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New Customer Win in High Growth Flash Market Highlights ARC's Growing Leadership (May. 08, 2008)
ARC International today announced that a new customer has adopted ARC for use in the rapidly growing Flash market. |
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TM Technology Adopts ARC for Multimedia Storage Solutions (May. 08, 2008)
A subsidiary of Etron, one of the top Taiwanese fabless design houses that specializes in memory products, TM Technology will use its ARC license to create a new system-on-chip (SoC) for multimedia storage applications. |
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Virage Logic's High-Efficiency DDR Memory Controller Selected by Server Virtualization Solutions Leader 3Leaf Systems (May. 06, 2008)
Virage Logic today announced the selection of its Intelli Double Data Rate (DDR) Memory Controller interface solution by 3Leaf Systems to deliver a silicon proven, high-performance DDR memory controller IP solution. |
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MOSAID Sells Selected Patents to SAtech Group A.B. Limited Liability Company (May. 01, 2008)
MOSAID Technologies today announced that it has completed the sale of 19 patent families, comprised of U.S. patents and applications and corresponding foreign counterparts, to SAtech Group A.B. Limited Liability Company for net proceeds of approximately US$2.0 million. |
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Imagination Technologies Signs Licence Agreement with Samsung Electronics (Apr. 30, 2008)
Imagination Technologies reports that it has signed a licence agreement with Samsung Electronics with respect to certain POWERVR SGX graphics and VXD video IP cores. |
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ASPEED Technology Purchases IP from IPextreme Core Store (Apr. 29, 2008)
IPextreme today announced that ASPEED Technology Inc. has purchased Freescale’s ColdFire® V1 through IPextreme’s Core Store™ online marketplace. The ColdFire core will be used as an embedded processor in an upcoming ASIC product. |
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MOSAID Grants First Wireless Patent Portfolio License to Matsushita Electric (Apr. 28, 2008)
Under the terms of the patent portfolio license agreement, Matsushita has been granted a six-and-a-half year term license under MOSAID's wireless patents for its Wi-Fi, WiMAX and CDMA-enabled notebook PCs and other products sold globally, with the exception of mobile handsets. Financial details of the agreement are confidential. |
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CSR Selects Virage Logic as Its Trusted IP Partner for Next-Generation Bluetooth Devices (Apr. 28, 2008)
CSR will use Virage Logic’s Area, Speed and Power (ASAP™) Memory, Self-Test and Repair (STAR™) Memory and STAR Yield Accelerator products for design of its BlueCore™ and UniFi™ product lines. |
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ARM and Mindspeed Address Next Generation Home Gateways with Multiprocessing Technology (Apr. 28, 2008)
ARM and Mindspeed Technologies today announced an ongoing collaboration designed to address the needs of broadband service providers delivering triple- (voice, data, video) and quad-play (+ cellular) applications to homes and small businesses. |
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Multiple Configurable ARC Cores Enable ITT to Build Secure Communications Devices for Government Applications (Apr. 28, 2008)
ARC International announced today that ITT Communications Systems signed a new license agreement for multiple members of the configurable ARC® 600 core family. |
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Onkyo Purchases Moore Microprocessor Patent Portfolio License (Apr. 28, 2008)
Alliacense today announced that Onkyo Corporation has purchased a Moore Microprocessor Patent™ (MMP) Portfolio license from The TPL Group. |
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First Batch of China 3G Commercial Trial Handsets are all ARM Powered (Apr. 24, 2008)
China Mobile launched its first batch of ARM926EJ-S™ processor-based TD-SCDMA handsets on April 1, 2008 at China’s first 3G service commercial trial covering eight cities. |
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Rambus Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Spansion (Apr. 23, 2008)
Rambus will provide Spansion with DDR engineering services in support of accelerating time-to-market for robust, high-volume Spansion products. Services include signal integrity simulations, system and package design, and precision in-system voltage and timing margining. |
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Rambus Announces IBM to License Multi-protocol Serdes (Apr. 23, 2008)
This multi-protocol SerDes cell provides IBM with a high-performance and low-power solution for implementation on its 45nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. |
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Kilopass Non-Volatile Memory Technology Embedded in 15 Million Units (Apr. 22, 2008)
XPM technology’s most popular use is for security. This includes ID and encryption key storage for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), Digital Rights Management (DRM) and WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) applications. |
