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• Cree Licenses Key Doherty Amplifier Patents to RFHIC (Tuesday Dec. 13, 2011)
  Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) today announced a nonexclusive worldwide license agreement with RFHIC Corporation, a global leader in cutting-edge RF power amplifiers, that provides access to Cree’s pioneering Doherty amplifier-related patents.
  
  
• Marvell chipset for 3DTVs integrates SENSIO Hi-Fi 3D (Wednesday Dec. 07, 2011)
  SENSIO Technologies today announced that leading fabless semiconductor company, Marvell Technology Group Ltd., has an HD Media SoC family, featuring SENSIO’s high-fidelity 3D technology.
  
  
• Revere Security and Evigia Team Up to Provide World's First Standards-based Secure RFID Solution (Tuesday Dec. 06, 2011)
  Revere Security and Evigia have partnered to tap into the much sought-after market for secure RFID solutions leveraging Evigia's cutting edge active RFID systems
  
  
• Open-Silicon's Interlaken IP Core Chosen for ALAXALA's Advanced Networking Infrastructure Device (Tuesday Dec. 06, 2011)
  Open-Silicon announced today ALAXALA Networks has integrated its Interlaken Controller IP into their next generation of high-performance network products.
  
  
• ZTE Licenses Mentor Graphics Inflexion UI Technology to Develop Advanced 3D Smartphone User Interfaces (Monday Dec. 05, 2011)
  Mentor Graphics today announced that ZTE Mobile Telecom, a global provider of wireless communication terminals, has selected the Mentor® Embedded Inflexion® UI product to develop its next-generation smartphone user interfaces (UIs).
  
  
• Imagination Technologies licenses PowerVR IP cores to Ricoh (Monday Dec. 05, 2011)
  Imagination Technologies has signed a license agreement with Ricoh Company, Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, for IP cores from Imagination's PowerVR family.
  
  
• Vivante announces extension of GPU IP Licensing Agreement with Freescale For High Performance Multi-Core Graphics (Thursday Dec. 01, 2011)
  Vivante today announced its licensing agreement with Freescale Semiconductor has been extended to include the next generation of high-performance, multi-core graphics GC5000-MP and GPGPU IP.
  
  
• Amper Selects Quantenna's 4x4 MIMO Technology For Its Next-Generation Wi-Fi Router and FTTH Products (Tuesday Nov. 29, 2011)
  Quantenna and Amper today announced plans to ship fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) routers with Quantenna’s Full-11n™ 4x4 MIMO technology to deliver broadband services wirelessly in the home.
  
  
• CEM Solutions Pvt Ltd. selects Noesis Technologies L.P. Audio Codec for its new generation VoIP product (Thursday Nov. 24, 2011)
  Noesis Technologieshas announced today that CEV Solutions Pvt Ltd., a VoIP OEM company based in India, has selected NOESIS Voice Codec IP Core solution for its next generation VoIP products line.
  
  
• Axis Communications Taps MIPS Technologies' Processor IP for New Network Surveillance Cameras (Monday Nov. 21, 2011)
  MIPS Technologies announced today that Axis Communications leveraged the multi-threaded MIPS32® 34Kc processor cores for a new line of network video cameras.
  
  
• Nationz Technologies Inc. Selects Mixed-Signal IP from S3 Group for Advanced Digital TV SoC (Monday Nov. 21, 2011)
  S3 Group today announced that Nationz Technologies Inc. has licensed its mixed-signal IP for their Mobile TV SoC. S3 Group delivered a high performance ADC and PLL combination from its portfolio as part of the deal.
  
  
• intoPIX licenses its 4K JPEG2000 IP-cores to NTT Advanced Technology Corporation (Friday Nov. 18, 2011)
  intoPIX announced today that NTT Advanced Technology Corporation (Japan) has adopted intoPIX JPEG 2000 4K FPGA IP-cores for developing an advanced codec system for high quality Ultra HD streaming applications.
  
  
• Astrodesign new 4K Codec system powered by intoPIX JPEG 2000 technology (Wednesday Nov. 16, 2011)
  intoPIX, the leading provider of JPEG 2000 compression solutions, announced today that Astrodesign (Japan) has licensed and integrated intoPIX JPEG 2000 IP-cores into their new 4K Codec, called “HC7504”.
  
  
• Skyviia Chooses Tensilica's HiFi Audio DSP (Tuesday Nov. 15, 2011)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that Skyviia Corporation, a multimedia IC design company, has selected the HiFi Audio DSP core for its next-generation multimedia SOC (system-on-chip) designs.
  
  
• Cryptography Research and Mikron JSC Sign Patent License Agreement for DPA Countermeasures (Tuesday Nov. 15, 2011)
  Cryptography Research and Mikron today announced they have signed a license agreement regarding the use of CRI’s patents in Mikron products, including Mikron’s secure integrated circuits. Incorporation of CRI’s patented technology can protect Mikron’s tamper-resistant products against differential power analysis (DPA) and related attacks.
  
