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Renesas Electronics Announces "Growth Strategies and Structural Reform Measures" to Construct Business Structure Resistant to Market Changes (Thursday Jul. 29, 2010)
Renesas Electronics today introduced a three-pronged business strategy including (1) formulation of growth strategies by optimizing business portfolios, (2) realization of merger synergies, such as the integration of development environments, technology platforms and various infrastructures, and (3) implementation of structural reforms to create a business structure with stable profitability and resistance to changing market conditions.
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CSR expands audio expertise with acquisition of APT (Wednesday Jul. 28, 2010)
CSR plc (CSR) today announced the acquisition of Belfast-based APT Licensing Ltd, (APT), following a successful three year collaboration under the CSR eXtension Partner Programme, which saw APT's professional quality audio compression brought to consumers on CSR's wireless audio platforms.
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EnSilica declares "Open Season" on the 8051 (Wednesday Jul. 28, 2010)
Silica has announced a special licensing deal to encourage existing 8051 licensees to switch their next ASIC design start to an eSi-1600 16-bit soft processor core. For all enquiries received before 31st January 2011 and subject to Terms and Conditions, EnSilica is offering to match their 8051 license fee.
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NXP acquires Jennic to extend leadership in low power RF solutions for wireless applications (Monday Jul. 26, 2010)
NXP Semiconductors today announced its acquisition of Jennic, a leading developer of low power RF solutions for wireless applications in smart energy, environment, logistics and consumer markets. The acquisition will see Jennic’s state-of-the-art portfolio of 802.15.4 and Zigbee low power RF solutions integrated across a wide range of NXP’s High Performance Mixed Signal products.
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FPGA startup Tier Logic folds (Friday Jul. 23, 2010)
Tier Logic, a programmable logic startup developing a novel processing technology to build FPGA and ASIC products on a single die, has folded.
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Synopsys and Virage Logic Announce Expiration of Hart-Scott-Rodino Waiting Period for Proposed Acquisition (Wednesday Jul. 21, 2010)
Synopsys and Virage Logic announced today that the 30-day waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, applicable to Synopsys' proposed acquisition of Virage Logic, expired on July 19, 2010. The completion of the transaction is still subject to Virage Logic stockholder approval and other customary closing conditions.
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ARM and TSMC Sign Long-Term Strategic Agreement (Tuesday Jul. 20, 2010)
ARM and TSMC today jointly announced a long-term agreement that provides TSMC with access to a broad range of ARM processors and enables the development of ARM physical IP across TSMC technology nodes. This agreement supports the companies’ mutual customers to achieve optimized Systems-On-Chip (SoC) based on ARM processors and covers a wide range of process nodes extending down to 20nm.
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Tabula Builds New Sales Representation Organization Driving Growth in Next Generation Telecom and Wireless Infrastructure Applications (Thursday Jul. 15, 2010)
Tabula today announced they have partnered with seven sales representative firms to support the Company’s ABAX go to market strategy across the United States. Initially targeting North American telecom and wireless infrastructure customers, including next generation LTE and WiMAX applications, Tabula’s sales representatives will leverage on average over 15 years of experience selling FPGAs.
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Renesas Electronics to acquire Nokia's wireless modem business; companies to form strategic business alliance for modem technology development (Tuesday Jul. 06, 2010)
Renesas Electronicsand Nokia today announced that they are deepening their collaboration by forming a strategic business alliance to develop modem technologies for HSPA+/LTE (Evolved High-Speed Packet Access / Long-Term Evolution) and its evolution.
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Nanoradio has secured financing of EUR 10 millions from existing investors to strengthen Nanoradio's growth expansion (Monday Jul. 05, 2010)
Nanoradio today announced that they have signed an agreement with the current investors Viking Venture, Creandum, Ferd, Industrifonden, Nordic Venture Partners, Innovacom, and Teknoinvest to fund Nanoradio for its growth expansion.
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EVE Achieves Record Bookings of $19.9 Million in Q4 FY2010 (Wednesday Jun. 30, 2010)
EVE today announced that it closed the last fiscal quarter of 2010 on March 31 with record bookings of $19.9 million. Further, since it began volume production in January 2010 of ZeBu-Server, its new billion-gate fast emulation platform, EVE has received purchase orders from eight semiconductor companies, including both new and long-time users of ZeBu platforms.
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GE Lighting and Rambus Sign License Agreement to Create LED Lighting Solutions for Global Markets (Tuesday Jun. 29, 2010)
To accelerate LED product development, GE Lighting, a unit of the General Electric Company's Appliances & Lighting business, and Rambus have signed a broad licensing agreement for the use of Rambus' patented lighting innovations, including its product reference designs and manufacturing process know-how.
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MIPS to restructure, align with Android (Thursday Jun. 24, 2010)
Processor IP licensor MIPS Technologies Inc. has announced a restructuring plan that will see it reduce headcount and incur a $1 million restructuring charge. The changes are expected to save company between $2 million and $2.4 million in annual expense, including the current financial year.
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Mentor Graphics Adopts Shareholder Rights Plan (Thursday Jun. 24, 2010)
Mentor Graphics today announced that its Board of Directors has adopted a Shareholder Rights Plan in which one incentive stock purchase right will be distributed for each share of common stock held by shareholders of record as of the close of business on July 6, 2010.
