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Sital receives a formal patent approval for Tails-Code-Key (Thursday Oct. 28, 2010)
Sital Technology, the world leader in Mil-Std-1553 IP cores and products, received a formal approval from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), for its unique "Tails-Code-Key" technology.
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Renesas Electronics to Spin Off its Mobile Multimedia SoC Business (Wednesday Oct. 27, 2010)
Renesas Electronics today announced that it has decided to spin off, through an absorption-type separation, its Mobile Multimedia SoC Business Division and transfer the business to a new consolidated subsidiary, Renesas Mobile Corporation, effective as of December 1, 2010.
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Broadcom Corporation to Acquire Percello Ltd. (Tuesday Oct. 26, 2010)
Broadcom today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Percello Ltd., a privately-held company that develops system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for femtocells.
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PMC-Sierra Accelerates Entry into Mobile Backhaul with Acquisition of Wintegra (Friday Oct. 22, 2010)
PMC-Sierra today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wintegra
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CAST Signs Advanced Semiconductor Technology Ltd. (AST) as Israeli Representative (Thursday Oct. 21, 2010)
Reflecting the exciting growth of electronics design in Israel, CAST, Inc. has signed Advanced Semiconductor Technologies (AST) as their distributor and technical representative for Israel.
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Texas Instruments opens the company's first semiconductor manufacturing plant in China (Friday Oct. 15, 2010)
Texas Instruments today announced its first wafer fabrication facility, or "fab," in China. The fab is a fully equipped 200mm manufacturing facility and was purchased from Cension Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
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Sonics Opens Design Center in Taiwan (Thursday Oct. 14, 2010)
Sonics today announced a new design center in Taipei to accommodate increasing customer demand for its line of memory subsystem solutions.
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Broadcom Corporation to Acquire Beceem Communications Inc., a Leader in 4G Wireless (Wednesday Oct. 13, 2010)
Broadcom today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Beceem Communications Inc., a privately-held company that is a leading provider of fourth generation (4G) wireless platform solutions. Beceem has announced the industry's first 4G multimode platform that can support both LTE and WiMAX 4G networks.
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Arteris Joins TSMC Soft IP Alliance (Tuesday Oct. 12, 2010)
Arteris today announced that it has joined the TSMC Soft IP Alliance Program included in TSMC’s Open Innovation Platform™. Arteris has worked with TSMC over the past year to provide documentation, design methodology development, engineering process validation, and technology information that makes Arteris NoC IP solutions more accessible to SoC makers using advanced TSMC manufacturing processes.
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S2C Represents Allegro DVT H.264/AVC Certification Streams and IP in China (Tuesday Oct. 12, 2010)
S2C announced a partnership with Allegro DVT to distribute Allegro DVT’s products in China.
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Chips&Media Joins TSMC's Soft-IP Alliance Program (Tuesday Oct. 12, 2010)
Chips&Media today announces that it has joined the newly announced TSMC Soft-IP Alliance Program included in TSMC’s Open Innovation Platform™, as a soft-IP core provider.
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Hyperstone selects Toshiba's ASIC technology, IP and services for development and manufacture of fabless semiconductor company's next-generation ICs (Tuesday Oct. 12, 2010)
Hyperstone and Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) have signed development and manufacturing agreements that will see TEE provide a variety of ASIC design and manufacturing services to Hyperstone.
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Accent Closes 5 Million Euro In Series B Funding To Expand Smart Grid Technology Offering (Tuesday Oct. 12, 2010)
Accent announced today that it has closed a new round of financing of 5 Million Euros from Silicon Valley investor Tallwood Venture Capital. The funding will be used to accelerate development and productization of key communication technologies for system-on-chip solutions required by Smart Meter as well as emerging Smart Home applications.
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Sonics Joins TSMC's Soft IP Alliance Program (Monday Oct. 11, 2010)
Sonics today announced that it has joined TSMC’s new Soft IP Alliance program. Sonics joins fellow industry leaders and Soft IP Alliance members including Atrenta, Chips&Media, Cadence Design Systems, MIPS Technologies, Inc. and Synopsys.
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Vivante Joins TSMC IP Alliance Program (Monday Oct. 11, 2010)
Vivante today announces that it has joined the recently announced TSMC Soft IP Program included in TSMC's Open Innovation Platform™. The program is designed to optimize power, performance and area trade-offs.
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MIPS Technologies Joins TSMC IP Alliance to Speed Customers' Time-to-Market (Monday Oct. 11, 2010)
MIPS Technologies today announced that it has joined the TSMC Soft IP Alliance Program to speed customers' time-to-market.
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Adesto Technologies Corporation Acquires Key Qimonda CBRAM Memory IP and Patents (Tuesday Oct. 05, 2010)
Adesto Technologies, a venture backed Silicon Valley company that is developing an ultra low power and scalable memory technology platform, has acquired intellectual property and patents related to Conductive Bridging Random Access Memory (CBRAM) technology from Qimonda AG. The agreement includes the purchase of 30 CBRAM patent families and the licensing of additional undisclosed patents.
