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ICScape Grows Globally (Tuesday May. 15, 2012)
ICScape Inc. today announced that after enabling over 100 successful customer tapeouts, it is now ready to market its solutions worldwide. The expansion is driven by US$28 million in financial backing the company received in 2011, mostly from China Electronics Corporation (CEC), China’s largest electronics conglomerate with 2011 revenue of over US$23 billion.
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Aquantia Raises $35 M Financing (Monday May. 14, 2012)
Aquantia announced today it has completed a Series F financing of $35 million. Aquantia successfully launched its industry-leading 40nm 10GBASE-T PHY chipset in 2011.
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CEVA Continues to Dominate DSP IP Market with 90% Market Share (Monday May. 14, 2012)
CEVA today announced that it has been ranked by leading research firm The Linley Group as the worldwide leader in DSP IP shipments in 2011, with a 90% market share. The market share numbers were published in The Linley Group’s recent report, titled ‘A Guide to CPU Cores and Processor IP’.
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Tabula Extends Worldwide Sales Reach into Israel with Appletec Partnership (Monday May. 14, 2012)
Tabula signs Appletec as its distributor and sales representative in Israel to meet the growing demands in the country’s communications, military, and industrial markets
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Moortec Semiconductor Sign Representative Agreement with Acetronix in Korea (Wednesday May. 09, 2012)
Moortec announce that it has signed a representative agreement with Acetronix, of Seoul, Korea. Acetronix has agreed to promote Moortec's IP products and design capabilities to the Korean semiconductor community.
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Posedge Partners with EDA4YOU for European Sales (Tuesday May. 08, 2012)
As part of its plan to dramatically increase its presence and activities in the European market, Posedge has partnered with EDA4YOU to cover all the key markets in Europe.
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Grand Opening of the training center of Dolphin Integration in Shanghai, China (Friday May. 04, 2012)
Dolphin Integration has selected the Universal Exposition Building of the French Rhône-Alpes region in Shanghai to open their training center which will offer a unique opportunity for local partners to benefit from the transfer of know-how needed for solving SoC and system-level architectural issues.
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Microchip Technology and SMSC Announce the Acquisition of SMSC by Microchip Technology (Wednesday May. 02, 2012)
Microchip has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SMSC for $37.00 per share in cash, which represents a total equity value of about $939 million, and a total enterprise value of about $766 million, after excluding SMSC's cash and investments on its balance sheet of approximately $173 million.
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IDT to Acquire PLX Technology, Inc. (Wednesday May. 02, 2012)
Integrated Device Technology (IDT) and PLX Technology, Inc. today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement pursuant to which IDT will acquire PLX. Based on IDT’s closing stock price on April 27, 2012, the transaction is valued at approximately $7.00 per PLX share and results in a total transaction value of approximately $330 million.
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Huawei and Intel Collaborate on LTE TDD (Monday Apr. 30, 2012)
Intel Corporation and Huawei today announced a collaboration to advance the development of interoperability testing and deployment of LTE TDD solutions. The two companies will establish joint lab set-up based in China for IOT (Interoperability Test) and fast implementation of LTE TDD technology
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Posedge Underscores Commitment to Growth with Opening of Two New Design Centers (Wednesday Apr. 25, 2012)
Posedge underscored its commitment to the IP market by announcing the expansion of the Posedge Research & Development Center (PRDC) with two new Design Centers. Posedge has expanded beyond its Silicon Valley headquarters in Sunnyvale, California to establish an Asia Pacific presence to include centers in Taiwan and India to better serve the growing multi-national customers.
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IPextreme Taps IP Leaders for Constellations (Tuesday Apr. 24, 2012)
IPextreme today announced a major advance of its Constellations initiative to bring together like-minded semiconductor IP companies to develop and promote advanced IP solutions.
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Ericsson's JV ST-Ericsson announces new strategic direction (Monday Apr. 23, 2012)
Ericsson - the 50/50 joint venture owned by Ericsson and STMicroelectronics - announced today the guidelines of its new strategic direction. Within the company's new strategic direction it has signed an agreement to transfer its stand-alone application processor R&D activities to STMicroelectronics, and to take additional measures to accelerate time-to-market and lower the breakeven point.
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Tensilica Reaches Audio DSP Milestones: 300 Million HiFi Audio/Voice DSPs, Over 100 Software Packages, More Than 30 Partners (Monday Apr. 23, 2012)
Tensilica, Inc. today announced that it has reached several important milestones for its leading HiFi Audio/Voice DSPs (digital signal processors), the most widely-used audio/voice DSP IP cores on the market. Tensilica's customers have shipped over 300 million of its audio/voice DSP cores for use in digital televisions, smartphones, Blu-ray Disc players, automotive, audio/video receivers, portable digital radio and other consumer electronics equipment.
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Tensilica Expands Dataplane Processor R&D Center in Pune, India (Monday Apr. 23, 2012)
Tensilica, Inc. today announced that it has moved its research and development center in Pune, India, to a new building, doubling the space previously available. Tensilica plans to increase headcount by at least 50 percent in the next year.
