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Transmeta Initiates Process to Seek Sale of the Company (Thursday Sep. 25, 2008)
Transmeta announced today that, with the assistance of its independent financial advisors Piper Jaffray & Co., it has initiated a process to seek a potential sale of the Company.
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ARC International PLC Operational Update (Monday Sep. 22, 2008)
ARC today announced its plan to reorganise operations, enhancing and accelerating the deployment of its new multimedia product range to high-growth consumer electronics markets, while benefiting from recent strategic investments in new lower cost development capabilities.
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Lattice Semiconductor Announces Restructuring (Tuesday Sep. 16, 2008)
In connection with this restructuring, headcount will be reduced by approximately 125 employees, representing approximately 14 percent of the Company’s workforce.
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Redesign of NXP Semiconductors Organization - Restructuring targets USD 550 M annual cost savings (Friday Sep. 12, 2008)
The redesign program includes major reduction of NXP’s manufacturing base, its central R&D, and support functions. This program is expected to affect approximately 4,500 people globally and will result in annualized savings of USD 550 million. The restructuring cost will result in an estimated cash out of USD 800 million.
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CriticalBlue raises $4M, adds Investors Toshiba Corporation and Scottish Venture Fund (Thursday Sep. 11, 2008)
CriticalBlue, the leader in accelerated embedded software solutions, has raised $4M of private equity funding from Toshiba Corporation and Scottish Venture Fund as well as previous investors Herald Ventures, Lanza TechVentures and Pentech Ventures.
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Nusym Technology, a Verification EDA Company, Raises $8 Million in Series B Funding (Thursday Sep. 11, 2008)
The company will use the new capital to refine and introduce its intelligent verification product line which utilizes design insight to enable rapid verification closure.
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CEVA, Inc. Adopts Rule 10b5-1 Stock Repurchase Plan (Wednesday Sep. 03, 2008)
CEVA today announced that it has adopted a share repurchase plan to repurchase up to 500,000 shares of the Company's common stock
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Barco and Ingenient Technologies announce business partnership toward European customers (Tuesday Sep. 02, 2008)
Barco Silex will become a value added reseller of Ingenient’s embedded multimedia codecs, reference designs, and system solutions. Barco Silex will also act as the primary design and support center for the companies’ European customers.
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Analysts cuts forecast for TSMC (Thursday Aug. 28, 2008)
A bad sign for the industry? An investment banking firm has cut both its third- and fourth-quarter estimates for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC).
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Algotronix appoints Nisko-IES for Israel (Tuesday Aug. 26, 2008)
The agreement provides for Nisko-IES to handle the Algotronix line of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) products. These are low cost, high performance IP cores that fit into all popular FPGAs or ASICs.
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LogicVision Establishes Distribution Channel in Taiwan with Avant Technology Inc. (Monday Aug. 25, 2008)
LogicVision today announced it has expanded its sales and customer service by the addition of Avant Technology Inc. as exclusive distributor for LogicVision products in Taiwan.
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Ericsson and STMicroelectronics to Create World Leader in Semiconductors and Platforms for Mobile Applications (Wednesday Aug. 20, 2008)
STMicroelectronics and Ericsson today announced an agreement to merge Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST-NXP Wireless into a joint venture
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Mentor Graphics Responds to Cadence Announcement of Withdrawal of Acquisition Proposal (Friday Aug. 15, 2008)
Mentor Graphics notes that this withdrawal is inconsistent with both Cadence's recent public statements and recent communications between Mentor Graphics and Cadence.
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Cadence Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Mentor Graphics (Friday Aug. 15, 2008)
Cadence Design Systems today announced that it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Mentor Graphics common stock
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Rambus Announces Restructuring (Friday Aug. 15, 2008)
Rambus will reduce its workforce by approximately 90 positions and will take a restructuring charge, on a cash basis, of approximately $4.0 million in the next two quarters, primarily related to severance expenses.
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Conexant Completes Sale of Broadband Media Processing Business to NXP Semiconductors (Monday Aug. 11, 2008)
Company Now Focused on Providing Solutions for Imaging, Video, Audio, and Internet Connectivity Applications
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SliceX gets $15M, names CEO (Friday Aug. 08, 2008)
SliceX will use the investment to develop a high performance analog mixed signal product line. The Company’s products will target a range of industry segments from communications infrastructure and video imaging, to industrial equipment, automotive, and medical applications.
