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Sankalp Semiconductor to hire 300 engineers (Wednesday Jul. 26, 2017)
Sankalp Semiconductor a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC solutions, today announced its plan to hire 300 engineers in the next 12 months. Sankalp plans to hire engineers for its India design centers in Bangalore, Hubli and Kolkata.
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Founders of DeepMind, OpenAI and Chief Scientist at Uber back Graphcore in new $30m funding round led by Atomico (Friday Jul. 21, 2017)
Graphcore IPU products will lower the cost of accelerating AI applications, increase the performance of both training and inference by 10x to 100x compared to the fastest systems today and enable recent success in deep learning to evolve rapidly towards useful, general artificial intelligence.
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REFLEX CES Takes Its Autonomy with MBO Partenaires (Thursday Jul. 20, 2017)
The French specialist in complex electronic embedded systems associates with MBO Partenaires and takes its independence from the PLDA group. This spin-off, led by the manager Sylvain Neveu, allows the management team to hold the majority of the equity.
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HDL Design House and AFuzion Synergy to Enhance DO-254 Projects (Thursday Jul. 20, 2017)
HDL Design House and AFuzion have started a collaboration to simplify the complex DO-254 project requirements and reduce overall project time, by relying upon HDL DH’s verification expertize and AFuzion’s DO-254 training and avionics certification services.
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Uniquify Joins FDXcelerator Program to Deliver DDR Memory IP to GLOBALFOUNDRIES 22FDX Technology Platform (Tuesday Jul. 11, 2017)
Uniquify today announced that it has joined GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ FDXcelerator™ Partner Program. This partnership extends Uniquify’s existing co-operation with GF to include FD-SOI technology to enable faster, broader deployment of the foundry’s 22FDX® and 12 FDX™ FD-SOI processes that support IoT, mobile and wireless applications.
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GUC Opens New Korea Office (Tuesday Jul. 11, 2017)
Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), the custom ASIC LeaderTM, has greatly expanded its facilities in Seoul, Korea. The company's new offices are located in AnnJay Tower at 3F, 208 Teheran-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
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Foresight announces sale of IoT technology business Simulity Labs Limited to ARM (Thursday Jul. 06, 2017)
Foresight Group ("Foresight") announces, on behalf of the Board of Foresight VCT plc ("F1"), that it has completed the successful sale of Simulity Labs Limited ("Simulity" or "the Company") to ARM, the world's leading semiconductor IP company.
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Spectra7 Microsystems Inc. Announces Closing of $4.6 Million Bought Deal Financing and First Tranche of Private Placement of $1.3 Million (Thursday Jul. 06, 2017)
Spectra7 Microsystems Inc. is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced bought deal offering of 11,500,000 units (“Units”) at a price of $0.40 per Unit, including the full exercise of the over-allotment option, for aggregate gross proceeds of $4,600,000 (the “Public Offering”).
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Perceptia Devices Appoints Vector and SMC as its Korean Representatives (Monday Jul. 03, 2017)
Perceptia Devices, Inc., a Silicon Valley provider of PLL and RFID IP cores, announced today that it has appointed Vector Co., of Dae-Jeon, and SMC Co., of Seoul, as its representatives for Korea. Both Vector and SMC will promote the full lines of IP and Perceptia’s IC design services to the Korean market.
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eASIC Recognizes Growth in Demand From China and Establishes eASIC Shenzhen WFOE (Wednesday Jun. 28, 2017)
eASIC, a fabless semiconductor company that delivers a custom integrated circuit (IC) platform (eASIC Platform), today announced the establishment of eASIC (Shenzhen) Technology Services Co. Ltd., a wholly foreign owned enterprise (WFOE) in Shenzen, China.
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Calculus joins tech giant ARM Holdings with investment in Bristol's Blu Wireless (Monday Jun. 26, 2017)
Calculus Capital, a leading EIS and VCT investor, will invest £2.4 million as a cornerstone investor in a £6.6 million institutional and private investment round into Blu Wireless Technology (“BWT”), a firm leading the way in bringing ultra-fast millimetre Wave (mmWave) wireless technology into homes and businesses through the roll-out of Wi-Gig® and 5G networks.
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Imagination: Commencement of formal sale process for whole Group (Thursday Jun. 22, 2017)
Imagination Technologies announces that over the last few weeks it has received interest from a number of parties for a potential acquisition of the whole Group. The Board of Imagination has therefore decided to initiate a formal sale process for the Group and is engaged in preliminary discussions with potential bidders.
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Kalray raises $26 million, anticipating the launch of its third generation of microprocessor that will target two rapidly growing markets: autonomous vehicles and data centers (Thursday Jun. 22, 2017)
Kalray has announced the completion of a new round of funding that will total $26 million . For this round, the company has welcomed Safran and the Asian investor, Pengpai, to its list of investors, which historically included ACE Management, CEA Investissement, EUREKAP! Héléa Financière and INOCAP Gestion.
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Faraday Strives for MFP ASIC Development, Shipment Grew at a CAGR of 38% (Thursday Jun. 22, 2017)
Faraday Technology today announced that its MFP (Multi-Function Printer) ASIC solutions have surpassed 50 design wins since its introduction 10 years ago, and the MFP ASIC shipment grew at a CAGR of 38%.
