Exar Selects Magma’s Tekton and QCP to Accelerate Sign-Off of 40-nm SoCs

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 21, 2011 - Magma® Design Automation. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) has adopted the Tekton™ static timing analysis and QCP™ extraction software to accelerate sign-off and engineering change order (ECO) flows for 40-nanometer systems on a chip (SoCs). Exar selected the Magma solution after an extensive evaluation in which Tekton and QCP were shown to efficiently perform multi-mode multi-corner analysis and extraction, to deliver 5X faster runtime than traditional tools, and to provide sign-off quality results. Exar is now leveraging the Magma solution to shorten development cycles and accelerate shipment of next-generation devices to customers to meet dynamic market requirements.

LONDON, UK. – November 16, 2011 – Marketo, the fastest-growing provider of Revenue Performance Management (RPM) technology, today announced it has secured $50 million in new venture financing. Battery Ventures led the round, with existing investors Institutional Venture Partners, InterWest Partners, Mayfield Fund and Storm Ventures also participating. In just five years since its founding, Marketo has delivered a proven business solution for any company looking to accelerate predictable revenue growth. Marketo will use the infusion of new capital to further its aggressive growth strategy.

"Because of our industry-leading growth in revenues and market share, Marketo had many options for capital.

Netlist Introduces Industry's First 32GB Virtual Dual-Rank RDIMM

Patented HyperCloud and Planar-X Technologies Enable 768GB of DRAM Server Memory

Netlist, Inc. (NASDAQ: NLST - News), a designer and manufacturer of high-performance memory subsystems, today announced the industry's first 32GB Virtual Dual Rank (2vR) RDIMM (registered dual inline memory module). The new HyperCloud™ module enables an unprecedented 768GB of RDIMM memory capacity in the next generation two-processor servers.

Cray Inc. Lands $188 Million Contract and Releases 2012 Outlook

Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY - News) today announced it has finalized a contract with the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to provide the supercomputer for the National Science Foundation's Blue Waters project. The supercomputer will be comprised of a Cray XE6 system and a future upgrade of the recently-announced Cray XK6 supercomputer with GPU computing capability incorporated into a single, powerful hybrid supercomputer. Once fully deployed, the Blue Waters system is expected to have a sustained performance of more than one petaflops on demanding scientific applications.