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eMemory grasps the developing trend in technology and expands into the advanced technology (Tuesday Dec. 27, 2011)
eMemory Inc., an embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM) leader, is reporting its recent success in technological development, as its technology platform tracks closely the global wafer fab progress in advanced process development.
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Test and Verification Solutions creates strategic presence in Asia Pacific market (Wednesday Dec. 21, 2011)
Test and Verification Solutions announced today that it has expanded its global presence in Asia Pacific region with the recent opening of its development centre in Chennai, India and signing with Sales representatives from China mainland and Taiwan.
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Vivante Records Explosive Growth with Worldwide Product Shipments Including the Majority of China Mobile’s TD Smartphones (Wednesday Dec. 21, 2011)
Vivante announced mass market product shipments on China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA network. Products incorporating Vivante technologies are based on the Marvell® PXA920 communications processor and ship in China Mobile OMS and Android TD smartphones from ASUS, Huawei, Lenovo, Samsung, ZTE and many others.
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DMP Establish US Subsidiary and Appoints New Head to Run US Operations and Sales (Wednesday Dec. 21, 2011)
Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP) today announced the establishment of company’s subsidiary – Digital Media Professionals USA Inc. in Campbell, California, USA.
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Smart Grid System on Chip Innovator, EnVerv Raises $12M Round of Financing (Tuesday Dec. 20, 2011)
EnVerv Inc., a fabless semiconductor company developing high performance Communications SoC solutions for the Smart Grid market announces the closing of $12M Series B round of funding led by Benchmark Capital. Previous investors, NEA and Walden International participated in the round also.
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MOSAID Technologies' Shareholders Approve Acquisition by Sterling Partners (Monday Dec. 19, 2011)
MOSAID announced today that MOSAID's shareholders have voted to approve the previously announced statutory arrangement pursuant to which 7577796 Canada Inc., a corporation directly or indirectly owned by investment funds under the management of Sterling Fund Management, LLC, will acquire all the outstanding common shares of MOSAID for a cash payment of $46.00 per share. The total value of the transaction is approximately $590 million.
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Cryptography Research and INVIA Sign Developer Agreement for Differential Power Analysis Countermeasures (Monday Dec. 19, 2011)
Cryptography Research and INVIA today announced they have entered into an agreement enabling INVIA to develop products incorporating Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures for use by licensees of CRI’s DPA patents.
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Test and Verification Solutions Collaborates with Partners to Promote its Offerings in China mainland and Taiwan market (Thursday Dec. 15, 2011)
Test and Verification Solutions (TVS) today announced that it has signed with HyperSilicon and Grand Technology Inc. (GTI) to promote their product and services portfolio in China mainland and Taiwan regions respectively
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Cosmic Circuits ships 12 Million ICs (Thursday Dec. 15, 2011)
Cosmic Circuits, a provider of Analog and Mixed Signal ASICs today announced it has shipped 12 Million ICs till November 2011 and expects gross shipments of ASICs to exceed 16 Million ICs by March 2012. Cosmic Circuits is one of the first Indian companies to ship ICs in such large volumes.
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MoSys Opens China Office and Partners with RTI Technology China Limited to Bring Local Representation for its Bandwidth Engine(R) Family of ICs to the Region (Wednesday Dec. 14, 2011)
MoSys has expanded its global presence to include an office in Shanghai, China. MoSys has also appointed RTI Technology China Limited (RTI), as its new manufacturer's representative.
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Cosmic Circuits' MIPI Alliance M-PHY-DigRFv4 licensed by multiple customers (Tuesday Dec. 13, 2011)
Cosmic Circuits today announced that its M-PHY-DigRF v4 solution has been licensed by multiple customers in Asia. Cosmic Circuits DigRF v4 solution integrates an M-PHY that supports both the HS-G1 (1.5Gbps) and HS-G2 (3Gbps) modes along with the DigRF v4 controller.
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Xilinx Underscores Commitment to Growth in China at Grand Opening of Expanded Beijing Site, New R&D Center (Tuesday Dec. 13, 2011)
Xilinx today underscored its commitment to the high-growth China market at opening ceremonies for its new offices in Beijing. The company has expanded its footprint in the Asia Pacific region to include an R&D center, consolidating its local sales, marketing and application engineering operations into a single site.
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CSR guts Zoran DTV chip business in re-org (Tuesday Dec. 13, 2011)
Chip maker CSR plc said Monday (Dec. 12) it would discontinue investment in the digital TV and silicon tuner product lines it recently acquired when it bought Zoran Corp. and lay off about 800 employees by the end of the second quarter of 2012.
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WiLAN Acquires Portfolio of More Than 1400 Digital TV and Display Patents (Monday Dec. 12, 2011)
WiLAN today announced that it has acquired a global portfolio of more than 1400 patents and applications related to digital TV and video displays from an international consumer electronics manufacturer for US $8 Million in cash.
