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• intoPIX delivers its high performance 4K JPEG 2000 decoder to Sony Corporation (Friday Oct. 08, 2010)
  intoPIX today announced that Sony has licensed and integrated the intoPIX 4K JPEG2000 decoder into the 4K SXRD digital cinema system. With its smart single chip FPGA implementation, impressive performance and quality, the 4K decoder offers a unique solution, making it the technology of choice for the digital cinema industry.
  
  
• NetLogic Microsystems licenses Imagination Technologies' visual IP technologies (Tuesday Oct. 05, 2010)
  Imagination Technologies reports that it has signed a license agreement with NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., a leader in high-performance intelligent networking semiconductor solutions, for IP cores from Imagination’s POWERVR multimedia family.
  
  
• Appareo Systems Chooses Tuxera NTFS for Flight Data Monitoring Device (Tuesday Oct. 05, 2010)
  Tuxera today announced that Appareo Systems has licensed Tuxera NTFS to bring seamless interoperability to its Vision 1000 system. Tuxera’s embedded file system solution will allow the Vision 1000, a cockpit imaging and flight data monitoring (FDM) device wrapped into one, to read/write data efficiently for the aviation industry.
  
  
• MOSAID Signs Wireless Patent License Agreement With a Top-Ranked Semiconductor Supplier (Monday Oct. 04, 2010)
  MOSAID Technologies Inc. today announced that it has signed a multi-year, royalty bearing patent portfolio license agreement with a top-ranked, U.S.-based semiconductor supplier.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Announces PMC-Sierra Licensing Agreement for a Broad Range of Processor Cores (Tuesday Sep. 28, 2010)
  MIPS Technologies announced today that long-time MIPS customer PMC-Sierra is licensing a broad range of MIPS32® processor cores.
  
  
• ROHM First to market with Mixel's Unified MIPI/MDDI PHY IP solution in its Mobile Display Driver Chip (Monday Sep. 27, 2010)
  Mixel announced today that ROHM Co., Ltd, a multi-billion dollar Global company, and a leader in mobile phone semiconductor devices, has licensed and integrated Mixel’s Unified MIPI/MDDI PHY IP, the first and only available, unified MIPI/MDDI PHY IP solution.
  
  
• Toshiba Chooses Ultra Low Power ARM Cortex-M0 Processor (Friday Sep. 24, 2010)
  Toshiba Corporation has licensed the ARM® Cortex™-M0 processor. The Cortex-M0 processor was chosen as it offered significant technical advantages, a broad ecosystem software development tools support, and a future proof solution through upwards compatibility with the Cortex-M family.
  
  
• AppliedMicro Picks Tensilica's Dataplane Processors for High-Throughput Communications Chip Design (Tuesday Sep. 14, 2010)
  Tensilica,® Inc. today announced that AppliedMicro has selected Tensilica's Xtensa® LX dataplane processors (DPUs) for an upcoming high-throughput communications chip design project.
  
  
• ARM Technologies Power Nufront's First Computer System Chip to Reshape Laptop Market (Tuesday Sep. 14, 2010)
  Nufront Launches NuSmart™ 2816 Computer System Chip Based on Multi-Core ARM Cortex-A9 Processor, Bringing Mobile Power Efficiencies to the Laptop Market 2011 International CES
  
  
• CAST JPEG IP Core Helps Kapsch TrafficCom Handle Real-Time Image Compression (Friday Sep. 10, 2010)
  Another notable customer has incorporated the JPEG Encoder IP Core from CAST, Inc. in an innovative product. Based in Austria with offices worldwide, Kapsch TrafficCom is an international supplier of innovative road traffic telematics solutions that help manage traffic flow and improve driving safety.
  
  
• Metrological Selects Tuxera NTFS for Mediaconnect TV (Thursday Sep. 09, 2010)
  Tuxera, the leading provider of Windows-compatible file systems for Linux, Android, Mac and other platforms, today announced that Metrological Media Innovations has licensed Tuxera NTFS to bring seamless interoperability to Mediaconnect TV. Tuxera’s embedded file system solution will stream or playback digital media content in Mediaconnect TV, a next-generation, generic open media platform, based on the Intel® CE Media Processing technology and powered by Metrological’s Metroconnect Operating System.
  
  
• Ambarella A6 Chip Platform Deployed by Harmonic (Wednesday Sep. 08, 2010)
  Ambarella has announced that Harmonic is utilizing Ambarella’s A6 semiconductor platform. Ambarella A6 supports multiple-screen delivery and adaptive streaming in Adobe, Apple, Microsoft formats with HD/SD MPEG-2/H.264 transcoding and transrating.
  
  
• Russian SoC Leader MRI Progress Licenses Virage Logic's ARC(R) Video 401V Subsystem for Digital TV Applications (Wednesday Sep. 01, 2010)
  Virage Logic today announced that MRI Progress has licensed Virage Logic's ARC Video 401V subsystem. MRI Progress will integrate the subsystem into a SoC targeting digital TV applications, a growing market as the Russian Federation begins converting from analog to digital television.
  
  
• Silicon Laboratories Grants Limited License for FM Radio Technology to RDA Microelectronics (Thursday Aug. 26, 2010)
  Silicon Laboratories Inc. today announced a patent licensing and royalty agreement with RDA Microelectronics, a China-based fabless IC company. The agreement grants RDA a limited license to Silicon Labs' international portfolio of FM radio patents.
  
