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Mentor Graphics Expands Automotive Linux Infotainment Business (Thursday Feb. 21, 2013)
Mentor Graphics today announced that is has expanded its automotive business unit by purchasing certain assets from MontaVista, LLC. This establishes Mentor Graphics as the number one commercial provider of Linux®-based automotive in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) solutions.
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Fujitsu, Panasonic to form fabless chip firm (Monday Feb. 11, 2013)
Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. and Panasonic Corp. have announced that they have agreed in principle to merge their system LSI businesses to create an independent fabless chip company
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Imagination Technologies: Acquisition of MIPS Technologies completed (Friday Feb. 08, 2013)
Imagination Technologies has completed the acquisition of the operating business and certain patent properties of MIPS Technologies as well as license rights to all of the remaining patent properties.
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Arasan Chip Systems Announces Opening of New Sales Offices in United States (Thursday Feb. 07, 2013)
Arasan is expanding its U.S. presence by opening new sales offices in Dallas, TX, Roselle Park, NJ, Atlanta, GA, and adding a new sales executive for San Jose, CA.
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Cadence Expands IP Portfolio with Agreement to Acquire Cosmic Circuits (Thursday Feb. 07, 2013)
Cadence today announced an agreement to acquire Cosmic Circuits Private Limited, a provider of analog and mixed signal intellectual property (IP) cores.
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Flash Reliability IP Provider, Proton Digital Systems Completes $2 Million Funding Round (Thursday Feb. 07, 2013)
Proton Digital Systems, Inc. (Proton), a leading provider of Flash Memory Reliability IP Solutions, today announced the completion of its $2 million seed round. The round was led by SKS Capital along with other noteworthy Silicon Valley based Angel investors.
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MIPS Stockholders to Receive $8.01 in Aggregate Net Proceeds from Recapitalization and Merger (Wednesday Feb. 06, 2013)
MIPS today announced that each holder of MIPS common stock will receive $6.21 in cash and 0.226276 shares of MIPS' common stock in the previously announced proposed recapitalization.
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KALRAY successfully completes the Prometheus project and secures a new funding round of 5 M Euros (Wednesday Jan. 23, 2013)
KALRAY today announces that it has successfully completed the Prometheus project with 8 other partners, an achievement that allows KALRAY to secure a new funding round of 5 M€.
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HDL Design House appoints Applied Micro Systems Limited to offer IP cores and SoC services in the UK and Ireland (Thursday Jan. 17, 2013)
HDL Design House has announced today that it has appointed Applied Micro Systems Limited as its representative for the UK and Ireland.
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ARM backers jump on Facebook's server bandwagon (Thursday Jan. 17, 2013)
The Facebook-led Open Compute Project (OCP) announced a specification for a plug-in board that can accommodate a variety of ARM- and x86-based server SoCs.
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Imagination reports on CES 2013 highlights (Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013)
Imagination Technologies reports significant growth in penetration in TV and other consumer markets. This was demonstrated by yesterdays’ announcement regarding Mediatek and a record number of new product announcements from its partners at CES 2013 in Las Vegas.
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Dialog Semiconductor Invests In Innovative Power Management Start-Up Company (Monday Jan. 14, 2013)
Dialog Semiconductor today announced a strategic equity investment into Arctic Sand Technologies, Inc., an MIT spin-off commercialising an innovative new approach to power conversion for multiple markets, including smartphones, tablets, ultrabooks and data centres.
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Algo-Logic Systems Announces Membership in the Solarflare Application Onload Engine (AOE) Partner Network (Thursday Jan. 10, 2013)
Algo-Logic Systems today announced membership to the Solarflare ApplicationOnload™ Engine (AOE) Partner Network as a Design Services, Tools, and IP Application partner.
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Vivante Joins GENIVI Alliance Bringing OpenGL ES 3.0 and OpenCL to Automotive Platforms (Tuesday Jan. 08, 2013)
Vivante today announced it has joined the GENIVI Alliance, an automotive and consumer electronics industry association driving the development and adoption of an open in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) reference platform.
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Green Plug Appoints Kevin Jones to New Post of Chief Scientist, Names Rajeev Prasad VP of Engineering (Monday Jan. 07, 2013)
Green Plug today named longtime executive Kevin Jones to the newly-created position of Chief Scientist and appointed semiconductor industry veteran Rajeev Prasad to succeed Jones as VP of Engineering.
