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FTC Sues to Block $40 Billion Semiconductor Chip Merger (Friday Dec. 03, 2021)
The Federal Trade Commission today sued to block U.S. chip supplier Nvidia Corp.’s $40 billion acquisition of U.K. chip design provider Arm Ltd. Semiconductor chips power the computers and technologies that are essential to our modern economy and society.
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Alphawave IP: Acquisition of Precise-ITC and completion of major milestones for China Product Partnership (Thursday Dec. 02, 2021)
Alphawave IP (LN:AWE), a global leader in high-speed connectivity for the world’s technology infrastructure is pleased to announce the acquisition of Precise-ITC and the completion of significant milestones for the China Product Partnership (“CPP”).
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Key ASIC Signed LOI to Acquire Wafer FAB in The US (Tuesday Nov. 30, 2021)
Key ASIC Berhad announced today that it has issued a Letter of Intent (LOI) to a US foundry to acquire up to 100% of its shares and the said company has accepted the LOI. The foundry is a fab with Silicon Carbide (SiC) and developing Gallium Nitrite (GaN) technologies.
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Lattice Acquires Mirametrix (Monday Nov. 15, 2021)
Lattice Semiconductor today announced it has acquired Mirametrix, Inc., a software company focused on advanced artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for computer vision applications, in an all-cash, accretive transaction.
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Net Insight teams up with intoPIX to develop next-generation JPEG XS compliant solutions (Friday Nov. 12, 2021)
Net Insight announces its partnership with intoPIX, the leading provider of innovative compression technology, to develop cutting-edge JPEG XS compliant solutions. intoPIX TICO-XS is fully compliant with the new JPEG XS standard and delivers pristine image quality and imperceptible latency within a highly portable software application framework.
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Cerebras Systems Raises $250M in Funding for Over $4B Valuation to Advance the Future of Artificial Intelligence Compute (Thursday Nov. 11, 2021)
Cerebras Systems, the pioneer in accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) compute, today announced it has raised $250 million in a Series F financing round, valuing the company at over $4 billion.
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Weebit undertakes capital raising to support accelerated growth; introduces major Israeli institutional investors onto the register (Wednesday Nov. 10, 2021)
Weebit Nano Limited (ASX:WBT) is pleased to announce a capital raising comprising a placement of approximately A$25.7 million to 4 Israel-based institutional investment and pension funds, and a pro rata non-renounceable entitlement offer to raise up to approximately A$9.0 million (before costs) if fully subscribed.
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Flex Logix Accelerates Growth With New Office In Austin; Prepares For Global Expansion Of Its Edge AI Inference Product Line (Tuesday Nov. 09, 2021)
Flex Logix® Technologies, Inc., supplier of the most-efficient AI edge inference accelerator and the leading supplier of eFPGA IP, today announced the official opening of its Austin office located just off Loop 360.
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sureCore-led consortium wins £6.5M Innovate UK grant to develop cryogenic CMOS IP to accelerate Quantum Computing scalability (Friday Nov. 05, 2021)
Innovate UK has awarded a grant of £6.5 million to a seven-member consortium led by sureCore with a remit to jointly develop advanced cryogenic semiconductor IP. This will dramatically accelerate the growth of the Quantum Computing (QC) industry by reducing the constrains associated with interconnects thus enabling efficient qubit/system scaling.
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Codasip Expands Ecosystem with XtremeEDA (Thursday Nov. 04, 2021)
Codasip, the leading supplier of customizable RISC-V processor IP, today announced that it has signed XtremeEDA - a Design and Functional Verification services to the ASIC, SoC, and FPGA hardware industry - as a Codasip Certified Design Services Company.
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IBM and NeuReality team up to build the next generation of AI inference platforms (Tuesday Nov. 02, 2021)
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NeuReality, an Israeli AI systems and semiconductor company, have signed an agreement to develop the next generation of high-performance AI inference platforms that will deliver disruptive cost and power consumption improvements for deep learning use cases.
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Synopsys Acquires AI-Powered, Real-Time Performance Optimization Leader Concertio (Tuesday Nov. 02, 2021)
To enrich its silicon lifecycle management solution with real-time, in-field optimization technologies, Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) today announced that it has acquired Concertio Inc., the leading provider of AI-powered performance optimization software.
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GlobalFoundries Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering (Tuesday Nov. 02, 2021)
GlobalFoundries® (Nasdaq: GFS) (GF®), a global leader in feature-rich semiconductor manufacturing, today announced the closing of its initial public offering of 55,000,000 ordinary shares, 30,250,000 of which were offered by GF and 24,750,000 of which were offered by GF’s existing shareholder, Mubadala Investment Company PJSC, at an initial public offering price of $47.00 per share.
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Andes Technology Issues GDR to Be Listed on Luxembourg Stock Exchange for Expansion Plan (Monday Nov. 01, 2021)
Andes Technology (TWSE: 6533; SIN: US03420C2089; ISIN: US03420C1099), a leading RISC-V CPU IP supplier, announced today that it successfully issued its overseas depositary receipts (GDR) on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange on September 13.
