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• Toshiba Signs Comprehensive Agreement To Use ARM PrimeCell IP In High Performance SoC Design (Tuesday Jan. 23, 2007)
  ARM PrimeCell peripheral IP products contribute to increased system performance and improved power savings in complex SoC designs. All PrimeCell products are subject to rigorous inspection and test procedures in order to realize sturdy designs that are ‘right first time.’
  
  
• Newport Media Purchases Arasan USB and SDIO IP (Wednesday Jan. 17, 2007)
  Arasan provides a Total Technology Solution to all its licensees including IP source code, a test environment, sample device drivers, synthesis scripts, and complete technical documentation. The Total Technology Solution also includes optional SDIO Development tools like the SD Host Validation Platform, SDIO Device Development Board, and SD/SDIO host Linux stack.
  
  
• LEON3 licensed for GPS receiver application (Tuesday Jan. 16, 2007)
  The LEON processor has previously been used for GPS receivers by companies such as Nemerix, Locsense, EADS Astrium and Semtech. The LEON processor is with the GRLIB IP-library is ideally suited for SoC designs and for low power handheld products.
  
  
• Ovonyx and Qimonda Sign Technology Licensing Agreement for Phase Change Memory (Tuesday Jan. 16, 2007)
  Ovonyx PCRAM technology uses a reversible phase-change memory process that provides for high performance, dense, array-addressed semiconductor memory technology that can be used as cost effective Flash and DRAM memory replacements, as well as in embedded applications such as microcontrollers and reconfigurable MOS logic.
  
  
• Rambus and Spansion Sign Patent License Agreement (Thursday Jan. 11, 2007)
  This five-year, royalty-based agreement grants Spansion a license to a broad range of Rambus patents. Rambus management does not expect revenue generated from this license agreement to be material. Specific terms of the agreement are confidential.
  
  
• CSR brings Bluetooth v2.0 with EDR to austriamicrosystems' Mobile Entertainment platform for MP3 Players (Friday Jan. 05, 2007)
  By adopting CSR's BlueCore4-ROM in the designs, austriamicrosystems will be able to offer its customers a development platform that takes advantage of CSR's market-leading expertise in wireless technologies as well as low-power and small form factor hardware.
  
  
• Qimonda and Rambus Sign Technology License for XDR DRAM (Wednesday Jan. 03, 2007)
  The Rambus XDR solution will be implemented in Qimond's 75nm process technology for integration into high-volume applications, including game consoles, digital televisions, set-top boxes and PC graphics
  
  
• Tri-Vision signs Sanyo to U.S. V-chip license (Wednesday Jan. 03, 2007)
  Tri-Vision International Ltd./Ltée (TSX: TVL) today announced that it has licensed United States Patent No. 5,828,402 (the '402 Patent) to SANYO TV International Corporation of the United States
  
  
• Leading U.S-Based Semiconductor Company Takes $11M Multiyear License for ARC International's Patented Configurable Solutions (Thursday Dec. 21, 2006)
  ARC Reaffirms Financial Year 2006 Outlook And Sets Date for Announcement of Preliminary Results
  
  
• ARM Cortex Processors Chosen by Texas Instruments For Use in Critical Automotive Applications (Tuesday Dec. 19, 2006)
  TI’s TMS470 MCU platform, currently based on the popular ARM7TDMI® processor, will add new pin-to-pin compatible devices based on the ARM Cortex-M3 processor.
  
  
• SiCortex Inc. Licenses MIPS64 Architecture for Low-power, High-performance Teraflop Computing (Tuesday Dec. 19, 2006)
  Thousands of MIPS-Based™ Cores Power Next-generation Linux Systems
  
  
• PLDA and AGFA Graphics Sign Silica-Brokered Deal (Tuesday Dec. 19, 2006)
  PLDA PCI Express IP and Prototyping Board Chosen by Agfa for next-generation :Dotrix Moduler Inkjet Press
  
  
• LogicVision Announces Tundra Semiconductor Successfully Delivers Silicon With LogicVision 1149.6 Boundary Scan (Tuesday Dec. 19, 2006)
  LogicVision's ETBoundary(TM) product provides a boundary scan solution for embedded test and diagnosis of integrated circuit pin functions and board- level interconnect
  
  
• Patriot Scientific Highlights Successful Calendar Year as Schneider Electric Joins Stellar Roster of Moore Microprocessor Patent Portfolio Licensees (Tuesday Dec. 19, 2006)
  With European business origins dating back to 1836, Schneider Electric joins the distinguished roster of global manufacturers that have this year purchased MMP Portfolio licenses, including HP, Casio, Fujitsu, Sony, Nikon, Seiko Epson, Pentax, Olympus, Kenwood, Agilent, and Lexmark. Intel and AMD are also licensees
  
  
• Austrian Research Centers GmbH and Gaisler Research AB signs license agreement for LEON3 and the GRLIB IP library (Thursday Dec. 14, 2006)
  The LEON3 and the GRLIB IP library will be used in a new vision sensor for surveillance and automation applications
  
  
• MoSys Enables Advanced Mobile Handhelds through License Agreement with NexusChips (Wednesday Dec. 13, 2006)
  NexusChips to Use MoSys 1T-SRAM in Its Leading Mobile 3D Graphics and Multimedia SoC Solutions
  
  
• Patriot Scientific's Planned Momentum Increases as Lexmark Purchases MMP(TM) Patent Portfolio License (Monday Dec. 11, 2006)
  Licensing team continues success in strategic plan to target major global manufacturers.
  
