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SiBeam gets $40 Million in additional funding

Started in 2004, SiBeam is a fabless semiconductor company. This time the round of $40 Million was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Follow-on investments are included in this round from existing more...
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Startup eASIC gets big funding

Ronnie Vasistha, the President and CEO announced that startup eASIC Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.), a provider of structured ASICs, on Thursday (March 13) announced it has raised a whopping $48 million in more...
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Magma acquires analog IP specialist Sabio Labs

Mountain View based Sabio Labs is being acquired for its analog IP by Magma Design Automation. In a way, this was expected because after Magma settled its long pending patent disputes with Synopsys by more...
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Startup Montalvo to challenge Intel

Boasting of luminaries like Vinod Dham, Matt Perry, Peter Song, Greg Favor and Mike Yamamura, Montalvo Systems which has raised $73 Million in funding so far but has not yet made a chip, is taking on the more...
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Startups Abandon Moore’s Law

Stacey Higginbotham looks at the space of semiconductors startups which have abandoned the Moore's Law in favor of an easier and more viable route. Drew Lanza, a general partner at Morgenthaler Ventures, more...
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Startup Air Semiconductor targets GPS with cameras

Swindon, England based startup Air Semiconductor has started discussions with several digital camera makers about integrating its first chip into models to give the cameras continuous GPS based location more...
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Greek Startup Analogies SA gets boost from Cadence

In order to speed up the development and time-to-market of its designs Greek startup Analog Integrated Electronic Systems (Analogies S.A.) has joined Cadence Design Systems' European Start-up Accelerator more...
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Startup Light Blue Optics expands into US

Based in Cambridge, England, Light Blue Optics, the makers of micro projectors and which closed a $26 million Series A funding round that was led by Earlybird Venture Capital of Germany and Belgian group more...
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VeriSilicon raises $20 Million

VeriSilicon Holdings Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China) has raised $20 million in a Series D financing, which marks the total it has raised to more than $58 Million so far. It is an ASIC design foundry and semiconduct more...
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Acacia acquired by S3

Acacia Semiconductor, a Mixed Signal provider from Portugal has been acquired by S3 (Silicon & Software Systems Ltd), who is a licensor of mixed signal components and intellectual property. more...
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