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ARM Leading Intel In Process, Architecture And Design (Wednesday Feb. 01, 2012)
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Faraday and UMC Strengthen IP Alliance for Advanced Nodes (Wednesday Feb. 01, 2012)
Faraday and UMC today announced an agreement that strengthens the companies' IP alliance to include fundamental and specialized IP for advanced UMC processes. Under the terms of the agreement, Faraday will optimize a complete IP portfolio for UMC processes ranging from 0.11um to 28nm nodes to help mutual customers shorten their SoC design time-to-market for a variety of applications.
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Intel to Buy Patents and Next Generation Video Codec Software From RealNetworks (Friday Jan. 27, 2012)
RealNetworks today announced that it has signed an agreement to sell a significant number of its patents and its next generation video codec software to Intel Corporation for a purchase price of $120 million.
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Presto Engineering Announces Opening of New Semiconductor Service Hub in Israel Through Its Acquisition of ITH's Assets (Tuesday Jan. 24, 2012)
Presto Engineering, the leader in integrated test and product engineering services, today announced the opening of its newest Hub to serve the semiconductor design community in Israel. The company’s new Israeli Hub was established through the acquisition of the assets of ITH (Israel Test House) by Presto Engineering.
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Semtech Announces Plans to Acquire Gennum Corporation (Tuesday Jan. 24, 2012)
Semtech and Gennum today announced they have entered into a definitive arrangement agreement for Semtech to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Gennum for a total consideration of approximately CDN$500 million.
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Intel Takes Key Step in Accelerating High-Performance Computing with InfiniBand Acquisition (Tuesday Jan. 24, 2012)
Intel Corporation today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with QLogic to acquire the product lines of and certain assets related to its InfiniBand business.
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Synopsys Acquires ExpertIO (Monday Jan. 23, 2012)
Synopsys announced today that it has closed the acquisition of ExpertIO, Inc., a leading independent provider of verification IP (VIP) for industry standard protocols.
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Arasan Chip Systems Announces New Partner in Russia (Monday Jan. 23, 2012)
Arasan announced today that the company has increased its International support through a partnership with Streamline Design Solutions in Moscow, Russia.
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LSI Expands Strategic Relationship with ARM to Offer Energy-Efficient Multicore Processors for Networking Applications (Monday Jan. 23, 2012)
LSI today announced an expansion of its long-term strategic relationship with ARM. The agreement will lead to new product solutions designed to address critical customer needs for accelerated performance as applications such as mobile video and cloud computing dramatically increase network traffic.
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Everspin Technologies reports more than 300 percent growth of MRAM product shipments in 2011 (Friday Jan. 20, 2012)
Everspin Technologies is reporting record growth for 2011 with MRAM product shipments to exceed three times the unit volume shipped in 2010. In 2011 alone, the company secured 250 new design wins for its MRAM product offering.
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Microsemi Acquires Timing, Synchronization and Synthesis Business from Maxim Integrated Products (Thursday Jan. 19, 2012)
Microsemi today announced it has acquired the telecom clock generation, synchronization, packet timing and synthesis business from Maxim
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MIPS Joins Renesas Electronics' SoC Partner Program (Wednesday Jan. 18, 2012)
MIPS Technologies announced today that it has joined the Renesas Electronics SoC Partner Program. Renesas Electronics' SoC Partner Program promotes collaboration with its partners based around the Renesas SoC platform targeting the mobile, automotive, and home audio-visual device segments.
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NetLogic Microsystems Strengthens its Innovation and Technology Leadership with Expanded Patent Portfolio (Tuesday Jan. 17, 2012)
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Ridgetop Group Signs Contract with Boeing for Prognostic Condition-Based Maintenance Technology Development (Thursday Jan. 12, 2012)
Ridgetop will be supporting Boeing in the development of prognostic models for the Apache’s electrical system, to predict the remaining useful life of selected electrical components and wiring. The use of prognostics, with indicators for the state of health of internal components, supports proactive maintenance by determining the quality of performance of these components and their impact on the system as a whole.
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TCL and SENSIO announce planned integration of SENSIO Hi-Fi 3D technology in 3DTVs (Tuesday Jan. 10, 2012)
TCL and SENSIO today announced the signature of a letter of intent (LOI) to work together towards the integration of the SENSIO® Hi-Fi 3D technology in TCL 3DTVs.
