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CEVA, Inc. Announces Stock Repurchase Program (Aug. 04, 2008)
The Company intends to use available cash to effect any stock repurchases. As of June 30, 2008, the Company had approximately 21 million fully diluted shares of common stock outstanding and $43.1 million in cash and cash equivalents. |
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First Consumer Products with Imagination's Shader-Based POWERVR SGX Graphics Core Now Shipping (Jul. 31, 2008)
Imagination Technologies reports that the first branded consumer electronics products utilising its advanced and market-leading shader-based graphics core, POWERVR SGX, are now shipping. |
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Actel Strengthens TCA Market Position with Acquisition of Pigeon Point Systems (Jul. 29, 2008)
Strategic Move Augments Actel's Leadership Position in System and Power Management Solutions |
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Gennum Acquires IP Provider ASIC Architect (Jul. 28, 2008)
Gennum today announced it has acquired ASIC Architect. This acquisition accelerates Gennum's new analog and mixed-signal product introductions and complements its existing Snowbush IP |
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Intel Outlines Plans for New Category of Smarter, Purpose-Built "System on Chip" Designs, Products (Jul. 24, 2008)
Intel executives outlined a plan to use its chip design expertise, factory capacity, advanced manufacturing techniques and the economics of Moore’s Law to usher in a new category of highly integrated, purpose-built and Web-savvy System on Chip (SoC) designs and products. |
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Jennic Sees Record Uptake of Intellectual Property for Use in Next Generation Cellular Base-Stations (Jul. 24, 2008)
Jennic has reported a record uptake of Intellectual Property usage in the cellular base-station and mobile data communications markets. This is reflected in a fivefold increase of sales of Intellectual Property (IP) licenses in the first half of 2008 versus first half of 2007, due to strong performance of their RapidIO® system-level IP products, FEC and ATM-SAR cores. |
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Silicon & Software Systems (S3) Appoints Maojet as New Sales Representative in Taiwan (Jul. 24, 2008)
S3 today announced that it has appointed Maojet Technology Corporation as its new sales representative in Taiwan to support its’ Taiwanese sales efforts. |
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Silvus Technologies and Orange Coast Semiconductor Form Partnership to Benefit System-on-Chip Companies (Jul. 21, 2008)
Silvus Technologies and Orange Coast Semiconductor today announced the formation of a partnership that will deliver a turnkey RF/PHY/MAC 802.11n IP solution to customers. |
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Mindspeed Completes $10 Million Sale of Intellectual Property (Jul. 21, 2008)
Company Significantly Strengthens Balance Sheet With Transfer of Non-Core Patents |
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Transmeta Announces Agreement with Riley Investment Management, LLC (Jul. 16, 2008)
Transmeta today announced that it has entered into a settlement agreement and release with the entities and persons affiliated with Riley Investment Management, LLC, resolving all proxy matters and other issues relating to Transmeta. |
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Applied Micro Circuits Corporation Signs Major IP Monetization Contract (Jul. 15, 2008)
AMCC announced it recently signed an agreement for the sale of certain patents which provides the Company with an "intellectual property revenue stream" totaling $33 million that will be payable over the next 3 years. |
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Aeroflex Incorporated Announces the Purchase of Gaisler Research AB (Jul. 15, 2008)
Aeroflex Incorporated today announced the acquisition of Gaisler Research AB, a privately held company, located in Gothenburg, Sweden. |
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XHMicro Acquires Full Source Code and Development Rights to Improv System's Jazz-based DSP IP (Jul. 14, 2008)
XHMicro, a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) and design services, today announced that it has received full source code and development rights to the innovative Jazz™ configurable semiconductor IP and development tool technologies developed by Improv Systems. |
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TranSwitch Corporation to Acquire Centillium Communications, Inc. (Jul. 10, 2008)
With this acquisition, TranSwitch will further diversify its product portfolio to include rapidly growing Fiber-to-the-Home (“FTTH”) and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (“VoIP”) solutions |
