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Broadcom Extends Fiber Access Portfolio with Acquisition of BroadLight (Thursday Mar. 22, 2012)
Broadcom today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire BroadLight, Inc., a Delaware corporation with an Israel-based subsidiary
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Test and Verification Solutions opens its branch office at Bengaluru, India (Thursday Mar. 22, 2012)
Test and Verification Solutions (TVS) announced today that it has opened its second branch office in India at Bengaluru. Earlier TVS started India operations with Test and Verification Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. established in Chennai during September 2011.
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ISSI Signs SRAM Technology Licensing Agreement with IBM (Wednesday Mar. 21, 2012)
ISSI has signed a technology licensing agreement with IBM around SRAM technology, enhancing a relationship that started in 2004 for SRAM technology
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Polaris Design Acquires ASIC/SoC Prototyping Business of IRIS Technologies and Appoints PROTOtyping Japan as Its Exclusive Japan Distributor (Wednesday Mar. 21, 2012)
Polaris Design Systems has acquired the ASIC/SoC prototyping assets of IRIS Technologies, Inc. IRIS developed and marketed multiple generations of Altera FPGA-based ASIC prototyping solutions since 2006
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Semtech Completes Acquisition of Gennum Corporation (Wednesday Mar. 21, 2012)
Semtech and Gennum jointly announced today the successful completion of Semtech's acquisition of Gennum Corporation. Semtech's agreement to acquire Gennum was announced previously on January 23, 2012.
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Cadence Opens Expanded Shanghai Sales Office and R&D Center (Wednesday Mar. 21, 2012)
Cadence today announced the grand opening of an expanded Shanghai office, which includes more than 300 sales, R&D, and technical support employees.
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SMIC Secures USD 600 Million Syndicated Loan (Friday Mar. 16, 2012)
SMIC announces today that its subsidiary, Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation, has closed a seven-year syndicated loan in the amount of USD 600 million today, from a consortium of banks led by the China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China.
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First Sidense Customer Takes Kilopass 1T Patent Coverage License (Friday Mar. 16, 2012)
Kilopass today announced it has licensed its 1T patent coverage license (PCL) to a Sidense customer. This is the first in an expected series of customers to license the 1T PCL. With the 1T PCL, Kilopass is enabling direct resolution with Sidense customers on their existing products using 1T technology before the U.S. District Court trial begins on September 30, 2012.
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Gennum Shareholder Approval Obtained for Acquisition by Semtech (Wednesday Mar. 14, 2012)
Gennum announced that at a special meeting of Gennum shareholders held earlier today, Gennum received the requisite shareholder approvals for the plan of arrangement pursuant to which Semtech Corporation, through its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Gennum.
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Xilinx Raises Quarterly Dividend $0.03 per Diluted Share (Tuesday Mar. 13, 2012)
Xilinx today announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.22 per outstanding share of common stock, an increase from the dividend of $0.19 per outstanding share of common stock paid in each of the immediately preceding four quarters.
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Entropic Receives U.S. Court Approval to Acquire Trident Microsystems' Set-Top-Box SoC Assets (Friday Mar. 09, 2012)
Entropic Communications today announced that its agreement with Trident Microsystems' for the acquisition of Trident's set-top-box system-on-a chip (SoC) assets has been approved by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
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Semtech Acquires Wireless Long Range IP Provider Cycleo (Thursday Mar. 08, 2012)
Semtech today announced it acquired Cycleo SAS and all of its assets, related companies and operations. Headquartered in Grenoble, France, privately-held Cycleo develops IP for wireless long-range semiconductor products used in smart metering and other industrial and consumer markets. Cycleo technology will be incorporated in future Semtech RF platforms that need to deliver extended range at lower cost and lower power.
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Imagination Technologies Group plc: Interim Management Statement (Thursday Mar. 08, 2012)
Imagination Technologies is today issuing its Interim Management Statement for the period from 1 November 2011 to 7 March 2012.
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Rambus and MediaTek Sign Patent License Agreement (Monday Mar. 05, 2012)
Rambus announced today it has signed a patent license agreement with MediaTek. This agreement covers the use of Rambus patented innovations in a broad range of IC products offered by MediaTek Inc. In addition, the two companies have settled all outstanding claims, including resolution of past use of Rambus' patented innovations.
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HiSilicon and imec collaborate on reconfigurable RF transceivers (Thursday Mar. 01, 2012)
HiSilicon and imec have signed a strategic research collaboration to develop innovative RF transceiver architectures for next-generation mobile terminals. With the partnership, HiSilicon joins imec’s R&D program on cognitive reconfigurable radio to jointly conceive low-power and compact high-performance reconfigurable RF transceivers leveraging on state-of-the-art CMOS technology.
