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Microchip Acquires High-Level Synthesis Tool Provider LegUp to Simplify Development of PolarFire FPGA-based Edge Compute Solutions (Wednesday Oct. 21, 2020)
Microchip Technology Inc. today announced it acquired Toronto-based LegUp Computing Inc., expanding its Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based edge compute solution stack with a high-level synthesis (HLS) tool.
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Codasip Announces a New Design Center in France (Tuesday Oct. 20, 2020)
Codasip, the leading supplier of customizable RISC-V embedded processor IP, announced its new strategic design center today. It is based in France and the local Codasip team is going to play an important role in the company’s innovation and development plans for the next-generation product IP.
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SK hynix to Acquire Intel NAND Memory Business (Tuesday Oct. 20, 2020)
SK hynix and Intel today announced that they have signed an agreement on Oct. 20, Korea Standard Time, under which SK hynix would acquire Intel’s NAND memory and storage business for US $9 billion.
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Wipro to acquire Eximius Design, strengthens leadership in VLSI and systems design services (Monday Oct. 19, 2020)
Wipro today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Eximius Design, a leading engineering services company with strong expertise in semiconductor, software and systems design.
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Menta Appoints ETSI as United States East Coast Representative (Monday Oct. 12, 2020)
Menta S.A.S. is pleased to announce that it has appointed ETSI, LLC as its representative in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
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proteanTecs Announces Market and Regional Expansions (Thursday Oct. 08, 2020)
proteanTecs, a leading developer of Deep Data solutions for electronics' health & performance monitoring, is expanding its market reach with new business segment and geographical presence.
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TurboConcepts successfully completes research project FlexDEC-5G for designing FEC decoders for 5G (Monday Oct. 05, 2020)
TurboConcept has completed a three years research project (2017-2019) in cooperation with eSoftThings and French universities University of South Britany (UBS) and IMT Atlantic (IMTA).
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Arm Spins-out Cerfe Labs to Advance Development of CeRAM Memory Technology (Monday Oct. 05, 2020)
Today Arm announced the spin-out of Cerfe Labs to develop and license new types of non-volatile memories based on correlated electron materials (CeRAM) and ferroelectric transistors (FeFETs).
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Arteris IP to Acquire Assets of Magillem Design Services, Creating World's Premier System-on-Chip Assembly Company (Thursday Oct. 01, 2020)
Arteris IP, the world’s leading supplier of innovative, silicon-proven network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect intellectual property, today announced a definitive agreement with Magillem Design Services (EPA: MLMGL) under which Arteris IP will acquire the assets of Magillem Design Services (“Magillem”). Substantially all Magillem team members will be joining Arteris IP.
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NUVIA Raises $240M Series B Funding as it Accelerates Plans to Deliver Industry Leading CPU Performance to the Data Center (Monday Sep. 28, 2020)
The closure of NUVIA’s Series B round builds on a $53M Series A round, raised in November 2019. NUVIA was founded in February 2019 by John Bruno, Manu Gulati and Gerard Williams, with the vision to create the world’s leading server processor.
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PUFsecurity Opens North American Office to Tap Chip Security Market (Tuesday Sep. 22, 2020)
PUFsecurity, a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) for PUF-based security solutions, is opening its first office in North America to meet growing demand from chip designers.
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AccelerComm secures $7.5m Series A funding from IQ Capital, Bloc Ventures and IP Group (Monday Sep. 21, 2020)
AccelerComm - The Southampton University spinout supercharging 5G, satellite and other wireless communications with IP which increases spectrum efficiency and reduces latency - has raised £5.8m in Series A funding in a round led by IQ Capital alongside existing investors Bloc Ventures and the IP Group.
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Xylon Announces Rebranding in Celebration of Its 25-Year Anniversary (Thursday Sep. 17, 2020)
In celebration of its 25-year anniversary, Xylon unveiled a rebranding campaign created to reflect the company’s evolution into a trusted and reliable technology partner capable of offering complete turn-key embedded electronics solutions to customers working on the most advanced video, computer vision and AI applications for automotive and other markets.
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SOT-MRAM Pioneer Antaios Secures 11 Million Dollars in Funding (Thursday Sep. 17, 2020)
Antaios, a pioneer in SOT-MRAM technology (Spin-Orbit Torque Magnetic Random-Access Memory), announced today that it has secured 11 million dollars in funding to accelerate innovation and develop new strategic partnerships.
