Pocket PC maker OQO shopping for buyers
OQO, a maker of pocket-sized personal computers with capabilities similar to laptops, is looking to be bought after running short on cash. Already in talks with a few potential matches — none of which it would disclose — the San Francisco company says its acquisition… Continue Reading
Tela closes $5.5M to scale semiconductor manufacturing
Tela Innovations, a Campbell, Calif. firm working to streamline semiconductor designs and manufacturing, has added three investors to close a $5.5 million third round of funding, reports VentureWire. The new backers, Cadence Design Systems, KT Venture Group and Qualcomm, join past contributors Intel Capital, AsiaTech… Continue Reading
Tela Innovations funded for 45 nanometer chipmaking
Tela Innovations is a Campbell, Calif. company with a technology for manufacturing 45 nanometer chips, which have just coming to the consumer market starting with Intel’s Penryn processor.
The company uses computational lithography techniques to address a special problem encountered in the manufacture of extremely advanced… Continue Reading
VisualOn raises $2.1M for mobile multimedia
VisualOn, a company based in Campbell, Calif. with separate offices in Shanghai, offers audio and video software for mobile phones.
The company uses the H.264 video codec for its offerings, which include a viewer, recorder and mobile TV. It also offers all of the standard codecs…. Continue Reading
Cadence Design Systems buys chip design co., Clear Shape
Cadence Design Systems, a chip design company, has purchased Clear Shape Technologies, another chip design company.
See announcement here, which provides more details about what each of these companies do. The deal amount wasn’t disclosed.
Clear Shape, founded in 2003, had raised more than $10 million… Continue Reading
Chip design co., Ciranova, raises $4M
Ciranova, a Santa Clara electronic design automation (EDA) start-up, has raised $4 million in a third round of financing.
Its technology uses open standards and focuses on analog and custom integrated circuit design.
Leading the round AsiaTech Management and that firm’s founder, Katherine Jen, will join Ciranova’s… Continue Reading