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New and existing investors back Nujira's vision with £10 million round (Wednesday May. 18, 2011)
Nujira, the leading developer of technology to reduce power consumption in smartphone transmitters by 30-50%, has secured a further £10 million of funding for its growth plans.
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Sequans in New Collaboration to Secure LTE Ecosystem (Tuesday May. 17, 2011)
Sequans Communications and Ericsson are now collaborating to develop and mature TD-LTE technology for the global marketplace.
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Crocus Technology Strikes $300 Million Financing Deal with RUSNANO to Build Advanced MRAM Manufacturing Facility in Russia (Tuesday May. 17, 2011)
Crocus Technology today announced that they have closed an agreement to create an MRAM manufacturing company, with a combined investment totaling $300 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Crocus and RUSNANO will form Crocus Nano Electronics (CNE), to build an advanced MRAM facility in Russia, capable of manufacturing medium to high density MRAM products based on Crocus' Thermally Assisted SwitchingTM (TAS) MRAM technology at 90nm and 65nm lithographies.
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Xilinx Establishes Industry-Leading Communications Portfolio for 100G and Beyond Line-cards with the Acquisition of Sarance Technologies (Tuesday May. 17, 2011)
Acquisition of leading silicon IP provider bolsters Xilinx's capabilities for providing 40G, 100G, 150G and beyond Interlaken, Ethernet, and High-Bandwidth Bridges to large System Vendors
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Silicon Image Completes Acquisition of SiBEAM (Tuesday May. 17, 2011)
Silicon Image today announced that it has completed the acquisition of SiBEAM, Inc., a developer of 60GHz multi-gigabit wireless communication technology for consumer electronics and personal computer applications, and a founding member of the WirelessHD® Consortium.
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MOSAID and Hynix Enter Into Patent License and Acquisition Agreements (Monday May. 16, 2011)
MOSAID today announced that it has concluded a patent portfolio license agreement with Hynix Semiconductor Inc. of Korea. In a separate purchase agreement, MOSAID has acquired a significant portfolio of patents and patent applications from Hynix.
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Rambus Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Cryptography Research (Friday May. 13, 2011)
Rambus today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI), a leading semiconductor security R&D and licensing company.
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Cadence Acquires Altos Design Automation (Tuesday May. 10, 2011)
Cadence today announced it has acquired Altos Design Automation. Altos tools enable ultra-fast and accurate characterization of memory, standard cell libraries and other foundation IP, generating required models for SoC implementation.
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Freescale files for IPO to raise $1 billion (Monday May. 09, 2011)
Freescale Semiconductor, the U.S. chip company that spun off from Motorola in 2004 and taken private by a private equity consortium in 2006, has filed for an initial public offering of common shares.
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NVIDIA to Acquire Baseband and RF Technology Leader Icera (Monday May. 09, 2011)
NVIDIA announced today that it has agreed to acquire Icera, a leading innovator of top-performing baseband processors for 3G and 4G cellular phones and tablets. The acquisition, for $367 million in cash, has been approved by both companies' boards of directors and is expected to be completed, subject to customary closing conditions, in approximately 30 days.
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Cryptography Research and Athena Announce Developer Ecosystem Agreement for Differential Power Analysis Countermeasures Patents (Thursday May. 05, 2011)
CRI) and Athena today announced an agreement which will enable Athena to develop Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures for use by licensees of CRI´s DPA patents.
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Sonics Distributes Synopsys IP to Offer End-to-End Memory Subsystem Solutions for Mobile, Digital Entertainment (Wednesday Apr. 27, 2011)
Sonics today announced that the company has signed an agreement with Synopsys to distribute its family of DesignWare® Universal DDR Memory Controllers for mobile and digital entertainment SoCs.
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Mentor Graphics Issues Open Letter to Shareholders (Monday Apr. 25, 2011)
Mentor Graphics today issued the following open letter to the shareholders of Mentor Graphics regarding the company’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders scheduled for May 12, 2011.
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INSIDE Secure Licenses Advanced ARM SecurCore Technology (Wednesday Apr. 20, 2011)
INSIDE Secure today announced their intention to provide 32-bit secure processor solutions based on the industry-leading ARM(r) architecture. Under the terms of a licensing agreement with ARM, INSIDE can now utilize the ARM SecurCore(r) SC300(tm) processor for its next generation of secure payments, digital security and NFC solutions.
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Mixel Spearheads a MIPI Alliance Ecosystem Partnership (Wednesday Apr. 20, 2011)
Mixel® announced today a MIPI® Alliance ecosystem partnership including representatives of all MIPI stakeholder groups, such as MIPI IP, both analog and digital, Verification IP (VIP), suppliers of measurement equipment, MIPI measurement service providers, and MIPI production test equipment manufacturers.