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SmartPlay Technologies sets up design center in Hyderabad (Monday Dec. 12, 2011)
SmartPlay Technologies, an established global leader in digital, analog, wireless software and system design services is setting up a design center in Hyderabad.
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Lattice Semiconductor to Acquire SiliconBlue (Friday Dec. 09, 2011)
Lattice today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SiliconBlue Technologies, a pioneer and leader in Custom Mobile Device(TM) solutions for the consumer handheld market.
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Ikanos Communications Selects eSilicon For Manufacturing Operations and Logistics (Thursday Dec. 08, 2011)
eSilicon and Ikanos announced today that they have entered into a master services and supply agreement under which eSilicon will manage Ikanos' manufacturing operations and related logistics functions including supply chain management for Ikanos production products.
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GainSpan Closes $18 Million Series C Financing (Wednesday Dec. 07, 2011)
GainSpan Corporation a leader in low power embedded Wi-Fi solutions, today announced that it has raised $18 million in Series C funding.
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AuthenTec Acquires PeerSec Networks to Strengthen Leadership in Embedded Security (Tuesday Dec. 06, 2011)
AuthenTec today announced that it has acquired Seattle-based PeerSec Networks, an innovative provider of networking security solutions.
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Agilent Technologies Signs Acquisition Agreement with Accelicon Technologies, a Leading Provider of Semiconductor Device-Modeling Software (Friday Dec. 02, 2011)
Agilent Technologies and Accelicon Technologies today announced they have signed a definitive acquisition agreement. Accelicon, a privately held company, provides device-level modeling and validation software for the electronics industry.
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Synopsys to Acquire Magma Design Automation (Thursday Dec. 01, 2011)
Synopsys has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Magma® Design Automation
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Kilopass and UMC Sign Long Term Technology Roadmap Agreement (Wednesday Nov. 30, 2011)
Kilopass and UMC today jointly announced that they have expanded their existing manufacturing license agreement. In addition to the 40nm low-power process in the current agreement, the extension will cover UMC technology processes spanning from 55nm to 130nm. Future plans include UMC’s 28nm High-K metal gate (HKMG) and Poly/SiOn processes.
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Movidius Secures $9M Series C Funding (Wednesday Nov. 30, 2011)
Movidius, the mobile multimedia processor company, today announced it has secured Series C funding of US$9 million. Combined with previous investment rounds this brings the total investment raised to over US$30M.
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Intrinsic-ID launches operation in Japan and hires industry veteran (Wednesday Nov. 30, 2011)
Intrinsic-ID announces the launch of its Japan operation and has hired industry veteran Kazuhisa Okamura-san to set up the sales operation for Intrinsic-ID in Japan
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES Strengthens Leadership Team, While Affirming Ongoing Ramp in New York, Germany and Singapore (Wednesday Nov. 30, 2011)
GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced it has appointed a new Chief Financial Officer while assigning two other senior executives to key positions, as it ramps capacity at its facilities in New York, Germany and Singapore to serve demand for volume and technology from customers.
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VeriSilicon Licenses a Wide Range of ARM Technology for Advanced Consumer and Embedded Applications (Monday Nov. 28, 2011)
ARM and VeriSilicon Holdings Co. Ltd., a world class IC design foundry and custom silicon solution provider, today announced that VeriSilicon has licensed a wide range of ARM Intellectual Property (IP).
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NetLogic Microsystems' Stockholders Approve Merger Agreement with Broadcom Corporation (Wednesday Nov. 23, 2011)
NetLogic announced today that at a special meeting of NetLogic Microsystems stockholders, its stockholders approved the adoption of the merger agreement among NetLogic Microsystems, Broadcom Corporation and I&N Acquisition Corp., pursuant to which NetLogic Microsystems would be acquired by Broadcom for $50.00 per share in cash.
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CEVA, Inc. Makes Strategic Equity Investment in eyeSight Mobile Technologies, a Gesture Technology Company (Tuesday Nov. 22, 2011)
Investment expands market reach of CEVA-MM3000 ISP & video platform to include gesture recognition applications for mobile, digital home and automotive markets
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PLDA USB 3.0 IP Reaches Key Milestone with 100th Design Win (Thursday Nov. 17, 2011)
PLDA today announced that they have achieved their 100th design win for their SuperSpeed USB IP solution. The PLDA USB 3.0 solution provides ASIC and FPGA designers an easy path to first time silicon success thanks to its ease of integration and industry-leading technical support.
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Mentor offshoot nurtures European startups (Thursday Nov. 17, 2011)
Cre8 Ventures, a 2005 offshoot from Mentor Graphics formed in the UK by Carson Bradbury to support startups with networking contacts and other benefits but not venture capital, has been extended, taken independent and renamed as the European Microelectronics Academy (EMA).