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SiFive Secures $61 Million in Series E Funding (Tuesday Aug. 11, 2020)
SiFive today announced it raised $61 million in a Series E round led by SK hynix, joined by new investor Prosperity7 Ventures, with additional funding from existing investors, Sutter Hill Ventures, Western Digital Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Intel Capital, Osage University Partners, and Spark Capital.
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Syntiant Surpasses 1 Million Units Shipped; Raises $35M in Series C Led by M12 and Applied Ventures (Wednesday Aug. 05, 2020)
Syntiant, a deep learning tech company providing AI voice and sensor solutions at the edge, today announced that the company has shipped more than 1 million units of its Syntiant® NDP100™ and Syntiant® NDP101™ microwatt-power Neural Decision Processors™ (NDPs) to customers worldwide.
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Goodix Closes Acquisition of Dream Chip Technologies (Monday Aug. 03, 2020)
Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co. Ltd., an integrated solution provider offering industry-leading software and hardware semiconductor solutions, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Dream Chip Technologies GmbH (DCT).
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Analog Devices Acquires HDMI Business From INVECAS, Expanding High Performance Audiovisual Capabilities (Thursday Jul. 30, 2020)
Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) today announced that it has acquired the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) business of INVECAS, a Santa Clara based company specializing in embedded software and system level solutions.
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Peninsular Capital Acquires NovaSparks (Tuesday Jul. 28, 2020)
Peninsular Capital, an independent investment firm, is pleased to announce the acquisition of NovaSparks™, the leading field programmable gate array (FPGA) market data company, in a Management Buy-Out (MBO) transaction.
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Innovium Secures $170M in New Funding to Accelerate Product and Customer Momentum Worldwide (Monday Jul. 27, 2020)
Innovium, Inc. a leading provider of high performance, innovative switching silicon solutions for Cloud and Edge data centers, announced $170 Million in additional equity funding today.
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Synaptics to Acquire DisplayLink, Extending Video Interface Market Leadership (Tuesday Jul. 21, 2020)
Synaptics today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire DisplayLink Corp., a leader in high-performance video compression technology, for $305 million in an all-cash transaction.
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Perforce Software Acquires Methodics, Expanding DevOps Portfolio (Monday Jul. 20, 2020)
Perforce Software today announced it has acquired Methodics, a leading provider of intellectual property lifecycle management and traceability solutions for the enterprise.
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STMicroelectronics makes acquisitions to further strengthen the wireless connectivity capabilities of STM32 microcontrollers (Monday Jul. 20, 2020)
STMicroelectronics today announced the signing of two M&A agreements related to the acquisitions of the entire share capital of Ultra Wide Band specialist BeSpoon and of the cellular IoT connectivity assets of Riot Micro.
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Spin Memory Announces Extension of Series B Funding (Friday Jul. 17, 2020)
Spin Memory today announced an extension of its Series B funding round, having received additional investment from all major investors. The funding includes recent investors, Arm, Applied Ventures, LLC (the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc.) and Abies Ventures (Abies), as well as the company’s founding investor, Allied Minds.
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Siemens acquires Avatar, expands EDA footprint with innovative Place and Route technology (Thursday Jul. 16, 2020)
Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Santa Clara, CA-based Avatar Integrated Systems Inc., a leading developer of place and route software for integrated circuit (IC) design. Avatar helps engineers optimize power, performance, and area (PPA) for complex chips with fewer resources.
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Arm Research Selected for DARPA Secure Silicon Program (Thursday Jul. 16, 2020)
Arm Research is working with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on the Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon (AISS) program.
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Analog Devices Announces Combination with Maxim Integrated, Strengthening Analog Semiconductor Leadership (Monday Jul. 13, 2020)
Analog Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADI) and Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXIM) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which ADI will acquire Maxim in an all stock transaction that values the combined enterprise at over $68 billion.
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Synaptics to Acquire Rights to Broadcom's Wireless IoT Connectivity Business (Wednesday Jul. 08, 2020)
Synaptics® Incorporated today announced the signing of definitive agreements under which Synaptics will acquire certain assets and manufacturing rights associated with the wireless IoT business of Broadcom (Nasdaq: AVGO) for approximately $250 million in an all-cash transaction.
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Arm intends to strengthen focus on core semiconductor IP business growth (Tuesday Jul. 07, 2020)
Today, Arm announced proposed strategic organizational changes to strengthen its focus on growth and profitability. The company is proposing to transfer its two IoT Services Group (ISG) businesses, IoT Platform and Treasure Data, to new entities that would be owned and operated by SoftBank Group Corp. and its affiliates.
