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• eSilicon Delivers 65nm Silicon and Package to Achronix (Tuesday Nov. 11, 2008)
  eSilicon today announced it delivered working silicon on the world's fastest field programmable gate array (FPGA) for Achronix Semiconductor Corp
  
  
• Key ASIC and MoSys Collaborate to Bring Unique Embedded Memory Solution to the High Resolution Portable LCD Driver Market (Tuesday Nov. 11, 2008)
  Key ASIC has licensed MoSys' patented 1T-SRAM memory technology to target customers designing high resolution LCD drivers. Key ASIC now includes 1T-SRAM memory technology as part of its IP portfolio, which includes the functional blocks required to enable the design and manufacturing of LCD driver products for the portable device market
  
  
• NXP Semiconductors signs agreement with Imagination for graphics technology (Tuesday Nov. 11, 2008)
  Imagination Technologies reports that NXP Semiconductors has signed a multi-use licence agreement for a member of Imagination's POWERVR SGX graphics IP family
  
  
• Micronas Licenses Range of MIPS Processor Cores for Consumer Electronics (Thursday Nov. 06, 2008)
  MIPS Technologies today announced that Micronas licensed its synthesizable processor cores for next-generation applications.
  
  
• PowerLayer Microsystems Licenses Tensilica's 388VDO Video Engine (Tuesday Nov. 04, 2008)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that PowerLayer Microsystems (PLM), a fabless IC design company headquartered in Beijing, China, licensed the 388VDO video engine, a complete video subsystem that will be designed into integrated circuits for HDTV sets. The 388VDO will be used to decode content from the Internet.
  
  
• CEVA SATA IP Deployed in Freescale's PowerQUICC II Pro Communications Product Line (Monday Nov. 03, 2008)
  CEVA today announced that Freescale Semiconductor has licensed and deployed CEVA's latest generation Enterprise SATA Intellectual Property (IP) within its product line, including their MPC8315E PowerQUICC II Pro Communications Processor family.
  
  
• TranSwitch Corporation Announces the First Licensing of its DisplayPort Transceiver IP by One of the World's Leading Semiconductor Companies (Wednesday Oct. 29, 2008)
  TranSwitch today announced it has signed a new multi-year, royalty bearing licensing agreement with one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies that is planning to incorporate TranSwitch’s DisplayPort technology inside multiple proprietary products over many years.
  
  
• Top 10 Taiwan SoC Design Company Takes ARC License to Produce Cellular Baseband Designs (Wednesday Oct. 29, 2008)
  ARC International announced today that one of the top 10 system-on-chip (SoC) design companies in Taiwan has taken an ARC® license.
  
  
• Movidia Selects Virage Logic's Intelli(TM) LPDDR Interface IP Solution to Meet Stringent Mobile Video Application Requirements (Tuesday Oct. 28, 2008)
  Virage Logic today announced that Movidia has selected Virage Logic's Intelli(TM) low-power double data rate (LPDDR) memory interface IP for its low-power designs
  
  
• Hifn Has Taken an ARC License for Its 4th Generation Applied Services Processors Targeting the Security Market (Thursday Oct. 23, 2008)
  ARC has announced that Hifn has signed a new license for ARC technology. An existing licensee since 2002, the company has successfully produced three generations of ARC-Based™ Applied Services Processors (ASPs) and will be using the new license for its next generation of devices.
  
  
• SMSC's MediaLB Interface Implemented in Freescale's i.MX35 Applications Processors (Wednesday Oct. 22, 2008)
  SMSC today announced the implementation of SMSC's Media Local Bus® (MediaLB) technology in Freescale Semiconductor's newly launched i.MX35 family of AEC-Q100 qualified multimedia applications processors.
  
  
• MOSAID Grants First Microcomponent Patent Portfolio Sub-license to Panasonic Corporation (Wednesday Oct. 22, 2008)
  Panasonic has been granted a 10-year term license under the exclusively licensed patents, as well as MOSAID's own patents, for all application specific and microcomponent semiconductor products sold globally under Panasonic's brand name.
  
  
• e2v selects new Cortus APS3 32-bit CPU core for sensor interface mixed signal ASICs (Wednesday Oct. 22, 2008)
  e2v has announced the selection of the CORTUS APS3 CPU core for sensor interface mixed signal ASICs, fulfilling e2v’s exacting system-on-a-chip requirements in terms of high performance, size, and power processing.
  
  
• Sigma Designs Leverages MIPS Technologies' IP Cores in New High-performance Media Processor (Tuesday Oct. 21, 2008)
  MIPS Technologies today announced that its synthesizable MIPS32® cores are powering the new SMP8644 secure media processor from Sigma Designs.
  
  
• Patriot Scientific Corporation Announces Respironics, Leader in Respiratory Market, to Be Licensed by MMP(TM) Portfolio (Tuesday Oct. 21, 2008)
  Patriot Scientific today announced that Royal Philips Electronics has purchased a Moore Microprocessor Patent™ (MMP) Portfolio license from the TPL Group to cover its recently acquired business unit, Respironics, which is a leader in the respiratory supplier market.
  