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SiPearl: collaboration with Intel to accelerate exascale supercomputing deployment in Europe (Thursday Oct. 28, 2021)
SiPearl, the company designing the microprocessor for European supercomputers, collaborates with Intel to accelerate exascale supercomputing deployment in Europe. The two partners will give European customers the opportunity to combine SiPearl’s CPU Rhea with Intel’s GPU Ponte Vecchio obtaining a high-performance heterogeneous HPC compute node. To enable this combination, SiPearl will use the open unified software stack, oneAPI.
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GlobalFoundries Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering (Thursday Oct. 28, 2021)
GlobalFoundries® (GF®), a global leader in feature-rich semiconductor manufacturing, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 55,000,000 ordinary shares, 30,250,000 of which are being offered by GF and 24,750,000 of which are being offered by GF’s existing shareholder, Mubadala Investment Company PJSC, at an initial public offering price of $47.00 per share.
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Rapid Silicon Announces Seed Funding of $15M (Thursday Oct. 28, 2021)
Rapid Silicon, a provider of AI-enabled application-specific FPGAs based on open-source technology, today announced $15 million in seed funding led by ChengWei Capital and Cambium Capital.
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Arteris IP Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering (Wednesday Oct. 27, 2021)
Arteris IP, a leading provider of system-on-chip (SoC) system IP consisting of network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect and IP deployment software that accelerate SoC creation, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 5,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $14.00 per share.
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GlobalFoundries Announces Launch of Initial Public Offering (Tuesday Oct. 19, 2021)
GlobalFoundries today announced the commencement of its initial public offering of 55,000,000 ordinary shares, 33,000,000 of which are being offered by GF and 22,000,000 of which are being offered by GF’s existing shareholder, Mubadala Investment Company PJSC, pursuant to a registration statement on Form F-1 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
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Enabling end-to-end 5G networks on Arm (Tuesday Oct. 19, 2021)
This has been a milestone year in the adoption of 5G. Commercial 5G networks are now live in more than 60 markets around the world. On top of that, the number of 5G connections is expected to reach 692 million globally by the end of this year.
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PragmatIC Semiconductor Secures $80 Million Funding (Monday Oct. 18, 2021)
This scale-up investment will be used to build a second FlexLogIC fab in the North East of England, to meet the growing demand for ultra-low-cost flexible integrated circuits (FlexICs) for the Internet of Everything, and strengthening the position of the UK in its ambition to be a leading designer and manufacturer of next generation semiconductors.
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Agile Analog Names In-Q-Tel as Newest Investor, Demonstrating Endorsement in Company's disruptive analog IP offering (Wednesday Oct. 13, 2021)
Agile Analog, a supplier of highly configurable process node-agnostic analog IP building blocks, today announced an investment from In-Q-Tel, the U.S. non-profit strategic investor.
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Andes Technology USA Corp. Announces Major Expansion of Its U.S. Operation (Monday Oct. 11, 2021)
Andes Technology USA is greatly increasing engineering headcount in both the San Jose, California headquarters and its Portland, Oregon research and development facility. Andes Technology USA is seeking engineers in the U.S. and Canada to work remotely or in the Portland or San Jose offices. Openings are available for design engineers, verification engineers, and field application engineers.
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Softbank Leads $50M Series C Funding for Cornami to Bring Real-Time Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to Market (Monday Oct. 11, 2021)
Cornami (named for a “tsunami of cores”) announced today it has completed an early close to its currently over-subscribed $50M Series C financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 to bring Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to market. Others participating in this round include institutional investors as well as other existing investors and insiders.
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Invia partners with Running Springs Technology (Wednesday Oct. 06, 2021)
Invia partners with Running Springs Technology, a Taiwan-based company, to strengthen its presence in Asia.
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NeuroBlade Raises $83 Million in Series B Funding to Massively Accelerate Data Analytics (Wednesday Oct. 06, 2021)
NeuroBlade, the next generation of data acceleration solutions, announced today that it has secured $83 million in Series B funding, bringing total invested capital to $110 million.
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Marvell Completes Acquisition of Innovium (Wednesday Oct. 06, 2021)
Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in infrastructure semiconductor solutions, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Innovium, Inc., a leading provider of networking solutions for cloud and edge data centers.
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GlobalFoundries Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering (Tuesday Oct. 05, 2021)
GlobalFoundries® (GF®), a global leader in feature-rich semiconductor manufacturing, today announced that it has publicly filed a registration statement on Form F-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to the proposed initial public offering of its ordinary shares.
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Arteris IP Announces Filing of Registration Statement for Proposal Initial Public Offering (Monday Oct. 04, 2021)
Arteris IP today announced it has publicly filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") relating to a proposed initial public offering of its common stock.
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Sondrel India staff numbers to double to handle new business (Monday Oct. 04, 2021)
Sondrel’s Indian office in Hyderabad is recruiting to double its engineering staff to handle the dramatic increase in its global business brought about by Sondrel’s success in handling the COVID pandemic.