Silicon Clocks takes $7.1M for processor timing devices
Silicon Clocks, a Fremont, Calif. maker of smaller, cheaper chips with timing capabilities, has brought in $7.1 million of a targeted $10.7 million round of equity. The company says it will use the financing for working capital, reports VentureWire.
It last raised funds in 2007,… Continue Reading
Audience dials up $15M to suppress noise on cell phones
Audience, maker of mobile chips that can dampen background noise when people speak on their cell phones, just brought in $15 million in a fourth round of funding. This brings the Mountain View, Calif. company’s total capital to $60 million since its inception in 2004…. Continue Reading
Pixim raises funds for high-quality surveillance camera chips
When you have a lot of customer traction, it isn’t hard to raise more money. Pixim, whose chips are used in hundreds of models of security cameras, has proven that by raising $13 million in a new round of funding from existing investors.
That means… Continue Reading
Crossing Automation raises $6 million for wafer-handling tool business
Crossing Automation has raised $6 million in a first round of capital to expand its wafer-automation equipment business for chip factories.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company makes automated wafer-transfer systems. Backers include Intel Capital and Tallwood Venture Capital.
Crossing Automation was founded in 2003 to… Continue Reading
Audience announces $15M for clear voice communications
Audience, a maker of voice processing technology that mimics the sort of audio processing that happens in the human brain, has announced its $15 million third round of financing.
We actually covered Audience’s unveiling in February, and first broke news on the funding, but the… Continue Reading
Semiconductor company Quintic raises $7.5M
Fabless semiconductor company Quintic has raised $7.5 million in a second round of funding, according to PE Wire. Venture firms Walden International, IDG VC, Tallwood Venture Capital and Harbinger Venture Management participated in the round. The Santa Clara, Calif. company, which makes circuits for wireless… Continue Reading
Silicon Clocks raises $8M more for chip timing
Silicon Clocks is a fabless semiconductor company focused on integrating timing devices directly onto processor chips.
Current quartz-based technology, which is several decades old, requires a separate processor piece and is somewhat limited in its abilities. Silicon Clocks claims it can reduce the size and… Continue Reading
Collinear raises $3.1M for TV and projection technology
Collinear Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif. company developing high-power RGB illumination (see definition) based on semiconductor lasers and non-linear optical technology, has raised $3.1 million in a second round of funding.
Investors are Tallwood Venture Capital and Allegis Capital, according to PE Week Wire.
The… Continue Reading
CIA venture arm In-Q-Tel invests in video camera chip company, Pixim
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Pixim, a Mountain View, Calif. company that builds chips for videos cameras that improve color, and reduce blooming and smear in bad lighting conditions, has added more money to its second round of financing.
In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the U.S. intelligence agencies, participated… Continue Reading
Teja, multiprocessor co., acquired by ARC for loss
ARC International, a chip company in Elstree, England, said it has acquried the assets of Teja Technologies, a private San Jose, Ca. multiprocessor company, to help improve ARC’s products.
The acquisition price was $5 million, with $3.4 million paid upfront, and the rest distributed once… Continue Reading
Pixim raises $15M for high-performance chipset for video cameras
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Pixim, a Mountain View, Calif. company that builds chips for videos cameras that improve color, and reduce blooming and smear in bad lighting conditions, has raised $15 million.
The investment comes from Tallwood Venture Capital, Ridgewood Capital, Mayfield Fund and unnamed others.
Pixim’s chipset… Continue Reading
Redfern, an optical transmitter co., raises $7M more
Redfern Integrated Optics, a developer and manufacturer of high-performance optical transmitters for communications, said it has raised an additional $7 million from TMT Ventures, Tallwood Venture Capital and Jolimont Capital.
This is another one of the multiple companies founded during the telecom bubble year of… Continue Reading