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POWERVR 3D graphics accelerator core has now shipped in over 100 products (Thursday Aug. 07, 2008)
The newest devices incorporating POWERVR graphics entering volume production include: phones such as the Nokia N82, Motorola Z10, Samsung G810 and Sony Ericsson G900; MID and UMPC devices such as the Gigabyte M528 and Sharp Wilcom D4; navigation systems including the Thinkware iNAVI K2; set-top-boxes including the Chunghwa Telecom Multimedia on Demand service; and several market-leading media player (PMP) products.
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Patriot Scientific and Crossflo Systems, Inc. Agree to Merger (Wednesday Aug. 06, 2008)
Patriot Scientific and Crossflo Systems today announced that the companies have agreed for Patriot Scientific to acquire Crossflo for stock and cash totaling $10 million.
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Numonyx and Hynix Extend Efforts to Introduce New, Innovative NAND Flash Memory Products and Technologies (Wednesday Aug. 06, 2008)
Hynix and Numonyx will broaden the scope of their joint development efforts to deliver leading NAND memory technology and products and combine resources to accelerate the development of future NAND technologies and solutions.
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CEVA, Inc. Announces Stock Repurchase Program (Monday Aug. 04, 2008)
The Company intends to use available cash to effect any stock repurchases. As of June 30, 2008, the Company had approximately 21 million fully diluted shares of common stock outstanding and $43.1 million in cash and cash equivalents.
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First Consumer Products with Imagination's Shader-Based POWERVR SGX Graphics Core Now Shipping (Thursday Jul. 31, 2008)
Imagination Technologies reports that the first branded consumer electronics products utilising its advanced and market-leading shader-based graphics core, POWERVR SGX, are now shipping.
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Actel Strengthens TCA Market Position with Acquisition of Pigeon Point Systems (Tuesday Jul. 29, 2008)
Strategic Move Augments Actel's Leadership Position in System and Power Management Solutions
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Gennum Acquires IP Provider ASIC Architect (Monday Jul. 28, 2008)
Gennum today announced it has acquired ASIC Architect. This acquisition accelerates Gennum's new analog and mixed-signal product introductions and complements its existing Snowbush IP
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Intel Outlines Plans for New Category of Smarter, Purpose-Built "System on Chip" Designs, Products (Thursday Jul. 24, 2008)
Intel executives outlined a plan to use its chip design expertise, factory capacity, advanced manufacturing techniques and the economics of Moore’s Law to usher in a new category of highly integrated, purpose-built and Web-savvy System on Chip (SoC) designs and products.
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Jennic Sees Record Uptake of Intellectual Property for Use in Next Generation Cellular Base-Stations (Thursday Jul. 24, 2008)
Jennic has reported a record uptake of Intellectual Property usage in the cellular base-station and mobile data communications markets. This is reflected in a fivefold increase of sales of Intellectual Property (IP) licenses in the first half of 2008 versus first half of 2007, due to strong performance of their RapidIO® system-level IP products, FEC and ATM-SAR cores.
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Silicon & Software Systems (S3) Appoints Maojet as New Sales Representative in Taiwan (Thursday Jul. 24, 2008)
S3 today announced that it has appointed Maojet Technology Corporation as its new sales representative in Taiwan to support its’ Taiwanese sales efforts.
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Silvus Technologies and Orange Coast Semiconductor Form Partnership to Benefit System-on-Chip Companies (Monday Jul. 21, 2008)
Silvus Technologies and Orange Coast Semiconductor today announced the formation of a partnership that will deliver a turnkey RF/PHY/MAC 802.11n IP solution to customers.
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Mindspeed Completes $10 Million Sale of Intellectual Property (Monday Jul. 21, 2008)
Company Significantly Strengthens Balance Sheet With Transfer of Non-Core Patents
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Transmeta Announces Agreement with Riley Investment Management, LLC (Wednesday Jul. 16, 2008)
Transmeta today announced that it has entered into a settlement agreement and release with the entities and persons affiliated with Riley Investment Management, LLC, resolving all proxy matters and other issues relating to Transmeta.