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Renesas Electronics Strengthens its Microcontroller Business through Integration of the Development/Manufacturing Structure (Wednesday Sep. 15, 2010)
Since Renesas Electronics Corporation was formed on April 1, 2010 through a merger between NEC Electronics Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp., the company has studied ways to draw out maximum synergies for its MCU business, both in the business direction and in its product portfolio.
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Imagination Technologies Group plc - Interim Management Statement (Friday Sep. 10, 2010)
Imagination Technologies Group is today issuing its Interim Management Statement for the period from 1 May 2010 to 9 September 2010.
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BitSim Expands its Operation to Finland (Friday Sep. 10, 2010)
BitSim now starts operation in Finland, an office has opened in Oulu. BitSim has appointed Mika Jokinen to lead the Finnish activities. The Finnish group currently has close to ten employees in place and the first customer projects have already started.
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Renesas Electronics Announces Growth Strategies for its SoC Business Targeting Mobile and Multimedia Applications (Thursday Sep. 09, 2010)
Renesas Electronics today introduced business strategies on its system-on-chip (SoC) business for mobile and multimedia applications, areas that are expected to extend across various fields and are suitable for the company to best bring out its strengths.
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Maxim Acquires Phyworks, a Leading Supplier of Optical Transceiver Chips for the Broadband Communications Market (Wednesday Sep. 08, 2010)
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.announced today that it has acquired privately held Phyworks Ltd. for approximately $72.5 million in cash.
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Zoran Corporation to Acquire Microtune, Inc. (Wednesday Sep. 08, 2010)
Zoran today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Microtune. Under the agreement, Zoran will pay $2.92 in cash for each share of Microtune’s common stock, resulting in a transaction price of approximately $166 million, or $84 million net of cash acquired.
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Philips sells entire NXP equity stake to UK pension fund (Tuesday Sep. 07, 2010)
Royal Philips Electronics announced today that it will make a cash contribution of EUR 350 million, on September 7, 2010 to the Philips UK pension fund, as part of the Philips UK pension fund’s recovery plan.
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AuthenTec and UPEK Announce Merger (Tuesday Sep. 07, 2010)
AuthenTec and UPEK announced that the companies have combined, creating the world’s largest provider of fingerprint sensors and identity management software, as well as biometric and embedded security solutions.
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Elonics Raises $9 million Series B Investment (Monday Sep. 06, 2010)
Elonics Ltd., the CMOS RF tuner company, announces the closing of a £6.1m ($9.5m) of Series B investment round led by Scottish Equity Partners (‘SEP’) and supported by Octopus Ventures (‘Octopus’), a division of Octopus Investments, alongside a number of existing investors.
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DarbeeVision Enters Into Channel Partnerships in Taiwan, Japan and Korea (Monday Sep. 06, 2010)
DarbeeVision today announced that it has signed distribution and sales agreements whereby Bescom and ADNET Global Ltd. will distribute DarbeeVision's full technology suite of digital imaging solutions.
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Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Virage Logic Corporation (Friday Sep. 03, 2010)
Synopsys has completed its acquisition of Virage Logic. Virage Logic's offering complements Synopsys' DesignWare® interface and analog IP portfolio by adding embedded memories with test and repair, non-volatile memories (NVMs), logic libraries, and configurable cores for control and multimedia sub-systems.
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Sydaap Technologies joins the IPGenius Cores Programme (Thursday Sep. 02, 2010)
Sydaap Technologies Pvt. Ltd, and Think Silicon Ltd, announced today that they get into a partnership to jointly deliver unique and value adding IP Cores to their Customers.
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Intilop signs with Cisco to provide value added services to Cisco's Networking Equipment Customers (Thursday Sep. 02, 2010)
Intilop Inc., the leading developer and provider of advanced high complexity IPs and system solutions in Network traffic processing, acceleration, security and storage, today announced an agreement signed with Cisco Systems of San Jose, CA to provide specialized value added services to Cisco’s networking equipment customers.
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Aizyc is now Lattice design partner (Wednesday Sep. 01, 2010)
Aizyc Technology is pleased to announce that it is now a member of the Lattice LEADER Design Services Partner Program. This partnership will leverage Aizyc IP portfolio and product design experience along with Lattice’s comprehensive FPGA and PLD product portfolio.
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Avalon Granted Patent for Innovative Skew-correcting Apparatus (Wednesday Sep. 01, 2010)
Avalon announces that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued US Pat. No. 7,760,836 to Avalon for the development of a skew-correcting apparatus. This invention will be used in chip-to-chip high speed data communication systems where skew compensation is required.
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Intel to Acquire Infineon's Wireless Solutions Business (Monday Aug. 30, 2010)
Infineon Technologies AG and Intel Corporation have entered into a definitive agreement to transfer Infineon’s Wireless Solutions (WLS) business to Intel in a cash transaction valued at approximately US Dollar 1.4 billion.
