SAN JOSE -- Tessera Technologies today raised its financial guidance for the first quarter of 2005. The company also announced a licensing deal with Fujitsu.

Tessera now expects first quarter revenue in the range of $27.3 million to $27.5 million, as compared to previous guidance of $21.5 million to $22.0 million.

Ina press release, Tessera chairman and chief executive Bruce McWilliams said, "We are revising our guidance upwards based upon the impact of new licenses signed, as well as the overall good performance from our existing licensees in the past quarter, particularly related to devices used in computing and in personal communications."

Also, today, the company signed a technology licensing agreement with Fujitsu covering chip-scale packaging in ASICs, ASSPs and system-on-chips.

The technology includes chip-scale and multichip package types. No financial details were disclosed.