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Faraday Technology -- Strengthening the ASIC Design Service Sales Network in The West Coast (Wednesday Dec. 18, 2013)
Faraday Technology announced a bolstering of its ASIC design services sales network in the Western United States with the signing of 3 manufacturers sales representatives in Northern California, Southern California, and Colorado Rocky Mountain Regions.
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Mentor Graphics Acquires Oasys RealTime to Bring RTL Synthesis to its Digital Implementation Flow (Wednesday Dec. 18, 2013)
Mentor Graphics today announced that it has acquired certain assets of Oasys Design Systems, Inc., creator of the Oasys RealTime RTL physical synthesis platform.
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Avago Technologies to Acquire LSI Corporation for $6.6 Billion in Cash (Monday Dec. 16, 2013)
Avago Technologies and LSI Corporation today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Avago will acquire LSI for $11.15 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at $6.6 billion. The acquisition creates a highly diversified semiconductor market leader with approximately $5 billion in annual revenues by adding enterprise storage to Avago's existing wired infrastructure, wireless and industrial businesses.
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Mindspeed Announces Definitive Agreement to Sell Assets of Its Wireless Infrastructure Unit to Intel (Monday Dec. 16, 2013)
Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell the assets of its wireless infrastructure business unit to Intel Corporation (Nasdaq:INTC).
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ARM Acquires Geomerics (Friday Dec. 13, 2013)
ARM today acquired Geomerics, the leader in lighting technology for the gaming and entertainment industries. The acquisition expands ARM’s position at the forefront of the visual computing and graphics industries. Additionally, the agreement enables Geomerics to build on their existing partnerships as well as accelerate their development in mobile.
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Sckipio Technologies Completes $10M Investment Round to Create G.fast Modem Chips (Wednesday Dec. 11, 2013)
Sckipio Technologies today announced completion of a $10M investment from four venture funds − Gemini Israel Ventures, Genesis Partners, Amiti Capital, and Aviv Ventures − to build ultra-high speed G.fast broadband modem semiconductors. These leading U.S. and Israeli investors are betting that Sckipio will become the leading chip company to enable G.fast – the new 1Gbps broadband standard soon to be announced by the ITU.
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XMOS plans expansion on the back of strong revenue growth and new funding (Wednesday Dec. 04, 2013)
XMOS has announced that it is planning to grow its operations worldwide in 2014 on the back of very strong revenue growth and following the addition of $14m in new equity funding from a combination of London and Silicon Valley based investors.
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Sequans and Huawei Collaborate to Advance LTE Broadcast Technology (Tuesday Dec. 03, 2013)
Huawei and Sequans have conducted successful interoperability tests of eMBMS technology using Huawei’s LTE infrastructure equipment and end user devices based on Sequans’ eMBMS-capable LTE semiconductor solution.
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NXP Semiconductors and Datang Telecom to Establish First True Chinese Automotive Semiconductor Company (Monday Dec. 02, 2013)
NXP Semiconductors and DATANG TELECOM today announced the establishment of a joint venture (JV), the first true automotive semiconductor company in China. The JV will focus on developing and marketing semiconductor solutions for the domestic hybrid and electric car market, a top priority in the latest five-year plan of the Chinese government.
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Microsemi Successfully Completes Acquisition of Symmetricom (Wednesday Nov. 27, 2013)
Microsemi announced today that PETT Acquisition Corp. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsemi, successfully merged into Symmetricom, Inc. ("Symmetricom") (Nasdaq:SYMM) completing Microsemi's acquisition of Symmetricom
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Sidense Enjoys Record Fiscal Year 2013 (Tuesday Nov. 26, 2013)
Sidense today announced that its fiscal year 2013, which ended September 30, 2013 (FY2013), was its best year yet for revenue. In addition, the fourth quarter of FY2013 established a new quarterly revenue record for Sidense.
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WiLAN Acquires Semiconductor Patents from IXYS (Tuesday Nov. 26, 2013)
WiLAN today announced that it has acquired a portfolio of semiconductor patents from IXYS CH GmbH ("IXYS") related to microcontroller technology.
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Digital Blocks Celebrates 16 Years of Offering 82xx Peripheral Replacements (Monday Nov. 25, 2013)
Digital Blocks celebrates the 16 th year of its Intel® 82xx Peripherals Replacement program. Digital Blocks offers the following Intel® 82xx peripheral as IP cores in VHDL / Verilog for implementation in a CPLD or higher integration in a FPGA, ASIC, or ASSP device:
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Sonics Fortifies Sales Leadership Team to Target Emerging Markets For SoCs (Tuesday Nov. 19, 2013)
Sonics today appointed Hayssam Balach to the position of Vice President of Global Sales.
