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eSilicon Expands In Asia Through Acquisition of Silicon Design Solutions (Thursday May. 27, 2010)
eSilicon today announced the completion of its asset acquisition of Silicon Design Solutions (SDS), a privately held company supplying niche semiconductor memory intellectual property (IP) and design services to manufacturers and designers of cutting-edge SoCs.
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CEVA, Inc. Announces Expansion of Existing Stock Repurchase Program (Thursday May. 27, 2010)
CEVA today announced that its Board of Directors authorized the expansion of the Company's share repurchase program with an additional two million shares of common stock available for repurchase, representing approximately 10% of the Company's outstanding common stock as of March 31, 2010.
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ClariPhy Announces $24 Million Investment, New Strategic Alliances (Wednesday May. 26, 2010)
ClariPhy Communications, a leader in ultra high speed mixed signal, digital signal processing (MXSP) integrated circuits for optical networks, today announced that it has secured $24M in series C funding.
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Tensilica and Iberium Partner for Solutions for DTV Market (Tuesday May. 25, 2010)
Tensilica, Inc. and Iberium Communications, Inc. today announced that they have established a partnership to develop solutions for digital television (DTV). Tensilica is the leading provider of dataplane processors (DPUs) for system-on-chip (SOC) designs. Iberium is a leader in semiconductor IP cores for DTV.
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Rapid Bridge Enters into Distribution Agreement with Cadence (Monday May. 24, 2010)
Rapid Bridge announced today that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Cadence Design Systems. The agreement will offer the semiconductor industry more choices for IP solutions.
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Cadence and IBM Team to Develop Leading-Edge IP (Monday May. 24, 2010)
Cadence Design today announced a joint development agreement with IBM to create high-performance integration-optimized IP. Under the agreement, the companies will develop DDR PHYs, memory controllers, and protocols such as PCIe and Ethernet under 32-nanometer silicon-on-insulator.
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Cosmic Circuits targets mixed-signal IP cores for SOC designs in China (Friday May. 21, 2010)
Cosmic Circuits today announced its partnership with S2C Inc. to bring its strong portfolio of silicon-proven mixed-signal IP cores to system-on-chip companies in China.
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Movidius secures Series B investment to fuel growth in mobile video (Thursday May. 20, 2010)
Mobile video specialist Movidius today announced that it has secured US$7.5 million in Series B investment. This round will be used to fund Movidius' growth plans as the company begins deployment of its Myriad platform providing advanced imaging capabilities including 3D video capture in the next generation of mobile handsets.
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Icera Secures $45M Financing To Accelerate Growth (Wednesday May. 19, 2010)
Icera today announced that its investors have provided a further $45M in equity capital to accelerate the growth of its market share. All existing preferred shareholders, including Accel Ventures, Amadeus Capital Partners, Atlas Venture, Balderton Capital and DFJ Esprit, participated fully in the funding round.
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Cadence to Acquire Denali (Thursday May. 13, 2010)
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, and Denali Software, Inc., a leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP), today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Cadence will acquire Denali for $315 million in cash.
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Arteris expands global distribution and support to address growing demand for on-chip interconnect solutions (Wednesday May. 12, 2010)
Arteris today announced the expansion of its global sales and support team, with additions and expansions in North America, Europe and Asia. The expansion, which includes a direct team of sales veterans in North America and Europe as well as proven channel partners in key geographies, is in response to growing demand for the company’s network-on-chip (NoC) solutions for addressing the on-chip communications needs of all types of system-on-chips (SoCs).
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Sidense Raises $5 million in Venture Capital to Expand Product Development (Tuesday May. 11, 2010)
Sidense Corp., a leading developer of Logic Non-Volatile Memory (LNVM) IP cores, announced today that it has raised $5 million in a Series B, growth capital venture capital financing round led by VentureLink Funds of Canada.
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STMicroelectronics Completes the Sale of Numonyx to Micron Technology (Friday May. 07, 2010)
Following the announcement today by Micron Technology of the closing of its acquisition of Numonyx Holdings B.V., STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) announced that in connection with the sale of its 48.6% stake in Numonyx.
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NextOp Software Debuts with Focus on Assertion-Based Verification (Thursday May. 06, 2010)
NextOp Software, Inc. formally introduced itself today as a functional verification provider focused on delivering Assertion-Based Verification solutions that leverage design and testbench information to uncover bugs, expose coverage holes and increase verification observability
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Silicon Laboratories Acquires Silicon Clocks and CMEMS Technology (Wednesday Apr. 28, 2010)
Silicon Laboratories today announced the acquisition of Silicon Valley-based Silicon Clocks, an early stage company creating innovative microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology. Silicon Clocks’ CMEMS™ (CMOS+MEMS) technology is aligned with Silicon Labs’ efforts to leverage its CMOS-based timing products into high-volume applications such as consumer electronics.
