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MPEG LA Announces Call for Patents Essential to High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) (Wednesday Jun. 27, 2012)
MPEG LA announces a call for patents essential to the High Efficiency Video Coding (“HEVC”) standard. HEVC (also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2) is intended to improve video coding efficiency for the benefit of mobile service providers and consumers; HEVC is also expected to deliver next generation higher resolution HDTV video displays for 4K and 8K Ultra High Definition TV.
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Ittiam Systems Strengthens Investment in Automotive Infotainment Sector (Tuesday Jun. 26, 2012)
Ittiam Systems today announced that it is making significant investments to serve the Automotive Infotainment sector with its multimedia systems IP. For the year 2011-12, the number of products shipped to market by its automotive tier-1 customers embedding Ittiam multimedia IP crossed the important landmark of one million units.
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Dolphin Integration celebrates the grand opening of its Chinese center for transfer of know-how (Friday Jun. 22, 2012)
Dolphin Integration has organized for transferring know-how, beyond FAE's hand-holding, in the form of "Case-study Tutorial Products” (CTP). The goal is to offer a unique opportunity for local Chinese partners to benefit from the transfer of know-how needed for solving SoC and system performance issues at a time when it is crucial to reduce cost of application schematics more than silicon cost. This has led to open a center for transfer of know-how at the Universal Exposition Building of the French Rhône-Alpes region in Shanghai, China.
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MediaTek Inc. Announces Tender Offer for MStar Semiconductor, Inc. (Friday Jun. 22, 2012)
MediaTek announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a tender offer to acquire shares of MStar Semiconductor, Inc..
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SK Hynix to Acquire Link_A_Media Devices (Thursday Jun. 21, 2012)
SK Hynix announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire California-based storage solution company Link_A_Media Devices Corporation (‘LAMD’). LAMD, founded in 2004, is a leader in the development of semiconductor system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for the data storage market.
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Atrenta Accelerates Growth in Front End Design with Acquisition of NextOp Software, Inc. (Wednesday Jun. 20, 2012)
Atrenta today announced that it has acquired NextOp Software, Inc., a leading provider of assertion synthesis technology.
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OptiumIP.com with turnkey DSP accelerator IP cores launched by Recore Systems (Wednesday Jun. 20, 2012)
Recore Systems brings fixed functionality DSP accelerator IP in a new DSP IP core web store www.optiumIP.com. The store kicks off with ‘OptiumIP to go’ in a range of Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) IP cores and Viterbi IP cores, and openly communicates prices. The store helps engineers to speed up their design cycle: turnkey DSP accelerator IP cores, transparent pricing, and fast turnaround on customizations.
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InterDigital Agrees to $375 Million Patent Transaction with Intel (Tuesday Jun. 19, 2012)
InterDigital and Intel today announced that certain of InterDigital's subsidiaries have signed a definitive agreement to sell to Intel roughly 1,700 patents and patent applications for $375 million in cash
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Noesis Technologies first Greek company to achieve Xilinx Alliance Membership (Monday Jun. 18, 2012)
Noesis Technologies announces that it has been accepted as a member of the Xilinx Alliance Program, a worldwide ecosystem of qualified companies collaborating with Xilinx to help customers develop products faster and with confidence on Targeted Design Platforms.
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ChipStart and Digital Core Design Partner to Bring the Power of Innovation to the Market (Friday Jun. 15, 2012)
ChipStart and Digital Core Design 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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AMD Strengthens Security Solutions Through Technology Partnership With ARM (Wednesday Jun. 13, 2012)
Through a strategic technology partnership with ARM, AMD will integrate the established ARM(R) TrustZone(R) technology into future Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) via a system-on-a-chip (SoC) design methodology. This industry-first collaboration will help accelerate broader ecosystem support by aligning x86 hardware with the world's most broadly-adopted mobile security ecosystem.
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Renesas Electronics and Renesas Mobile License ARM Processor IP for Next Generation Communications Processors and Application Processors (Tuesday Jun. 12, 2012)
Renesas Electronics and Renesas Mobile have licensed the ARM® Cortex™-A7 MPCore™ and ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore™ processors. Deployed in ARM’s big.LITTLE™ configuration, the processors will enable Renesas Mobile to create a new generation of turbo charged applications processors, communications processors and LTE / HSPA+ multi-mode smartphone platforms with ultra-high performance and extended battery life.
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NTT-AT and intoPIX sign an agreement on 4K interoperability based on the JPEG 2000 Broadcast Profile (15444-1:2004/Amd.3:2010[E]) (Tuesday Jun. 12, 2012)
Following the recent adoption of intoPIX JPEG 2000 compression solution by NTT-AT, intoPIX and NTT-AT signed today an agreement on 4K interoperability based on the new JPEG 2000 Broadcast Profile to ease the 4K adoption in the Broadcast & Video Production market.
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AMD Strengthens Commitment to Embedded Solutions With Appointment of Arun Iyengar as General Manager of Newly-Formed Embedded Solutions Group (Tuesday Jun. 12, 2012)
To further capitalize on the opportunity for Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) in embedded applications and form factors, AMD today announced the formation of a new Embedded Solutions Group and appointed Arun Iyengar as its corporate vice president and general manager.