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ArterisIP and ResilTech Announce Strategic Partnership to Facilitate ISO 26262 Compliance for Complex Autonomous Automotive Systems (Tuesday Jun. 20, 2017)
ArterisIP and ResilTech S.R.L. today announced a strategic partnership to help semiconductor design teams efficiently validate ISO26262 functional safety levels for automotive systems-on-chip.
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Truechip Collaborates with OmniPhy for Verification of PCIe Gen4 IP solution (Monday Jun. 19, 2017)
Truechip Solutions, the Verification IP specialist and OmniPhy, a leading mixed-signal semiconductor IP company, today announced association for collaborative verification of PCIe Gen 4. The two companies enter into a partnership to provide the customers a solution that is comprehensively tested and bug free.
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Silvaco to Acquire SoC Solutions (Monday Jun. 19, 2017)
Silvaco, Inc. today announced it has entered into a letter of intent to acquire SoC Solutions. Founded in 2000, SoC Solutions is a privately held company providing semiconductor IP and services located in the greater Atlanta, Georgia area.
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Achronix Revenues to Grow 700% YoY and Exceed $100M in 2017 (Wednesday Jun. 14, 2017)
Achronix announced today that its revenues will grow over 700% year-over-year and will exceed $100M in 2017. Achronix’s exceptional growth is driven primarily by sales of its Speedster22i FPGA family and licensing of its Speedcore embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP products.
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The European Commission opens in-depth investigation into Qualcomm's proposed acquisition of NXP (Monday Jun. 12, 2017)
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess the proposed acquisition of NXP by Qualcomm under the EU Merger Regulation. The Commission has concerns that the transaction could lead to higher prices, less choice and reduced innovation in the semiconductor industry.
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QuickLogic Establishes eFPGA Support Center to Accelerate IP Licensing Model (Wednesday May. 31, 2017)
QuickLogic today announced that it has established a new support center in Taiwan to accelerate the adoption of the company's ArcticPro™ embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP.
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Synopsys Initiates $100 Million Accelerated Share Repurchase Agreement (Friday May. 26, 2017)
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that it has entered into an accelerated share repurchase agreement (ASR) with JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, to repurchase an aggregate of $100 million of Synopsys stock.
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UltraSoC attracts fresh investment as technology industry recognizes huge potential for embedded intelligence (Friday May. 26, 2017)
UltraSoC today announces the completion of a £5m ($6.4m) funding round to drive continued deployment of its technology and realize its vision of embedding intelligent analytics capabilities into every chip.
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Perceptia Joins GlobalFoundries FDXcelerator Program to Bring PLL Technology to Portable Devices (Thursday May. 25, 2017)
Perceptia Devices, Inc., a developer of innovative phase-locked loop (PLL) and timing technology, today announced that it has joined GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ FDXcelerator™ Partner Program, an expanding FD-SOI ecosystem to enable faster, broader deployment of the foundry’s 22FDX® and 12 FDX™ FD-SOI processes that support IoT, mobile, and wireless applications.
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Unprecedented growth at EnSilica sees a major recruitment drive to fuel its continued expansion (Monday May. 22, 2017)
Unprecedented growth of over 80% this year at EnSilica, a leading independent provider of semiconductor solutions and IP, has created a further requirement within the company for a major recruitment drive to fuel its continued expansion in the next 12 months and beyond.
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TDK Completes Acquisition of InvenSense (Friday May. 19, 2017)
TDK Corporation and InvenSense, Inc. announce that TDK has completed the all-cash acquisition of InvenSense. The acquisition price was $13.00 USD per InvenSense share, and the total acquisition price was approximately $1.3 billion USD.
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Xilinx Invests in Machine Learning Pioneer DeePhi Tech (Thursday May. 18, 2017)
Xilinx, Inc. (XLNX) today announced that it has invested in DeePhi Tech, a recognized leader in machine learning specializing in deep compression, compiling toolchain, and system-level optimization.
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ARM and CSNE from the University of Washington partner to develop brain-implantable chips (Tuesday May. 16, 2017)
ARM and the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) have signed an agreement whereby the CSNE will develop a unique ‘brain-implantable’ system-on-a-chip (SoC) for bi-directional brain-computer interfaces (BBCI) aimed at solving neurodegenerative disorders.
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Sondrel Agrees to Acquire IMG Works Division of Imagination Technologies (Monday May. 15, 2017)
Sondrel announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire the IMGworks division of Imagination Technologies. The IMGworks engineering team will join with Sondrel’s existing engineering consultancy to create a combined IC design capability comprising more than 250 highly skilled employees.
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Logic Fruit and Accelize Announce Strategic Partnership to deliver Next Gen IP cores (Wednesday May. 10, 2017)
Logic Fruit and Accelize have announced a new strategic partnership. The partnership will combine Logic Fruit’s expertise in Design Services, Video & Security IPs Cores with Accelize’s market leading Cloud workload FPGA acceleration technologies to deliver solutions for today’s increasingly data rich world.
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Flex Logix Raises $5 Million In Series B Funding (Monday May. 08, 2017)
Flex Logix™ Technologies, Inc., the leading supplier of embedded FPGA IP and software, today announced it has secured $5 million in Series B equity financing.