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MediaTek Announces Acquisition of Leading DSP Technology Provider Coresonic AB (Tuesday Apr. 10, 2012)
MediaTek today approved the purchase and acquisition of the Swedish company Coresonic AB, a global leader of Digital Signal Processor (DSP) technology. Following the formalization of the acquisition, Coresonic AB will become another wholly owned subsidiary of MediaTek in Europe.
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Oasys Design Systems Closes Series B Funding With Investments From Intel Capital, Xilinx (Tuesday Apr. 10, 2012)
Oasys Design Systems today announced it has closed Series B Funding with investments from Intel Capital and Xilinx.
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InterDigital Expands Agreements with Acer and Pantech (Tuesday Apr. 10, 2012)
InterDigital today announced that its patent holding subsidiaries have entered into amendments to their worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-bearing patent license agreements with Acer and Pantech
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RealNetworks Completes Sale of Patents and Next Generation Video Codec Software to Intel (Monday Apr. 09, 2012)
RealNetworks, Inc. said today it has completed the previously announced sale of patents and next generation video codec software to Intel Corporation for $120 million.
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GEO Semiconductor Completes Series A Financing with Final $1 Million in Equity (Thursday Apr. 05, 2012)
GEO Semiconductor, the industry leader in programmable, high performance, geometric processor (eWarp) IC solutions for smartphones & peripherals, video communications, surveillance and automotive video camera markets, today announced that it has secured in excess of $1 million in new Series A equity financing, completing its Series A offering.
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Recore Systems selects King Horn as distributor for Greater China (Thursday Apr. 05, 2012)
King Horn Enterprises Ltd., based in Hong Kong, is now a representing partner of Recore Systems. King Horn is a distinguished value added semiconductor distribution and support company operating in the Greater China Region. King Horn will market and support Recore Systems highly integrated DAB/DAB+/DMB platform devices for innovative digital radio products.
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NXP Semiconductors Acquires the Catena Group (Wednesday Apr. 04, 2012)
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Dutch electronic design and IP company Catena Group. NXP has a long-standing relationship with Catena, and this acquisition will enable NXP to continue to innovate and further strengthen its leadership in the automotive analog mixed signal solutions business and in wireless car connectivity.
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Intrinsic-ID Closes New Round of Financing with Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH and Prime Ventures (Wednesday Apr. 04, 2012)
Intrinsic-ID announced that it has received EUR 5 million (USD 6.7 million) in new funding. The round was led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC) and joined by existing investor Prime Ventures.
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ARM, Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient Form Joint Venture To Deliver Next-Generation Security For Services Running On Connected Devices (Tuesday Apr. 03, 2012)
ARM, Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient today announced the creation of a joint venture dedicated to delivering a secure, accessible environment for advanced services running on the growing range of connected devices.
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Test and Verification Solutions Limited (TVS) Announces Opening of France Office (Tuesday Apr. 03, 2012)
Test and Verification Solutions (TVS) today announces the opening of new offices in France. This is a further step of its global expansion plan to better provide hardware verification and software testing services to the electronics industry in Europe. TVS earlier opened an office in Germany and is currently supporting its key clients in that region.
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intoPIX aggressively increases its IP-core portfolio development and salutes the creation of Image Matters by Jean-Francois Nivart (Tuesday Apr. 03, 2012)
intoPIX announced its strategic decision to aggressively boost its IP-core portfolio to better serve its OEM customers and respond faster to the growing demand for JPEG 2000 compression across various industries.
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Sigma Designs Selected to Purchase Trident's Digital Television Business (Monday Apr. 02, 2012)
Sigma Designs today announced that it has been selected as the successful bidder to acquire certain assets of Trident Microsystems, Inc.'s Digital Television (DTV) Business, which includes certain products, licensed intellectual property, software, working capital assets and leased facilities, for $21 million in cash plus assumption of specified liabilities upon the closing of the transaction.
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Analog Devices Acquires Multigig for High-Speed Clocking Technology (Monday Apr. 02, 2012)
Analog Devices today announced that it has acquired Multigig, Inc., a privately-held San Jose, California, company specializing in highly innovative high-performance clocking technology.
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Elliptic Technologies Welcomes Representative ETesiAN To Broaden Support And Distribution Of Embedded Security Solutions For The European Market (Thursday Mar. 29, 2012)
Elliptic Technologies has partnered with ETesiAN Semiconductor a premier representative and distributor, to further strengthen Elliptic's support for highly integrated embedded security solutions in the mobile, networking, consumer electronics and home entertainment European markets.
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RDA Microelectronics Acquires Baseband IP from Coolsand (Wednesday Mar. 28, 2012)
RDA Microelectronics today announced that it has acquired all of the baseband intellectual property of Coolsand Holding Co., Ltd., a privately held baseband company with business operations in China, and its subsidiaries ("Coolsand"). The consideration paid is $46 million, comprised of approximately $20 million in cash and 15 million RDA ordinary shares.