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• World's Leading DTV IC Vendor MStar Licenses MIPS Processor IP (Tuesday Jan. 05, 2010)
  MIPS Technologies today announced that MStar Semiconductor, licensed its multi-threaded MIPS32® 34Kf Pro synthesizable processor core for next-generation devices.
  
  
• ViXS Systems Teams with MIPS Technologies for High-Performance Processors used in Advanced Multimedia Applications (Tuesday Jan. 05, 2010)
  MIPS Technologies announced today that ViXS Systems has partnered with MIPS to enable advanced set-top box, connected TV, Blu-ray disc and video network processor applications including transcoding functionality using the MIPS32® 74K and 1004K platforms.
  
  
• APTX licenses Enhanced apt-X to Digigram (Monday Jan. 04, 2010)
  APTX today announces that Digigram, the French manufacturer of high-performance IP audio codec equipment for professional broadcast applications, has licensed the Enhanced apt-X audio codec.
  
  
• Realtek Licenses Wide Range of MIPS32 Pro Series Cores to Develop High-Performance SoCs (Wednesday Dec. 30, 2009)
  MIPS today announced that Taiwan-based Realtek Semiconductor has licensed a wide range of MIPS32® Pro Series® cores for broadband, networking, digital home and multimedia SoCs.
  
  
• Sequans Incorporates Industry-Leading MIMO Decoder in LTE Product Line (Tuesday Dec. 29, 2009)
  Sequans Communications has licensed unique LTE IP from Dorfour Ltd., a Tel-Aviv-based 4G IC company. The IP enables maximum likelihood performance at four times the efficiency in size and power consumption of competing solutions, contributing a key component to Sequans’ LTE solution.
  
  
• FineArch licenses Cosmic Circuits' Analog IP (Tuesday Dec. 22, 2009)
  Cosmic Circuits, a leading provider of differentiated Analog and Mixed-Signal IP cores, announced that FineArch Inc, an LSI provider for mobile entertainment devices, realized success with Analog IP cores licensed from Cosmic.
  
  
• Taiwan's Magic Pixel Licenses MIPS(R) Processor IP for Advanced Multimedia Applications (Monday Dec. 21, 2009)
  MIPS Technologies today announced that Magic Pixel has licensed the MIPS32(R) 24KEc(TM) and 4KEc(R) Pro Series(R) processor cores for development of next-generation digital photo frames (DPFs) and other portable multimedia applications.
  
  
• Buffalo Licenses WiLAN Wireless Technologies (Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009)
  Wi-LAN today announced that WiLAN has settled all patent litigation with Buffalo. Under the settlement, Buffalo has signed a running royalty license to certain WiLAN wireless technologies.
  
  
• Analog Devices Mixed-Signal Products in Production with Kilopass' Embedded Non-Volatile Memory (Monday Dec. 14, 2009)
  Kilopass announced that Analog Devices is using Kilopass’ XPM™ one-time programmable (OTP) NVM in a range of analog and mixed-signal products. Analog Devices, a global leader in high performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, is a licensee of Kilopass’ XPM™.
  
  
• Ubicom Expands Long-Term Relationship with Denali By Adopting Its Predictable Protocol Verification Solution (Wednesday Dec. 09, 2009)
  Ubicom has selected Denali’s MMAV™ and PureSpec™ verification IP (VIP), which support high-speed communications and peripheral protocols, to aid in the design and verification of their media and network processors.
  
  
• S3 Assists Siano To Develop Mobile Digital TV Chips (Monday Dec. 07, 2009)
  S3 continued to strengthen its market position today by announcing a collaboration with Siano. S3 assisted Siano in the development of their SMS1XXX family of mobile TV chips, resulting in first-time-right silicon and faster time to volume production.
  
  
• DapTechnology's FireLink 1394b LLC IP Core Enhances PixeLINK's Firewire Vision (Monday Dec. 07, 2009)
  DapTechnology announced today that PixeLINK of Ottawa, Ontario has selected and is currently integrating the DapTechnology FireLink 1394b Link Layer Controller IP Core as a key component of the company’s Megapixel™ camera product line.
  
  
• Samsung to Offer 1 Gigabit XDR DRAM (Friday Dec. 04, 2009)
  Rambus today announced that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. will offer a 1 Gigabit XDR™ DRAM memory device. XDR DRAM is a key component of Rambus' award-winning XDR memory architecture.
  
  
• Ingenic and Dolphin Integration announce their renewed cooperation in the field of audio converters. (Friday Nov. 27, 2009)
  The two companies reveal today their agreement, whereby the fast growing Chinese embedded microprocessor supplier, Ingenic, has licensed the ultra-low power audio converter from the mixed signal Silicon IP provider, Dolphin Integration.
  
  
• Chungbuk Technopark Chooses ARM Cortex-M0 Processor (Thursday Nov. 26, 2009)
  SoC R&D Center in Chungbuk Technopark (CBTP) a non-profit local government foundation in Chungbuk Province, today announced that they have licensed the ARM® Cortex™-M0 processor.
  
