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MIPS Technologies and EE Solutions Bring MIPS(R) Architecture to Semiconductor Companies across China and Taiwan (Tuesday Jul. 07, 2009)
MIPS and EE Solutions announced they are teaming to provide semiconductor companies in China and Taiwan with easy access to MIPS' industry-standard technology. EE Solutions licensed the synthesizable MIPS32(R) 24KEc(TM) core as part of its digital IP portfolio and will work with MIPS to provide value-added solutions to joint customers.
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CEO: CSwitch halted operations, seeks buyer (Friday Jul. 03, 2009)
As had been rumored, programmable logic startup CSwitch Corp. has ceased operations and is looking to be acquired, the company's top executive confirmed Friday (July 3). CSwitch President and CEO Doug Laird told EE Times that investors made the decision to temporarily halt operations sometime within the last few weeks.
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Virage Logic Expands Presence in India to Serve Growing Market Demand for Broad IP Portfolio (Wednesday Jul. 01, 2009)
Virage Logic today announced it has expanded its presence in India with the appointment of CoreEL as its sales representative.
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ARC International: Trading Update and Outcome of Strategic Review (Tuesday Jun. 30, 2009)
ARC International provides an update on the completion of a strategic review of its operations, changes to its executive team and an update on trading.
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Virage Logic Sees Strong Adoption of Company's Broad 40nm IP Product Portfolio (Tuesday Jun. 30, 2009)
Comprising embedded SRAMS, embedded memory test and repair, logic libraries, and memory development software, the Company's silicon-proven 40nm product offering has been designed to optimize area, performance, power and yield. Today, more than ten customers rely on Virage Logic's 40nm product portfolio to design more efficient chips more quickly and with less risk.
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Sarnoff Europe Completes Management Buy-Out of Sarnoff's ESD Protection Business (Monday Jun. 29, 2009)
Sarnoff and Sarnoff Europe today announced a management buy-out agreement for Kogeni bvba to acquire the shares of Sarnoff Europe and gain exclusive ownership of Sarnoff Europe’s TakeCharge® ESD protection, intellectual property, and client portfolio, effective immediately.
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Imagination Technologies Group plc - Listing of Shares (Friday Jun. 26, 2009)
Apple Inc. is subscribing for 2,200,000 new shares of Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG) at £ 1.4275 per share, the mid market close price on 25 June 2009, subject only to listing and admission of the new shares.
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Tiempo, IP company with breakthrough ultra-low power asynchronous design technology, raises 5 million Euros ($7 million) in Series B funding (Friday Jun. 26, 2009)
Tiempo today announced it has closed a 5 million Euros Series B financing round with two new investors, Viveris Management and Oddo Private Equity. Previous Series A investors, i.e. EmerTec Gestion, Schneider Electric Ventures, INPG Entreprise SA and Alma Capital Finances, also participated to this round.
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Rambus Announces the Pricing of Its $150 Million Convertible Senior Notes Offering (Wednesday Jun. 24, 2009)
Rambus today announced the pricing of its public offering of $150 million aggregate principal amount of 5% Convertible Senior Notes due 2014.
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Tensilica Announces Strategic Investment by DOCOMO Capital (Monday Jun. 22, 2009)
Tensilica today announced that DOCOMO Capital, Inc. has made a strategic investment in Tensilica. DOCOMO Capital is the corporate venture arm of NTT DOCOMO, Japan’s leading wireless carrier.
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Intel increases stake in graphics cores provider Imagination (Friday Jun. 19, 2009)
Intel Corp. has said it has no intention of making an offer for Imagination Technologies Group plc (Kings Langley, England) a licensor of graphics processing cores, despite buying 25 million shares in the company and grabbing nearly 14 percent of the company.
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TES Signs Licence Deal for Ultra-wideband Wireless Technology (Wednesday Jun. 17, 2009)
TES Electronic will deploy ITI proprietary technology to strengthen its position in the high speed wireless connectivity market. The agreement will enable TES to develop system and sub-system solutions based on novel Ultra-wideband technology.
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Elliptic Announces Name Change and Strategy Update - Becomes Elliptic Technologies Inc. (Tuesday Jun. 16, 2009)
Security IP provider Elliptic today announced that its shareholders had unanimously agreed to change the company name from Elliptic Semiconductor Inc. to Elliptic Technologies Inc. The name changes reflects Elliptic’s broad range of embedded security products and services including hardware IP cores, software and services.
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Cadence Announces Restructuring (Thursday Jun. 11, 2009)
Upon completion, Cadence expects to achieve annual operating expense savings of approximately $30 million, through a combination of workforce and other expense reductions.
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XDR DRAM Surpasses 100 Million Units Shipped (Wednesday Jun. 10, 2009)
Rambus today announced that its customers have shipped over 100 million XDR™ DRAM devices worldwide. XDR DRAM is part of a total memory solution developed by Rambus.
