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Orckit to Spinoff Tioga Technologies.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2000... Orckit Communications plans to spinoff Tioga Technologies, its semiconductor operation. Following this action, Orckit will continue to own and operate its telecom equipment and other businesses, while Tioga will own and operate most of Orckit's former semiconductor businesses, including the...

Business Microscope.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2000... Infineon Buys Sican... Europe's largest independent IC design house, Sican GmbH, was taken over by its German semiconductor neighbor Infineon Technologies. Sican grew to 300 persons over the course of 10 years and has amassed an arsenal of IC design technologies and IP. Infineon has...

Analog Devices to Acquire BCO Technologies.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Analog Devices plans to acquire BCO Technologies in a cash-for-stock transaction valued at approximately $150 million. The Belfast, Northern Ireland-based company is a supplier of IC wafers used for fabricating micro-mechanical optical devices for optical communications applications. The...

QED Merges With PMC-Sierra.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... PMC-Sierra has recently acquired Quantum Effect Devices. Based on the closing price on July 11, PMC-Sierra shares, with a value of approximately $2.3 billion, will be issued to QEDI stockholders at an exchange ratio of 0.3 85 PMCS shares per QEDI share. The Quantum Effect Devices team of...

Dot Wireless to Become Part of Texas Instruments.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Texas Instruments is acquiring Dot Wireless, a privately held company that develops and markets 3G wireless CDMA technologies, software and transceiver reference designs. This acquisition enables TI to expand its offering of programmable DSP and analog-enabled wireless solutions across...