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Alphawave Joins TSMC IP Alliance Program (Tuesday Apr. 23, 2019)
Alphawave IP, a leading provider of multi-standard connectivity IP solutions for electronic devices, today announced that it has joined the TSMC (NYSE: TSM) IP Alliance Program. The IP Alliance Program, one of five Alliance programs comprising the TSMC Open Innovation Platform®, includes major and leading IP companies, providing the semiconductor industry’s largest catalog of silicon-verified, production-proven and foundry-specific intellectual property (IP).
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Mercury Systems Announces Acquisitions of The Athena Group and Syntonic Microwave (Friday Apr. 19, 2019)
Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com) today announced the acquisitions of The Athena Group, Inc. (Athena) and Syntonic Microwave LLC (Syntonic). The all cash purchase price for both transactions was $46 million in total.
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Synopsys Establishes Center of Excellence with STMicroelectronics to Speed Development of Automotive Electronic Systems (Thursday Apr. 18, 2019)
The program focuses on delivering Synopsys Virtualizer™ Development Kits (VDKs) for the ST Stellar family of automotive multicore microcontrollers (MCUs), enabling companies to accelerate the development of automotive electronic systems by enabling the move from physical to virtual testing.
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Intel to Exit 5G Smartphone Modem Business, Focus 5G Efforts on Network Infrastructure and Other Data-Centric Opportunities (Thursday Apr. 18, 2019)
Intel to Exit 5G Smartphone Modem Business, Focus 5G Efforts on Network Infrastructure and Other Data-Centric Opportunities
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Intel Acquires Omnitek, Strengthens FPGA Video and Vision Offering (Tuesday Apr. 16, 2019)
Intel Corporation today announced the acquisition of Omnitek, a leading provider of optimized video and vision FPGA IP solutions. Omnitek’s technology enables customized high-performance vision and artificial intelligence (AI) inferencing capabilities on FPGAs for customers across a range of end markets.
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Ampere Computing raises new round of capital, including new investor Arm (Friday Apr. 12, 2019)
Today, Ampere announced a new round of funding including participation from new investor Arm, a subsidiary of SoftBank Group. Current investor The Carlyle Group led the round with participation from other existing investors. This marks the second major investment round for Ampere, which was launched in 2017.
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Qorvo to Acquire Active-Semi International (Thursday Apr. 11, 2019)
Qorvo®, Inc. (Nasdaq:QRVO), a leading provider of innovative RF solutions that connect the world, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Active-Semi International, Inc. (“Active-Semi”), a private fabless supplier of programmable analog power solutions.
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Silex Insight expands into North America with opening of Silicon Valley office (Tuesday Apr. 02, 2019)
Silex Insight, provider of Intellectual Property (IP), hardware/software for secure computing and custom OEM solutions for AV over IP/video IP codec, has announced the opening of their first US office in San Jose, California.
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proteanTecs Completes Successful Series B Funding and Launches Out of Stealth Mode (Tuesday Apr. 02, 2019)
proteanTecs, a start-up company that invented a groundbreaking solution for the prediction of failures in electronics, announced today that it has completed a series B financing round of $35 million.
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Sambanova Systems Announces $150M Series B From Intel Capital And GV To Advance Its Breakthrough AI Platform (Tuesday Apr. 02, 2019)
SambaNova Systems, the company building the industry’s most advanced systems platform to run artificial intelligence applications (AI) from the datacenter to the edge, announced today a $150M Series B funding round.
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Movellus Raises $6M in Venture Funding, Led by Stata Venture Partners (Tuesday Apr. 02, 2019)
Movellus, Inc. today announced $6 million in Series A venture funding, bringing its total funding to date to $10M. The company is fundamentally transforming SoC design by automating the generation of traditional analog IP using digital tools and standard cells.
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Renesas Completes Acquisition of Integrated Device Technology (Monday Apr. 01, 2019)
Renesas Electronics and Integrated Device Technology today jointly announced the successful completion of Renesas’ acquisition of IDT, as of March 30, 2019 JST, March 29, 2019 PDT, following approvals by IDT shareholders and the relevant regulatory authorities.
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Sankalp Semiconductor Expands International Operations in Japan (Thursday Mar. 28, 2019)
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ON Semiconductor to Acquire Quantenna Communications (Thursday Mar. 28, 2019)
ON Semiconductor and Quantenna Communications today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for ON Semiconductor to acquire Quantenna for $24.50 per share in an all cash transaction.
