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STMicroelectronics Comments on Today's Speculations (Friday Oct. 12, 2012)
Following today’s media speculations, STMicroelectronics denies the existence of initiatives which can compromise the unity of the Company.
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Tensilica Licensees Ship Two Billion IP Cores; License Revenue Now Larger than Any Other DSP Licensing Company (Wednesday Oct. 10, 2012)
Tensilica’s licensees are now shipping at a run rate of approximately 800 million Tensilica DPU IP cores per year, which is more than a 50 percent increase over the run rate announced in June 2011, when the company reached its one billionth core shipment
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Ericsson and STMicroelectronics comment on speculations regarding ST-Ericsson (Tuesday Oct. 09, 2012)
Ericsson and STMicroelectronics, together with ST-Ericsson, are currently working with an external advisor in order to ensure the best possible future for ST-Ericsson.
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Moortec Semiconductor Sign Representative Agreement with ChipStart (Tuesday Oct. 09, 2012)
Moortec announced that it has signed a representative agreement with ChipStart. ChipStart will promote Moortec's IP products to the semiconductor communities of N. America, S. America, European Union and Japan.
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Calxeda Closes $55 Million Funding Round; New Investors Include Austin Ventures, Vulcan Capital (Tuesday Oct. 09, 2012)
Calxeda today announced $55 million in additional funding, one of the largest semiconductor capital deals this year. Calxeda will use the funding to accelerate adoption and innovation in the emerging market for ultra-low power scalable computing.
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Synopsys Acquires EVE (Thursday Oct. 04, 2012)
Synopsys today completed the acquisition of EVE, a leading supplier of emulation platforms for SoC verification.
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Elliptic Technologies, a Leader in Embedded Security Solutions for the Consumer Electronics and Home Entertainment Industries, Opens Representative Office In China (Wednesday Oct. 03, 2012)
Elliptic Technologies announced today that it has opened a Representative office in Shanghai, China in order to better serve the security design requirements of the consumer electronics manufacturing community, both at the semiconductor and device level.
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WiLAN Acquires Patent Portfolio from Alvarion (Monday Oct. 01, 2012)
WiLAN today announced that it has acquired a global portfolio of more than 150 patents and patent applications from Alvarion for $19 million. WiLAN believes the portfolio has broad applicability to 4G infrastructure and handsets.
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Renesas Electronics Announces the Successful Implementation of Measures to Ensure a Robust and Profitable Structure (Friday Sep. 28, 2012)
Renesas Electronics today announced the execution of a guarantee deposits agreement with NEC, of loan agreements with Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric, and a syndicate loan agreement with Renesas' main financing banks to implement financing totaling 97 billion yen.
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Japan Inc. reportedly moves to block KKR's Renesas takeover (Monday Sep. 24, 2012)
A Japanese-led consortium is reportedly planning to rescue Renesas Electronics by blocking an attempt by the U.S. private equity firm KKR's to purchase the ailing chip company, Japan's economic journal Nikkei reported Friday (Sept. 21).
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eSilicon Korea Now Open for Business (Thursday Sep. 20, 2012)
eSilicon today announced the grand opening of eSilicon Korea, Ltd. in Seoul, Korea. This new location will provide regional sales and global design services.
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Sisvel Advances Toward Formation of DVB-C2 Patent Pool (Wednesday Sep. 19, 2012)
Sisvel announced at the IBC2012 conference and exhibition that it has been coordinating meetings among owners of patents essential to the DVB-C2 standard for the purpose of creating a patent pool to offer licenses under their combined portfolio of patents to make DVB-C2 technology accessible to all users on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms and conditions.
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Synopsys Completes Major Steps Toward Acquisition of SpringSoft, Inc. (Wednesday Sep. 19, 2012)
Synopsys announced today that it has obtained regulatory approval in Taiwan to acquire SpringSoft, Inc. In addition, greater than 51 percent of the outstanding shares of SpringSoft have been tendered.
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Barco Silex Opens Design Center in Ghent (Tuesday Sep. 18, 2012)
Barco Silex, Barco's center of competence for FPGA, ASIC, and IP design services, announces the opening of a design office in Ghent.
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Aquantia Acquires 10GBASE-T Assets From PLX Technology (Monday Sep. 17, 2012)
Aquantia announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PLX Technology Inc.’s 10GBASE-T assets, including its product and patent portfolios.
