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Home multimedia entertainment SoC solutions provider Sigma Designs to acquire CopperGate Communications in a cash and stock transaction deal valued $160 million. The combination of two companies creates a leading provider of networked home entertainment semiconductor solutions.

Sigma and CopperGate have highly complementary technology platforms that form a portfolio of end to end solutions. The combination of Sigma and CopperGate is also expected to yield several potential synergies including synergies from leveraging manufacturing know-how and combined wafer sourcing, further SoC integration and combined research and development.

CopperGate is a leading provider of silicon-based modem solutions enabling distribution of broadband digital content over all three types of wires in the home: coax, phone and power. CopperGate solutions are deployed by service providers enabling the delivery of HDTV, VoIP and fast Internet services. Founded in 2000, CopperGate is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel with operations in the U.S. and Taiwan.

Sigma Designs provides integrated system-on-chip solutions (SoC) for the IPTV, connected media player, prosumer and industrial audio/video, HDTV, and wireless markets primarily in Asia, Europe, and North America. The company offers semiconductors with a suite of real-time software that enables synchronous processing of video, audio, and graphics streams for various applications. The company traded on NASDAQ (SIGM) with a market value of $383 milliom.

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AMIMON has raised $14 million in a second round of private venture funding led by Stata Venture Partners. Other participants include Argonaut Private Equity and previous investors Cedar Fund, Walden Israel and Evergreen Partners. This brings the total investment in the company to more than $21 million. AMIMON is developing a wireless video modem chipset for the transmission of uncompressed high-definition video streams with equivalent data rates of up to 3Gbps, which it plans to bring to market in the first quarter of 2007.

"AMIMON's ability to distribute uncompressed wireless HD video streams with wired-equivalent quality is a strategic building block for the home multimedia network," said Lee Barbieri, Managing Partner of Stata Ventures. "We decided to invest in AMIMON due to the enormous market potential for its innovative technologies, its talented management team, its superior technology, and the significant traction it has made with major consumer electronics vendors."

AMIMON is a fabless semiconductor company pioneering wireless uncompressed high-definition video for universal connectivity among CE video devices. AMIMON's uncompressed Wireless High-Definition Interface (WHDI) allows flat-panel televisions and multimedia projectors to wirelessly interface to all HDTV video. AMIMON's wireless high definition interface was recently demonstrated with SANYO Electric.

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