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Achronix and Signoff Semiconductors Partner for AI/ML FPGA and eFPGA IP Design Services (Wednesday Sep. 01, 2021)
Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, a leader in high-performance FPGAs and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, and Signoff Semiconductors, a spec-to-silicon FPGA and ASIC design services company, have partnered to offer expert FPGA and eFPGA IP design services solutions for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) applications.
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Weebit Nano broadens its technology portfolio to further bolster its ReRAM capability and expand commercialisation opportunities (Wednesday Sep. 01, 2021)
Weebit Nano Limited, a leading developer of next-generation memory technologies for the global semiconductor industry, has expanded its ongoing strategic development partnership with French research institute CEA-Leti (www.leti-cea.com) to further enhance its ReRAM technologies and support its commercialisation efforts.
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Renesas Completes Acquisition of Dialog Semiconductor (Tuesday Aug. 31, 2021)
Renesas and Dialog Semiconductor today announced the successful completion of Renesas’ acquisition of the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Dialog.
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Synaptics to Acquire DSP Group, Expanding Leadership in Low Power AI Technology (Tuesday Aug. 31, 2021)
Synaptics and DSP Group today announced the signing of a definitive agreement, unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies, whereby Synaptics acquires DSP Group, a leading global provider of voice and wireless chipset solutions for converged communications, at $22.00 per share in an all-cash transaction.
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Synopsys Initiates $175 Million Accelerated Share Repurchase Agreement (Thursday Aug. 26, 2021)
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that it has entered into an accelerated share repurchase agreement (ASR) with HSBC Bank USA, National Association to repurchase an aggregate of $175 million of Synopsys stock.
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Imagination, update on 2021 progress (Tuesday Aug. 24, 2021)
Imagination Technologies today announces initial unaudited results for the first half of 2021 (H1/2021), where overall revenues increased by 55% to $76m (H1/2020: $49m).
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Engineering recruitment stepped up by surge in demand for ultra-low power memory solutions (Tuesday Aug. 24, 2021)
sureCore, the ultra-low power memory specialists, is surfing the wave of demand for ever more intelligent wearable devices that are only possible if they use the company’s specially designed SRAM IP that can cut memory power requirements by up to 50%.
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Rambus Completes Acquisition of PLDA (Wednesday Aug. 18, 2021)
Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a provider of industry-leading chips and silicon IP making data faster and safer, today announced the completion of the acquisition of PLDA.
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Renesas and Dialog Semiconductor Announce Conclusion of Final Regulatory Review and the Expected Closing Date for Renesas' Proposed Acquisition of Dialog Semiconductor (Monday Aug. 16, 2021)
Renesas Electronics and Dialog Semiconductor are pleased to announce that the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission has waived its jurisdiction to review the recommended all-cash acquisition of Dialog Semiconductor by Renesas.
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Motivo, Inc. Raises $12 Million Series A to Accelerate AI-Enabled Chip Design and Improve Manufacturing Yields (Monday Aug. 16, 2021)
Motivo today announced it raised a $12 million Series A financing round led by Intel® Capital, along with other new investors Storm Ventures and Seraph Group as well as participation from Inventus Capital and other existing investors that include multiple IC industry C-suite executives.
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TSMC Board of Directors Meeting Resolutions (Tuesday Aug. 10, 2021)
TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today held a meeting of the Board of Directors, which passed the following resolutions.
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Chips&Media Announces 1 billion Cumulative Shipments of Multimedia IP (Monday Aug. 09, 2021)
Chips & Media, a semiconductor hardware intellectual property (IP) provider targeting multimedia, today reported its remarkable record of 1 billion cumulative shipments containing its multimedia IPs.
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AccelerComm joins DARPA Toolbox initiative for advanced communications research projects (Thursday Aug. 05, 2021)
AccelerComm, the company supercharging 5G with physical layer IP which increases spectral efficiency and reduces latency, today announced an agreement with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
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Intrinsic ID Partners with DARPA to Provide Streamlined Access to Industry-Leading PUF Technology (Tuesday Aug. 03, 2021)
Intrinsic ID, the world’s leading provider of Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) security IP, today announced a partnership with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to make its industry-leading digital authentication and security technology accessible to DARPA researchers.
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Marvell to acquire Innovium for $1.1 Billion (Tuesday Aug. 03, 2021)
I am excited to share that today Marvell and Innovium have signed a definitive agreement to join forces.
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Imagination opens Cambridge office (Monday Aug. 02, 2021)
Imagination Technologies announces a new office in central Cambridge, as it seeks to build on a successful 2020 that saw revenues increase by 44% and a strong first half in 2021. The company is recruiting across all areas of its business; GPU, CPU and AI.