  
• DapTechnology's 1394b FireLink Extended IP boosts download performance on Ampex MiniR700 Solid State Data Recorder (Monday Aug. 23, 2010)
  DapTechnology announced today that Ampex Data Systems of Redwood City, California has deployed the DapTechnology FireLink Extended1394b Link Layer Controller IP Core within its MiniR® Solid State Data Recorder line.
  
  
• Intilop announces acceptance of their TCP/IP offload engine silicon IP by a major financial institution (Monday Aug. 23, 2010)
  Intilop today announced full acceptance by a major financial institution of its 1 G bit TCP/IP Offload engine that delivers highest throughput and least latency in the industry. The customized version shatters the latency barrier of 1 microsecond offering smallest latency and highest TCP performance. It delivers wire speed performance for small and full size packets. Setting a new standard for latency sensitive financial markets and high end networking equipment markets.
  
  
• Nujira licenses its Coolteq.L handset technology to a Tier 1 semiconductor vendor (Monday Aug. 16, 2010)
  Nujira today announced that it has licensed its Coolteq.L handset technology to a Tier 1 semiconductor vendor in the handset ecosystem. Coolteq is an envelope tracking based technology that dramatically increases the power efficiency of transmitters in cellular handsets, network infrastructure, digital broadcasts and military communications.
  
  
• Rambus and NVIDIA Sign Patent License Agreement (Friday Aug. 13, 2010)
  Rambus and NVIDIA announced they have signed a patent license agreement related to certain memory controllers. Under the agreement, Rambus has granted NVIDIA a patent license for certain memory controllers at a 1 percent royalty rate for SDR memory controllers and a 2 percent royalty rate for other memory controllers, including DDR, DDR2, DDR3, LPDDR, LPDDR2, GDDR2, GDDR3, GDDR4, and portions of GDDR5 memory controllers.
  
  
• Novatek Selects Tensilica's HiFi Audio DSP for Blu-ray Disc and DTV (Wednesday Aug. 11, 2010)
  Tensilica today announced that Novatek Microelectronics Corp., of Hsinchu, Taiwan, selected Tensilica's HiFi Audio DSP for upcoming DTV (digital television) and Blu-ray Disc SOC (system-on-chip) designs.
  
  
• Aplus Flash Technology has signed an agreement with IDT about 0.35um HiEE (Tuesday Aug. 10, 2010)
  Aplus Flash announced that it has signed an agreement with Integrated Device Technology (IDT) to license Aplus’ patented 0.35um HiEE™ proprietary technology for its use in its mixed signal semiconductor devices.
  
  
• SiliconReef acquires a set of Chipus high performance analog IP licenses (Tuesday Aug. 10, 2010)
  Chipus Microelectronics announced today that SiliconReef, a design house specialized in the development of low-power analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs), has acquired a set of Chipus analog IP core licenses. SiliconReef has successfully integrated Chipus IPs into its high efficiency energy harvesting chip, called EH01.
  
  
• ZyXEL Integrates Tuxera NTFS into NAS and Router Product Lines (Thursday Aug. 05, 2010)
  Tuxera today announced ZyXEL Communications has adopted Tuxera NTFS into its network attached storage device and router product lines.
  
  
• NTT DOCOMO Licenses LTE Platform for Chipsets to MediaTek (Thursday Jul. 29, 2010)
  NTT DOCOMO announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with MediaTek to deploy “LTE-PF,” a mobile-device chipset platform (see diagram) based on Long Term Evolution (LTE),
  
  
• Zoran Selects Kilopass' XPM Non-Volatile Memory for Products Manufactured Using Advanced Low-Power Process (Wednesday Jul. 28, 2010)
  Kilopass today announced that Zoran has licensed the company’s XPM™ non-volatile memory (NVM) IP solution for use in its latest advanced low-power fabrication process generation. A repeat Kilopass customer for three successive process generations, Zoran integrates Kilopass’ NVM IP in its home entertainment IC products.
  
  
• Microsoft Licenses ARM Architecture (Friday Jul. 23, 2010)
  ARM and Microsoft today announced that they have signed a new licensing agreement for the ARM® architecture. The agreement extends the collaborative relationship between the two companies. Since 1997 Microsoft and ARM have worked together.
  
  
• RDC Semiconductor Selects Virage Logic's All Digital Intelli(TM) DDR3 PHY for Next-Generation SOC (Thursday Jul. 22, 2010)
  
  
  
• MOSAID Signs New Patent License Agreement With Nanya Technology (Tuesday Jul. 20, 2010)
  MOSAID today announced that it has signed a seven year, royalty bearing patent portfolio license agreement with Nanya Technology of Taiwan.
  
  
• Chelsio Communications Licenses Tensilica's Xtensa LX Customizable Dataplane Processor Core for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (Tuesday Jul. 20, 2010)
  Tensilica today announced that Chelsio Communications has licensed the Xtensa LX customizable DPU (dataplane processor) for its next-generation 10Gb Ethernet Terminator ASIC (application specific integrated circuit). Chelsio has used Tensilica's Xtensa DPUs in two previous generations of Terminator ASICs.
  
  
• TowerJazz Licenses Kilopass' One-Time Programmable Non-Volatile Memory IP (Thursday Jul. 15, 2010)
  TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, and Kilopass Technology, a leading provider of semiconductor logic non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP), today announced that TowerJazz has licensed Kilopass’ one-time programmable (OTP) memory intellectual property (IP) for its 0.13μm CMOS process.
  
  
• Icera chooses TVS to perform independent verification (Thursday Jul. 01, 2010)