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• Sunplus named as the first TTPCom 3G Baseband Chipset Design Customer (Thursday Jun. 22, 2006)
  TTPCom and Sunplus Technology today reveal that Sunplus is the first licensee of CBEmacro 3G, the latest member of TTPCom’s proven and warranted Cellular Baseband Engine family
  
  
• Samsung To Benefit From ARM And National Semiconductor Power Management Collaboration (Wednesday Jun. 21, 2006)
  National Semiconductor and ARM today announced that Samsung has become the first ARM® Partner to publicly announce its license of the National Semiconductor PowerWise® technology, specifically the Advanced Power Controller (APC™)
  
  
• Impinj's AEON Nonvolatile Memory Licensed to SanDisk (Monday Jun. 19, 2006)
  Impinj, Inc., a leading supplier of nonvolatile memory (NVM) semiconductor intellectual property (IP), today announced a licensing agreement with SanDisk® Corporation, (NASDAQ: SNDK), the world’s largest supplier of flash data storage cards
  
  
• MoSys' 1T-SRAM(R) Embedded Memory Technology Enables Nintendo's Next Leap in Video Games (Monday Jun. 19, 2006)
  MoSys, Inc., the industry's leading provider of high-density system-on-chip (SoC) embedded memory solutions, today announced that Nintendo's upcoming Wii(TM) video game console uses MoSys' patented 1T-SRAM technology to implement the very high performance
  
  
• SigmaTel Selects SPIRIT's High-Performance Audio Software for Portable Media Player ARM Technology-Based SoCs (Thursday Jun. 15, 2006)
  SPIRIT DSP, the world's leading provider of embedded voice & communication software products, announced today that SigmaTel Inc. (NASDAQ:SGTL), (www.sigmatel.com), a leader in mixed-signal multimedia semiconductors, has benefited from SPIRIT's proprietary
  
  
• PMC-Sierra's New Multi-Service Residential Gateway Solution Powered by Multi-Threaded MIPS32 34K Core (Tuesday Jun. 13, 2006)
  MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores, announced that its new multi-threaded core, the MIPS32® 34Kc™ processor, is powering PMC-Sierra's (NASDAQ: PMCS) new MSP7100 carrier-class r
  
  
• Tri-Vision licenses U.S. V-chip to LG Electronics (Tuesday Jun. 13, 2006)
  Tri-Vision International Ltd./Ltee today announced that it has licensed its V-chip technology under United States Patent No. 5,828,402 (the '402 Patent) to the world's largest Plasma manufacturer, LG Electronics Inc. of Korea (LGE).
  
  
• Nikon Purchases MMP(TM) Portfolio License; Licensing Program for Fundamental Patents Continues to Attract Support of World's Top Intellectual Property Companies (Tuesday Jun. 13, 2006)
  Alliacense today announced that Nikon Corporation has become the latest manufacturer to purchase a license to the Moore Microprocessor Patent(TM) (MMP) Portfolio, a group of patents that enable higher performance and lower cost designs in today's digital
  
  
• G2 Microsystems Adopts LogicVision's ETCompression ATPG Product (Monday Jun. 12, 2006)
  LogicVision, Inc., a leading provider of yield learning capabilities that enable its customers to quickly and efficiently improve product yields, today announced that G2 Microsystems, Inc. has adopted LogicVision's ETCompresssion product to address cost
  
  
• Gaisler Research receives order for the Fault Tolerant LEON3 processor implemented in an Actel RTAX2000 FPGA from ACER in Taiwan (Monday Jun. 12, 2006)
  The Taiwanese National Space Organization (NSPO) announced earlier this year that the on-board computer for the ARGO satellite will be based on the LEON3-FT fault tolerant processor implemented in a radiation tolerant Actel RTAX2000S FPGA
  
  
• Acacia Technologies Enters into License Agreement with Philips Electronics (Friday Jun. 09, 2006)
  Acacia Research has entered into a license and settlement agreement with Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V. covering patents that apply to Audio/Video Enhancement and Synchronization, and Image Resolution Enhancement technologies.
  
  
• Aplus Flash Technology Provides a Successful EEPROM IP solution to Datang Microelectronics (Thursday Jun. 08, 2006)
  Aplus Flash Technology today announced that Datang Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd has successfully field tested its IC telephone card, which uses Aplus' EEPROM IP as its memory core
  
  
• HiSilicon Technologies utilizes EEPROM IP from Aplus Flash Technology for its SIM cards (Thursday Jun. 08, 2006)
  Aplus Flash Technology, a privately-held, fabless provider of nonvolatile memory (NVM) products and customized NVM IP, today announced that its 0.35um EEPROM IP macro has been utilized in HiSilicon Technologies' 8-bit processor
  
  
• MOSAID Maestro Digital Frequency Synthesizer PLL Used in WiQuest Ultra-wideband IC (Wednesday Jun. 07, 2006)
  MOSAID Technologies (TSX: MSD), and WiQuest Communications Inc., today announced the successful deployment of an ultra-wideband (UWB) chip incorporating MOSAID Maestro™ fractional PLL technology
  
  
• VIA Extends Licensing Agreement With ARM (Wednesday Jun. 07, 2006)
  VIA licenses ARM9™ family processors aimed for integration into next-generation of communication and multimedia solutions
  
  
• SST and Grace Semiconductor Expand Availability of Embedded SuperFlash Technology With New Licensing Agreement (Tuesday Jun. 06, 2006)
  SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc., Nasdaq: SSTI), a leader in flash memory technology, and Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation announced today an extension of their technology licensing agreement.
  
