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Gennum Expands Snowbush IP Support to Customers in Japan with Inventure Inc. (Thursday Mar. 11, 2010)
Gennum today announced that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Inventure Inc. (a subsidiary of Zuken) to distribute Gennum’s Snowbush IP core portfolio and provide design-in support in Japan.
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GigOptix Receives Approximately $500,000 Funding to Enable New Era of Ultra Fast Hybrid Silicon-Organic Integrated Circuits Based on Proprietary Polymer (Wednesday Mar. 10, 2010)
GigOptix-Helix AG, subsidiary of Palo Alto, CA based GigOptix Inc. today announced that they will participate in the European Union funded project Silicon-Organic Hybrid Fabrication Platform for Integrated Circuits ("SOFI").
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Tilera Receives Investment From Broadcom (Monday Mar. 08, 2010)
Tilera, developer of extremely high performance multicore processors, today announced that Broadcom Corporation has made a strategic investment in Tilera, and that Tilera has appointed Nariman Yousefi, Senior Vice President of Infrastructure Technologies at Broadcom, to the Tilera Board of Directors.
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Landshut Silicon Foundry Chooses ChipStart as Solutions Partner (Thursday Mar. 04, 2010)
ChipStart announced that LFoundry has selected ChipStart LLC for foundry services representation globally. With it’s 200mm fab and current core technology on 150nm, LFoundry provides very flexible, high quality, cost effective mixed-signal foundry services for semiconductor company’s worldwide.
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Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. Announces Termination Of Distribution Agreement With Xilinx, Inc (Wednesday Mar. 03, 2010)
Nu Horizons Electronics announced today that Xilinx, Inc. has formally notified Nu Horizons of its intention to terminate its distribution agreement with Nu Horizons due to a change in Xilinx's distribution strategy.
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T-Venture Makes Strategic Investment in Lantiq (Monday Mar. 01, 2010)
Lantiq and T-Venture today announced the closing of a strategic investment. T-Venture is supporting Lantiq with a capital investment and will provide future strategic advice to the company. By agreement, the terms of the deal remain undisclosed.
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AuthenTec Acquires SafeNet's Embedded Security Solutions Division (Friday Feb. 26, 2010)
AuthenTec, a leading provider of smart fingerprint sensors and solutions, announced today that it has acquired SafeNet, Inc.'s Embedded Security Solutions Division in a cash and stock transaction which further strengthens AuthenTec's offering of security and identity management solutions.
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Octera and Cytech Sign Global Alliance Agreement (Thursday Feb. 25, 2010)
Octera and Cytech today announced a comprehensive alliance to offer global semiconductor technical support and product distribution service to their manufacturing partners, such as Altera. The agreement includes the ability to cross-market the companies’ respective IP portfolios, to run global marketing campaigns, to effectively cover OEM customers with design and manufacturing across more than one geographic region and to provide effective tracking of design projects wherever the production takes place in the world, removing the need for complex and inefficient internal tracking systems.
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MOSAID Technologies Inc. Announces Closing of $31.0 Million Bought Deal Financing (Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010)
MOSAID is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced bought deal financing for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $31.0 million.
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NXP Licenses ARM Cortex-M4 Processor for 32-bit Microcontroller Signal Processing Applications (Monday Feb. 22, 2010)
NXP Semiconductors today announced it is one of the first ARM partners to license the latest ARM® Cortex™-M4 processor. NXP intends to use the Cortex-M4 processor for a wide range of applications which require greater flexibility and signal processing capabilities, such as motor control, automotive, power management, embedded audio and industrial automation applications.
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Google Closes On2 Technologies Acquisition (Friday Feb. 19, 2010)
Google Inc. today announced that it has completed its acquisition of On2 Technologies, Inc., valued at approximately $124.6 million, after On2's shareholders voted to approve the transaction.
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Lantiq Successfully Closes Acquisition of WLAN Assets and Intellectual Property from Metalink (Monday Feb. 15, 2010)
Lantiq today announced the closing of its second acquisition. Lantiq acquired WLAN related assets and IP from Israel-based Metalink.
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STMicroelectronics Announces an Agreement for the Combination of Numonyx into Micron Technology, Inc. (Tuesday Feb. 09, 2010)
STMicroelectronics today announced that, together with its partners Intel Corporation and Francisco Partners, it has entered into a definitive agreement with Micron Technology Inc., in which Micron will acquire Numonyx Holding B.V. in an all-stock transaction. The Flash memory joint venture was created by the partners on March 30, 2008.
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Trident Microsystems and NXP Complete Transaction to Combine Set-Top Box and Television Systems Business Lines (Tuesday Feb. 09, 2010)
Trident Microsystems, Inc. and NXP Semiconductors today announced the closing of Trident's acquisition of NXP's television systems and set-top box business lines, a transaction first announced on Oct. 5, 2009.
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Synopsys to Acquire CoWare, Inc. (Tuesday Feb. 09, 2010)
Synopsys today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CoWare. When completed, the acquisition will expand Synopsys' portfolio of system-level design and verification products used in wireless, consumer and automotive design.