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Dolphin Integration selects LFoundry for defense and industrial markets (Monday Jun. 11, 2012)
Dolphin Integration has just established a partnership with LFoundry for the integration of their SOC (Systems on Chip) on LFoundry’s LF150 technology. This partnership recognizes LFoundry's flexibility, adaptation to customer needs and sustainability, and it will allow Dolphin to consolidate their prominent positions on European Defense markets.
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CSR Adds High Performance Media Processor to its Market Leading Audio Platform with Purchase of MAP-X Product Line (Thursday Jun. 07, 2012)
CSR today announced that it has completed an asset purchase agreement to acquire the MAP-X™ audio product line from Trident Microsystems.
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BiTMICRO Acquires QualCore's Intellectual Property (Tuesday Jun. 05, 2012)
BiTMICRO has obtained over 600 intellectual properties from QualCore. BiTMICRO will use this IP in their next-generation MaxIO SSDs, which debuts for first customer shipment this summer.
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Sonics and Arasan Collaborate On End-to-End IP Subsystems for Mobile Market (Tuesday Jun. 05, 2012)
Sonics and Arasan will partner to offer optimized MIPI® Low Latency Interface (LLI) and Universal Flash Storage (UFS) subsystems, coupled with on-chip network and memory subsystems so that semiconductor and system companies can significantly streamline their IP integration process while increasing the performance of the resulting SoCs.
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Samsung Electronics Announces Acquisition of Nanoradio (Tuesday Jun. 05, 2012)
Samsung Electronics announced today that it has acquired Nanoradio AB, a developer of ultra low power Wireless LAN chipsets for high-speed wireless access in mobile phones.
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Calxeda Establishes Subsidiary and Distributor Network In Asia (Monday Jun. 04, 2012)
Calxeda, Inc., today announced the opening of Calxeda Asia Ltd., and the establishment of a distributor network throughout Asia via Macnica, Inc., subsidiaries Galaxy Far East Corporation, Cytech Technology Limited, and Altima Corporation.
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DMP and III Collaborate to Promote DMP's Graphics Offering and GPU Integration Services to Taiwanese Customers (Monday Jun. 04, 2012)
DMP today announced partnership with Institute for Information Industry (III) to promote DMP’s industry leading SMAPH graphics core family to Taiwan’s fabless IC design vendors. III is a Non-Government Organization (NGO) that supports the development of information industry as well as information society in Taiwan.
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Azini Capital Funds OneSpin Solutions to Accelerate Growth (Friday Jun. 01, 2012)
OneSpin Solutions today announced it has secured new funding from its major shareholder, Azini Capital. The company also has announced a management change, with Raik Brinkmann, who joined the company at its inception in 2005, assuming the role of President and Chief Executive Officer, to lead and manage the company's growth strategy
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Methodics Acquires Missing Link Tools To Expand Platform for Advanced SoC Design and IP Quality Management Solutions (Thursday May. 31, 2012)
Methodics today announced it has acquired Missing Link Tools, LLC. Missing Link Tools (MLT) provides a frontend tool-suite to manage digital design and verification. These tools plug into the ProjectIC™ design data management system from Methodics.
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Novocell Semiconductor and ChipStart Announce Renewal of Global Sales Representation Agreement (Tuesday May. 29, 2012)
Novocell Semiconductor has announced the renewal of their global sales representation agreement with ChipStart. Under the agreement, ChipStart will continue to provide value-added representation and their decades of experience assisting fabless semiconductor firms to aid in driving the continued growth in the use of Novocell IP globally.
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MagnaChip and YMC Enter Into a Joint Development Agreement for MTP-IP Devices (Tuesday May. 29, 2012)
MagnaChip Semiconductor today announced that it has signed a joint development agreement with Yield Microelectronics Corporation (YMC) to develop a family of 0.35um and 0.18um standard Multiple Times Programmable (MTP)-IP devices.
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ANSYS, Inc. Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Esterel Technologies S.A. (Tuesday May. 29, 2012)
ANSYS and Esterel Technologies announced today that they signed a definitive agreement whereby ANSYS will acquire Esterel Technologies for a cash purchase price of approximately euro 42 million (or approximately US$53 million), subject to certain working capital adjustments at close.
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Moortec Semiconductor Signs Representative Agreement with Avant Technology in Taiwan (Monday May. 28, 2012)
Moortec Semiconductor announced that it has signed a representative agreement with Avant Technology Inc. in Taiwan. Avant Technology has agreed to promote Moortec's IP products and design capabilities to the semiconductor community of China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan.
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Ittiam's Wi-Fi IP Gets Strong Traction in Consumer Markets with Multi-million Units Production (Thursday May. 24, 2012)
Ittiam Systems today announced that its Wi-Fi Silicon IP has received strong traction in 'consumer market based SOCs' leading to high volumes.
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Solantro Semiconductor Secures $10 Million Series A Financing for Rollout of Chipsets for Solar PV Module Integrated Electronics (Thursday May. 24, 2012)
Solantro Semiconductor today announced the completion of its Series A Financing in the amount of $10 Million. This funding was led by Black Coral Capital, and included participation from Presidio Ventures (a Sumitomo Corporation company), Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) and Export Development Canada (EDC).
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Silicon Labs Acquires Ember, Gains Low-Power 2.4 GHz Wireless Mesh Networking Technology (Monday May. 21, 2012)
Silicon Laboratories today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Boston-based Ember Corporation for initial consideration of $72 million, subject to an adjustment for certain working capital amounts and potential earn-out consideration.