Finance

NXP is going to buy Freescale for $11.1 billion. Freescale still has $5.5 billion of debt left over from the $10 billion debt imposed on it by Blackstone in 2006 when the private equity company took it over.

ARM has developed an approach for an Intelligent Flexible Cloud (IFC) environment to meet the latency, power and size constraints for next-generation networks.

For many years UK companies have not taken part in EU R&D programmes. This is partly because of UK government meannesss about funding, partly because of UK government imposition of restrictions and partly because of the perceived complications of the paperwork.

ARM has expanded its technical training portfolio to include live courses that can be remotely-delivered in any location. The courses will provide a flexible and fast-response training service for companies and individuals, allowing them to take full advantage of ARM technology features.

NXP and China state-owned investment company JianGuang Asset Management Co. Ltd (JAC Capital) have signed an agreement with the intention to establish a joint venture (JV) in China.

The SEMI book-to-bill was 1:03, the highest monthly ratio since August and up from the o.99 ratio of December.

Imec and Globalfoundries are to join forces to address critical challenges in radio architecture design in multiband, multimode mobile radios and ultra-low power (ULP) wireless devices.

Freescale which has been spun-out, sold and IPO’d twice in the last decade is now up for sale again, reports Bloomberg.

Inventive companies are failing to claim tax reductions, claims R&D accountancy firm Kingly Brookes. In particular, they are not taking advantage of Patent Box, part of the Government’s growth agenda. “The aim of the Patent Box is to provide an additional incentive for companies to retain and commercialise existing patents and to develop new innovative patented products,” said the Government. ...

Mouser has signed a global distribution deal with design specialist Digilent, a subsidiary of National Instruments.