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Algotochip Received Significant Investment From Nitto Denko (Thursday Jun. 27, 2013)
Algotochip, specialists in converting C models of algorithms directly to a complete SoC silicon IP, announced that Nitto Denko, a $7B Japanese company, has significantly increased its investment, making them a primary investor in Algotochip.
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Imagination's Ensigma Series4 universal communications IP cores shipping now to multiple licensees (Thursday Jun. 27, 2013)
Imagination Technologies announces that its Ensigma Series4 radio processor unit (RPU) IP core family is now available for licensing, and has already been supplied to lead partners.
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UltraSoC receives further funding from Octopus Investments (Wednesday Jun. 26, 2013)
UltraSoC today announced that it has successfully closed a funding round of $2.3million by securing further investment from Octopus Investments bringing the total investment in the business to date to $7.5m.
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LG Electronics Selects Active-Semi's Power Technology Resulting in Strategic Investment (Wednesday Jun. 26, 2013)
Active Semi today announced that LG Electronics Inc. is the major new investor in a round of strategic funding.
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Spreadtrum Communications Announces Receipt of Acquisition Proposal (Monday Jun. 24, 2013)
Spreadtrum today announced that its Board of Directors has received a preliminary non-binding proposal letter from Unigroup, a solely state-owned limited liability corporation funded by Tsinghua University in China, pursuant to which Unigroup proposes to acquire the Company
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AMD Unveils Server Strategy and Roadmap (Wednesday Jun. 19, 2013)
AMD today publicly disclosed its strategy and roadmap to recapture market share in enterprise and data center servers by unveiling innovative products that address key technologies and meet the requirements of the fastest-growing data center and cloud computing workloads.
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Vivante Expands Presence in Korean CE Market (Monday Jun. 17, 2013)
Vivante today announced it has retained mRukh, Inc. as its local technical representative to support its rapidly growing customer base in the Korean CE market.
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Cadence Completes Acquisition of Evatronix IP Business (Thursday Jun. 13, 2013)
Cadence today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the IP business of Poland-based Evatronix, SA SKA.
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Imagination Technologies' 2012 growth outpaces industry by 3x (Wednesday Jun. 12, 2013)
Imagination Technologies announces that it was the fastest growing company among leading IP companies in 2012, outpacing growth of the overall design IP market by more than 3x.
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Reflex CES Records Four Consecutive Years of Growth in its FPGA-Based Systems. International focus for 2013 (Wednesday Jun. 12, 2013)
Reflex CES today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012. The company posted annual revenues of €7.8M and annual net profits of €1M (15%).
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eMemory and UMC Expand Non-volatile Memory Cooperation to Advanced 28nm Process (Monday Jun. 10, 2013)
eMemory and UMC today announced an expanded technology cooperation to integrate eMemory's one-time-programmable (OTP) and multiple-time-programmable (MTP) embedded non-volatile memory technologies into UMC’s 28nm process.
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Silicon Labs to Acquire Energy Micro, a Leader in Low Power ARM Cortex-Based Microcontrollers and Radios (Monday Jun. 10, 2013)
Silicon Labs today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Energy Micro AS Based in Oslo, Norway, the late-stage privately held company offers the industry’s most power-efficient portfolio of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) and is developing multi-protocol wireless RF solutions based on the industry-leading ARM® Cortex-M architecture.
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Entropic Acquires Mobius Semiconductor (Thursday Jun. 06, 2013)
Entropic announced today it acquired Mobius Semiconductor. Mobius products include high speed ADCs, DACs, ADPLLs, SERDES and proprietary Intellectual Property.
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GEO Semiconductor Grants eyevis License to Certain Patented eWARP Technologies (Wednesday Jun. 05, 2013)
GEO Semiconductor Inc. (GEO), a leading developer of geometric processor and H.264 CODEC IC solutions, and eyevis Gesellschafft für Projektions- und Großbildtechnik mbH (eyevis), a leader in large screen projection systems, jointly announced today that they have amicably entered into a licensing agreement.
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Arteris FlexNoC Network-on-Chip Technology Designed into Majority of Mobile SoCs (Tuesday Jun. 04, 2013)
Arteris today announced that its FlexNoC interconnect fabric IP was used in a majority of chips developed in 2011 and 2012, and deployed in market leading smartphone and tablet mobile devices in 2013.
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Microchip Technology Subsidiary SST and Novocell Semiconductor Announce Acquisition of Novocell by SST (Tuesday Jun. 04, 2013)
Microchip Technology, through its Silicon Storage Technology (SST) subsidiary, and Novocell Semiconductor, Inc. (Novocell) today announced that Microchip and SST have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Novocell.