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Silicon Clocks Completes $10.3M Series C Financing Led By Silicon Labs and Premier Venture Firms (Tuesday Jun. 09, 2009)
Silicon Clocks, a leader in integrated timing solutions for electronic systems, today announced the completion of a $10.3M Series C financing to enable the company to ramp into full production the J-Series family of low jitter timing products, as well as transition its cutting edge CMEMSTM (Standard CMOS + MEMS) process technology into commercial products.
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Arasan expands Analog capability through Acquisition (Tuesday Jun. 09, 2009)
Arasan announced the expansion of its Total IP Solutions capability with the acquisition of AFTEK’s Bangalore based Analog Division. This acquisition broadens Arasan’s IP portfolio enabling Arasan to serve a wider range of complex SoC designs.
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Vivante Corporation Signs 15th GPU Licensee (Monday Jun. 08, 2009)
Vivante Corporation today announced the company has expanded to 15 the number of licensees for its graphics processing unit (GPU) cores. Vivante licensees, which include both established and emerging fabless semiconductor leaders, have taped out more than 20 SoC designs incorporating Vivante GPUs.
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MoSys Acquires Prism Circuits, Inc. (Monday Jun. 08, 2009)
MoSys today announced the acquisition of substantially all of the assets and business of privately held Prism Circuits, Inc., a profitable supplier of high data rate parallel and serial interface (I/O) IP.
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Intel to Acquire Wind River Systems for Approximately $884 Million (Thursday Jun. 04, 2009)
Intel Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wind River Systems Inc, under which Intel will acquire all outstanding Wind River common stock for $11.50 per share in cash, or approximately $884 million in the aggregate.
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NetLogic Microsystems Announces Definitive Agreement to Merge with RMI Corporation (Monday Jun. 01, 2009)
Merger will expand NetLogic Microsystems’ product portfolio and addressable markets, provide strong customer synergies at Tier One networking, communications, data center, security and storage OEMs, and is expected to deliver healthy revenue growth opportunities for the combined company
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Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue to Decline 22 Percent in 2009 (Thursday May. 28, 2009)
Worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to reach $198 billion in 2009, a 22.4 percent decline from 2008 revenue of $255 billion, according to the latest projections by Gartner, Inc. This outlook is slightly better than the first quarter projections, when Gartner forecast semiconductor revenue to decline 24.1 percent in 2009.
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SanDisk and Samsung Renew Patent Cross License and Flash Supply Agreements (Wednesday May. 27, 2009)
SanDisk and Samsung announced today that they signed a definitive agreement to renew the cross license of their semiconductor patent portfolios. In addition, the companies signed a flash memory supply agreement under which Samsung will continue to make available to SanDisk a guaranteed portion of its flash memory production output.
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Semiconductor Memory Start-Up Unity Semiconductor Closes $22M Series C Financing (Thursday May. 21, 2009)
Unity Semiconductor Corp., a start-up that will serve the semiconductor data storage market as a designer, developer and manufacturer of non-volatile storage-class memory products, announced today that it has closed its Series C round of financing of $22 million.
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T-RAM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Enter into Joint Development Agreement for Application of T-RAM's Thyristor-RAM Embedded Memory to Advanced Technology Nodes (Tuesday May. 19, 2009)
T-RAM Semiconductor and GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced today that they have entered into a joint development agreement targeted toward the application of T-RAM’s Thyristor-RAM embedded memory to advanced technology nodes.
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Innovision and NXP announce joint NFC marketing and licensing agreement (Monday May. 18, 2009)
The deal brings together advanced Innovision IP and proven NXP expertise in firmware, software and secure elements, such as the SmartMX. With this combination both companies target to win NFC integration deals into deep sub micron based connectivity solutions. The agreement comes at a key point in the technology’s development.
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Hynix Semiconductor, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics and Silicon Image Sign Long-Term Agreement to Create the Next-Generation Memory Interface Technology Specification (Monday May. 18, 2009)
Hynix Semiconductor, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics and Silicon Image today announced the formation of an industry consortium that promotes Serial Port Memory Technology (SPMT) for broad market adoption as an industry standard. As the first-of-its-kind memory specification for dynamic random access memory (DRAM), SPMT will initially target the mobile handset market, enabling a new generation of devices capable of running highly data intensive, media-rich applications while at the same time extending battery life.
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ARM Welcomes TI Acquisition of Luminary Micro (Friday May. 15, 2009)
Executive Vice President and general manager of ARM Processor Division, Mike Inglis, today commented on the acquisition by Texas Instruments of Cortex-M3 microcontroller developer Luminary Micro.
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TI acquires Luminary Micro (Friday May. 15, 2009)
TI announced today that it will expand its microcontroller (MCU) portfolio with the acquisition of Luminary Micro, the market-leading supplier of ARM Cortex-M3-based 32-bit MCUs. The addition of Luminary Micro’s Stellaris® family of Cortex-M3 processors will accelerate TI’s ability to provide the industry’s most complete MCU portfolio
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Virage Logic Announces Extension of Stock Repurchase Program (Friday May. 15, 2009)
Virage Logic announced today that its board of directors has authorized the extension of the expiration date of the stock repurchase program under which the Company has the option to repurchase up to $20,000,000 in market value of the Company's common stock through December 2010.