CEVA Appoints Technology Industry Veteran Amir Panush as CEO Effective January 2023

After 17 years as CEO of CEVA and more than 32 years with the company, Gideon Wertheizer is set to retire at the end of the year. The CEVA board of directors has unanimously appointed Amir Panush as CEO effective January 1st, 2023. Wertheizer will continue to serve as an active member of CEVA’s board of directors and will be employed in an advisory role in the near term to ensure a smooth leadership transition.

WiSA Technologies announced a licensing program for its high-quality, multichannel wireless WiSA E software. Expanding from its original, hardware-based module approach, the new software licensing program is targeted towards HDTV platforms and speaker manufacturers. WiSA E is an interoperable audio software/IP solution designed for wireless sound technology on TV and Wi-Fi SoC platforms, enabling built-in transmission capabilities of high-quality multichannel audio streams.

CEVA, Inc., the wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies licensing company, announced that cumulative royalty-bearing chip shipments that include CEVA IP surpassed 15 billion units during the second quarter of 2022. This significant milestone has been achieved as CEVA approaches it’s 20-year anniversary of being a public company. While the first 10 billion CEVA-powered shipments spanned more than 15 years, the next 5 billion shipments took less than three and a half years.

Xperi Corporation - the owner of DTS and HD Radio - and TiVo Corporation announced they entered into a definitive agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction, representing approximately $3 billion of combined enterprise value. The transaction creates a much larger consumer and entertainment technology business and one of the industry’s largest intellectual property (IP) licensing platforms with a diverse portfolio of entertainment and semiconductor intellectual property.