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CyberX Capitalizes on IIoT Security Momentum with Additional $18 Million in Strategic Funding (Wednesday Mar. 27, 2019)
CyberX, the IIoT and industrial control system (ICS) security company, today announced that it has raised $18 million in a strategic funding round led by Qualcomm Ventures LLC and Inven Capital.
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SCALINX expansion continues with ASIC design center in Caen, France (Friday Mar. 22, 2019)
SCALINX, industry recognized expert in new art of signal conversion technology, embedded in ASIC designs, has continued with its expansion plans and growth of its engineering staff in Caen design facility, which was opened in July 2018.
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Andes Technology Strengthens the RISC-V EasyStart Alliance to 15 ASIC Design Service Partners (Monday Mar. 18, 2019)
As the first public CPU IP company in Asia, specializing in low-power, high-performance 32/64-bit processor IP cores and SoC design platform, Andes Technology Corporation (TWSE:6533) created a RISC-V promotion program called the “EasyStart” in July, 2018.
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Imagination in UK's top ten for European Patent Filing (Friday Mar. 15, 2019)
Imagination Technologies, a leading technology provider for graphics, neural network acceleration and connectivity, has been announced by the European Patent Office (EPO) as the UK’s 10th most active patent applicant in 2018.
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GOWIN Semiconductor Corporation Appoints Pan-European Representative (Thursday Mar. 14, 2019)
GOWIN Semiconductor Corporation, the world’s fastest growing programmable logic company, today announces the appointment of GoRep Limited as its representative in Europe.
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Facebook Buys Interconnect IP Vendor Sonics (Wednesday Mar. 13, 2019)
Facebook has acquired Sonics, a privately-held Silicon Valley IP provider that specializes in on-chip network (NoC) and power-management technologies.
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Linux Foundation to Host CHIPS Alliance Project to Propel Industry Innovation Through Open Source Chip and SoC Design (Tuesday Mar. 12, 2019)
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced its intent to form the CHIPS Alliance project to host and curate high-quality open source code relevant to the design of silicon devices.
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Sonics: Our Next Chapter (Monday Mar. 11, 2019)
Today, we're excited to announce that we are moving on as a team. As part of this opportunity, we will be winding down our business.
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NVIDIA to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9 Billion (Monday Mar. 11, 2019)
NVIDIA and Mellanox today announced that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Mellanox. Pursuant to the agreement, NVIDIA will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Mellanox for $125 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $6.9 billion.
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Dialog Semiconductor to Acquire Silicon Motion's Mobile Communications Business Including Ultra-Low-Power Wi-Fi, Extending its Position in IoT Connectivity (Thursday Mar. 07, 2019)
Dialog Semiconductor today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Silicon Motion Technology Corporation’s Mobile Communications product line, branded as FCI.
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Inside Secure Announces the Closing of the Acquisition of Verimatrix (Friday Mar. 01, 2019)
Inside Secure today announced the successful completion of the acquisition of Verimatrix.
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Wave Computing's MIPS Processors Power 80% of Today's ADAS-Enabled Automobiles (Friday Mar. 01, 2019)
Wave Computing announced its MIPS processor technology is enabling over 80 percent of vehicles equipped with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) from today’s leading automotive manufacturers.
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Minima Processor and Arm Collaborate on Ultra-Low Power Solutions for Mobile and IoT (Wednesday Feb. 27, 2019)
Minima Processor Licenses Arm Artisan Physical IP to Optimize Arm-based SoC Designs with Minima Dynamic Margining IP Ultra-Low Power Technology
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Arm and China Unicom Sign Partnership Agreement to Drive IoT Adoption in China (Wednesday Feb. 27, 2019)
Arm and China Unicom today announced a long-term partnership agreement to deliver IoT scalability, security and simplicity to Chinese enterprises and global companies looking to have a local presence in China.
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Silvaco Opens Shenzhen Office to Support Company's Asian Expansion and Growing Demand for Semiconductor Design Solutions (Wednesday Feb. 27, 2019)
Silvaco, Inc. today announced the opening of its latest China office to accommodate the company’s continuing growth and reinforce its well-established sales, service and technical support for customers in China.
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Cobham Joins RISC-V Foundation (Tuesday Feb. 26, 2019)
Cobham Gaisler announced today that is has recently been accepted as a Gold-Level Member of the RISC-V Foundation.