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Sonics Expands Presence in China and Taiwan and Appoints Mac Hale Vice President of Asia Operations (Tuesday Jun. 22, 2010)
Sonics today announced the company plans to expand its presence in China and Taiwan, naming James Mac Hale as vice president of Asia Operations. Sonics has opened a branch office in Taipei and has established a local team in both Taipei and Shanghai.
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Cadence Completes Acquisition of Denali (Friday Jun. 18, 2010)
Cadence today announced that it has successfully completed the acquisition of Denali Software. The Denali team, including founders Sanjay Srivastava and Mark Gogolewski, will report to Nimish Modi, senior vice president, research and development, Front End Group, Cadence.
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Broadcom Announces Intention to Acquire Innovision Research & Technology PLC (Thursday Jun. 17, 2010)
Broadcom today announced its subsidiary, Broadcom International Ltd., has agreed to terms with the board of Innovision Research & Technology to make an all-cash offer to acquire all of the issued and to be issued shares of Innovision. Innovision is a leader in near-field communication (NFC) technology.
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Magillem raises US$ 1 500 000 on Euronext Paris Free Market in secondary offering led by ARKEON FINANCE (Wednesday Jun. 16, 2010)
Magillem raises US$ 1 500 000 on Euronext Paris Free Market in secondary offering led by ARKEON FINANCE. Proceeds will be used to accelerate international deployment and advanced R&D projects with selected IDM customers. Company closes fourth fiscal exercise on June 30 and is profitable for fourth year in a row.
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SEB Venture Capital invests Euros 1.5 million in Coresonic (Monday Jun. 14, 2010)
Coresonic AB, a leading provider of baseband processor technology, has raised € 2 million (SEK 20m) in an issue of new shares. The capital will enable Coresonic to drive the international sales expansion and continue building a strong technology platform.
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eSilicon and S3 Group Partner to Deliver a One Stop Shop Specification-to-Chip Offering (Friday Jun. 11, 2010)
eSilicon and S3 Group today announced an agreement whereby eSilicon will provide chip manufacturing and productization services, and S3 Group will provide design services to semiconductor organizations worldwide. The arrangement provides customers with a one stop shop complete specification-to-chip offering.
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Synopsys Acquires High-level Synthesis Technology from Synfora, Inc. (Friday Jun. 11, 2010)
Synopsys today announced it has acquired technology, engineering resources and other assets of Synfora, Inc., a provider of C/C++ high-level synthesis tools used to design complex systems-on-chips (SoCs) and FPGAs.
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Synopsys to Acquire Virage Logic Corporation (Thursday Jun. 10, 2010)
Synopsys and Virage Logic today announced they have signed a definitive agreement for Synopsys to acquire Virage Logic. Virage Logic's offering will complement Synopsys' DesignWare® interface and analog IP portfolio by adding embedded memories with test and repair, non-volatile memories (NVMs), standard cell libraries, and programmable cores for control and multimedia sub-systems.
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Cadence Announces Intention to Offer $300 Million Convertible Senior Notes (Wednesday Jun. 09, 2010)
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Xylon Introduces a Novel IP Licensing Program to the FPGA Market (Tuesday Jun. 08, 2010)
Xylon announced today the availability of logicBRICKS IP cores for Xilinx FPGAs through Xylon’s new Low-Volume IP Program. Primarily created for IP users that design Xilinx FPGA-based products for production volumes in the range of 1 - 5,000 units or similar, this IP program provides simple and quick online purchasing and licensing, full compatibility with Xilinx implementation tools, and typically up to 10 times the savings on licensing costs.
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SiliconBlue Completes $15M Series C Preferred Stock Financing (Monday Jun. 07, 2010)
SiliconBlue today announced the closing of a $15M Series C preferred stock financing. The proceeds from the financing will be used to support the continued proliferation of SiliconBlue’s mobileFPGA™ products by strengthening customer support infrastructure, operations supporting the company’s strong manufacturing ramp, sales channel, and developing next-generation products.
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CSR and Intel to Collaborate to Take PC Connectivity to the Next Level (Monday Jun. 07, 2010)
CSRannounced it is collaborating with Intel to jointly develop a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi combination solution for the PC market, as part of CSR's ongoing selective partnership strategy. This will support the latest Bluetooth standards to enable new usages and improve the performance of the next generation of laptops, netbooks and other mobile devices.
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ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments Form New Company to Speed the Rollout of Linux-Based Devices (Thursday Jun. 03, 2010)
ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), today announced the formation of Linaro, a not-for-profit open source software engineering company dedicated to enhancing open source innovation for the next wave of always-connected, always-on computing.
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Xilinx to Offer $520 Million Convertible Senior Notes Due 2017 (Thursday Jun. 03, 2010)
Xilinx today announced that it proposes to offer $520 million of convertible senior notes, subject to market conditions and other factors. The notes would be due in June 2017 and are to be offered and sold to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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Docea Power Secures $1.5M in VC Funding (Wednesday Jun. 02, 2010)
Docea Power announces today it secured $1.5M in VC money after the successful launch of its Aceplorer product in 2009.
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Rambus Acquires Uni-Pixel Display and Backlighting Intellectual Property (Thursday May. 27, 2010)
Uni-Pixel today announced that Rambus has acquired a portion of Uni-Pixel's IP portfolio relating to dynamic backlighting, field sequential color displays, and Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter (TMOS(TM)) display technology.