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Microsemi Corporation to Acquire Actel (Monday Oct. 04, 2010)
Microsemi announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Actel for $20.88 per share through a cash tender offer. The total transaction value is approximately $430 million, net of Actel’s projected cash balance at closing.
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Microelectronics Technology Inc. and RadioComp ApS Sign Equity and Intellectual Property Acquisition Agreements (Monday Oct. 04, 2010)
Microelectronics Technology Inc. announces that it has signed equity and intellectual property purchase agreements with the Danish company RadioComp. Both Boards have approved the agreements, whereby the Company acquires RadioComp’s equity and intellectual property for a total of US$11.53 million.
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Renesas Electronics Strengthens its SoC Business That Supports the Cloud-Computing Era (Thursday Sep. 30, 2010)
Renesas Electronics today introduced its new measures to strengthen the company's system-on-chip (SoC) business for social infrastructure, especially the network and the industrial infrastructures, that support the cloud-computing era.
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European bank loans ST $470 million (Wednesday Sep. 29, 2010)
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a 350 million euro (about $470 million) loan contract with STMicroelectronics NV in support of the company's industrial and R&D concerning next-generation semiconductor circuits.
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Tech group opposes offshoring bill (Tuesday Sep. 28, 2010)
The TechAmerica industry group has come out in opposition to a draft bill in the U.S. Senate that claims it will end the practice of offshoring jobs. A vote on the bill in the Senate is expected this week.Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and seven other Democratic senators sponsor the Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act (S. 3816) which was introduced in the Senate September 21
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PLX Technology to Acquire Teranetics, the Leading Supplier of 10 Gigabit Ethernet Silicon (Friday Sep. 24, 2010)
PLX Technology today announced it has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of Teranetics, Inc., a privately held fabless provider of high-performance mixed-signal semiconductors. Teranetics delivered the industry’s first fully integrated single-chip implementation of single-port and dual-port 10GBase-T PHY silicon. This silicon is the only known solution in production today.
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Aware Announces Plans to Spin-Off Patent Licensing Operations (Friday Sep. 24, 2010)
Aware, a technology innovator and software supplier to the telecommunications and biometrics industries, today announced its plans to pursue a spin-off of its patent licensing operations.
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Cryptography Research and Tiempo Announce Agreement for Differential Power Analysis Countermeasures Patents (Wednesday Sep. 22, 2010)
Cryptography Research, Inc. and Tiempo SAS today announced an agreement which will enable Tiempo to develop DPA countermeasures for use by licensees of Cryptography Research's DPA patents.
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Tensilica Inc. Announces Strategic Investment by Fujitsu (Tuesday Sep. 21, 2010)
Tensilica, Inc. today announced that Fujitsu Limited has made a strategic investment in Tensilica.
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Arrow Electronics, Inc. to Acquire Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. in an All-Cash Transaction (Monday Sep. 20, 2010)
Nu Horizons today announced the signing of a definitive agreement providing for the acquisition of Nu Horizons by Arrow Electronics in an all-cash transaction in which Nu Horizons shareholders will receive $7.00 for each share of Nu Horizons common stock they own.
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Freescale and IPextreme expand licensing of ColdFire cores (Thursday Sep. 16, 2010)
Freescale Semiconductor is expanding its ColdFire licensing program by offering its 32-bit V4 ColdFire core to the embedded community through IPextreme, a semiconductor technology licensing specialist. Working in collaboration with Freescale, IPextreme will now market, sell and support Freescale’s V1, V2 and V4 ColdFire cores to system-on-chip (SoC) designers seeking to integrate the cores and other functions onto single-chip ICs.
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Sonics Teams with ChipStart to Extend SoC Design Strategies (Thursday Sep. 16, 2010)
Sonics, Inc.®, the world’s leading supplier of on-chip communications IP, and ChipStart LLC, a semiconductor intellectual property and silicon solution company, announced a new reseller agreement to market next-generation SoC architectures based on ChipStart’s SoC System Manager (SSM) subsystem IP and Sonics’ network-on-chip (NoC) solutions. The agreement expands the worldwide channel for Sonics’ solutions, which are now offered and available for sale through ChipStart as separate products.
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ARM Retains Services Of FastCompanyBrazil And The Expertise of Jose Scodiero To Facilitate Stronger South America Presence (Wednesday Sep. 15, 2010)
ARM today announced they have retained the services of FastCompanyBrazil to streamline their business development initiatives in South America. The founder of FastCompanyBrazil, Jose Scodiero, will lead the activities in an advisory role to establish stronger alliances with local dignitaries and ARM’s system on chip (SoC) design partners.