Cortus S.A.

Cortus S.A. announces the closure of a funding round. The investment from financial partners Credit Agricole Entreprises and Banque Dupuy de Parseval and institutional partners OSEO and the Region of Languedoc-Roussillon focus on international expansion and development.

Cortus has been awarded the Siemens France 2011 Grand Prix for Innovation in the Category Town of Tomorrow for their innovative, low power, high performance APS3 processor for the embedded systems of today and tomorrow. For the next year Cortus will benefit from the sponsorship and mentoring of Siemens France.

PointChips, a South Korean company, has included the Cortus APS3 32 bit processor in their touch screen controller chip. The APS3 provides the processing power to translate the signals received from the sensors on a touch sensitive surface into information that can be used by a smart phone or tablet. The APS3 processor, running custom software written by experts at PointChips, enhances the user experience of smart phone and tablet users with sophisticated features such as advanced gesture recognition and enhanced precision to ensure easy and reliable operation.

Cortus today announced that Certicom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM), and an industry leader in Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) security has licensed the Cortus APS3 CPU for use in their hardware security technology.

Cortus and RivieraWaves announce a partnership providing a range of complete, turnkey, easy to integrate, Bluetooth IP solutions.