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ARM Expands R&D Presence in Taiwan with Hsinchu Design Center (Thursday Nov. 17, 2011)
ARM today announced, at the ARM Technology Symposium in Taipei, the opening of an ARM Design Center in the Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan. The focus of the design center will be physical IP development and processor implementation to support ARM® Cortex™ processors, ARM® Mali™ Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and ARM Artisan® physical IP products.
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Acquisition of RAD3 Communications, Inc. by PMC-Sierra Completed (Thursday Nov. 17, 2011)
The acquisition of RAD3 Communications by PMC-Sierra closed on Thursday, November 11, 2011. The acquisition includes leading-edge Forward Error Correction (FEC) and DSP technologies, as well as a very experienced team that will enhance PMC’s ability to offer innovative, high-performance storage, optical and mobile solutions.
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Crocus and Morpho Sign Agreement to Develop Smart Cards Based on Magnetic-Logic-Unit (MLU) Technology (Thursday Nov. 10, 2011)
Crocus Technology and Morpho (Safran group) today announced an agreement to develop and commercialize the world's first smart card based on Crocus' Magnetic-Logic-Unit (MLU) technology
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EquipIC supply chain, LLC Teams with Perceptia Devices for Advanced Mixed Signal ASIC Designs (Wednesday Nov. 09, 2011)
EquipIC supply chain, LLC today announced that Perceptia Devices, Inc., an advanced mixed-signal chip design specialist based in Scotts Valley, California, has become its newest design partner for the USA market.
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Silicon-IP, Inc. Adds Intel as Client (Monday Nov. 07, 2011)
Silicon-IP, Inc. an independent 3rd party IP advisory services company, announced today that Intel Corporation has joined its impressive and growing list of customers for a near term project.
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Synopsys Awarded TSMC's Interface IP Partner of the Year (Monday Nov. 07, 2011)
Synopsys today announced that it received TSMC's 2011 Interface IP Partner of the Year Award. Synopsys' DesignWare® Interface IP portfolio includes widely used protocols such as USB, DDR, PCI Express, HDMI, MIPI and SATA that are offered in a broad range of processes from 180-nanometer (nm) to 28-nm.
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Dolphin Integration Receives 2011 TSMC IP Partner Award for Analog/Mixed-Signal IP (Friday Nov. 04, 2011)
Dolphin Integration has received the 2011 TSMC IP Partner Award for Analog/Mixed-Signal IP. The award is based on customer feedback, TSMC 9000 compliance, support and success of the IP.
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videantis named among Germany's Fast 50 Growth Technology Companies (Friday Nov. 04, 2011)
videantis GmbH today announces that it has been recognized in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2011 ranking as one of the fastest growing technology companies in Germany.
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Vector Fabrics Closes Series B Round of Financing (Thursday Nov. 03, 2011)
Vector Fabrics today closed its B round of financing, led by new investor Newion Investments. Return investors TechnoStars and Point-One Starter Fund also joined this B round, further expanding their holdings.
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ARM Acquires Prolific, Inc (Tuesday Nov. 01, 2011)
ARM today announced that it has acquired Prolific, Inc., which develops leading-edge IC design optimization software tools that significantly reduce development time and improve the performance of cell-based designs.
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WiLAN Provides Update on Offer to Acquire MOSAID (Tuesday Nov. 01, 2011)
WiLAN today confirmed that it does not intend to increase its $42.00 per share Offer to acquire MOSAID.
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Test and Verification Solutions opens its India subsidiary (Tuesday Nov. 01, 2011)
Test and Verification Solutions (TVS) announced today that it has opened its India office, Test and Verification Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. This is the first step towards their global expansion plans. The office is situated in the industrial location at Ekkaduthangal, Chennai.
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Global Unichip Refines Business Direction (Friday Oct. 28, 2011)
Global Unichip today announced that it is refining its business and technology model, focusing its evolution into a full service, flexible, ASIC company
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Sterling Partners Agrees to Acquire MOSAID Technologies for $46 per Share (Friday Oct. 28, 2011)
MOSAID announced today that it has entered into an arrangement agreement with Sterling Partners pursuant to which Sterling 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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RAD3 Communications, Inc. Announces Intent to be Acquired by PMC-Sierra (Wednesday Oct. 26, 2011)
RAD3 Communications, a Calgary-based communications intellectual property (IP) company, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by PMC-Sierra, the semiconductor innovator transforming storage, optical and mobile networks.
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MIPS Technologies and Starboard Reach Agreement (Tuesday Oct. 25, 2011)
MIPS Technologies today announced it has reached an agreement with Starboard, which beneficially owns approximately 9.9% of the outstanding shares of MIPS' common stock.