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GEO Semiconductor Completes Acquisition of Maxim Integrated's Digital Video Processing Business (Friday Jan. 04, 2013)
GEO Semiconductor announced today that it has completed the acquisition of the digital video processing business from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
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Sony and InterDigital Team to Launch Machine-to-Machine Focused Joint Venture Called Convida Wireless (Thursday Jan. 03, 2013)
InterDigital and Sony today announced the launch of a joint venture to combine Sony's consumer electronics expertise with InterDigital's pioneering wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) and bandwidth management research.
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NSCore is Expanding its US Sales and Marketing Channel by Partnering with DSM Silicon Solutions (Friday Dec. 28, 2012)
NSCore Inc. has a new partnership with DSM Silicon Solutions, LLC (DSM) to sell and market NSCore’s product line, PermSRAM, in the states of Texas, Colorado and Arizona.
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IDT and PLX Technology Announce Termination of Proposed Transaction and IDT Withdraws Exchange Offer for PLX Technology Shares (Thursday Dec. 20, 2012)
IDT and PLX Technology today announced that they have mutually agreed to terminate their merger agreement pursuant to which IDT would acquire PLX Technology.
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Samsung Electronics Acquires NVELO (Wednesday Dec. 19, 2012)
Samsung Electronics announced today that it acquired privately held NVELO, Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based pioneer of storage software.
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M31 Technology Joins TSMC IP Alliance (Wednesday Dec. 19, 2012)
M31 Technology announced today that it has joined the TSMC IP Alliance. In addition, M31 announced its USB 3.0 PHY (physical layer) IP passed the high and low temperature tests and reliability verification for TSMC’s 40nm process, and completed the TSMC9000 quality assessment.
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Trustonic: The New Standard of Trust and Security for Connected Devices (Tuesday Dec. 18, 2012)
Trustonic, the new company formed by ARM, Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), has today launched as a new standard security provider to address the increasing need for trust built into smart connected devices.
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CEVA, Inc. to refrain from further proposals to acquire MIPS operating business (Monday Dec. 17, 2012)
CEVA announced today that it would not submit any further proposal to acquire the operating business of MIPS Technologies, Inc.
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MIPS and Imagination Agree to Revised Merger Terms Providing for $100 Million Purchase Price (Monday Dec. 17, 2012)
MIPS today announced that it entered into a new amendment to its merger agreement with Imagination originally announced on November 5, 2012, and all amendments thereto. The latest amendment provides for a purchase price of $100 million (U.S.).
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Imagination signs revised agreement to acquire the operating business, certain patent properties and license rights to the rest of the patent properties of MIPS Technologies, Inc. for $100 million (Monday Dec. 17, 2012)
Imagination has signed a revised agreement to acquire the operating business and certain patent properties, as well as license rights to all of the remaining patent properties, of MIPS for a cash consideration of US$100 million, to be financed from existing cash resources and a new acquisition facility that has already been set up.
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MIPS Technologies' Board of Directors Determines CEVA's Acquisition Proposal is Superior to Acquisition Agreement with Imagination (Thursday Dec. 13, 2012)
MIPS today announced that the MIPS Board of Directors has unanimously determined that a new proposal from CEVA to acquire the Company, constitutes a "Superior Proposal" to the merger agreement with Imagination Technologies Group plc., originally announced on November 5, 2012, including all amendments thereto.
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CEVA, Inc. Offers MIPS $90 Million for its Operating Business (Tuesday Dec. 11, 2012)
CEVA announced today that it submitted a further proposal to the Board of Directors of MIPS Technologies, Inc. to acquire the operating business of MIPS for $90 million plus the payment on MIPS' behalf of the termination fee to Imagination Technologies Group plc pursuant to MIPS' existing merger agreement, as amended, with Imagination.
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STMicroelectronics announces new strategic plan (Monday Dec. 10, 2012)
STMicroelectronics announced today its new strategic plan. The plan is the outcome of a strategic review started more than a year ago, as the company saw major changes in the dynamics of the wireless market.
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MIPS and Imagination Agree to Revised Merger Terms Providing for $80 Million Purchase Price (Monday Dec. 10, 2012)
MIPS today announced that it entered into an amendment to the agreement with Imagination previously announced on November 5, 2012. The amendment provides for an increased purchase price of $80 million and the removal of the conditions to closing requiring the approval of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and that MIPS is not a real property holding corporation.
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ST-Ericsson confirms strategic direction (Monday Dec. 10, 2012)
ST-Ericsson confirmed today its strategic direction announced in April and continuing industrial and technology relationships with STMicroelectronics and Ericsson, following ST’s decision to disengage from ST-Ericsson after a transition period.