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RIM and The TPL Group Agree to Moore Microprocessor Patent(TM) Portfolio License (Apr. 22, 2008)
Alliacense today announced that Research In Motion Limited (RIM) and The TPL Group have agreed to the terms of a patent license. |
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Actel Corporation Licenses Sarnoff's TakeCharge Solution (Apr. 21, 2008)
By licensing Sarnoff’s TakeCharge ESD solution, Actel FPGAs and PSCs will have added protection from ESD, which is a threat to all types of semiconductor devices during testing, packaging, assembly and handling. |
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On2 Licenses Mobile Optimized Decoders to Monsoon Multimedia (Apr. 15, 2008)
On2 Technologies announced today that it has licensed its Hantro™ 4100 video decoder and 2600 Enhanced aacPlus™ audio decoder to Monsoon Multimedia. |
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MediaTek Licenses CEVA-X DSP Core and Subsystem from CEVA (Apr. 15, 2008)
CEVA today announced that MediaTek has licensed the CEVA-X DSP core and associated subsystem technology for the development of future product lines. |
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Zensys Picks Kilopass XPM Memory for Wireless Remote Control Applications, The Next Generation of Home Control and Automation (Apr. 15, 2008)
Kilopass Technology today announced that Zensys has selected the Kilopass XPM one-time programmable embedded memory technology for its broadband wireless remote home control applications. |
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Energy Micro Licenses Cortex-M3 Processor (Apr. 14, 2008)
Oslo-based start-up will develop very low energy consumption solution using industry-leading ARM technology |
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Kodak Selects intoPIX Technology for Digital Cinema (Apr. 11, 2008)
intoPIX announces today that Kodak Digital Cinema will use the intoPIX decoder in next generations of the Kodak Content Player JMN3000. |
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Motion Computing Licenses Wi-LAN Wireless Technologies (Apr. 10, 2008)
Wi-LAN today announced that it has signed a six year licensing agreement with Motion Computing relating to Wi-LAN patents covering CDMA, Wi-Fi, WiMAX and HSPA technologies. The license provides for the payment of a running royalty and includes a payment in respect of past sales. |
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Imagination Technologies Licenses Third POWERVR SGX Graphics Core to Renesas (Apr. 08, 2008)
Imagination Technologies Group plc a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property reports that Renesas Technology Corp., one of the world's leading semiconductor system solutions providers, has licensed a third member of Imagination’s POWERVR® SGX graphics core family under a multiple-use license arrangement. The core will be integrated into future Renesas SoCs for mobile applications. |
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Alchip Licenses ARM CPU, Fabric IP and Physical IP to Provide SoC Solutions (Apr. 08, 2008)
Alchip Technologies, Inc. and ARM today announced that Alchip has licensed the ARM926EJ-S(TM) processor, Fabric IP and ARM® Physical IP to advance system-on-chip (SoC) design solutions to its customers worldwide |
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Impinj's AEON/MTP Multiple-time Programmable Nonvolatile Memory Licensed by Avago Technologies (Apr. 03, 2008)
Multi-time Programmable NVM in TSMC’s 0.25 Micron/5V CMOS Process Gives Leading Analog Chip Provider Low Power, High Performance Embedded Memory Option |
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Hynix and Grandis Sign License and Joint Development Agreement on Spin-Transfer Torque MRAM (Apr. 02, 2008)
Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and Grandis Inc. today announced that they have signed a long-term license agreement for memory products incorporating Grandis’ patents and intellectual property in spin-transfer torque random access memory (STT-RAM). |
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Imagination Technologies confirms new Intel Centrino Atom processor technology utilises POWERVR graphics and video technologies (Apr. 02, 2008)
Imagination Technologies announces that Intel® Centrino® Atom processor technology includes Imagination’s POWERVR® SGX graphics and POWERVR VXD multi-standard HD video technologies. |
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Magnum Semiconductor Licenses Sidense's Logic Non-Volatile Memory for Consumer Entertainment Products (Apr. 01, 2008)
Sidense, a leading developer of Logic Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) IP cores, today announced that Magnum Semiconductor has licensed Sidense’s 1T-Fuse™ NVM IP for two of its consumer entertainment products. |
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Fujitsu Introduces 65-Nanometer 10G SerDes from Prism Circuits (Apr. 01, 2008)
Fujitsu Microelectronics America today announced a new collaboration with Prism Circuits to develop a single-lane, variable-data-rate SerDes macro. Built using Fujitsu’s 65-nanometer CS200HP process technology, the macro will be available in the third calendar quarter of 2008. |
