, implying an enterprise value of £278 million, or approximately $467 million.
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Thalia Design Automation Ltd completes A round funding and prepares to launch suite of Analog and Power design optimisation tools (Tuesday Apr. 29, 2014)
Thalia Design Automation Limited (Thalia) today announced completion of its A round funding and imminent beta availability of its range of innovation Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools. Thalia will provide chip designers with a new generation of tools for optimising analogue, mixed signal and power designs.
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GUC and Verisense Announce Strategic Alliance (Monday Apr. 28, 2014)
Global Unichip Corporation (GUC) and Verisense Ltd, the leading ASIC development Services Company in Israel, announced today that they have entered into a strategic alliance to jointly provide turnkey ASIC services from architecture to manufacturing. The agreement also makes Verisense GUC's representative in Israel.