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• Realtek Licenses Cadence's Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice DSP IP Core (Wednesday Aug. 21, 2013)
  Cadence today announced that Realtek licensed the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi Audio/Voice DSP IP core for use with the TrulyHandsFree™ always-on voice activation and recognition technology from Sensory.
  
  
• ZTE Corporation Licenses CEVA-XC DSP for LTE TDD/FDD Base Station and Network Infrastructure (Tuesday Aug. 13, 2013)
  CEVA today announced that ZTE Corporation has licensed the CEVA-XC DSP to power its next generation of high-performance, TDD/FDD LTE multi-mode base station System-on-Chips (SoCs).
  
  
• Allwinner Technology Licenses Arteris Interconnect Fabric IP for Tablet and Mobile Device Applications (Tuesday Aug. 13, 2013)
  Arteris today announced that Allwinner Technology Co., Ltd. has selected Arteris FlexNoC® interconnect IP as the backbone SoC interconnect for its new tablet and mobile device systems-on-chip (SoC) platforms.
  
  
• MStar Licenses Tensilica IP Core From Cadence (Tuesday Jul. 30, 2013)
  Cadence today announced that MStar Semiconductor has licensed the Tensilica(R) Xtensa(R) DPU (dataplane processor unit) for a new SOC (system on chip) design for the home entertainment and home networking market segments.
  
  
• MediaTek licences Trustonic Trusted Execution Environment (Tuesday Jul. 30, 2013)
  MediaTek and Trustonic today announced a strategic partnership to embed the Trustonic Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) into MediaTek system-on-chip (SoC) solutions to enable secure apps for smart connected devices.
  
  
• CSR Licenses Arteris FlexNoC Interconnect Fabric IP (Wednesday Jul. 24, 2013)
  Arteris today announced that CSR plc has secured licenses for Arteris® FlexNoC™ interconnect IP.
  
  
• Nufront and YYG, Both Pacific Rim Companies, Go to Production with Multiple Mixel MIPI Solutions (Tuesday Jul. 23, 2013)
  Mixel announced today that both Nufront, a leader in Chinese mobile communication and computing, and YYG, an innovative Chinese high-tech company with focus on next-generation display technology, have both licensed multiple Mixel MIPI® IP, successfully incorporated the IP into their products, and are at various stages of high volume production.
  
  
• Entropic Switches to ARM Mali for Superior Graphics Performance and Extends ARM Cortex Processor Licenses (Monday Jul. 22, 2013)
  ARM today announced that Entropic has licensed the ARM Mali™-400 and Mali-450 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) technology and has also entered into a new license agreement for the Cortex-R5 processor.
  
  
• Sequans powers HiveMotion LTE module for M2M devices in Korea (Wednesday Jul. 17, 2013)
  Sequans announced that its Firefly LTE platform, based on its SQN3101 LTE baseband chip, has been adopted by HiveMotion, a Korean maker of mobile multimedia solutions, for a new LTE-only module for M2M (machine-to-machine) applications in Korea.
  
  
• GEO Semi GW3300 integrates eWARP core, Tensilica CPU and Apical ISP (Monday Jul. 15, 2013)
  GEO Semi announced today the introduction of the GW3300 and GW3400 programmable geometric processors. The GW3400 integrates an Apical ISP with High Dynamic Range (HDR) technology. The ISP applies different processing to each pixel of each video frame to pull out hidden detail in shadows and highlights while preserving colors, local contrast and natural appearance.
  
  
• Trusight Partners with Vivante to Deliver Streamlined OpenCL and OpenGL ES 3.0 Image Processing Solutions (Thursday Jul. 11, 2013)
  Trusight announced that it has partnered with Vivante Corporation to deliver a streamlined OpenCL and OpenGL ES solution of Trusight’s patented video and CGI (computer generated imagery) processing technology.
  
  
• CEVA licenses Flagship DSP to Renesas Electronics for Next-Generation Intelligent Transport Systems (Tuesday Jul. 09, 2013)
  CEVA today announced that Renesas Electronics has licensed the CEVA-XC DSP to power a new generation of wireless communications System-on-Chips (SoCs) for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).
  
  
• Autotalks achieves market leading vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) security powered by Athena's high performance security technology (Monday Jul. 08, 2013)
  Autotalks today announced details of the security processing performance of their CRATON (ATK4100) V2X communication processor, the world’s most advanced vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications processor. To satisfy the critical security demands of its V2X communications architecture, Autotalks relies on Athena’s TeraFire® security microprocessors to seamlessly authenticate and process every incoming packet received by a vehicle in less than a millisecond.
  
  
• Fujitsu Semiconductor Licenses ARM big.LITTLE and Mali-T624 Technologies to Support a Wide Range of Consumer and Industrial Devices (Tuesday Jul. 02, 2013)
  Fujitsu Semiconductor combines leading-edge ARM® Cortex® and Mali™ processors to meet the needs of the visual computing space at advanced levels of energy efficiency
  
  
• Intrinsic-ID, License Contract With Panasonic System LSI (Monday Jul. 01, 2013)
  Intrinsic-ID has closed a security IP Technology Licensing Agreement with Panasonic System LSI. Intrinsic-ID's technology has been publically endorsed by companies offering top-level security for US & European government and defense applications, smartcard, telecom and networking, embedded and automotive, and the mobile industry.
  