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Certus Semiconductor Joins IPextreme's Constellations Program (Wednesday Aug. 25, 2010)
IPextreme and Certus Semiconductor, a leading provider of IO and ESD design solutions, have announced the inclusion of Certus Semiconductor in IPextreme’s Constellations™ program.
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Icahn increases stake in Mentor to 15% (Wednesday Aug. 25, 2010)
Activist investor Carl Icahn has acquired than more than 8.23 million more shares of EDA vendor Mentor Graphics Corp., according to a filing made Tuesday (Aug. 24) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Anchor Bay Introduces Intellectual Property Licensing Program (Wednesday Aug. 25, 2010)
Anchor Bay, the industry leader in video processing systems and video processing semiconductors, announced today the launch of a new program to make its intellectual property products available for licensing. Chip designers will be able to efficiently embed Anchor Bay's industry-leading video processing technology into a range of product categories including mobile, netbook, tablet, and display products, where advanced video processing may not have been implemented previously due to the impracticality of incorporating additional semiconductors.
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Renesas Electronics and Acacia Research Enter into Strategic Patent Licensing Alliance (Tuesday Aug. 24, 2010)
Renesas Electronics and Acacia Research Corporation announced today that Renesas Electronics and Acacia have entered into a strategic patent licensing alliance. Pursuant to this relationship, those patents selected by Acacia and Renesas Electronics from Renesas Electronics' portfolio of over 40,000 patents and patent applications will be assigned to Acacia for patent licensing.
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Innopower Unveils iPaaS IP program (Tuesday Aug. 24, 2010)
Innopower Technology Corporation today unveiled iPaaS, iP-as-a-Service. iPaaS is the new name for Innopower's IP program with cloud service in leading technology nodes. The name reflects the company's focus on providing IP and service to the customers on-demand and efficiently.
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Rambus Announces Accelerated Share Repurchase (Friday Aug. 20, 2010)
Rambus today announced that it has initiated a share repurchase program to repurchase approximately $90 million of its common stock pursuant to a Share Repurchase Agreement with J.P. Morgan Securities as part of the Company's share repurchase program.
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AppliedMicro Agrees to Acquire TPACK for Emerging OTN Opportunities (Thursday Aug. 19, 2010)
AppliedMicro today announced that it has entered into a definitive stock purchase agreement to acquire TPACK A/S of Copenhagen, Denmark. Applied Micro Circuits will pay $32 million in cash plus up to $5 million in cash earn-outs that are depending primarily upon TPACK revenues and product development milestones scheduled over the next eighteen months.
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Intel to Acquire McAfee (Thursday Aug. 19, 2010)
Intel Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire McAfee, Inc., through the purchase of all of the company’s common stock at $48 per share in cash, for approximately $7.68 billion.
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Marvell Acquires DS2 Technology (Thursday Aug. 19, 2010)
Marvell today announced it has acquired the intellectual property and assets of Diseno de Sistemas en Silicio S.A. ("DS2"), a supplier of high speed semiconductor solutions for powerline communications.
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Smooth-Stone Secures $48 Million to Complete Development of Semiconductors for Servers, Data Centers (Monday Aug. 16, 2010)
Smooth-Stone today announced it is raising $48 million. Smooth-Stone funding partners include ARM, Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), Battery Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Highland Capital Partners and Texas Instruments Inc.
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IBM and Infineon divest joint venture Altis Semiconductor (Friday Aug. 13, 2010)
In a joint effort to secure the future of Altis Semiconductor and its employees, IBM and Infineon Technologies AG today closed a transaction to sell 100% of the share capital of Altis Semiconductor to the new corporation Altis International.
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AnaFocus raises 2.5 million Euro round for corporate expansion and further developing international business (Monday Aug. 09, 2010)
ANAFOCUS, a company specializing in the development of intelligent CMOS image sensors, has successfully achieved new funding totaling 2.5 million Euros. The new investment will be applied to the acquisition and setup of clean-room facilities for sensor mass-production, the development of a family of off-the-shelf intelligent CMOS image sensors, for machine vision and the expansion of the team and installations in ANAFOCUS’ offices in Spain and Japan.
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Cadence Aligns Workforce to Deliver on EDA360 Vision (Thursday Aug. 05, 2010)
Cadence announced today that it will align product development to deliver on the EDA360 vision. The company will line up research and development (R&D) around the three core tenets of the vision: System Realization, SoC Realization and Silicon Realization.
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Sigasi announces first round funding (Thursday Jul. 29, 2010)
Sigasi announced that it has closed its first round of funding. The investors in this round are Baekeland Fund II, the venture seed fund of Ghent University, business angels, and the team.