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Expected Top Ten IC Industry Capex Spenders In 2010 (Wednesday Apr. 28, 2010)
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MIPS Technologies Announces Strategic Alliance with Imagination Technologies (Monday Apr. 26, 2010)
MIPS Technologies announced that MIPS and Imagination Technologies have formed a strategic alliance to ensure the optimum system solution and support for customers combining IP from both companies. Together the companies are working to help SoC developers get to market quickly with optimized solutions combining processor IP from MIPS and graphics, video and other IP from Imagination.
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RivieraWaves to address IP and wireless market (Monday Apr. 26, 2010)
RivieraWaves today announced their increased focus on the IP and wireless market backed by Bluetooth and WLAN semiconductor IPs. This unique wireless IP offering, makes RivieraWaves the only “one stop shop” company providing complete solutions for WLAN+BT, Bluetooth high speed (aka Bluetooth 3.0+HS) and Bluetooth low energy (aka Bluetooth 4.0) chips.
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Plurality Ltd. Opens US Subsidiary in Silicon Valley (Friday Apr. 23, 2010)
Plurality Ltd. today announced the opening of Plurality USA. Plurality's US subsidiary will be headed by Jeffrey Miller, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, and Jack Koplik, Vice President of Sales.
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Synopsys Expands IP OEM Partner Program with Two New Members (Wednesday Apr. 14, 2010)
Synopsys today announced that eSilicon and Brite Semiconductor have joined the Synopsys IP OEM Partner Program along with renewed members Global Unichip and Open-Silicon.
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Accent Expands its Wireless Communication Capabilities with the Opening of a new IP Development Center in Sophia Antipolis, France (Wednesday Apr. 14, 2010)
Accent is announcing the opening a Wireless IP development center in Sophia Antipolis, France. Under a strategic agreement between Accent and Wipro Technologies, the former RF engineering team of Wipro Newlogic has transitioned to Accent. As part of the same agreement, Accent has also obtained certain rights to key OFDM and WiFi technologies.
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eSilicon to acquire Silicon Design Solutions (Thursday Apr. 08, 2010)
eSilicon today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Silicon Design Solutions (SDS), a privately held supplier of niche semiconductor memory intellectual property (IP) cores.
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ARM boosted startup with Belgian DSP (Monday Apr. 05, 2010)
Cognovo Ltd. (Melbourn, England), a 2009 startup focused on developing software-defined modems for 4G communications, has benefited from a disposal at processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc that turned into an equity and technology investment.
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Silicon Image Reorganizes to Bring Increased Focus to Its Products and Intellectual Property Businesses (Wednesday Mar. 31, 2010)
Silicon Image has formed two new business groups around its semiconductor and IP products, each with integrated marketing and sales teams. Eric Almgren, formerly vice president of business development and IP licensing, has been appointed vice president of the IP business group.
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MoSys Acquires MagnaLynx Inc. (Friday Mar. 26, 2010)
MoSys today announced that it has acquired MagnaLynx Inc. a developer of high-speed, low-power serial chip-to-chip communications technology.
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Synopsys Completes Acquisition of CoWare, Inc. (Wednesday Mar. 24, 2010)
Synopsys today announced it has completed its acquisition of CoWare.
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Virage Logic Names IBEX Technology as Japanese Sales Representative (Tuesday Mar. 23, 2010)
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Rapid Bridge Acquires QThink IC Design (Monday Mar. 22, 2010)
Rapid Bridge announced today that it has made an asset purchase of QuantumThink Group, a San Diego-based, privately-held IC design services company with offices in San Jose and Bangalore, India. The acquisition will enable Rapid Bridge to offer its clients full front-to-back IC design services.
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Imagination Technologies Group plc - Interim Management Statement (Friday Mar. 19, 2010)
Imagination Technologies is today issuing its Interim Management Statement for the period from 1 November 2009 to 19 March 2010. The Group has continued to see growing and considerable active interest in its technologies across many partners and markets.
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NEC Electronics and Renesas Announce the New Organizational Structure and Personnel Changes Following Merger (Tuesday Mar. 16, 2010)
NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology today announced the new organizational structure and personnel changes of Renesas Electronics, the new integrated company that will be formed on April 1, 2010 when the business integration of the two entities is completed.