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Indian tech firms eye semi IP business (Jul. 08, 2008)
Indian technology companies facing cost pressures from a global economic slump and domestic competition are seeking a way out by boosting R&D investments to develop semiconductor intellectual property. |
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Carbon Design Systems Acquires SoC Designer from ARM (Jul. 07, 2008)
ARM and Carbon Design Systems announced today an agreement under which Carbon will take over future development, support and sale of the SoC Designer tool. |
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MIPS Technologies Completes Refinancing of Senior Credit Facility (Jul. 07, 2008)
The new $25 million facility with Silicon Valley Bank includes a $15 million term loan and a $10 million revolving line of credit. |
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Analysis: HP licenses imaging IP for camera phones (Jul. 04, 2008)
BDTI analyzes HP's image enhancement IP--which it recently licensed for use in cellphone cameras--and ponders the future of cellphone cameras. |
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Cash Offer for Flometrics by Mentor Graphics (Jul. 03, 2008)
Cash Offer for Flometrics by Mentor Graphics |
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Patent pools may flow in wake of latest alliance (Jul. 03, 2008)
Allied Security Trust, a group of 11 high tech companies that have combined their clout to buy, license and sell strategic patents may point the way for more patent pools to come in a maturing market for intellectual property. |
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Focus Enhancements Enters Agreement to Purchase Wireless Audio IP (Jul. 02, 2008)
Focus Enhancements has entered into an agreement to purchase certain intellectual property rights for a prototype wireless audio product chipset developed by AudioMojo, Inc. and owned by Hallo Development Co. |
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Virage Logic Acquires Impinj's Logic Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) IP Business (Jun. 30, 2008)
Virage Logic has acquired Impinj's leading solutions for logic NVM IP and added more than 50 Impinj patents to its already robust IP portfolio. In addition to the acquisition of assets, Virage Logic has hired approximately 30 former Impinj employees who were responsible for the company's logic NVM IP business. |
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ARC Launches New Annual Licensing Model For Multimedia Codecs (Jun. 26, 2008)
ARC's extensive portfolio of audio, video and imaging codecs are now packaged into annually licensable libraries. This helps simplify the planning of chip companies, allowing them to better meet the constantly changing requirements of evolving consumer electronics devices. |
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Nokia to acquire Symbian Limited to enable evolution of the leading open mobile platform (Jun. 24, 2008)
Nokia today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share. |
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IP vendor Sonics scraps IPO (Jun. 24, 2008)
Sonics Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.) has withdrew its plan for an initial public offering of its common stock, according to a filing from U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). |
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Veriest Verification (Israel) announces close collaboration with HDL Design House (Serbia) (Jun. 24, 2008)
Veriest Verification and HDL Design House decided to collaborate closely on delivering design and verification services to the Israeli market. |
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Wi-LAN Provides Mid-Quarter Update on Licensing Activities (Jun. 20, 2008)
Company confirms eight license agreements signed at mid-point in third quarter |
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Patriot Scientific Announces Agreement with NuPOWER Semiconductor to License Power Management IP Portfolio (Jun. 19, 2008)
Patriot Scientific today announced that it has entered into an initial agreement with NuPOWER Semiconductor, to commercialize its power management IP to other semiconductor and electronic systems suppliers. |
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Mentor Graphics Responds to Proposal from Cadence Design Systems (Jun. 17, 2008)
Mentor Graphics today acknowledged receipt of an unsolicited proposal by Cadence Design Systems to acquire Mentor Graphics at a price of $16.00 per share. Mentor Graphics confirmed that it previously rejected the proposal. |
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Cadence Proposes to Acquire Mentor Graphics for $16.00 per Share in Cash (Jun. 17, 2008)
The transaction price represents a total enterprise value of $1.6 billion on a fully diluted basis, which reflects Mentor Graphics' net debt of $69 million. |
