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Maxscend Technologies Inc. (Shanghai, China), is a venture capital backed fabless IC company founded by a group of Silicon Valley returnees in April 2006. The company has designed and started shipping, a DTMB/DAB/DAB+/DMB demodulator IC which can be used for Chinese digital terrestrial TV reception in TV set and set top box; mobile digital television reception in mobile phones, personal media players, USB dongles, vehicle entertainment systems and other mobile devices. www.maxscend.com

MimoOn GmbH (Duisberg, Germany), founded in 2006, supplies a software implementation of the 3GPP LTE physical layer and protocol stack for infrastructure devices and terminals. www.mimoon.de

Mirics Semiconductor Inc. (Fleet, England), a fabless RF and mixed-signal chip startup founded in 2004, has software demodulation technology that can be used with its reconfigurable tuner to receive multiple broadcast standards. www.mirics.com

Nanoradio AB (Kista, Sweden), fabless semiconductor company specializing in components for Wi-Fi applications, has raised more than $50 million in venture capital funding since its founding in 2004. www.nanoradio.com

Newport Media Inc. (Lake Forest, Calif.) is fabless semiconductor company that sells chips for digital audio and mobile television standards. Founded in January 2005 the company launched a highly integrated multi-standard mobile TV receiver in June 2007. www.newportmediainc.com

Nextreme Thermal Solutions Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) makes thermal and power management products for the semiconductor, photonics, consumer, automotive, and defense/aerospace industries. The company was founded in 2004 and has embedded cooling and power generation capabilities into the copper pillar bumping process used in electronic packaging. www.nextremethermal.com

Nujira Ltd. (Cambridge, England), founded in 2002, is a supplier of RF power amplifier technology that tracks output to optimize power efficiency. www.nujira.com

Percello Ltd. (Ra'anana, Israel), founded in 2007, is a fabless semiconductor company formed to provide digital baseband ICs and software for the 3G-to-LTE femtocells markets, www.percello.com

Perpetuum Ltd. (Southampton, England) was founded in 2004 as a spinoff from the University of Southampton. The company develops electricity microgenerators that can harvest enough energy from vibrations in plant and equipment to power sensor nodes and transmit data from them wirelessly. www.perpetuum.co.uk

Polymer Vision Ltd. (Eindhoven, Netherlands) received 21 million euro (about $27.5 million) from Technology Capital SA of Luxemburg in January 2007 to help it launch a roll-up display technology and taking the company out of ownership of Royal Philips Electronics NV. www.polymervision.com

Quantenna Communications Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), founded in 2006, is a developer of silicon for wireless networking that delivers guaranteed wireless bandwidth. www.quantenna.com

RMI Corp. (Cupertino, Calif.) formerly known as Raza Microelectronics Inc. was formed in 2002 by Atiq Raza, an executive who previously worked at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and NexGen Microsystems Inc. The company is producing processors for network processing. www.razamicroelectronics.com

RedMere Technology Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland), is offering chips for high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) connectors which can support multigigabit per second wire-line communications. The company has raised about $19 million since its founding in 2004 and it has its first chips out. www.redmere.com

ReVolt Technology AS (Staefa, Switzerland) was formed as a spinoff from Norwegian contract research institute Sintef in 2004. The company has developed a rechargeable zinc-air battery technology, which it claims could replace lithium-ion batteries currently used in portable applications. www.revolttechnology.com