ARC International News

SAN JOSE, CA., and ST. ALBANS, England -- ARC International , a leading provider of consumer intellectual property to OEM and semiconductor companies worldwide, today announced that Freescale Semiconductor has licensed the MQX real-time operating system and TCP/IP software stacks.

Virage Logic Corp. said late Monday it intends to acquire ARC International plc in a deal valued at about $41 million.

Financial Highlights Revenue for six months ended June 30, 2009 is in line with expectations at 7.3m , a decrease of 22% Restructuring of operations commenced on June 30, expected to deliver cost savings estimated at 6.0m on an annualised basis and recognisable from H2 2009, achieved at a cash cost of 2.8m Net loss before restructuring charges ...

Financial Highlights Revenue for six months ended June 30, 2009 is in line with expectations at 7.3m , a decrease of 22% Restructuring of operations commenced on June 30, expected to deliver cost savings estimated at 6.0m on an annualised basis and recognisable from H2 2009, achieved at a cash cost of 2.8m Net loss before restructuring charges ...

ARC International, the licensor of configurable processor cores that last week confirmed that it is in discussions that may result in an offer being made for the company, said revenues for the six month of the year ended June 30 were A 7.3 million , a decrease of 22 percent on the corresponding period last year but in line with expectations.

ARC International and SiTel Semiconductor announced today a collaboration effort to provide superior voice clarity for phones implementing SiTela s high performance chips and ARCa s new Vocal Clarity post-processing software.

SAN JOSE, Calif. & ST. ALBANS, England -- -- ARC International announced that DensBits Technologies Ltd.

SAN JOSE, Calif. & ST. ALBANS, England -- -- Initio, a leading provider of high-quality cost-effective integrated circuits and solutions for storage devices, has taken an ARC 600 license to address the explosive growth USB 3.0 and solid state drive controller market.

ARC International is to lay off 35 employees and close several of its locations in a major restructuring that sees the licensor of multimedia IP cores reduced to 115 direct staff, excluding its Adaptive Chips joint venture in India.

ARC International announced today that PixArt Technologies has taken a license for a member of the ARC A 600 core family as its platform for imaging processing in a wide variety of high-growth image application markets.

COMPUTEX COMPUTER EXHIBITION, Taiwan,, Jun 03, 2009 -- ARC International today introduced two new Sound-to-Silicon solutions for OEMs and their system-on-chip suppliers to wide acclaim by leading industry analysts.

The demonstration is the first embedded SoC solution to have ARC's Sonic Focus audio enhancements.

SAN JOSE, Calif. & ST. ALBANS, England -- -- ARC International today announced that its processor IP and audio subsystem embedded in the feature-rich ViXS Systems XCode 3290 system on chip is now available and will be demonstrated at Computex 2009.

ARC International and Realtek Semiconductor, the premier silicon supplier for PCs and laptops, have agreed to bundle the ARC A Sonic Focus a suite of audio enrichment software with Realtek codecs shipped to its OEM and ODM customers globally.

ARC International expects to report a year-on-year drop in first half revenues as market conditions remain challenging, the company said in an interim statement.

The stock of ARC International shot up by 42 percent to 14.20p on the London Stock Exchange Thursday , the day after the company announced the resignation of its former CEO Carl Schlachte .

SAN JOSE, Calif. & ST. ALBANS, England -- -- ARC International , a leading provider of multimedia design IP to semiconductor and consumer product companies worldwide, today announces the resignation of its President and Chief Executive Officer, Carl Schlachte with immediate effect.