Semiconductors News

Monday, February 13, 2012

Spin Transfer whips up $36M in first round
Allied Minds has spun out a new startup, Spin Transfer Technologies Inc., with $36 million in a Series A round and tech to make a new kind of computer and device memory.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Clean energy firm MTPV raises $10M financing
MTPV closed a $10 million Series B funding round for the clean energy semiconductor chip company with offices in both Boston and Austin, Texas.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Mercury Computer paying $70M for KOR Electronics
Mercury Computer Systems Inc. has bookended 2011 with acquisitions, today announcing it is acquiring California defense and intelligence company KOR Electronics Inc. for $70 million in cash.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Mears Tech taps backers for $1.4M more
Newton semiconductor technology company Mears Technologies Inc. has bumped up its August fundraise from $5.6 million to $7 million, federal documents state.

Monday, December 12, 2011

Acacia adds $3M from MassDevelopment for growth
Optical networking company Acacia Communications Inc. has won a $3 million credit line from MassDevelopment to expand its facilities in Maynard.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Skyworks tweaks deal to buy AnalogicTech
Woburn wireless chipmaker Skyworks Solutions Inc. has cut the price per share it plans to pay for buying California company Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc. from $6.30 per share to $5.80. In addition, Skyworks will pay for it with cash on hand, not cash and stock as originally planned.

Friday, November 25, 2011

MIT discovery could lead to all-optical chips
Researchers at MIT outline a discovery in a scientific journal that the school says could make all-optical silicon chips possible, which could lead to much faster computing.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

GT Advanced Tech plans $100M share buyback
New Hampshire polysilicon equipment maker GT Advanced Technologies Inc. reports that it plans to buy back up to $100 million of the company’s common stock, and will retire the majority of the purchased shares in the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2011.

Monday, November 14, 2011

Scalable Display inks license deal with GEO Semiconductor
Cambridge software company Scalable Display Technologies Inc. have entered into a license agreement with GEO Semiconductor Inc., which gives Scalable rights to develop on GEO’s API libraries.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

SiOnyx wins $3M DoD contract for better targeting tech
SiOnyx Inc., a Beverly maker of a special semiconductor material called Black Silicon, has won a $3 million Department of Defense deal to help develop next-generation laser targeting systems.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Wireless company Sand 9 raising a $6M round
Sand 9 Inc., which is developing microelectromechanical systems designed to work as precise timers that would improve the capabilities of wireless devices has raised $3 million of a planned $6 million equity round, according to a regulatory filing.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

GSI Group continues recovery, refinances debt
GSI Group Inc., a laser technology company in Bedford, has entered into a new $80 million credit agreement to refinance its existing debt, the company reported, a little more than a year after emerging from bankruptcy.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

InnoPad pads its coffers with a $2.7M round
Peabody-based InnoPad Inc., a maker of material used in semiconductor manufacturing, has raised $2.7 million in a new funding round that is targeting a top end of $5 million, federal documents show.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Semiconductor developer MTPV gets $6.5M in Series B funding
Clean energy semiconductor company MTPV LLC announced today that it has raised $6.5 million as part of a planned $8 million Series B round.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Cabot selling Supermetals line for $400M
Specialty materials company Cabot Corp. (NYSE: CBT) has entered into an agreement to sell a business line of rare metals to Global Advanced Metals for $400 million in cash, the company reported in a release today.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Startup MC10 boosts latest round to $15M, adds Windham as backer
MC10 Inc., a Cambridge flexible electronics startup, has added approximately $2.5 million to a funding round it reported in June, bringing the round to $15.1 million so far.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

TeraDiode gets $3.2M from DOD for powerful laser tech
Quiet laser startup TeraDiode Inc. is ready to punch a big hole in its silence, announcing $3.2 million in a trio of SBIR contracts from no less than three different U.S. Department of Defense agencies.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Varian Semiconductor merger advances
Shareholders of Gloucester-based Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates have approved the merger of Varian with Applied Materials Inc., according to Varian.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Mears finds $5.6M for semiconductor services
Newton-based semiconductor services firm Mears Technologies Inc. has pulled in a $5.6 million equity financing, the company reported in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Lowell’s M/A-COM Tech files for $230M IPO
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc., the Lowell-based maker of radio frequency chips, has filed for an initial public offering with an estimated value of $230 million.