  
• PLDA and ELTEC Elektronik Collaborate on 16-Channel PCI Express High-End Frame Grabber for Security Applications (Tuesday Jun. 06, 2006)
  PLDApplications (PLDA) today announced a licensing agreement with ELTEC Elektronik AG, who recently launched the PC_EYE/ASYNC 4-channel PCIe frame grabber and the PC_EYE/SEC 16-channel PCIe frame grabber. Both projects incorporate PLDA's PCIe XpressLite I
  
  
• STARC Selects Chipidea PLL for Advanced Semiconductor Design Effort (Tuesday Jun. 06, 2006)
  Chipidea, the world leader in analog/mixed-signal semiconductor intellectual property, announced today that the company’s 100Mhz to 1GHz programmable clock multiplier PLL IP core was implemented in the library of the Semiconductor Technology Academic Rese
  
  
• AMD To Provide Transmeta Efficeon Microprocessor Supporting Microsoft FlexGo Technology In Emerging Markets (Tuesday Jun. 06, 2006)
  AMD and Transmeta today announced that they have entered into an exclusive agreement under which AMD will market and provide the recently announced specialized version of the Efficeon® microprocessor in emerging markets.
  
  
• Patriot Scientific Corporation Announces Licensing Agreement With Sony Corporation (Monday Jun. 05, 2006)
  Sony Joins Fujitsu, HP and Casio to Secure Licensing Rights to Widely Used MMP Technologies
  
  
• Highland Communications Technologies licenses 2.5 Gbps GPON FEC core to Iamba Networks (Monday Jun. 05, 2006)
  Iamba Networks of Israel licensed a 2.5 Gbps GPON FEC core from Highland Communications Technologies. This is the world's first comercially deployed GPON FEC core.
  
  
• Neterion Renews Tensilica Xtensa LX Configurable Processor License (Wednesday May. 31, 2006)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that Neterion, Inc., of Cupertino, Calif., has renewed its license for Tensilica’s Xtensa LX configurable processor. Neterion is the market leader in the 10-gigabit Ethernet adapter market, and is using the Xtensa LX proces
  
  
• Renesas Technology Licenses Capacitor-less Twin-Transistor RAM to EMT (Wednesday May. 31, 2006)
  Renesas Technology Corp., the world's leading microcontroller company, and Emerging Memory Technologies Inc. (EMT), a worldwide leader in embedded memory intellectual property (IP), today announced that Renesas has licensed capacitor-less Twin Transistor
  
  
• Elliptic Semiconductor Licenses Crytographic Processor Engine to Wavesat (Tuesday May. 30, 2006)
  Elliptic Semiconductor today announced that Wavesat has selected Elliptic’s cryptographic processor engine for use in its Sharp chipset aiming at both, Portable and Fixed WiMAX applications.
  
  
• Aware, Inc. Announces PMC-Sierra as New Licensee (Tuesday May. 30, 2006)
  PMC-Sierra is licensing Aware’s StratiPHY2+™ technology for its newly announced ADSL2+ residential gateway solutions.
  
  
• SMIC Adopts ARM Physical IP for Both Low-Power and High- Performance Designs at 90 Nanometer Technology Node (Tuesday May. 30, 2006)
  SMIC and ARM today jointly announced that SMIC has adopted the ARM(R) Metro(tm) low-power/high density and Advantage(tm) high- performance products, part of its family of Artisan(R) physical IP, for SMIC's 90-nanometer(nm) LL (low leakage) and G (mainstre
  
  
• CSR to provide BlueCore Silicon for Motorola iRadio wireless audio car adapter (Tuesday May. 30, 2006)
  CSR plc (LSE: CSR.L) today announced that the company will provide BlueCore3-Multimedia (BlueCore3-MM) silicon to Motorola for use in the company's RCKT-100 wireless audio car adapter and handsfree unit.
  
  
• Tri-Vision awards V-chip license to Shinco (Tuesday May. 30, 2006)
  Tri-Vision International Ltd./Ltee today announced that it has licensed its United States Patent No. 5,828,402 and Canadian Patent No. 2,179,474 to Jiangsu Shinco Digital Technology Co., Ltd. of China. The V-chip licenses are valid through the expiration
  
  
• Arithmatica Announces Floating Point Library Customer in Advanced 3D Graphics Group (Wednesday May. 24, 2006)
  Arithmatica, the leading provider of focused datapath synthesis solutions for silicon math, demonstrates the power of its CellMath floating point library in an advanced FPGA-based graphics pipeline architecture.
  
  
• Tri-Vision awards V-chip license to second Chinese OEM/ODM manufacturer (Wednesday May. 24, 2006)
  Tri-Vision International Ltd./Ltee today announced that it has licensed its United States Patent No. 5,828,402 and Canadian Patent No. 2,179,474 to a second large original equipment manufacturer (OEM) in China, representing a financial change to the Compa