  
• Samsung Licenses Video System Solution IP from Silicon Hive (Tuesday Nov. 24, 2009)
  Silicon Hive announced today that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd licensed Silicon Hive’s HiveGo VSS3000 Video System Solution product.
  
  
• Samsung Licenses MOSAID Wireless Patents (Monday Nov. 23, 2009)
  MOSAID today announced that it has signed a worldwide non-exclusive wireless patent license agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
  
  
• Arasan Announces Design Win with Comsys Mobile (Friday Nov. 20, 2009)
  Arasan Chip Systems today announced that Comsys Mobile has taken a license for Arasan's SDIO Version 2.0 Device IP Core, which supports a wide range of portable low-power applications such as 802.11 devices, GPS, WiMAX, UWB, among others.
  
  
• Samsung Signs Multi-Year License For Tensilica's HiFi 2 Audio DSP (Thursday Nov. 19, 2009)
  Tensilica today announced that the Digital Media & Communications Business of Samsung Electronics has signed a multi-year license to Tensilica's HiFi 2 Audio DSP (digital signal processor) for use in Samsung's multimedia system products after a successful previous deployment in Samsung's System LSI Division.
  
  
• Infineon and ARM Announce Strategic Architectural License Agreement For Advanced Security Applications (Tuesday Nov. 17, 2009)
  Infineon announced today a long-term strategic collaboration in the field of security controllers (MCU) for chip card and security applications. Based on the agreement, Infineon will receive an ARMv6M and ARMv7M architecture license.
  
  
• Lionic selects PLDA IP for their new Generation ePavis II Security Solution (Monday Nov. 16, 2009)
  PLDA, announced that Lionic will launch their ePavis II robust PCI Express-based solution, incorporating PLDA’s XpressRich2 PCI Express ASIC IP.
  
  
• Imagination Technologies and Green Plug agree partnership to develop and promote energy management technology (Thursday Nov. 12, 2009)
  Imagination Technologies and Green Plug have entered into a co-operation agreement that will enable Green Plug to deploy Imagination’s META processor and related IP cores in the next generation Green Plug energy management solution.
  
  
• NEC Licenses WiLAN Technologies (Tuesday Nov. 10, 2009)
  Wi-LAN is pleased to announce that NEC has agreed to a multi-year license agreement to WiLAN patented technology. This license will provide NEC access to WiLAN technology for use in their extensive portfolio of domestic and export ADSL products.
  
  
• Sonics' On-Chip Network Licensed by Toshiba for High-Performance Video Solutions (Wednesday Nov. 04, 2009)
  Sonics said today that Toshiba has licensed SonicsSX, a high-performance on-chip network, targeted at video-based SoCs (system-on-chips). This latest license represents an extension of Toshiba’s adoption of Sonics’ technology for its next-generation SoC designs.
  
  
• Wintegra incorporates PLDA's PCI Express IP in its WinPath3 processors (Tuesday Nov. 03, 2009)
  PLDA announced that Wintegra has chosen PLDA’s PCI Express IP for their latest WinPath3 processor. Wintegra is utilizing PLDA’s PCI Express IP to provide PCI Express interconnect within its host controller, helping to enable throughput of up to 2.5 Gbps.
  
  
• WiLAN Wireless Technologies Licensed by Nikon (Thursday Oct. 29, 2009)
  Wi-LAN announces that Nikon has signed a multi-year license agreement for wireless technologies. This license agreement provides Nikon with access to WiLAN technology for use in Wi-Fi-enabled products.
  
  
• Mitsubishi Electric Selects eASIC For Display Wall Cubes (Wednesday Oct. 28, 2009)
  eASIC today announced that Mitsubishi Electric has selected eASIC’s Nextreme NEW ASICs for its Seventy Series Display Wall Cube Systems. Mitsubishi Electric used eASIC’s Nextreme devices to replace existing gate-arrays and improve the video processing system performance by 50%.
  
  
• STMicroelectronics and ARM Team Up to Power Next-Generation Home Entertainment (Wednesday Oct. 28, 2009)
  STMicroelectronics and ARM announced today that ST has adopted the ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ processor, in addition to the Mali®-400 graphics processor, for its upcoming set-top-box and digital TV system-on-chip (SoC) ICs.
  
  
• Vivante GPUs Power Marvell ARMADA Application Processors (Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009)
  Vivante today announced that Marvell has deployed Vivante's GC-series graphics processors in the new Marvell® ARMADA™ range of application processors.
  
  
• 200th Company Licenses WiLAN Technologies (Friday Oct. 23, 2009)
  Wi-LAN today announced that the Company has reached the significant milestone of 200 companies licensed. The 200th company to license WiLAN technologies, Ascom AB, is an international provider of wireless communication and security solutions