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Rad3 Communications announces the acquisition of Raithlin Semiconductor's LDPC IP Cores and development team (Monday May. 11, 2009)
RAD3 Communications Inc. (RAD3), a communications intellectual property (IP) company, today announced the acquisition of the LDPC IP assets of Raithlin Semiconductor Inc (Raithlin) and the addition of Dr. Stephen Bates, Raithlin’s CEO, to RAD3’s Board of Advisors.
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Northwest Logic Chooses ChipStart as North America and EMEA Distribution Partner (Monday May. 11, 2009)
Northwest Logic announced it has selected ChipStart as its US and Europe distributor for its Expresso Solution for PCI Express, Memory Interface and MIPI Solutions. ChipStart will also incorporate Northwest Logic's memory interface products into its pre-validated memory subsystem solution called MemStart.
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MIPS Technologies Announces Divestiture of its Analog Business Group (Friday May. 08, 2009)
MIPS today announced the divestiture of its Analog Business Group. Synopsys acquired the business unit in an all-cash transaction for $22 million, effective immediately.
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Wi-LAN Completes Series of Patent Acquisitions (Friday May. 08, 2009)
Wi-LAN today announced that the Company has completed a series of acquisitions that will add over 200 patented inventions to its portfolio.
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Synopsys Acquires Analog Business Group of MIPS Technologies (Friday May. 08, 2009)
Synopsys, Inc. , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, today announced it has acquired the Analog Business Group of MIPS Technologies, Inc. for $22 million in cash. The acquisition expands Synopsys' DesignWare® intellectual property (IP) portfolio with a new family of analog IP such as Analog-to-Digital Converters, Digital-to-Analog Converters, Audio Codecs and Power Management. It will also add HDMI TX and RX protocols to Synopsys' existing interface IP solution.
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Mentor Graphics and LogicVision Sign Definitive Merger Agreement (Thursday May. 07, 2009)
Mentor Graphics Corporation and LogicVision, Inc. today announced the two companies have signed a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which Mentor Graphics will acquire LogicVision. Under the terms of the agreement, which was approved by the boards of directors of both companies, LogicVision stockholders will receive 0.2006 of a share of Mentor Graphics common stock for each share of LogicVision, for aggregate consideration of approximately $13 million dollars (as of May 7, 2009).
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Gennum Not to Match Competing Offer for Tundra (Thursday Apr. 30, 2009)
Gennum today announced that it had provided notice to Tundra that it does not wish to exercise its right to match the competing offer by IDT, pursuant to the previously announced arrangement agreement (as amended, the “Arrangement Agreement”) between Gennum and Tundra.
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Gennum Provides Update on Proposed Acquisition of Tundra (Monday Apr. 27, 2009)
Gennum today announced that, pursuant to the previously announced arrangement agreement between Gennum and Tundra, Gennum has received notice from Tundra that Tundra has received an offer from Integrated Device Technologies, Inc. to acquire 100% of the common shares of Tundra.
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NEC Electronics and Renesas to Integrate Business Operations (Monday Apr. 27, 2009)
NEC Electronics, Renesas Technology, NEC Corporation, Hitachi, and Mitsubishi Electric today agreed to enter into negotiations to integrate business operations at NEC Electronics and Renesas.
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Imagination Technologies Group plc - Imagination Technologies and Toumaz Holdings extend relationship (Monday Apr. 27, 2009)
Imagination and Toumaz Holdings have agreed a significant deal which will both further develop their existing co-operation and also expand their collaboration into new areas.
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Innovision announces a Joint Marketing and License Agreement (Tuesday Apr. 21, 2009)
Innovision Research & Technology announces that it has signed an agreement with a major European semiconductor company to market Innovision's NFC Intellectual Property ("IP") in combination with their products and IP for use by third party customers.
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Eureka Technology and embWiSe Partners in embedded SD/SDIO solution (Monday Apr. 20, 2009)
Eureka Technology and embWiSE today announced a partnership of software and hardware solution to their customers. The combination of Eureka’s SD/SDIO/MMC controller and embWiSe's SDIOWorx software is a proven solution in current customers’ production..
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Oracle to Buy Sun (Monday Apr. 20, 2009)
Sun Microsystems and Oracle announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt.
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Gennum Increases Purchase Price to Acquire Tundra (Friday Apr. 17, 2009)
Gennum has increased the aggregate purchase price for all of the Tundra Shares from approximately Cdn.$86 million to approximately Cdn.$112 million, representing an increase of approximately 31%.
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MOSAID Extends NXP's Patent License and Signs New Wireless Agreement; Provides update on Qimonda (Friday Apr. 17, 2009)
MOSAID today announced that it has granted a patent license agreement extension to NXP B.V. of the Netherlands. MOSAID has also signed a five-year running royalty patent license agreement with an unnamed U.S.-based provider of wireless networking equipment. MOSAID also announced that Qimonda AG (Qimonda), which is in insolvency protection, has terminated the patent licensing agreement between the two companies.