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Sonics on Track to Reach One Billion Units by Year End (Thursday Feb. 04, 2010)
Company Surpasses 750 Million Unit Milestone as Customer Demand for On-Chip Network IP Increases
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Silicon Storage Technology to be Acquired by Microchip Technology (Wednesday Feb. 03, 2010)
SST today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Microchip under which Microchip will acquire all of SST's outstanding common stock for $2.85 per share in cash.
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Green Plug Announces Series B Investment In Its Environmentally-Friendly DC Power Technology (Wednesday Feb. 03, 2010)
Green Plug today announced that it has closed a Series B investment led by Herald Investments UK, Killik & Co. and Peninsula Venture Partners.
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Synopsys Acquires VaST Systems Technology Corporation (Wednesday Feb. 03, 2010)
Synopsys today announced it has acquired VaST Systems Technology to extend its virtual prototyping solutions into the automotive and consumer application space. The acquisition adds a comprehensive set of processor sub-system models frequently found in automotive and consumer applications to Synopsys' virtual prototyping portfolio.
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Black Sand Announces Acquisition of CMOS PA Intellectual Property (Tuesday Feb. 02, 2010)
Black Sand Technologies today announced that it previously acquired a patent portfolio related to CMOS power amplifiers (PAs) from Silicon Laboratories.
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TranSwitch Corporation Announces a Workforce Reduction and Other Cost Savings Initiatives (Tuesday Feb. 02, 2010)
TranSwitch today announced that it recently effected a restructuring to be implemented and concluded during the first quarter of 2010. This workforce reduction primarily affects personnel based in Fremont, California, New Delhi and Bangalore, India and Shelton, Connecticut.
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IP Cores Selects Phoenix Technologies for Israel (Tuesday Feb. 02, 2010)
IP Cores enters the third successful year of Phoenix Technologies Ltd. acting as its representative in Israel. The 2008 agreement provided for Phoenix Technologies Ltd. to handle the entire line of products of IP Cores, including AES-based ECB/CBC/OCB/CFB, AES-GCM and AES-XTS cores, flow-through AES/CCM cores with header parsing for IEEE 802.11 (WiFi), 802.16e (WiMAX), 802.15.3 (MBOA), 802.15.4 (Zigbee), public-key accelerators for RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generators (CS PRNG), Snow 3G cipher for LTE, SHA-1, SHA-256, SH-512 secure hashes, low-latency fixed and floating-point FFT and IFFT cores, high-throughput lossless compression cores.
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Cycleo to Partner with Japan's leading IP distributor, Spinnaker Systems (Tuesday Jan. 19, 2010)
Cycleo today announced the appointment of Spinnaker Systems as its distributor in Japan. Spinnaker will be responsible for sales and front line support of Lora™ IP family from Cycleo.
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Chips&Media Ships over 20million Unit SoCs (Tuesday Jan. 19, 2010)
Chips&Media today announced that its Semiconductor partners including Freescale, Mtekvision and Korea based top-tier semiconductor company, have shipped over 20 million system-on-chips(SoCs) integrated into smart phones, mobile internet devices(MIDs), smart books, portable media players(PMPs), digital televisions(DTVs) and set-top boxes(STBs).
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MOSAID and Samsung Reach Comprehensive Agreement (Monday Jan. 18, 2010)
MOSAID today announced that it has signed a new semiconductor patent license agreement with Samsung Electronics. MOSAID will also purchase a significant portfolio of patents from Samsung. In addition, the two companies have entered into an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) pursuant to the development of NAND Flash technology.
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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) alliances with Qualcore Logic (Monday Jan. 18, 2010)
In order to provide the best and most cost effective ASIC and SOC solutions to its customers, TCS has signed a strategic partnership with Qualcore Logic Inc., a leader in Analog, Digital & Mixed-signal and Specialized I/O IP building blocks.
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Magillem, provider of the "one of a kind" IP-Reuse based SOC design methodology, expands its operations in Japan. (Monday Jan. 18, 2010)
Magillem sees a very strong opportunity on the Japanese market as its platform is well adapted to the current economic outlook and the strategic development plans of the major Japanese corporations
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Avnera Announces $10 Million Venture Financing (Monday Jan. 18, 2010)
Avnera Corporation, the pioneer in Analog System-on-Chip (ASoC) technology for consumer electronics devices, announced today that it has closed a new $10 million round of financing.
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IDT Acquires Mobius Microsystems (Friday Jan. 15, 2010)
IDT today announced it has acquired Mobius Microsystems, the leader in precision all-silicon oscillator technology . The transaction, which closed today, January 14, 2010, is an all-cash agreement for the outstanding Mobius shares. The agreement has already received appropriate board approvals.
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EDA Consortium Reports Industry Revenue Down in Third Quarter 2009 (Thursday Jan. 14, 2010)
EDAC Market Statistics Service today announced that the EDA industry revenue for Q3 2009 is $1,167.9 million, a 3.8 percent sequential increase from Q2. On a Q3/Q3 basis, EDA industry revenue declined 7.2 percent, compared to $1,258.6 million in Q3 2008. The four-quarter moving average declined 13.1 percent.