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Imagination shares positive MIPS progress (Monday Nov. 18, 2013)
Since Imagination’s acquisition of MIPS Technologies in February 2013, the company has closed 22 MIPS related deals says Imagination Technologies (IMG.L). This includes the first licensee for a multi-core P5600, the first MIPS Series5 ‘Warrior P-class’ CPU, which was announced just last month.
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CAST Begins 21st Year in the Semiconductor IP Market (Friday Nov. 15, 2013)
CAST, Inc. has reached a rare milestone for companies providing intellectual property for electronic design automation: its twentieth anniversary.
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intoPIX and Comprimato announce their collaboration (Thursday Nov. 14, 2013)
intoPIX and Comprimato inked an agreement to join forces in marketing of advanced JPEG2000 solutions based on the J2K GPU solution developed by Comprimato.
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Elliptic Technologies Secures $4 Million in Growth Capital to Bolster Market Reach (Wednesday Nov. 13, 2013)
Elliptic Technologies today announced the company has secured $4 million of additional funding from existing and new investors including BDC Venture Capital and Anges Quebec members.
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Creonic Joins Xilinx Alliance Program (Wednesday Nov. 06, 2013)
Creonic GmbH, a leading provider of IP cores in the field of forward error correction (FEC), announced today that the company has joined the Xilinx Alliance Program. As a member of this program the company emphasizes its commitment to support the latest technologies from Xilinx and to optimize the broad product portfolio.
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Synopsys Surpasses 3000th USB IP Design Win and 1000th PCI Express IP Design Win (Wednesday Nov. 06, 2013)
Synopsys today announced that its DesignWare® USB PHY and Controller IP has surpassed 3,000 design wins, and that its DesignWare PHY and Controller IP for PCI Express® has surpassed 1,000 design wins.
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Telenor Connexion partners with ARM to bring the Internet of Things to global customers (Monday Nov. 04, 2013)
ARM and Telenor Connexion announce that Telenor Connexion has licensed ARM Sensinode software. ARM Sensinode software enables Telenor Connexion to provide standards-based, energy-efficient and secure machine-to-machine (M2M) services that reduce time to market for smart products.
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Certain Arteris Technology Assets Acquired (Friday Nov. 01, 2013)
Arteris today announced that Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (“Qualcomm”), a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, has acquired certain technology assets from Arteris and hired personnel formerly employed by Arteris.
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Tata Elxsi and Algotochip announce partnership to provide rapid SoC solutions and services targeted at OEMs and custom chip makers (Wednesday Oct. 30, 2013)
Tata Elxsi, a leading product design company and Algotochip, the first company that turns behavioral C-code into devices, announced their partnership to provide rapid SoC solutions and services targeted at OEMs and custom chip makers.
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M31 Technology Corporation announces acquisition of ISO9001:2008 certification ensuring IP quality (Wednesday Oct. 30, 2013)
M31 Technology announces that its quality management system has attained the ISO9001:2008 certification, and that it has implemented the total quality management (TQM) system for research and development, sales, customer service, and Intellectual Property (IP) management.
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XMOS and Silicon Labs join forces to deliver the next wave in programmable SoCs (Friday Oct. 25, 2013)
XMOS and Silicon Labs today announced a technology partnership that allows XMOS to integrate world-leading energy friendly ARM® technology into its xCORE™ multicore microcontrollers to produce the next wave in programmable system-on-chip products (SoCs).
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Rocketick Secures Strategic Investment from Intel Capital and NVIDIA (Wednesday Oct. 23, 2013)
Rocketick, a provider of GPU-based logic simulation software for chip verification,today announced it has closed a $3 million Series C funding round including investments from Intel Capital and NVIDIA.
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Broadcom to Cut Up to 1,150 Jobs (Wednesday Oct. 23, 2013)
Fabless chip vendor Broadcom Corp. said Tuesday (Oct. 22) it would reduce its workforce by up to 1,150 employees as part of a restructuring plan to reduce expenses.
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Microsemi Corporation to Acquire Symmetricom, Inc. (Tuesday Oct. 22, 2013)
Microsemi and Symmetricom announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Symmetricom, Inc. for $7.18 per share through a cash tender offer, representing a premium of 49 percent based on the average closing price of Symmetricom's shares of common stock during the 90 trading days ended Oct. 18, 2013.
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IPextreme Extends Reach Through Mentor Graphics (Wednesday Oct. 16, 2013)
IPextreme announced today a partnership with Mentor Graphics to sell and deliver IPextreme’s rich set of high quality IP cores and its Xena enterprise-level IP management software platform.
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InvenSense To Acquire MEMS Microphone Business Line From Analog Devices, Incorporated (Tuesday Oct. 15, 2013)
InvenSense and Analog Devices announced that the companies have entered into a definitive purchase agreement for InvenSense to acquire all of the assets of ADI that are exclusively related to ADI’s MEMS microphone business line (MBL) including intellectual property, goodwill and certain tangible and intangible assets.