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Ramtron and Revere Security Join Forces to Enable Secure and Energy Efficient F-RAM Semiconductor Devices (Wednesday Feb. 29, 2012)
Ramtron and Revere Security today announced that they have entered into a partnership to enable the integration of Revere Security's Hummingbird HB-2 security technology into Ramtron's nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM) products.
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Entropic Communications Selected to Acquire Trident Set-Top Box System-on-a-Chip Assets and Intellectual Property (Monday Feb. 27, 2012)
Entropic Communications today announced it has been selected as the successful bidder to acquire Trident Microsystems' set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) assets for a purchase price of $65 million, a $10 million dollar increase to its original offer.
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MPEG LA Offers MVC Patent Portfolio License (Thursday Feb. 23, 2012)
MPEG LA, LLC today announced the availability of the MVC Patent Portfolio License. The joint license includes patents that are essential to the Multiview Video Coding (“MVC”) standard for encoding and decoding 3D video.
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InterDigital and Sierra Wireless Expand Worldwide Patent License Agreement to Cover 4G Standards (Thursday Feb. 23, 2012)
InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDCC) today announced that its patent holding subsidiaries have entered into an amendment of its worldwide royalty-bearing patent license agreement with Sierra Wireless, Inc. to include a license for products designed to operate in accordance with 4G wireless technologies, including LTE, LTE-Advanced, and WiMax™.
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Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Magma Design Automation (Wednesday Feb. 22, 2012)
Synopsys has completed its acquisition of Magma® Design Automation. The value of the transaction is approximately $523 million net of cash acquired, or $7.35 per Magma share in cash, which Synopsys will fund using a combination of cash and debt.
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Agilent Technologies Completes Acquisition of Accelicon Technologies' Solutions for Semiconductor Device Modeling (Wednesday Feb. 22, 2012)
Agilent Technologies today announced that Accelicon Technologies' software solutions and technology for device-level modeling and validation in the electronics industry are now part of Agilent.
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Moortec Semiconductor Sign Representative Agreement with Red Shift Sales in Silicon Valley, US (Monday Feb. 20, 2012)
Moortec Semiconductor announce that it has signed a representative agreement with Red Shift Sales. Red Shift Sales provide specialist sales management for companies in the technology sector, with a particular focus on consumer, telecommunications, industrial electronics and software.
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Silicon Image Opens New Research & Development Center in Hyderabad, India (Friday Feb. 17, 2012)
Silicon Image today announced the opening of its newest research and development (R&D) center in Hyderabad, India. The facility focuses on the design and development of semiconductor and IP core technologies for implementation in mobile, wireless and consumer electronics (CE) products
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Black Sand closes $10M Series C Funding (Friday Feb. 17, 2012)
Black Sand today announced that it has received US$10 million in third-round (series C) funding, as it ramps volume production of its range of silicon power amplifiers for use in 3G phones, tablets and datacards.
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Spin Transfer Technologies Raises $36 Million Led by Allied Minds and Invesco (Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012)
Spin Transfer Technologies, Inc. a developer of a breakthrough MRAM universal computer memory technology announced today that it secured $36 million in Series A funding. The raise was led by its Boston-based parent company, Allied Minds and Invesco Asset Management.
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NXP Semiconductors Announces New Refinancing (Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012)
NXP announced today that its subsidiary, NXP B.V., together with NXP Funding LLC, is intending to redeem all of its outstanding Euro-denominated 8 5/8% Senior Notes due October 2015, and all outstanding U.S. dollar-denominated 9 1/2% Senior Notes due October 2015, in the total amount of approximately US$775 million.
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Elliptic Technologies Partners With ADSTEC Corporation To Offer Embedded Security Solutions To The Japanese Market (Wednesday Feb. 08, 2012)
Elliptic Technologies has partnered with ADSTEC Corp., a premier representative and distributor, to bring Elliptic's portfolio of security solutions to the Japanese market.
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eSilicon Expands SerDes IP Licensing Agreement with Avago Technologies (Tuesday Feb. 07, 2012)
eSilicon has expanded its existing agreement with Avago Technologies to include access to Avago’s 28nm, 40nm, 65nm and 90nm embedded SerDes cores. The agreement allows eSilicon to offer these cores and related IP as part of its custom chip development solution.
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Rambus Acquires Unity Semiconductor (Monday Feb. 06, 2012)
Rambus today announced it has acquired privately-held Unity Semiconductor, a memory technology company for an aggregate of $35 million in cash. As part of this acquisition, the Unity team members have joined Rambus to continue developing innovations and solutions for next-generation non-volatile memory.
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eoSemi secures $2.3 million second tranche of funding (Friday Feb. 03, 2012)
eoSemi, the all-silicon oscillator company, has confirmed that it has secured a $2.3million (£1.5milion) second tranche of funding. All of the company’s existing investors, including NESTA Investments, Capital-E, and EV, participated in the latest round of financing.