  
• OCZ Technology Group Achieves First-Pass Silicon Success with DesignWare IP and Synopsys Professional Services (Wednesday Jun. 19, 2013)
  Synopsys today announced that OCZ has achieved first-pass silicon success for its NAND flash Vector SSD using Synopsys' DesignWare® DDR2/3-Lite PHY, Embedded Memories, STAR Memory System® solution and Professional Services.
  
  
• Imagination signs license agreement with Cavium for MIPSr5 architecture (Monday Jun. 17, 2013)
  Imagination Technologies has signed a license agreement with Cavium, Inc. for the latest Release 5 MIPS architecture (MIPSr5).
  
  
• HARMAN Professional Licenses Oxford Digital Filter Technology and Patent Portfolio for Professional Audio Applications (Friday Jun. 14, 2013)
  HARMAN today announced a comprehensive technology licensing agreement with Oxford Digital Limited, granting the rights to use Oxford Digital’s proprietary filter technologies in AKG, BSS, Crown, dbx, JBL, Lexicon, Soundcraft, and Studer professional audio products.
  
  
• Imagination signs license agreement with Toshiba for range of Imagination’s technologies (Tuesday Jun. 11, 2013)
  Imagination Technologies reports that it has signed a license agreement with Toshiba Corporation for a range of technologies from Imagination’s Ensigma connectivity and PowerVR graphics and video families.
  
  
• Microsemi Adopts Cortus Processor Core for New Mixed Signal SoC Platform for Industrial Applications (Monday Jun. 03, 2013)
  Cortus today announced that its Cortus processor cores have been chosen by Microsemi Corporation for a new mixed signal system-on-chip SoC platform for industrial applications.
  
  
• SiTune Corporation signs strategic license agreement with major semiconductor company serving STB and TV markets (Monday Jun. 03, 2013)
  SiTune announced a non-exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with one of the major TV media processor companies in the U.S. By this agreement, SiTune gave the rights to its partner to integrate its advance and state-of-the-art low power and low cost TV tuner for terrestrial, satellite and cable applications in this partner’s future products. SiTune Tuner IPs can support all digital/analog TV standards with lowest power consumption and superior performance for sensitivity, adjacent channel, and rough cable signal conditions like tilt.
  
  
• Altera Licenses Arteris FlexNoC Interconnect Fabric IP for ARM-based Processor Systems (Monday Jun. 03, 2013)
  Arteris today announced that Altera has licensed Arteris FlexNoC(TM) interconnect IP as the system interconnect for its future SoC products.
  
  
• HiSilicon Using Arteris FlexNoC Interconnect Fabric IP in Multiple Product Lines (Friday May. 31, 2013)
  Arteris today announced that HiSilicon Technologies Co., Ltd. has licensed Arteris®FlexNoC® interconnect IP for use as the on-chip interconnect fabric in multiple SoCs targeting many market segments.
  
  
• RDA Microelectronics Boosts Mobile Phone Performance with Arteris FlexNoC Interconnect IP (Tuesday May. 28, 2013)
  Arteris today announced that RDA Microelectronics has selected Arteris FlexNoC interconnect IP as the backbone SoC interconnect for its new wireless Systems-on-Chip (SoC) platforms.
  
  
• Chips&Media Licenses HEVC/H.265 Decoder Core to a Leading Fabless Semiconductor Company (Tuesday May. 28, 2013)
  Chips&Media reports that it has signed a strategic license agreement with a Taiwan-based dominant fabless semiconductor company, for next-generation HEVC decoder IP core, WAVE410. The core will be integrated into future high-end DTV SoCs .
  
  
• FujiFilm Adopts DMP's Graphics IP Core "SMAPH-H" (Monday May. 27, 2013)
  DMP announced today that DMP’s graphics IP core “SMAPH-H” is used in Fujifilm’s latest digital cameras. SMAPH-H provides GUIs(graphic user interface) and functions for displaying relevant information to take a picture.
  
  
• Vivante GPU Core Maximizes Graphics Efficiency of SAMSUNG GALAXY Tab 3 (Thursday May. 23, 2013)
  Vivante Corporation marked another major milestone in the rapid adoption of its industry leading GPU technology. The GC1000 graphics core, integrated into the Marvell PXA986 SoC, is powering the highly-anticipated Samsung GALAXY Tab 3 7.0
  
  
• Nvidia Adopts Arrow Devices' UniPro CheckMate Verification Solution (Thursday May. 23, 2013)
  Arrow Devices announces that Nvidia, a leader in computer graphics and next generation mobile platforms, has adopted Arrow Devices' MIPI UniPro CheckMate Verification Solution.
  
  
• Crocus Licenses its Magnetic Logic Unit Technology to TowerJazz (Wednesday May. 22, 2013)
  Crocus Technology and TowerJazz today announces a licensing and joint promotion agreement for the use of Crocus’ Magnetic Logic Unit (MLU) process technology by TowerJazz in its customers’ embedded SoC applications.
  
  
• UltraSoC delivers first Universal Debug IP to PMC-Sierra (Monday May. 13, 2013)
  UltraSoC announced today that it is working with PMC-Sierra to incorporate its silicon IP technology into PMC’s next generation of storage controllers. This development program, which is expected to lead to PMC taking a licence, incorporates UltraSoC’s library of advanced, feature-rich debug IP at the leading edge of embedded systems for PMC.