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SMIC Announced the Establishment of a Joint Venture in Beijing (Tuesday Jun. 04, 2013)
SMIC today announced that it entered into the Joint Venture Agreement with SMIC Beijing, BIDIMC and ZDG in relation to the establishment of the Joint Venture Company.
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ST-Ericsson announces sale of its Connectivity (GNSS) business (Tuesday May. 28, 2013)
ST-Ericsson today announced the signature of a definitive agreement to sell the assets and intellectual property rights (IPR) associated with its mobile connectivity Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) business to a leading semiconductor company.
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Kilopass and UMC Align For Advanced 28nm IP (Tuesday May. 28, 2013)
Kilopass and UMC today jointly announced that they have signed a technology development agreement. The agreement calls for Kilopass to port its non volatile memory (NVM) Intellectual property (IP) to two of UMC’s leading edge 28nm processes: the High-K Metal Gate 28HPM in high demand by portable device system on chip (SoC) manufacturers and the poly gate 28HLP favored by consumer electronics SoC designers.
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Cisco Completes Acquisition of Ubiquisys (Friday May. 24, 2013)
Cisco today announced it has completed the acquisition of privately held Ubiquisys. Headquartered in Swindon, U.K., Ubiquisys is a leading provider of intelligent 3G and long-term evolution (LTE) small-cell technologies that provide seamless connectivity across mobile heterogeneous networks for service providers.
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Cadence Completes Acquisition of Cosmic Circuits (Friday May. 24, 2013)
Cadence today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Cosmic Circuits Private Limited.
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LG Electronics Becomes Lead Partner For ARM Cortex-A50 Family Of Products And Next-Generation Mali GPUs (Thursday May. 23, 2013)
ARM announced that LG Electronics has licensed the next generation of ARM® Cortex®-A50 series of central processing unit (CPU) solutions and the next generation of ARM Mali™ graphics processing units (GPUs). This agreement means that LG Electronics will have access to ARM’s highest-performing CPU and GPU solutions to create market-leading technology.
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EnSilica partners with Cross Border Technologies to accelerate sales growth in key European and Asian markets (Tuesday May. 21, 2013)
EnSilica has announced that it has partnered with Cross Border Technologies to accelerate the sales of both its IC design services and system IP solutions in key European and Asian markets, particularly Germany, France, Japan and Korea.
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sureCore receives GBP250K SMART Award to prototype its low power SRAM technology (Thursday May. 16, 2013)
sureCore Ltd announced that it has secured a Technology Strategy Board SMART award of £250K to help realise the company’s low power SRAM technology in a leading edge next generation silicon process node.
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Altera to Deliver Breakthrough Power Solutions for FPGAs with Acquisition of Power Technology Innovator Enpirion (Tuesday May. 14, 2013)
Altera today announced it has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire Enpirion, Inc., the industry's leading provider of high-efficiency, integrated power conversion products known as PowerSoCs (power system-on-chip).
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Teledyne Acquires Axiom IC (Tuesday May. 14, 2013)
Teledyne Technologies announced today that its subsidiary, Teledyne DALSA B.V., has acquired Axiom IC B.V., a fabless semiconductor company that develops high-performance CMOS mixed-signal integrated circuits.
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Open-Silicon Celebrates Its 10th Year Anniversary With Continued Growth (Tuesday May. 14, 2013)
Open-Silicon celebrated another milestone by reaching its 10th year in business this month. Open-Silicon, has established itself as a leader in ASIC and continues to push the boundaries on ASIC design by focusing on on-time delivery, reliability and cost-effectiveness.
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Cadence to Acquire IP Business of Evatronix, Further Expanding IP Portfolio (Tuesday May. 07, 2013)
Cadence today announced its intent to acquire the IP business of Evatronix SA SKA, adding to its rapidly expanding IP offering. Based in Poland, Evatronix delivers a silicon-proven IP portfolio, which includes certified USB 2.0/3.0, Display, MIPI, and storage controllers, which are highly complementary to Cadence’s IP offering.
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Microsemi Selects Intel Corporation Foundry Services for the Development of Digital Integrated Circuits (Thursday May. 02, 2013)
Microsemi today announced it is leveraging Intel's industry-leading, onshore foundry technology for the development of advanced high-performance digital ICs and system-on-chip (SoC) solutions using Intel's revolutionary 22 nanometer (nm) 3-D Tri-Gate transistor technology.
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Sonics and ARM Enter Patent License Agreement and Broaden Technology Cooperation (Tuesday Apr. 30, 2013)
Sonics today announced that ARM has licensed Sonics patent portfolio currently consisting of 138 properties for use in ARM products and specifications. Sonics patent portfolio, several of which are fundamental to the development and implementation of on-chip interconnect products used in SoCs, are powering many of today’s cutting edge connected devices.