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ARM share price soars on Windows reports (Wednesday Dec. 22, 2010)
The share price of ARM Holdings plc soared on Wednesday (Dec. 22) on reports that Microsoft Corp. will use the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2011 to demonstrate a version of its Windows operating system that will run on processors designed by the U.K. firm.
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Altera Acquires Avalon Microelectronics, Extending Its Communication System IP for FPGA and ASIC Product Portfolio (Tuesday Dec. 14, 2010)
Altera announced today it has acquired Avalon. With the acquisition of Avalon, Altera expands its portfolio of customizable IP solutions for OTN applications, supporting data rates at 1.2G, 2.5G and 10G, as well as 40G and 100G.
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Imagination to acquire Caustic Graphics, developer of real-time ray-tracing graphics technology, for $27 million (Tuesday Dec. 14, 2010)
Imagination Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Caustic Graphics, a developer of innovative and state-of-the-art real-time interactive ray tracing graphics technology for a cash consideration of $27 million (c.£17.1 million).
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AltoBeam Closed Series C Funding with USVP and Long-Term Investors (Monday Dec. 13, 2010)
AltoBeam, a developer of advanced DTV demodulators, today announced that it has successfully closed a 6 million US dollars round of Series C funding, led by US Venture Partners (USVP).
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Sonics Surpasses One Billion Units and Remains World's Largest Supplier of Network-on-Chip Technology (Monday Dec. 06, 2010)
Sonics today announced its licensee shipments have surpassed the one billion unit mark worldwide, maintaining its leadership as the world's top network-on-chip (NoC) company for advanced SoC design.
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CEVA Dominates DSP Licensing Market with 78% Market Share (Monday Dec. 06, 2010)
CEVA today announced that it has been ranked by leading research firm The Linley Group as the worldwide leader in DSP licensing revenue and in licensable DSP unit shipments in 2009, with 78% and 80% market share, respectively.
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WiLAN Announces $21.8 Million Bought Deal Financing (Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010)
Wi-LAN today announced that it has entered into a bought deal agreement with a syndicate of underwriters led by Paradigm Capital Inc. and Wellington West Capital Markets Inc. and including CIBC World Markets Inc., and Fraser Mackenzie Limited (collectively, the "Underwriters"), for the issuance of 5,000,000 common shares of the Company ("Common Shares"), on a bought deal basis, at a price of $4.35 per Common Share for gross proceeds of $21,750,000 (the "Offering").
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Renesas Electronics' Acquisition of Nokia's Wireless Modem Business Completed (Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010)
Nokia and Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced the completion of Renesas Electronics' acquisition of Nokia's Wireless Modem business, which was initially announced on July 6, 2010.
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Kilopass Partners with BAE Sales Inc. and QoS, Inc. (Monday Nov. 29, 2010)
Kilopass today announced its partnership with manufacturers’ representative firms, BAE Sales Inc. and QoS. Effective immediately, BAE Sales Inc. will support Kilopass customers in Silicon Valley and Northern California, while QoS will support customers in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
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Evatronix and LeCroy Announce Partnership for SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Development Solutions (Monday Nov. 29, 2010)
Evatronix SA and LeCroy Corporation have announced today the signing of a partnership agreement that aims towards a faster market adoption of the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 technology by cooperation on mutual product development and USB market investigation.
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HDL Design House appoints Acetronix its representative in Korea (Monday Nov. 29, 2010)
HDL Design House announced the appointment of its Korean representative – Acetronix, based in Seoul, Korea. Acteronix will handle sales and promotion of HDL Design House analog and digital IP cores and design and verification services in South Korea.
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Broadcom Corporation to Acquire Gigle Networks Inc. (Monday Nov. 22, 2010)
Broadcom today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gigle Networks Inc., a privately-held company that develops system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for home networking over power lines.
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Microtune Announces Stockholder Approval of Acquisition by Zoran Corporation (Monday Nov. 22, 2010)
Microtune today announced that at the special meeting of stockholders held on November 19, 2010, its stockholders adopted the merger agreement with Zoran Corporation, dated September 7, 2010, pursuant to which Microtune will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zoran.
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PMC-Sierra completes acquisition of Wintegra (Friday Nov. 19, 2010)
PMC-Sierra has announced it has completed the acquisition of Wintegra, Inc., a leading provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul equipment.
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Picochip Successfully Completes $9 Million Debt Facility with Silicon Valley Bank (Thursday Nov. 18, 2010)
Picochip has successfully completed a new $9.0 million debt facility with Silicon Valley Bank. The facility consists of a $4.0 million three-year term loan and a two-year $5.0 million working capital line of credit.