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SMIC and Dolphin Integration Announce Strategic Partnership for Portable Media Players (Friday Apr. 17, 2009)
SMIC and Dolphin Integration announced today their partnership for the release of the latest generation of digital-to-analog audio converters that, utilizing Dolphin's expertise, feature ultra-low power consumption.
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ChipStart Teams with Discretix for Security Solutions (Thursday Apr. 16, 2009)
ChipStart announced it has partnered with Discretix, Inc. to complete its portfolio of SecureStart security intellectual property for embedded systems markets.
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Xilinx Announces Restructuring Plans (Thursday Apr. 16, 2009)
The Company expects to reduce its global workforce by up to 200 positions, or 6%, resulting in a pre-tax charge of approximately $11 to $13 million in the June quarter primarily related to severance pay expenses. Additionally, Xilinx is implementing other short-term cost savings including executive salary reductions and a broad-based employee salary freeze.
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IBM Selects Virage Logic as Its PowerPC Partner (Wednesday Apr. 08, 2009)
Virage Logic today announced a new relationship with IBM that designates Virage Logic as an IBM PowerPC Design Center, granting it the rights to license and distribute IBM's PowerPC processor cores and peripheral cores when combined with Virage Logic's broad portfolio of semiconductor IP.
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Rambus Acquires Inapac Patents (Wednesday Apr. 08, 2009)
Rambus today announced it has acquired a number of patents from Inapac Technology, Inc. to broaden its offerings for the mobile memory market. These patented innovations complement the high-bandwidth, low-power memory technologies developed by Rambus as part of its Mobile Memory Initiative, announced earlier this year.
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Pyxis Technology Raises $3.0M in Expansion Capital (Tuesday Apr. 07, 2009)
Pyxis Technology, Inc., an electronic design automation software (EDA) company that offers auto-routing software to developers of high-performance integrated circuits (ICs), has raised $3.0 million in financing to accelerate the deployment of its new High-performance Custom (HPC) routing product, NexusRoute-HPC.
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Programmable RF Chip Pioneer, WiSpry Secures $10-Million Series C Financing (Tuesday Apr. 07, 2009)
WiSpry, Inc., the leader in programmable radio frequency (RF) semiconductor products for the wireless industry, today announced its first closing for a Series C financing of $10 million dollars.
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Analyst sours on Infineon, ST but touts ARM (Thursday Apr. 02, 2009)
Infineon Technologies AG, STMicroelectronics NV and ASML Holding have had their equity ratings lowered to "sell" from "hold" by an analyst who warned the companies' operating positions are becoming dire due to deteriorating demand. The analyst, however, confirmed ARM Holding's "buy" rating.
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On2 Technologies Receives Patent for Video Encoding Methods (Tuesday Mar. 31, 2009)
On2 Technologies announced today that it has been granted patent number 7,499,492 for methods that increase the compressibility of digital video segments through better intraframe prediction
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InterDigital to Expand Technology Development and Licensing, Realign SlimChip Business to Monetize IP (Monday Mar. 30, 2009)
InterDigital today announced the company’s decision to expand its technology development and licensing business through targeted new investment in both cellular and non-cellular wireless technologies. InterDigital® also intends to cease further product development of its SlimChip™ HSPA technology and proceed to monetize the product investment through technology licensing.
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Agilent Technologies Restructures Electronic Measurement Businesses (Thursday Mar. 26, 2009)
Agilent today announced a major restructuring of its Electronic Measurement businesses in response to the most severe global downturn in the company's history. Fiscal 2009 revenue in the company's Electronic Measurement Segment is expected to be down roughly 30 percent from 2008 to the lowest level in the company's 10-year history.
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Audience, a voice processor company, closes $15 million round of funding (Wednesday Mar. 25, 2009)
Audience, a voice processor company, today announced it raised $15 million in Series D funding in February, bringing the total funding amount to date to $60 million.
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GDA Positioning to Make a Major Impact in 3GPP and WiMAX/LTE Being a Power Architecture VAR (Tuesday Mar. 24, 2009)
GDA Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of configurable, reliable and production-proven Intellectual Property (IP) solutions and services for Communication, Storage and Consumer markets, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to become an IBM Power Architecture Power Design Center. The agreement provides GDA the right to directly sublicense PowerPC processor cores as part of its IP and Services offerings.
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Northwest Logic and Tokyo Electron Device Enter Into A Distribution Partnership (Tuesday Mar. 24, 2009)
Northwest Logic signs Distribution Agreement with Tokyo Electron Devices for its Expresso Solution for PCI Express ®, Memory Interface and MIPI Solutions
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ARM Outlines Vision for Next Generation of Mobile Gaming (Monday Mar. 23, 2009)
ARM continues to show success in delivering highest performance ARM® Mali™ graphics processing unit (GPU) technology and today outlined its vision for the next generation of graphics processing and mobile gaming against the backdrop of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.