  
• Cswitch Corporation Selects Rockfish Technology for Interlaken Verification IP (Thursday Oct. 16, 2008)
  Cswitch announced the selection of Interlaken Verification IP from Rockfish Technology for the CS90 Family of Configurable Switch Array Devices
  
  
• Tensilica's Xtensa Customizable Processor Used in Panasonic Mobile’s Wireless Baseband Processor (Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008)
  Tensilica today announced that Panasonic Mobile Communications has licensed the Xtensa LX2 customizable processor core for a baseband processor integrated circuit for mobile phones.
  
  
• Toshiba licenses IMEC’s power-efficient, flexible processor technology (Monday Oct. 13, 2008)
  IMEC today announced that Toshiba has licensed IMEC technology for designing power-efficient, flexible processors in a single- and multiprocessor architecture. The agreement concerns IMEC’s ADRES reconfigurable processor template, the DRESC compiler, and the MPSoC (multi-processor system-on-chip) suite of design tools. Toshiba will also cooperate with IMEC to develop processors and tools that enable gigabit/s demodulation.
  
  
• INSIDE Contactless and TIEMPO Announce Partnership on Next Generation Chip Product (Monday Oct. 13, 2008)
  INSIDE Contactless, the world leader in advanced contactless microprocessor platforms, and TIEMPO, an innovative IP company specialized in the design of asynchronous ICs, have announced a partnership for the design of a next generation chip product that incorporates asynchronous design technology.
  
  
• The Lenovo ThinkPad X300 Ultraportable Notebook Incorporates ARC Sonic Focus Technology (Monday Oct. 13, 2008)
  ARC International today announced that the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 Ultraportable Notebook PC running the Microsoft Vista operating system uses ARC® Sonic Focus™ software to provide consumers with an extraordinary listening experience.
  
  
• Abilis Systems Standardizes On ARC For Mobile DTV Applications (Thursday Oct. 09, 2008)
  ARC International today announced that Abilis Systems has standardized its mobile DTV product development on ARC® technology. Accordingly, Abilis has taken a new license for ARC solutions that will help extend its range of mobile digital TV chips.
  
  
• Dongbu HiTek and Kilopass Announce Availability of XPM Embedded NVM for Dongbu's 0.18um Process Node (Wednesday Oct. 08, 2008)
  Kilopass Technology and Dongbu HiTek today announced that silicon verification and early life testing for Kilopass’ extra-permanent memory or XPM technology for the Dongbu HiTek 0.18um process technology Generic process node has been completed and that XPM is now available for customers’ use.
  
  
• Imagination Technologies -- Further Licence Agreement Signed with Samsung Electronics (Wednesday Oct. 08, 2008)
  Imagination Technologies reports that further to the license agreement announced in April 2008, Samsung has signed a multi-use licence agreement for a second core from Imagination's POWERVR SGX graphics acceleration core family.
  
  
• VIASIC's Place and Route technology Chosen by Achronix semiconductor (Tuesday Oct. 07, 2008)
  ViASIC today announced that Achronix Semiconductor Corp. selected ViASIC’s ViaPath™ place and route software for use in its Achronix CAD environment (ACE).
  
  
• K-Will Corporation Licenses HiveFlex VSP 2200 Processor From Silicon Hive (Tuesday Oct. 07, 2008)
  Programmable video signal processor adds unprecedented flexibility and processing power to industry leading real-time video quality monitoring and video quality evaluation systems targeting Full 1080p HD broadcast streams
  
  
• BroadLight Selects CEVA VoIP Platform for GPON Residential Gateway SoC (Monday Oct. 06, 2008)
  CEVA and BroadLight today announced that BroadLight has licensed and deployed the CEVA-VoP™ Voice-Over-Packet platform in their newest BL2348 GPON Residential Gateway (RG) System-on-Chip (SoC) solution.
  
  
• Patriot Scientific Announces Portfolio License Agreement with Rockwell Automation (Friday Oct. 03, 2008)
  Patriot Scientific Corp. today announced that Rockwell Automation has purchased a Moore Microprocessor Patent™ (MMP) Portfolio license from The TPL group, Patriot Scientific’s exclusive licensing agent.
  
  
• Vivante Extends Business Agreement with Top Ten Fabless Semiconductor Company (Thursday Oct. 02, 2008)
  Vivante Corporation today announced a multi-million dollar, multi-year, multi-use extension to an existing 2007 license agreement covering Vivante GPU IP cores.
  
  
• XStreamHD Purchases License for Audio Processing Technology from ARC International (Wednesday Oct. 01, 2008)
  XStreamHD has selected ARC audio processing technology for decoding of Dolby® Digital Plus for XStreamHD’s ultimate home entertainment system which delivers Full HD (1080p) video and studio quality audio directly to the home via satellite.
  
  
• Shenzhen Integrated Circuit Design Industrial Center Licenses Low-Power Cores from MIPS Technologies (Tuesday Sep. 30, 2008)
  MIPS today announced that Shenzhen Integrated Circuit Design Industrial Center has licensed its low-power MIPS32® M4K® and MIPS32® 4Kc(TM) processor cores for next generation IC designs.