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Imagination Technologies plc -- Placement Announcement (Wednesday Nov. 17, 2010)
Imagination Technologies today announces its intention to place (the Placing") up to 12,208,950 new ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the capital of Imagination (the "Placing Shares") with new and existing shareholders.
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Imagination Technologies plc -Trading Update to 31st October 2010 (Wednesday Nov. 17, 2010)
Imagination Technologies has issued a trading update for the six months to 31 October 2010 in conjunction with its intention to place up to 12,208,950 new ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the capital of Imagination with new and existing shareholders.
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Imagination to acquire HelloSoft, a leading global provider of Video and Voice over Internet Protocol and wireless LAN technologies, for a maximum consideration of $47 million (Wednesday Nov. 17, 2010)
Imagination Technologies has conditionally agreed to acquire HelloSoft, one of the world’s leading providers of Video and Voice over Internet Protocol ("V.VoIP") and wireless LAN technologies, for a maximum of consideration $47 million.
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Smooth-Stone Builds Momentum, Including Key Executive Hires; Adopts new Company Name of Calxeda (Tuesday Nov. 16, 2010)
Exactly three months after its $48 Million funding announcement, Smooth-Stone today detailed its company momentum, including significant new executive hires, new office space and renaming the company.
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SMSC Acquires Symwave, Inc. - A Leading USB 3.0 IC Supplier (Monday Nov. 15, 2010)
SMSC today announced that it has acquired Symwave, Inc. (Symwave), a global fabless semiconductor company supplying high-performance analog/mixed-signal connectivity solutions utilizing proprietary technology, IP and silicon design capabilities.
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Acacia Subsidiary Acquires 65 Patents Covering DRAM Technologies from a Major Semiconductor Company (Friday Nov. 12, 2010)
Acacia Research announced today that a subsidiary has acquired 65 US and foreign patents from a major semiconductor company.
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Ambiq Micro Secures $2.4M Investment (Wednesday Nov. 10, 2010)
Ambiq Micro today announced the close of a $2.4M round of seed funding. investors include: ARM, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Cisco, The Frankel Fund, Huron River Ventures and a number of private investors.
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Open-Silicon Strengthens Patent Portfolio with Test Technology (Tuesday Nov. 09, 2010)
Open-Silicon announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent 7,805,648 related to Open-Silicon’s TestMAX technology.
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Blue Wonder as from now an Infineon Technologies Company (Thursday Nov. 04, 2010)
Blue Wonder Communications GmbH has been acquired by Infineon Technologies AG, Neubiberg, on October 19th, 2010. Both companies work together on development of LTE base band technologies since 18 months. The special LTE know how from Blue Wonder complements the ongoing LTE development activities of Infineon Wireless Solutions. Infineon will take over all Blue Wonder employees.
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Intel to acquire Dresden LTE firm (Wednesday Nov. 03, 2010)
Infineon's wireless business unit, which is in the process of being acquired by Intel Corp., is taking over Blue Wonder Communications GmbH, a specialist in LTE communications.
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Recore Systems selects Barco Silex as strategic design services partner (Wednesday Nov. 03, 2010)
Recore Systems selects Barco Silex as strategic partner to develop the Moon family of sophisticated reconfigurable digital radio/TV receiver semiconductor devices.
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Microsemi Completes Tender Offer For Actel Corporation (Tuesday Nov. 02, 2010)
Microsemi today announced the successful completion of its tender offer, through its wholly owned subsidiary Artful Acquisition Corp., for all outstanding shares of Actel.
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Open-Silicon Expands Presence in India With New SoC and Systems Solution Center (Monday Nov. 01, 2010)
Open-Silicon announced today that it has opened an office in Pune, India to meet the increasing demand for derivative SoCs and platform solutions.
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Zoran Corporation Announces Expiration of Hart-Scott-Rodino Waiting Period for Proposed Merger With Microtune, Inc. (Friday Oct. 29, 2010)
Zoran announced today that the 30-day waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, applicable to Zoran’s proposed merger with Microtune, Inc., expired at 11:59 pm Eastern Daylight Time on October 28, 2010.
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Sankalp Semiconductor Enters into a Sales Agreement with ChipStart to Promote GPIO IP (Friday Oct. 29, 2010)
Sankalp announced today that the Company has entered into a sales agreement with ChipStart. The agreement states that ChipStart will distribute Sankalp’s GPIO IP resulting in increased geographical coverage for Sankalp Semiconductor.