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Xilinx Acquires Wireless Backhaul Solutions Provider Modesat Communications (Monday Sep. 17, 2012)
Xilinx today announced the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Modesat Communications, a wireless backhaul solutions provider.
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WiLAN and SENSIO Technologies Enter Licensing Partnership (Monday Sep. 17, 2012)
WiLAN today announced that it has entered into a multi-year exclusive license agreement with SENSIO, granting WiLAN with all rights to license certain SENSIO patents relating to 3D technologies for digital displays and associated with SENSIO® S2D Switch technology.
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Maxim Integrated Launches Corporate Venture Group to Invest in Startups and Innovative Technologies (Thursday Sep. 13, 2012)
Maxim Integrated announced today it has established a Corporate Venture Group to invest in startup companies and innovative technologies.
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Imagination Technologies Group plc: Interim Management Statement (Thursday Sep. 13, 2012)
Imagination Technologies is today issuing its Interim Management Statement for the period from 1 May 2012 to 12 September 2012.
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Samsung Invests $4 Million in Carbon Design Systems, Companies Enter into Strategic Partnership (Wednesday Sep. 12, 2012)
Carbon Design Systems™ Inc., the leading supplier of virtual platform and secure model solutions, announced today that it received $4 million in investment funding from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation. Additionally, the companies have entered into a strategic partnership.
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CEVA, Inc. Makes Strategic Equity Investment in Antcor, a Provider of Software-Based Wi-Fi IP (Wednesday Sep. 12, 2012)
CEVA today announced that it has made a minority equity investment in Antcor, a provider of software-based intellectual property for Wi-Fi in handsets, machine-to-machine (M2M), and small cells.
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USB-IF Reaches SuperSpeed USB Certification Milestone, Industry-Wide Adoption (Tuesday Sep. 11, 2012)
Today at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) announced the number of certified SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) products more than doubled within one year, with 590 certified SuperSpeed USB products on the market.
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Intilop's Patent filings approved by the US patent office for 3 Patents with 51 claims for their Full TCP Offload Technology. (Friday Sep. 07, 2012)
Intilop today announced that the three patents filed with a total of 51 claims have been accepted by the US patent office. These patents are designed to protect the unique algorithms, architecture and design concepts in conjunction with FPGA and ASIC hardware design techniques which make implementation of a full TCP /IP stack in hardware to accelerate TCPprocessing in 76 nanoseconds.
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ARM and Synopsys Expand Collaboration to Optimize Power and Performance, and Accelerate Design and Verification for ARM Technology-based SoCs (Tuesday Aug. 28, 2012)
ARM and Synopsys have signed a multi-year agreement that expands Synopsys' access to a broad range of ARM IP. The two companies will broaden their collaboration to enable SoC designers to optimize the power and performance of ARM technology-based SoCs with Synopsys Galaxy Implementation Platform and Discovery VIP, while reducing cost and decreasing time to market.
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Xilinx Acquires Embedded Linux Solutions Provider PetaLogix (Tuesday Aug. 28, 2012)
Xilinx today announced the acquisition of embedded Linux solutions provider PetaLogix.
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Cosmic Circuits announces aggressive hiring plans (Monday Aug. 27, 2012)
Cosmic Circuits today announced that it is growing by 40% to address the growing demands of its IP and IC business units.
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Qualcomm Acquires Small Cell Pioneer DesignArt Networks (Thursday Aug. 23, 2012)
Qualcomm today announced it has acquired DesignArt Networks, a leader in small cell modem and system design for cellular base stations and high-speed wireless backhaul infrastructure.
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Rambus Announces Restructuring (Thursday Aug. 23, 2012)
Rambus today announced a restructuring of the company. With this restructuring and related cost saving measures, Rambus expects an overall net cash savings of $30-$35 million annually.
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Ambarella Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering (Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012)
Ambarella today announced that it has filed an updated version of its registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its ordinary shares.
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Toumaz Limited Completes acquisition of Frontier Silicon (Monday Aug. 20, 2012)
Toumaz, a pioneer in and provider of ultra-low power, high-performance wireless communications technologies and solutions, has today completed the acquisition of Frontier Silicon as announced on 3 July 2012.