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Sequans Enters Agreement with Fujitsu Semiconductor (Thursday Oct. 20, 2011)
Sequans has established a technology and marketing collaboration with Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited for the purpose of providing customers with a comprehensive, high-performance LTE product offering that combines Fujitsu Semiconductor’s multimode 2G/3G/LTE RF solution with Sequans’ just-announced, next generation LTE baseband solutions.
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MOSAID Advises Shareholders To Take No Action On Increased Wi-LAN Offer (Thursday Oct. 20, 2011)
MOSAID today advised shareholders not to take any action until further notice with regard to an announcement by Wi-LAN Inc. that it has increased its unsolicited offer to acquire MOSAID.
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WiLAN Raises All Cash Offer to Acquire MOSAID to $42.00 per MOSAID Share (Wednesday Oct. 19, 2011)
Wi-LAN today announced that it has increased its fully funded all cash Offer to acquire MOSAID by 11% to $42.00 per MOSAID Common Share.
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Chipworks Partners With Elysium Digital LLC (Monday Oct. 17, 2011)
Chipworks today announced a partnership with Elysium Digital. This partnership is one example of how Chipworks is "thinking outside the chip" -- complementing its semiconductor expertise to support systems and software patent licensing.
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Sidense Raises Additional $5.6M Venture Capital (Monday Oct. 17, 2011)
Sidense announced today that it has raised an additional $5.6 million for its Round C financing from several sources, including one new source, Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund (OETF).
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eMemory and Grace Semiconductor Expand Partnership, Develop Diverse Solutions and Advanced Processes (Monday Oct. 17, 2011)
eMemory’sOTP (NeoBit), and MTP (NeoFlash/NeoEE) eNVM technologies will be brought fully into Grace’s process platform, and Grace will provide design service support for OTP and MTP IPs.
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Dolphin Integration adds value-added resellers for its mixed-signal EDA (Friday Oct. 14, 2011)
Dolphin Integration announce extending their network of worldwide resellers, from Canada to Asia through India. The reseller agreements involve promotion and sales of the hierarchical schematic editor SLED, the mixed-signal multi-language simulator SMASH, as well as the power consumption estimator SCROOGE.
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Synopsys Acquires Extreme DA (Friday Oct. 07, 2011)
Synopsys announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Extreme DA™, a privately held company headquartered in Santa Clara, California that develops software to improve integrated circuit (IC) design performance, power consumption and manufacturing yields.
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Crocus and IBM Sign Technology Development and Patent License Agreements (Thursday Oct. 06, 2011)
Crocus Technology today announced a joint technology development agreement and a patent license agreement with IBM. The patent license provides mutual access to patents that will enable the companies to collaborate and integrate magnetic technology into semiconductor products.
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ARM and UMC Extend Long-Term IP Partnership into 28nm (Thursday Oct. 06, 2011)
ARM and UMC today announced a long-term agreement that provides UMC foundry customers with access to the latest advanced ARM Artisan(R) Physical IP solutions validated on UMC's 28HPM process technology.
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Yogitech Raises 1 Million Euros from Atlante Ventures (Wednesday Oct. 05, 2011)
Atlante Ventures (A Venture Capital fund of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group) has finalized an investment of € 1 million in YOGITECH, part of a capital increase round of total € 1,5 millions. The remaining € 500 thousands was subscribed by the current financial shareholder Fondo Toscana Ventures, part of SICI Sgr spa.
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TranSwitch Corporation Announces a Business Re-organization and Restructuring in Line with the Company's Growth Strategy and Narrows Guidance for the 3rd Quarter of 2011 (Wednesday Oct. 05, 2011)
TranSwitch, as part of its ongoing strategy to focus resources on high-growth opportunities, today announced a business re-organization and restructuring to better align the Company’s R&D resources and other operating expenses towards its stated goals.
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Synopsys' DesignWare SuperSpeed USB 3.0 IP Achieves More Than 40 Design Wins (Monday Oct. 03, 2011)
Synopsys today announced that its DesignWare® SuperSpeed USB 3.0 IP has surpassed 40 SoC design wins and more than 30 customer licensees worldwide.
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Memoir Systems Writes the Next Chapter on How to Increase System Performance (Monday Oct. 03, 2011)
Through its unique, patent-pending Algorithmic Memory(TM) technology, Memoir solves the Memory Operations Per Second (MOPS) bottlenecks that are plaguing today's SoC products. The company's technology provides an order of magnitude increase in embedded memory performance.