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NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion, Creating World's Premier Computing Company for the Age of AI (Monday Sep. 14, 2020)
NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG) today announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank Vision Fund (together, “SoftBank”) in a transaction valued at $40 billion.
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Silex Insight and Faraday Extend Strategic Partnership to Deliver Secure IoT and AI Solutions (Thursday Sep. 10, 2020)
Silex Insight, a leading provider for flexible security IP cores, and Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, announce their collaboration for delivering secure IoT solutions for a wide range of ASIC applications.
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Silvaco Acquires the Assets of Coupling Wave Solutions S.A. (Wednesday Sep. 09, 2020)
Silvaco Inc., a leading supplier of EDA software and design IP, today announced that it has completed acquisition of the assets of Coupling Wave Solutions S.A. (CWS), including IP, patents, and analysis technologies.
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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Responses to Media on the U.S. Government's Consideration to Add the Company to a Trade Blacklist (Monday Sep. 07, 2020)
Reuters reported Friday, September 4 (EST), citing a Defense Department official that the Trump administration is considering whether to add China’s top chipmaker SMIC to a trade blacklist.
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BrainChip and VORAGO Technologies Agree to Collaborate through the Akida Early Access Program (Thursday Sep. 03, 2020)
BrainChip today announced that VORAGO Technologies has signed the Akida™ Early Access Program Agreement. The collaboration is intended to support a Phase I NASA program for a neuromorphic processor that meets spaceflight requirements.
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Aspinity Raises $5.3 Million Series A Funding to Stop Battery Drain in Always-on Smart Sensing Products (Wednesday Sep. 02, 2020)
Aspinity, a pioneer in ultra-low-power analog machine learning processors, today announced that it has raised $5.3 million in Series A funding led by Anzu Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm focused on breakthrough industrial technologies.
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Chips&Media Publicizes the Collaboration on SiFive's OpenFive, a Custom Silicon Business Unit (Thursday Aug. 27, 2020)
The leading semiconductor silicon HW IP provider, Chips&Media (C&M), today announced their collaboration with SiFive to expedite the speed of delivering silicon solutions by offering C&M's proprietary IP cores through OpenFive, a self-contained and autonomous business unit program by SiFive.
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proteanTecs Closes $45M Growth Equity Round Led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) (Thursday Aug. 27, 2020)
proteanTecs announced today the closing of its growth equity financing round of $45M. The round was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) and joined by Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management, as well as existing investors.
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Silicon Creations' Achieves ISO 9001 Certification for World-Class Silicon IP Development Process (Monday Aug. 24, 2020)
Silicon Creations announced today that the company has achieved ISO 9001 Quality Management System certification by the British Standards Institute (BSI), one of the world's largest certification bodies.
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Arm and DARPA Sign Partnership Agreement to Accelerate Technological Innovation (Thursday Aug. 20, 2020)
With DARPA’s Electronics Resurgence Initiative gaining momentum, the new agreement will enable the research community that supports DARPA’s programs to quickly and easily take advantage of Arm’s leading IP, tools and support, accelerating innovation in a variety of fields.
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RIOS Laboratory and Imagination announce partnership to grow the RISC-V ecosystem (Wednesday Aug. 19, 2020)
Imagination Technologies and RIOS Laboratory have established a partnership, with Imagination opening up select GPU IP to the RISC-V International Open Source Laboratory (RIOS Lab). The collaboration supports PicoRio™, the first RISC-V development platform released by the RIOS Lab.
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The Landmark IPO of VeriSilicon (688521.SH) on Shanghai STAR Market (Tuesday Aug. 18, 2020)
VeriSilicon priced its IPO at RMB38.53 per share, the offering raised approximately RMB1.86 billion, giving the company a total market value of RMB$18.6 billion. When the stock market opened, VeriSilicon’s stock price instantly soared to 150 RMB/share, an increase of 289.31%.
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SiFive Announces OpenFive, an Industry-Leading Custom Silicon Business Unit (Monday Aug. 17, 2020)
SiFive, Inc., the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, today announced OpenFive, a self-contained and autonomous business unit to capture the opportunity offered by enabling customizable, silicon-focused solutions with differentiated-IP.
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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).