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• Kilopass Non-Volatile Memory Technology Embedded in 15 Million Units (Tuesday Apr. 22, 2008)
  XPM technology’s most popular use is for security. This includes ID and encryption key storage for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), Digital Rights Management (DRM) and WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) applications.
  
  
• Actel Corporation Licenses Sarnoff's TakeCharge Solution (Monday Apr. 21, 2008)
  By licensing Sarnoff’s TakeCharge ESD solution, Actel FPGAs and PSCs will have added protection from ESD, which is a threat to all types of semiconductor devices during testing, packaging, assembly and handling.
  
  
• On2 Licenses Mobile Optimized Decoders to Monsoon Multimedia (Tuesday Apr. 15, 2008)
  On2 Technologies announced today that it has licensed its Hantro™ 4100 video decoder and 2600 Enhanced aacPlus™ audio decoder to Monsoon Multimedia.
  
  
• MediaTek Licenses CEVA-X DSP Core and Subsystem from CEVA (Tuesday Apr. 15, 2008)
  CEVA today announced that MediaTek has licensed the CEVA-X DSP core and associated subsystem technology for the development of future product lines.
  
  
• Zensys Picks Kilopass XPM Memory for Wireless Remote Control Applications, The Next Generation of Home Control and Automation (Tuesday Apr. 15, 2008)
  Kilopass Technology today announced that Zensys has selected the Kilopass XPM one-time programmable embedded memory technology for its broadband wireless remote home control applications.
  
  
• Energy Micro Licenses Cortex-M3 Processor (Monday Apr. 14, 2008)
  Oslo-based start-up will develop very low energy consumption solution using industry-leading ARM technology
  
  
• Kodak Selects intoPIX Technology for Digital Cinema (Friday Apr. 11, 2008)
  intoPIX announces today that Kodak Digital Cinema will use the intoPIX decoder in next generations of the Kodak Content Player JMN3000.
  
  
• Motion Computing Licenses Wi-LAN Wireless Technologies (Thursday Apr. 10, 2008)
  Wi-LAN today announced that it has signed a six year licensing agreement with Motion Computing relating to Wi-LAN patents covering CDMA, Wi-Fi, WiMAX and HSPA technologies. The license provides for the payment of a running royalty and includes a payment in respect of past sales.
  
  
• Imagination Technologies Licenses Third POWERVR SGX Graphics Core to Renesas (Tuesday Apr. 08, 2008)
  Imagination Technologies Group plc a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property reports that Renesas Technology Corp., one of the world's leading semiconductor system solutions providers, has licensed a third member of Imagination’s POWERVR® SGX graphics core family under a multiple-use license arrangement. The core will be integrated into future Renesas SoCs for mobile applications.
  
  
• Alchip Licenses ARM CPU, Fabric IP and Physical IP to Provide SoC Solutions (Tuesday Apr. 08, 2008)
  Alchip Technologies, Inc. and ARM today announced that Alchip has licensed the ARM926EJ-S(TM) processor, Fabric IP and ARM® Physical IP to advance system-on-chip (SoC) design solutions to its customers worldwide
  
  
• Impinj's AEON/MTP Multiple-time Programmable Nonvolatile Memory Licensed by Avago Technologies (Thursday Apr. 03, 2008)
  Multi-time Programmable NVM in TSMC’s 0.25 Micron/5V CMOS Process Gives Leading Analog Chip Provider Low Power, High Performance Embedded Memory Option
  
  
• Hynix and Grandis Sign License and Joint Development Agreement on Spin-Transfer Torque MRAM (Wednesday Apr. 02, 2008)
  Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and Grandis Inc. today announced that they have signed a long-term license agreement for memory products incorporating Grandis’ patents and intellectual property in spin-transfer torque random access memory (STT-RAM).
  
  
• Imagination Technologies confirms new Intel Centrino Atom processor technology utilises POWERVR graphics and video technologies (Wednesday Apr. 02, 2008)
  Imagination Technologies announces that Intel® Centrino® Atom processor technology includes Imagination’s POWERVR® SGX graphics and POWERVR VXD multi-standard HD video technologies.
  
  
• Magnum Semiconductor Licenses Sidense's Logic Non-Volatile Memory for Consumer Entertainment Products (Tuesday Apr. 01, 2008)
  Sidense, a leading developer of Logic Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) IP cores, today announced that Magnum Semiconductor has licensed Sidense’s 1T-Fuse™ NVM IP for two of its consumer entertainment products.
  
  
• Fujitsu Introduces 65-Nanometer 10G SerDes from Prism Circuits (Tuesday Apr. 01, 2008)
  Fujitsu Microelectronics America today announced a new collaboration with Prism Circuits to develop a single-lane, variable-data-rate SerDes macro. Built using Fujitsu’s 65-nanometer CS200HP process technology, the macro will be available in the third calendar quarter of 2008.
  
