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Vivante Joins Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation to Transform Next Generation Mobile and Embedded Hybrid Compute Platforms (Monday Aug. 20, 2012)
Vivante today announced it has joined the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation to push forward innovations in mobile and embedded GPU computing.
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IBM Plans to Acquire Texas Memory Systems (Friday Aug. 17, 2012)
IBM announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Texas Memory Systems (TMS), a leading developer of high-performance flash memory solutions. TMS is a privately held company based in Houston, Texas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Spectra7 Microsystems Closes $11 Million Oversubscribed Financing Round (Friday Aug. 17, 2012)
Spectra7 Microsystems today announced that they have secured a first closing of $11 million in funding from premier venture capital firms Celtic House Venture Partners, Ventures West Capital and EdgeStone Capital Partners.
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Xilinx Board of Directors Authorizes A Repurchase Of Up To $750 Million Of The Company's Outstanding Common Stock (Monday Aug. 13, 2012)
Xilinx today announced that its Board of Directors has granted an authorization for the Company to repurchase up to $750 million of its common stock, or approximately 8 percent of its outstanding shares at the current stock price.
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HDL Design House announces the US representative - AJTechnology (Wednesday Aug. 08, 2012)
HDL Design House announced that it has signed a representative agreement with Mr John Patterson, the founder of AJ Technology, a sales representative firm with the principal goal of addressing the increase in demand for intellectual property.
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Xelic Announces China Sales Representative (Monday Aug. 06, 2012)
Xelic, a leading provider of Optical Transport Networking (OTN) intellectual property is pleased to announce that Pinnacle Design Systems, Ltd. is now representing them in the Greater China region.
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Shipments of total OpenGL ES enabled GPUs to hit 1 billion units per year by 2014, says Imagination (Monday Aug. 06, 2012)
Shipments of GPUs conformant with the Khronos OpenGL ES family of graphics APIs (Application Programming Interface) will reach 1 billion units per annum by 2014 according to Imagination Technologies
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Synopsys to Acquire SpringSoft (Friday Aug. 03, 2012)
Acquisition Will Complement Synopsys' Technology Portfolio and Help Accelerate Delivery of SoC Debug and Custom Implementation Tools to Customers
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Aspex Semiconductor sold to Ericsson (Thursday Aug. 02, 2012)
Chip company Aspex Semiconductor has been sold to Ericsson, with proceeds of the sale to be distributed to shareholders of Aspex.
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Avalanche Technology Secures $30 Million to productize a new class of non-volatile magnetic memory and product solutions (Thursday Aug. 02, 2012)
Avalanche Technology, Inc., the industry leading innovator of Spin Programmable Memory (SPMEM™) spin-transfer torque (STT_MRAM), today announced that it has closed its third round of equity funding by raising $30 million dollars.
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Movea Secures 6.5 Million Euros in Series C Funding Led by Intel Capital (Thursday Aug. 02, 2012)
Movea (www.movea.com), a leader in motion processing and data fusion technologies, today announced it has secured a new round of funding in the amount of 6.5 Million Euros led by Intel Capital, together with existing Investors iSource and GIMV.
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Synopsys Acquires Ciranova (Tuesday Jul. 31, 2012)
Synopsys announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Ciranova, a privately held electronic design automation (EDA) company focused on delivering productivity improvements in custom IC design by reducing the time and effort needed to develop transistor-level layout on advanced nodes.
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Apple To Buy AuthenTec For About $355 Mln (Monday Jul. 30, 2012)
Apple Inc will buy fingerprint sensor technology developer AuthenTec Inc for about $356 million, striking a deal that could put its iPhone at the center of the emerging mobile payments market.
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ISSI to Acquire Chingis Technology Corporation (Monday Jul. 23, 2012)
Integrated Silicon Solution today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with the major shareholders of Chingis under which ISSI intends to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Chingis pursuant to a cash tender offer valued at $33 million, or $16 million net of the approximately $17 million in cash expected to be on Chingis' balance sheet at closing.
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IDT Acquires NXP's Data Converter Assets and Alvand Technologies (Friday Jul. 20, 2012)
IDT today announced that it has acquired NXP’s high-speed data converter assets and Alvand Technologies, a leading analog IP company specializing in data converters.