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NXP Semiconductors Comments on Impact of Trident Microsystems Chapter 11 Filing Announces Conference Call to Review Fourth Quarter 2011 Financial Results (Monday Jan. 09, 2012)
NXP announced today it currently does not anticipate the recently announced Chapter 11 filing by Trident Microsystems to have a material impact on its non-GAAP results for the fourth quarter of 2011.
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Memoir Systems Selects ChipStart as Global Sales Representative Company (Monday Jan. 09, 2012)
Memoir Systems today announced that it has selected ChipStart as the global sales representative for the company’s products. Memoir’s products incorporate its patent-pending Algorithmic Memory® technology that solves the Memory Operations Per Second (MOPS) bottlenecks that plague today’s SoC applications
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TranSwitch Corporation Provides Revised Guidance Regarding Fourth Quarter Results and Announces Extension to Agreement To Sublease Office Space (Friday Jan. 06, 2012)
TranSwitch today announced that it now expects its fourth quarter 2011 revenue to be roughly $6.3 million compared to the guidance provided on November 1, 2011 of roughly $7 million.
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Mindspeed Technologies to Acquire Picochip (Thursday Jan. 05, 2012)
Mindspeed today announced that it is has signed a definitive agreement to acquire U.K.-based Picochip Limited, a leading supplier of integrated system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for small cell base stations.
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MoSys Partners with Macnica, Inc. Division, TecStar Company, to Strengthen Representation in Japan for its Bandwidth Engine(R) ICs (Thursday Jan. 05, 2012)
MoSys has appointed Macnica, Inc. division, TecStar Company, as its new distributor to meet MoSys' growing need for sales and support of its Bandwidth Engine family of ICs in Japan.
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Arasan Chip Systems Announces opening of two new Sales offices in Europe (Thursday Jan. 05, 2012)
Arasan announced today that the company has increased its International support further by opening up two new Sales offices in Europe.
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Marvell Acquires Xelerated (Wednesday Jan. 04, 2012)
Marvell today announced it has completed the acquisition of Sweden-based Xelerated, AB, a technology innovator in network processing and programmable Ethernet switching solutions for the design of Carrier Ethernet, Unified Fiber Access, Mobile Backhaul and Transport platforms.
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LSI Completes Acquisition of SandForce, Inc. (Wednesday Jan. 04, 2012)
LSI today announced that it has completed the purchase of SandForce, Inc., the leading provider of flash storage processors for enterprise and client flash solutions and solid state drives (SSDs).
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Entropic Communications Files Intent to Purchase Trident Microsystems' Set-Top Box Business Unit (Wednesday Jan. 04, 2012)
Entropic Communications today announced it has filed an asset purchase agreement as "stalking horse" bidder to purchase certain assets of Trident Microsystems' set-top box (STB) system on a chip (SoC) business in connection with Trident's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on January 4, 2012.
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Trident Microsystems, Inc. and Cayman Subsidiary File for Chapter 11 Protection (Wednesday Jan. 04, 2012)
Trident Microsystems today announced that the Company and its Cayman subsidiary, Trident Microsystems (Far East) Ltd. have filed voluntary petitions under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
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RDA Microelectronics Signs Digital TV IP License and Development Agreement With Trident Microsystems (Wednesday Jan. 04, 2012)
RDA Microelectronics today announced that it has signed an IP license and development agreement with Trident Microsystems. RDA will pay US$16.0 million in cash to secure a non-exclusive, worldwide, non-transferrable license to develop, manufacture and sell derivative versions of the Trident SX5 Digital TV SoC platform for a period of 10 years.
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Test and Verification Solutions Limited (TVS) Announces Opening of German Office (Wednesday Jan. 04, 2012)
TVS today announces the opening of new offices in Germany to better provide hardware verification and software testing services to the electronics industry in the European Schengen visa region.
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EnSilica announces new design centre in India focusing on verification (Wednesday Jan. 04, 2012)
EnSilica has opened a new design centre in India (Bangalore), to complement its existing design facilities in the UK. The new design centre will be a centre of excellence for the advanced verification of complex semiconductor products and IP.
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Fabless subsidiary, Toumaz Microsystems supported by Imagination Technologies Group (Tuesday Jan. 03, 2012)
Toumaz has established a new fabless subsidiary, Toumaz Microsystems, which will be responsible for its growing wireless IC business. Toumaz has secured investment and support from Imagination Technologies Group as a strategic partner for this business.
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IP Cores, Inc. Ships More True Random IP Cores (Tuesday Dec. 27, 2011)
IP Cores has reported steady growth in design wins for its flagship true random number generator IP core, TRNG1.