  
• Garmin licenses S3's onHandTV Mobile TV Software (Monday Mar. 31, 2008)
  The software provides Garmin's nüvi 900T navigator with digital television functionality. The navigator is co-branded with wireless carrier 3 Italia for deployment in their DVB-H network and will be available in July 2008 in Italy.
  
  
• XDR(TM) DRAM Passes 50 Million Units Shipped Milestone (Monday Mar. 31, 2008)
  Rambus today announced that its customers have shipped over 50 million XDR DRAM devices worldwide.
  
  
• ARC and Toshiba Extend Collaboration to Develop Next Generation Multicore Configurable Processor Technology (Monday Mar. 31, 2008)
  ARC International today announced that it has extended the collaboration with Toshiba that begun in 2006. As part of the agreement, Toshiba has extended their license for the ARChitect™ Processor Configurator.
  
  
• Wi-LAN and Zonet Sign Wi-Fi License Agreement (Friday Mar. 28, 2008)
  Wi-LAN today announced that it has signed a six year licensing agreement with Zonet relating to Wi-LAN’s Wi-Fi patents.
  
  
• Denali's Blueprint Employed by Atheros to Enhance SoC Design Productivity and Enable Rapid IP Reusability (Thursday Mar. 27, 2008)
  New ESL Methodology Incorporates CSR Automation Management for Hardware and Software Design Accelerating Development Process
  
  
• Hua Hong NEC Completes 0.13-Micron NVM Technology License From Cypress (Tuesday Mar. 25, 2008)
  Cypress and Hua Hong NEC today announced the successful qualification of Cypress's 0.13-micron SONOS (Silicon Oxide Nitride Oxide Silicon) embedded nonvolatile memory (NVM) technology at Hua Hong NEC.
  
  
• NSCore Contracts with K-micro to License Logic-Nonvolatile-Memory IP (Monday Mar. 24, 2008)
  NSCore and Kawasaki Microelectronics today announced a licensing agreement that will add NSCore’s PermSRAM ® embedded logic nonvolatile memory technology to K-micro's ASIC intellectual property (IP) portfolio.
  
  
• NXP Signs Corporate-wide Agreement to Embed Numetrics Tools in Product Planning Processes (Monday Mar. 24, 2008)
  Numetrics today announced a 3-year, multi-million Euro agreement with NXP Semiconductors to license Numetrics’ NMX-ERP™ software suite and professional services.
  
  
• K-micro SAS IP core powers new generation of Tandberg Data tape drives (Wednesday Mar. 19, 2008)
  K-micro and Tandberg Data today announced that Tandberg Data’s new generation of tape drives use K-micro's SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) IP core, which enabled the new drives to migrate to SAS from SCSI
  
  
• Altair Semiconductor Integrates MIPS Technologies' Analog and Processor IP in Ultra Low-power Mobile WiMAX Processor (Monday Mar. 17, 2008)
  MIPS Technologies today announced that Altair Semiconductor has integrated MIPS processor and analog IP in its new ALT2150 mobile WiMAX baseband processor.
  
  
• Dialog Semiconductor Licenses ARM Processor for Next-Generation 42V Automotive Battery Sensing Products (Wednesday Mar. 12, 2008)
  ARM today announced that Dialog Semiconductor, a leading automotive and wireless semiconductor company based in Stuttgart, Germany, has licensed the ARM7TDMI-S™ processor.
  
  
• Tensilica's Xtensa Processors Enable Next-Generation Mobile HD Radio Technology (Tuesday Mar. 11, 2008)
  Tensilica,(R) Inc. today announced that its Xtensa(R) configurable processor has been designed into the baseband processor in Samsung EM's HD Radio(TM) chipset.
  
  
• Gaisler Research has increased its number of scientific FPGA designs in Earth orbit (Friday Mar. 07, 2008)
  Gaisler Research AB announced that it has designed several FPGAs for scientific experiments and instrument, all based on Actel RT54SX32 and RT54SX72S devices. The latest designs were launch on-board the Atlantis STS-122 shuttle mission and installed on the European Columbus laboratory that is part of the International Space Station (ISS).
  
  
• Netronome Systems Standardizes on Denali Software Design IP to Accelerate Design Cycles and Reduce Risks (Thursday Mar. 06, 2008)
  Denali today announced that Netronome Systems has selected Denali's Databahn™ DDR memory controller IP, integrated DDR hard PHY, and PCI Express (PCIe) controller IP for their high-performance network processors
  
  
• Certess Announces Broad Adoption of its Functional Qualification Solution by STMicroelectronics (Wednesday Mar. 05, 2008)
  Certess, Inc. the provider of functional qualification tools for systems on a chip (SoCs) and intellectual property (IP) blocks, today announced that STMicroelectronics has expanded, through a two-year commitment, its corporate wide adoption of Certitude.