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CAST Opens IP Cores Sales Office in China (Wednesday Jul. 18, 2012)
CAST, Inc. has added a sales office in China. Based in Shanghai, the new office has a full-time account manager whose roles are to provide a direct link between Chinese IP customers and CAST, and to facilitate the ongoing efforts of longtime local sales partner S2C, Inc.
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RedMere, Fresco and Leading Investors Partner to Create Spectra7; Backed by $10 Million in New Equity (Tuesday Jul. 17, 2012)
RedMere Technology and Fresco Microchip today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to merge with Chrysalis Capital VIII to create Spectra7 Microsystems. Spectra7 will be a high performance analog semiconductor company focused on delivering unprecedented bandwidth for mobile infrastructure and consumer products.
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Samsung Electronics and CSR Announce Strategic Partnership (Tuesday Jul. 17, 2012)
Samsung Electronics and CSR today announced a strategic collaborative relationship by aligning their respective business visions, investments and key technologies. Under the terms of the agreement, Samsung will gain full access to CSR’s mobile connectivity and location technology and transfer certain relevant patents, as well as employ over 300 CSR employees in the selected field for the cash consideration of $310 million.
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WiLAN Acquires Patent Portfolio from Siemens AG (Tuesday Jul. 17, 2012)
WiLAN today announced that it has acquired a global portfolio of more than 40 patents and applications from Siemens related to telecommunication network management and mobile multimedia.
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Agilent Technologies Signs Agreement to Acquire AT4 wireless' Test Systems Business (Tuesday Jul. 17, 2012)
Agilent Technologies Signs Agreement to Acquire AT4 wireless’ Test Systems Business
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Breker Verification Systems Secures $5 Million in Funding (Thursday Jul. 12, 2012)
Breker Verification Systems today announced that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding. Funding was provided by Astor Capital Group, a private equity fund out of Far East Asia.
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Cryptography Research and Discretix Sign Developer Agreement for DPA Countermeasures (Wednesday Jul. 11, 2012)
Cryptography Research and Discretix today announced they have entered into an agreement enabling Discretix to develop products incorporating Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures for use by licensees of CRI's DPA patents.
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SMSC Stockholders Approve Merger with Microchip (Wednesday Jul. 11, 2012)
SMSC today announced that its stockholders have voted to approve the acquisition of SMSC by Microchip Technology, a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions.
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Lattice Announces Strategic Partnership with UMC (Monday Jul. 09, 2012)
As part of this partnership, Lattice and UMC will continue work, already underway, on non-volatile products based on advanced technology nodes and then quickly expand their efforts to include other Lattice product lines.
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Cadence Acquires Sigrity, a Leader in High-Speed PCB and IC Packaging Analysis (Tuesday Jul. 03, 2012)
Cadence today announced it has acquired Sigrity, Inc., a leading signal and power integrity technology provider. The combination of Sigrity analysis technologies with Cadence Allegro® and OrCAD® design tools will provide a comprehensive front-to-back integrated flow to enable system and semiconductor companies to deliver high-performance devices employing gigabit interface protocols such as DDR and PCI Express.
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ChipStart and Digital Core Design Partner to Bring the Power of Innovation to the Market (Monday Jul. 02, 2012)
ChipStart and Digital Core Design (DCD) are partnering to bring the power of innovation to the market through a joint relationship. The relationship will involve the sale, marketing and worldwide distribution of DCD’s products and capabilities through ChipStart’s extensive development and sales channel.
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CAST Signs Picosem Technologies as IP Cores Partner in India (Friday Jun. 29, 2012)
CAST, Inc. has improved its ability to serve the growing electronic design market in India by partnering with systems solutions provider Picosem Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
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Elliptic Technologies Joins ARM TrustZone Ready Program (Thursday Jun. 28, 2012)
Elliptic Technologies has joined the ARM TrustZone® Ready Program to provide system wide embedded security based on Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) to mobile and home entertainment devices.
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Acquisition of Cognovo gives u-blox own 4G chip technology (Thursday Jun. 28, 2012)
u-blox announces the acquisition of UK-based Cognovo Ltd., a company specializing in “Software Defined Modem” (SDM) chip development technology.
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MOSAID and NOVACHIPS Announce HLNAND SSD Controller Joint Development (Wednesday Jun. 27, 2012)
MOSAID Technologies Inc. and NOVACHIPS Inc. of Korea today announced a joint development agreement to design and build an HLNAND(tm) (HyperLink NAND) Flash controller for SSDs (solid state drives) optimized for data center and other memory-intensive applications.