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Ampere to Acquire OnSpecta to Accelerate AI Inference on Cloud-Native Applications (Thursday Jul. 29, 2021)
Ampere® Computing today announced it has agreed to acquire AI technology startup OnSpecta, strengthening Ampere® Altra® performance with AI inference applications.
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Blaize, leading AI Solution for Edge Computing, Announces $71M Series D Financing to Further Accelerate Growth (Tuesday Jul. 27, 2021)
Blaize, the AI computing innovator revolutionizing edge and automotive computing solutions, today announced the close of a $71m Series D round of funding.
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IoT Pioneer Wiliot Secures $200 Million Investment Round Led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (Tuesday Jul. 27, 2021)
With SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 backing, Wiliot will accelerate its mission to create a new era of IoT where intelligence and connectivity are brought to trillions of products that move through global supply chains – from crates, packaging, and pallets to clothes, medicine, and perishable goods.
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Kameleon Security Adds Investment from Xilinx to Deliver Hardware Cybersecurity for Servers (Thursday Jul. 22, 2021)
Xilinx invests in semiconductor startup to drive further collaboration on Open Compute Project-compliant device security for data centers
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Dolphin Design and CEA-List join forces for a new embedded AI computing platform (Monday Jul. 19, 2021)
Dolphin Design and CEA-List have formed a new joint R&D lab of embedded systems. Their goal is to achieve the best tradeoff for Edge AI devices between SW flexibility, energy efficiency, and peak performance. Specifically, CEA-List's PNeuro® hardware accelerator integrates AI into the computing platform developed in the joint lab, and is combined with the processing platform developed by Dolphin Design.
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Xenergic Raises 40 MSEK In New Share Issue (Thursday Jul. 15, 2021)
Xenergic raises SEK 40 million in a new financial round. Xenergic’s innovation is revolutionary in relation to today’s memory solutions. Xenergic memory technology drastically reduces the power consumption and increases the performance of integrated circuits.
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Achronix and ACE Convergence Acquisition Corp Mutually Agree to Terminate Merger Agreement (Tuesday Jul. 13, 2021)
Achronix Semiconductor and ACE Convergence Acquisition Corp. (ACE) (Nasdaq: ACEV), a special-purpose acquisition company focused on the Industrial and Information Technology sectors, today announced that both companies have mutually agreed to terminate their merger agreement, effective immediately.
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Algolux Closes $18.4 Million Series B Round for Robust Computer Vision (Monday Jul. 12, 2021)
Algolux, a globally recognized computer vision software company, today announced it has raised $18.4 million in Series B funding. This round was co-led by Forte Ventures and Drive Capital with additional funding from new investors Investissement Quebec, Castor Ventures, and Nikon-SBI Innovation Fund, as well as existing investors GM Ventures, Generation Ventures, and Intact Ventures.
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Secure-IC receives the Cybersecurity Made in Europe label (Thursday Jul. 08, 2021)
Secure-IC has received the “Cybersecurity Made in Europe” label after meeting the requirements outlined by the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO).
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Rambus Completes Acquisition of AnalogX (Tuesday Jul. 06, 2021)
Rambus, a provider of industry-leading chips and silicon IP making data faster and safer, today announced the completion of the acquisition of AnalogX. With this acquisition, Rambus augments its family of PCIe 5.0 and 32G Multi-protocol PHYs with SerDes technology specifically built for ultra-low power and very low latency.
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Andes Technology Announces Over 2 Billion Shipments Of Andes-Embedded SoCs In 2020 (Monday Jul. 05, 2021)
Andes Technology (TWSE: 6533), a leading supplier of high efficiency, low-power 32/64-bit RISC-V processor cores, announced a remarkable record of 2 billion annual SoC shipments containing its CPU IPs in 2020 at an annual growth rate of 33%.
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QuEST Global acquires Synapse Design to Enhance Expertise in Semiconductor and Connected Engineering (Tuesday Jun. 29, 2021)
QuEST Global, a global product engineering and lifecycle services company, has acquired Synapse Design, a Silicon Valley headquartered design and engineering services provider to top-tier semiconductor and systems companies worldwide.
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Gowin Removed From CCMC List, Withdrawing Lawsuit (Monday Jun. 28, 2021)
GOWIN Semiconductor Corp, a leading supplier of programmable logic devices, is pleased to announce that the company has been removed from the US Department of Defense list of Communist Chinese Military Companies (“CCMC”).
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Neurala Raises $12 Million to Scale Artificial Intelligence for Industrial Manufacturing (Monday Jun. 28, 2021)
Today, Neurala, the leader in vision AI software, announced that it has raised $12 million in funding to advance the development of vision AI for manufacturing.