  
• TurboConcept's TC1000WiMAX turbo decoder Core incorporated in Sequans' WiMAX chips (Monday Dec. 11, 2006)
  TurboConcept announced that Sequans Communications is using TurboConcept’s Convolutional Turbo Decoder technology, TC1000WiMAX, in its fixed and mobile WiMAX semiconductor solutions based on the IEEE 802.16 standards
  
  
• ARM High-Speed PHY and High-Performance Standard Cells For 65-Nanometer Platform Adopted By Fujitsu (Monday Dec. 11, 2006)
  The ARM Velocity PHY family of products meets the stringent requirements for high-speed serial standards such as PCI Express, Serial ATA and XAUI. The PHY products offer exceptional jitter performance, low-power consumption and extensive testability within a small physical size, thereby enabling error-free data transfers over a wide range of operating conditions and environments.
  
  
• Gaisler Research AB is awarded a contract for developing the LEON4 processor (Thursday Dec. 07, 2006)
  The LEON4 processor will be provided in a fault tolerant version for space applications and in a standard version for consumer and industrial applications
  
  
• Nokia Licenses Wi-LAN's Patent Portfolio (Wednesday Dec. 06, 2006)
  Under the terms of the agreement, Nokia receives a fully paid-up license to Wi-LAN’s current patent portfolio
  
  
• Sunplus Ships A/V Products With Kilopass One-Time Programmable Non-Volatile Memory (Tuesday Dec. 05, 2006)
  XPM Picked for Secure Storage, First Products Are Now in Production
  
  
• Mercury Computer Systems Is Selected by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) to Provide Serial RapidIO Verification IP and IP Cores (Monday Dec. 04, 2006)
  Serial RapidIO Verification IP from Mercury is a complete, highly configurable, enhanced-function verification environment that allows developers to rapidly integrate RapidIO technology into their products for faster time to market.
  
  
• austriamicrosystems announces license agreement with Infineon for FlexRay transceiver IC (Monday Dec. 04, 2006)
  Technology transfer as a basis for high-speed bus systems and fault-tolerant data communications in the car of the future
  
  
• Rapport Adopts LogicVision Embedded Test Solutions for Next Generation Low-Power Device (Monday Dec. 04, 2006)
  LogicVision, Inc. today announced that Rapport, Inc. massively parallel chips for compute-intensive applications at low power, has adopted LogicVision’s leading edge memory BIST solutions for next-generation Kilocore™ Architecture-based products
  
  
• Rambus Technology is Adopted in PLAYSTATION3 Computer Entertainment System (Thursday Nov. 30, 2006)
  The Rambus XDR memory interface and FlexIO processor bus account for 90% of the Cell Broadband Engine™ signal pins, enabling an unprecedented aggregate bandwidth of over 65 gigabytes-per-second in PS3.
  
  
• DECOMSYS Licenses FlexRay IP Proven in Freescale MFR4300 Chip From IPextreme (Thursday Nov. 30, 2006)
  The FRCC2100 was designed by Freescale and is sold and supported by IPextreme. It is silicon proven in several other Freescale devices including the MC9S12XFR128 16-bit S12 controller and the MPC55xx Power Architecture controllers
  
  
• Patriot Scientific Confirms Addition of Agilent Technologies to Steadily Expanding Roster of MMP Patent Portfolio Licensees (Tuesday Nov. 28, 2006)
  Growth Strategy Continues As 10th Major Manufacturer Purchases Moore Microprocessor Patent™ Portfolio License During 2006
  
  
• Saifun And Smic To Collaborate On 8GB Data Flash Using Smic's Advanced Process Technology (Wednesday Nov. 22, 2006)
  The development of 8Gb Data flash on SMIC’s advanced process demonstrates the advantages of Quad NROM in enabling the most cost-effective Flash manufacturing processes on the market today.
  
  
• Imagination Technology Licenses Mobile TV IP Platform to Mavrix Technology, Inc (Wednesday Nov. 22, 2006)
  Imagination Technologies reports that Mavrix Technology, Inc. a fabless semiconductor company developing a complete system-on-chip (SOC) solution for the Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) market, has licensed Imagination’s mobile TV IP platform for use with certain mobile TV standards