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Silicon Image Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire SiBEAM (Thursday Apr. 14, 2011)
Silicon Image today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held SiBEAM, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.
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Altair Semiconductor Raises $26 Million Round of Financing (Monday Apr. 11, 2011)
Altair Semiconductor, the world's leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance LTE chipsets, announced today that it has completed a $26 million round of funding.
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Gennum Acquires Nanotech Semiconductor (Thursday Apr. 07, 2011)
Gennum announced today it has acquired Nanotech Semiconductor Limited, a leading fabless IC company specializing in advanced CMOS mixed-signal ICs for fiber optic communications.
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BitSim and Lewel Group integrates Finnish ASIC / FPGA operation (Wednesday Apr. 06, 2011)
Lewel Group and BitSim starts cooperation where Lewel Group takes over BitSim employees.
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Gennum and Kiwi Semiconductor Announce Plans for Next-Generation HDcctv Chipset (Wednesday Apr. 06, 2011)
Kiwi Semiconductor and Gennum Corporation today jointly announce their agreement to work in association with the HDcctv Alliance® to develop an upstream communication solution for HDcctv.
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Zoran Corporation selected RT-RK to port Android to its SOCs (Wednesday Apr. 06, 2011)
RT-RK, a provider of embedded system design and system software development services in the field of consumer electronics, was selected by Zoran to develop multimedia applications and services for connected TV and set-top box applications.
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TI to acquire National Semiconductor (Tuesday Apr. 05, 2011)
Texas Instruments and National Semiconductor today announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which TI will acquire National for $25 per share in an all-cash transaction of about $6.5 billion.
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Xilinx buys optical transport chip vendor (Friday Apr. 01, 2011)
Xilinx Inc. has acquired Omiino Ltd. a Belfast telecommunications startup for an undisclosed amount, according to local reports. Xilinx follows AppliedMicro and Altera as an acquirer of companies that developed optical transport IP and implemented it in FPGAs.
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MOSAID and Hynix Sign Memorandum of Understanding (Thursday Mar. 31, 2011)
MOSAID Technologies Inc. (TSX:MSD) today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hynix Semiconductor Inc. (Hynix) of Korea. The MOU calls for Hynix to take a six-year license to MOSAID's patents, with fixed equal quarterly payments over the term.
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Mentor Graphics Corporation Announces Pricing of Private Placement of 4.00% Convertible Subordinated Debentures Due 2031 (Thursday Mar. 31, 2011)
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) announced that on March 29, 2011 the company priced a private placement of $220 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.00% Convertible Subordinated Debentures due 2031 to be issued to qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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Mentor Graphics Board of Directors Affirms Commitment to Strategic Plan (Monday Mar. 28, 2011)
Mentor Graphics today announced that its Board of Directors has determined that the continued execution of the company’s strategic plan offers the greatest value to Mentor Graphics shareholders. In reaching its unanimous decision, the Board concluded that the $17 per share proposal made by Carl Icahn and certain of his affiliated entities undervalues the company and its future prospects.
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Tabula Secures $108 Million in the Largest Round Awarded to a Private Semiconductor Company Over the Last Decade (Monday Mar. 28, 2011)
Tabula today announced it has secured $108 million in Series D funding. Tabula will use the new capital to accelerate production of their 3PLD ABAX product family, expand customer and partner support infrastructures, and further next-generation product development to extend their market leadership in the rapidly growing programmable logic sector.
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CAST Inc. and SignalGeneriX Ltd Join the Hellenic Semiconductor Industry Association (Monday Mar. 28, 2011)
CAST and SignalGeneriX join the Hellenic Semiconductor Industry Association. With this, CAST, SignalGeneriX and HSIA join forces to help the high tech industry of Southeastern Europe to progress and become a dynamic & credible partner in the global market.
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Triad Semiconductor and Kaben Wireless Engage in a Comprehensive Partnership (Tuesday Mar. 22, 2011)
Triad and Kaben announced today the signing of a Strategic Teaming Agreement. The purpose of the agreement is to bring Kaben's disruptive wireless IP and design expertise to users of Triad's via configurable arrays (VCAs).
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Broadcom Gains Microwave Transmission Technology with Acquisition of Provigent (Tuesday Mar. 22, 2011)
Broadcom today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Provigent, a privately-held leading provider of highly integrated, high performance, mixed signal semiconductors for microwave backhaul systems, with offices in Israel and Santa Clara, Calif.