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ANSYS signs definitive agreement to acquire Apache Design Solutions (Thursday Jun. 30, 2011)
ANSYS and Apache Design Solutions announced today that they signed a definitive agreement whereby ANSYS will acquire Apache for a purchase price of approximately $310 million in cash, which includes an estimated $29 million in cash on Apache’s balance sheet.
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Elliptic Technologies Partners with Amos Technologies to Offer Security Solutions to the Israeli Market (Thursday Jun. 30, 2011)
Elliptic Technologies has partnered with Amos Technologies to bring Elliptic’s portfolio of security solutions to the Israeli market.
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SiliconBlue raises $18 Million in Series D Funding (Wednesday Jun. 29, 2011)
SiliconBlue® today announced the closing of an $18 million Series D funding. Proceeds from the financing will be used to bring SiliconBlue’s next-generation 40-nm, ultra-low power, standard CMOS process mobileFPGA™ device families to market.
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Fresco Microchip Raises $9 Million Series C Round (Wednesday Jun. 29, 2011)
Fresco Microchip today announced that it has secured funding in a series C financing round totaling $9 million.
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Faraday and AST Reach Track Record Production of Over 18 Million Units (Monday Jun. 27, 2011)
Faraday Technology and Advanced Semiconductor Technology Ltd. (AST), announced today reaching a track record production of over 18 million ASIC units for a single customer in Israel.
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Fractal Technologies nominates Avant Technology as distributor for China, Taiwan and Korea (Friday Jun. 24, 2011)
Both Fractal Technologies and Avant Technology are convinced that customers and prospects in China, Taiwan and Korea will benefit from this cooperation.
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SST and INSIDE Secure Enter Design Partnership (Thursday Jun. 23, 2011)
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ST-Ericsson announces new cost savings plan (Thursday Jun. 23, 2011)
ST-Ericsson today announced that it will launch a cost savings plan to achieve about $120 million of annualized savings by the end of 2012.
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Touchstone Is the Only Silicon Valley Semiconductor Company to Receive First-Round Funding in 2010 (Thursday Jun. 23, 2011)
Touchstone Semiconductor, a developer of high-performance analog integrated circuit solutions, today announced that it has received $12 million in Series A funding.
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ClariPhy Announces New Funding Round Led by Nokia Siemens Networks (Monday Jun. 20, 2011)
ClariPhy Communications announced today it has secured $14M in new financing. The funding round was led by Nokia Siemens Networks, a global supplier of telecommunications equipment and services, and also included existing investors.
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CSR plc and Zoran Corporation agree to revised terms for proposed transaction creating a global leader in connectivity, location, imaging and audio (Friday Jun. 17, 2011)
CSR and Zoran today announced that the Boards of Directors of CSR and Zoran have approved amendments to the terms for CSR’s proposed merger with Zoran previously announced on 21 February 2011.
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ARM Acquires Obsidian Software Bringing Flexible Verification Solutions to Future ARM Processor Designs (Friday Jun. 17, 2011)
ARM today announced that it has acquired Obsidian Software, a market leader in verification and validation used in the design of increasingly complex processors. Obsidian Software is a privately-owned company, with offices in Austin, Texas.
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Analog Devices Acquires Lyric Semiconductor (Thursday Jun. 16, 2011)
Analog Devices today announced that it has acquired Lyric Semiconductor, a privately-held Cambridge, Massachusetts, company.
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Qualcomm to Acquire the Assets of Semiconductor Design Innovator Rapid Bridge (Friday Jun. 10, 2011)
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced it has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Rapid Bridge LLC, a San Diego-based inventor of advanced techniques for the design and development of semiconductor products.
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ARM and Panasonic Corporation Partner to Drive Development of UniPhier SoCs for Internet Connected Digital TV Applications (Wednesday Jun. 08, 2011)
ARM today announced the use of a wide range of ARM technology in Panasonic Corporation’s recently launched UniPhier MN2WS0220 SoC for Internet Connected Digital TV applications.
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Cavendish Kinetics adds Qualcomm as investor (Wednesday Jun. 08, 2011)
Cavendish Kinetics announced closing a $10M financing round and the addition of Qualcomm Incorporated to the current investor group. Also participating in the round were Tallwood Venture Capital, Wellington Partners Venture Capital and several other current investors.