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Phison appoints T2M-IP for global marketing, representation, and business development (Monday Jul. 06, 2020)
Phison, the market leader in NAND Flash controllers chips and IPs for SSD, PCIe, SD, eMMC, ONFi, UFS & USB Consumer, Embedded & Enterprise applications has signed an agreement with T2M-IP, the world’s largest independent global semiconductor IP provider, to act as a global representative and business development partner of Phison Semiconductor IP, ASIC and IC solutions.
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Hardent and PLC2 Announce New IP Partnership to Support German Semiconductor Companies (Wednesday Jul. 01, 2020)
Hardent and PLC2 have today announced a new partnership. PLC2 is now Hardent’s official IP representative for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and the two companies will collaborate to deliver cutting-edge video compression IP cores to semiconductor customers in these countries.
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Basemark and DMP Partner to Develop Smart Mirrors for commercial vehicles (Wednesday Jul. 01, 2020)
Basemark Oy ("Basemark") of Finland and Digital Media Professionals Inc. ("DMP") of Japan, announced today a partnership to develop a smart mirror system for the global commercial vehicle industry.
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Dialog Semiconductor Announces Completion of its Acquisition of Adesto Technologies (Monday Jun. 29, 2020)
Dialog Semiconductor today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Adesto Technologies Corporation (Adesto).
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Synopsys Awarded DARPA Contract for Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon Program (Thursday Jun. 25, 2020)
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Synopsys as a prime contractor for the Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon (AISS) program.
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Percepio Closes Series A Funding Round with Fairpoint Capital (Thursday Jun. 25, 2020)
Percepio announces the successful closing of a 22 MSEK (2.3 MUSD) Series A funding round led by Fairpoint Capital AB. The investment is intended to scale up operations and accelerate the product development roadmap, with a focus on embedded software and Internet of Things (IoT).
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Siemens acquires UltraSoC to drive design for silicon lifecycle management (Tuesday Jun. 23, 2020)
Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Cambridge, UK-based UltraSoC Technologies Ltd., a provider of instrumentation and analytics solutions that put intelligent monitoring, cybersecurity and functional safety capabilities into the core hardware of system-on-chip (SoC).
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Adesto Announces Completion of CFIUS Review for Proposed Acquisition of Adesto by Dialog Semiconductor (Tuesday Jun. 23, 2020)
Adesto Technologies announces that in connection with the pending acquisition of Adesto by Dialog Semiconductor plc (XETRA:DLG), the parties have been informed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) that CFIUS has completed its review of the pending acquisition and determined that there are no unresolved national security concerns with respect to the proposed transaction.
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CREDO Announces Close of $100 Million Series D Preferred Financing as it Continues to Lead in High Performance Networking Connectivity Solutions (Wednesday Jun. 17, 2020)
Credo, a global innovation leader in high performance, low power serial connectivity solutions, today announced the Company has closed a Series D Preferred financing round of $100M.
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DSP Group Strengthens its Position in Rapidly Growing Headset Market with Acquisition of SoundChip SA (Thursday Jun. 11, 2020)
DSP Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSPG), a leading global provider of wireless chipset solutions for converged communications, today announced the acquisition of privately owned SoundChip SA, a leading supplier of active noise cancellation (ANC) technology, engineering services, design tools, and production-line test systems for headsets. T
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Synopsys Acquires Semiconductor Analytics Innovator Qualtera (Wednesday Jun. 10, 2020)
Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) today announced it has acquired Qualtera, a fast-growing provider of collaborative high-performance, big data analytics for semiconductor test and manufacturing.
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Arteris IP Advances onto List of Top 15 Semiconductor IP Vendors (Tuesday Jun. 09, 2020)
Network-on-Chip (NoC) interconnect leader is 12th largest Semiconductor Design Intellectual Property company by revenue according to IPnest
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Andes Technology Steps Up to Premier Membership in RISC-V International; Greatly Expanding its U.S. R&D and Field Application Engineering Staffing (Monday Jun. 08, 2020)
Andes Technology Corporation announces its Premier membership in the organization. Andes President Frankwell Lin takes his seat on the RISC-V International Board.
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PUFsecurity IP Open Source Program: Bridging the Gap in Chip Security (Tuesday Jun. 02, 2020)
By recognizing the difficulties chip manufacturers face while trying to secure chips, and the expectations of efficient integration, PUFsecurity takes the lead in launching the “IP GO” security opensource program. Researchers and chip designers who have security needs are welcome to download our “evaluation pack” for simulation and verification.
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Menta joins PROMISE Consortium under the Horizon 2020 Initiative of the European Commission (Wednesday May. 27, 2020)
Menta today announced participation in the PROMISE Consortium, which is a group of industry leaders collaborating under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program to provide a flexible mixed-signal ASIC architecture and design ecosystem for use in space applications.