  
• Renesas Electronics and Renesas Mobile License Imagination Technologies' PowerVR Series6 Graphics Technologies (Monday Nov. 14, 2011)
  Imagination and Renesas Electronics have signed a multiuse license agreement for IP from Imagination’s PowerVR Series6 ‘Rogue’ graphics family. Renesas Mobile will deploy Imagination’s technologies in its cellular platforms for high-performance smartphones, tablets, and in-car infotainment, and the technology will also be used by Renesas Electronics in its SoC portfolio to address additional consumer markets.
  
  
• intoPIX JPEG 2000 technology adopted by NHK Engineering Services for developing a compact 4K high-resolution outdoor acquisition system (Monday Nov. 14, 2011)
  intoPIX has cooperated with NHK Engineering Services, Inc. (Japan) in the development of a JPEG 2000 encoding technology for 4K high-resolution image acquisition.
  
  
• Huawei Extends License with SPIRIT DSP for HD Mobile VoIP and Video Calling (Thursday Nov. 10, 2011)
  SPIRIT DSP announced today that Huawei Technologies has extended its license with SPIRIT DSP for wideband Mobile VoIP (voice over IP) and video calling. Under terms of the agreement, Huawei, an existing SPIRIT customer since 2007, has licensed SPIRIT's TeamSpirit® Voice&Video Engine Mobile.
  
  
• Imagination Technologies Licenses high-performance multiprocessor graphics core to Samsung Electronics (Thursday Nov. 10, 2011)
  Imagination Technologies has signed a license agreement with Samsung Electronics for IP from Imagination’s PowerVR SGX MP multiprocessor graphics family.
  
  
• Appotech licenses Innovative Logic's USB3.0 SuperSpeed Controller IP (Wednesday Nov. 09, 2011)
  Innovative Logic announced today that Appotech has licensed Inno-Logic’s USB3.0 SuperSpeed Controller IP.
  
  
• CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP Licensed to Toshiba (Monday Nov. 07, 2011)
  CEVA today announced that CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP has been licensed by Toshiba Corporation to power its upcoming mobile audio chip and automotive audio DSP product lines.
  
  
• Spreadtrum Selects Arteris High-Speed Interchip Communications IP for Mobile Phone Baseband Memory Sharing (Friday Nov. 04, 2011)
  Arteris today announced that Spreadtrum, a fabless semiconductor provider in China with advanced technology in both 2G and 3G wireless communications, has licensed Arteris' C2C(TM) Chip-to-Chip Link IP for high speed inter-chip communication between its mobile phone baseband chips and application processors.
  
  
• DesignArt Networks Selects Elliptic Technologies Embedded Security Engine for its 2nd Generation DAN3000 LTE Advanced Infrastructure SoCs (Thursday Nov. 03, 2011)
  Elliptic Technologies has joined forces with DesignArt Networks, a leading provider of highly integrated SoCs to integrate a comprehensive security solution targeting advanced 3GPP HetNet infrastructure products.
  
  
• Arteris FlexNoC Interconnect IP Licensed by Freescale for i.MX Applications Processors (Tuesday Nov. 01, 2011)
  Arteris today announced that Freescale Semiconductor has selected Arteris FlexNoC interconnect IP as the on-chip interconnect in its next-generation i.MX application processors.
  
  
• Microchip Technology Licenses Sonics' On-Chip Networks for Industry-Leading 32-bit Microcontroller Family (Monday Oct. 31, 2011)
  Sonics today announced Microchip Technology Inc. has licensed a number of its popular on-chip networks and memory subsystems for its award-winning 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller family.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies 'Processor IP at the Heart of Sequans' New LTE SoCs for Handsets and Tablets (Friday Oct. 28, 2011)
  MIPS announced today that the new LTE SoC from 4G chipmaker Sequans Communications S.A. is powered by MIPS® industry-standard processors.
  
  
• Kineto licenses Imagination’s HelloSoft Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) and Noise Cancellation (NC) for its Smart Wi-Fi Application on Android Phones (Wednesday Oct. 26, 2011)
  Kineto Wireless and Imagination Technologies announce that Kineto has licensed Imagination’s HelloSoft Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) and Noise Cancellation (NC) technologies.
  
  
• VIA Telecom Selects Arteris C2C High-Speed Inter-Chip Communications IP (Tuesday Oct. 25, 2011)
  Arteris today announced that VIA Telecom has licensed the C2C™ Chip-to-Chip Link interconnect IP solution for high speed inter-chip communication between mobile phone modem baseband chips and application processors.
  
  
• EnVerv Selects Tensilica for Smart Grid Power Line Communications (Tuesday Oct. 25, 2011)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that EnVerv has licensed cores from the ConnX DSP (digital signal processors) family for use in a power line communications (PLC) system-on-chip (SOC) design for smart grid applications.
  
  
• Freescale Licenses ARM Cortex-A7 and Cortex-A15 Processor Cores for Future Generations of i.MX Products (Wednesday Oct. 19, 2011)
  Freescale Semiconductor has licensed the new, ultra-efficient ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-A7 MPCore(TM) processor in conjunction with the previously licensed Cortex-A15 processor. Freescale will leverage the energy efficiency and performance of the two ARM cores to develop future generations of its rapidly expanding portfolio of i.MX applications processors.