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Triad Semiconductor secures $6M funding from new investor Development 72, LLC (Tuesday Jun. 07, 2011)
Triad Semiconductor today announced that it has secured $6M in equity financing from Development 72, LLC. The funding will be used for working capital and software and hardware development.
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Open-Silicon and Micron Align to Deliver Next-Generation Memory Technology (Tuesday Jun. 07, 2011)
Open-Silicon, Inc. and Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:MU) today announced that the companies have entered into an agreement that will enable them to explore opportunities around Micron’s recently announced Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) products.
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ARM and Synopsys Sign Multi-Year EDA Tools and ARM Cortex-A15 Access Agreements (Monday Jun. 06, 2011)
ARM and Synopsys have signed an expanded multi-year agreement extending ARM's access to Synopsys' innovative EDA technology. ARM will also provide Synopsys with access to the ARM Cortex-A15 processor to maximize performance and energy efficiency of SoCs built by ARM's Partners using this advanced ARM processor and Synopsys tools.
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PLDA Signs Distribution Agreement with Singapore-based DYNAMIC C4, further expanding its presence in the Asian IP Market (Thursday Jun. 02, 2011)
PLDA today announced that it has contracted with DYNAMIC C4 to resell PLDA’s line of leading interconnect IP for FPGA and ASIC into the Singapore embedded design market.
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Maxim Acquires Edinburgh-Based Calvatec Ltd. (Thursday Jun. 02, 2011)
Maxim has acquired privately-held Calvatec Ltd., based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Calvatec is a leader of highly integrated, analog and mixed-signal SoC solutions for consumer and communications applications. Calvatec brings Maxim breakthrough IP as well as industry-leading design methods and production flows. It employs 15 people.
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RUSNANO invests in MEMS (Thursday Jun. 02, 2011)
RUSNANO co-invests in the development of MEMS. American company SiTime is its partner in the endeavor. The project has a total budget of $22 million of which RUSNANO finances up to $15 million.
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Nimbic Secures $6.9M Series B Financing (Thursday Jun. 02, 2011)
Nimbic today announced that new investor Austral Capital, and existing investors Madrona Venture Group and WRF Capital, have collectively invested $6.9 million in venture funding.
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Micron and Intellectual Ventures Sign Intellectual Property License Agreement (Wednesday Jun. 01, 2011)
Micron and Intellectual Ventures (IV) announced today that they have entered into an intellectual property license agreement. The agreement provides Micron with access to IV’s patent portfolio of more than 30,000 IP assets.
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eSilicon Adds China Region to its TSMC VCA Partnership (Monday May. 30, 2011)
eSilicon today announced that it has expanded its TSMC Value Chain Aggregator (VCA) partnership program membership to include China. eSilicon is already a VCA member of TSMC’s North American, European and Israel customer regions.
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PLDA Announces Expansion of Its Worldwide Distribution Network with the Addition of Key Chinese Distributors - Comtech and Shanghai Jiatao Industrial (Thursday May. 26, 2011)
PLDA today announced that it has contracted with leading distributors Comtech and Jiatao Industrial to resell PLDA’s line of leading interconnect IP for FPGA and ASIC.
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Sibridge Technologies & Axiom Design Automation Partner to Integrate Verification IPs with SystemVerilog (Wednesday May. 25, 2011)
Sibridge Technologies and Axiom Design Automation today announced a partnership agreement that will offer customers an integrated solution for accelerating SoC design & verification. The partnership combines the state-of-the-art verification platform, portfolio of Verification IPs (VIP), EDA & Test and design services.
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National Instruments to Acquire AWR Corporation, a Leader in RF Design Tools (Monday May. 23, 2011)
National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) today announced that it has signed a definitive merger agreement under which NI will acquire AWR Corporation (AWR). AWR is a leading supplier of electronic design automation (EDA) software for designing RF and high-frequency components and systems for the semiconductor, aerospace and defense, communications and test equipment industries.
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Renesas Electronics Ramps Up Production of USB 3.0 Host Controllers to Six Million Units Per Month (Monday May. 23, 2011)
Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced that the cumulative total shipment of the company's SuperSpeed Universal Serial Bus (USB 3.0) host controllers has reached 30 million units worldwide as of May 19, 2011.
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