News & Analysis

STMicroelectronics today announced that it has been named one of the “World’s Most Admired Companies” in the semiconductor category of Fortune magazine’s 2010 annual ranking. Among semiconductor companies evaluated, STMicroelectronics is ranked the 6th most admired, in its first year as a participant in the survey. Additionally, it is by far the highest-ranking Europe-based chipmaker on the list.

Rochester Electronics, the world’s largest authorized manufacturer of discontinued semiconductors, provides authorized reverse-engineering services to re-create, manufacture and distribute pin-for-pin replacement parts with matched cycle for cycle timing for aftermarket semiconductor devices. Through its unique Rochester Semiconductor Replication Process (SRP™), customers can avoid system re-qualification steps as the Rochester-designed and m...

Rochester Electronics, the world’s largest authorized manufacturer of discontinued semiconductors, is announcing that it will provide, under a license from Intel®, continuing manufacturing and customer support for Intel’s IXF1002 Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC), which facilitates simple network management protocol (SNMP) and remote monitoring (RMON) management in gigabit Ethernet server environments.

Rochester Electronics provides a stable and genuine source of Numonyx’s Forte M25P family of serial flash memory semiconductor devices. Providing 512 Kbits of flash memory, SPI bus compatible serial interface, fast system speed, sequential read capability, and low power consumption in a small package, the Numonyx Forte M25P serial flash family offers added value to both high- and low-end applications. Rochester has more than 1,783,000 Forte M2...

Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller company, has announced that it has secured an investment of $13 million from Northzone Ventures and Investinor in its first external funding round. The investment will be used to continue the development of Energy Micro's microcontroller product portfolio, to develop and bring to market a family of energy friendly radio products and to expand the organisation and sales channels to support future ...

Green Hills Software has announced that Otis Elevator Company, the world’s largest company in the manufacture, installation, and service of elevators, escalators, and moving walkways, is using Green Hills Software’s MULTI integrated development environment (IDE) in its elevator and escalator control systems.

Continuing to meet the increasing demand for highly integrated, high definition (HD) video, Texas Instruments today announced the new TMS320DM8168 DaVinci video system-on-chip (SoC), which consolidates all of the capture, compression, display and control functionalities of an HD multi-channel system onto a single chip. Designed specifically for video security and video communications applications, this best-in-class video SoC offers extreme inte...

Molex has opened a mobile product design facility located in Beijing, the hub for mobile device development in China. Molex will provide front-end solution support for mobile antenna and connector designs developed in collaboration with customers at the newly established location.

In an effort to enhance customer's choices and options when designing PXI systems, Geotest- Marvin Test Systems, a global producer of PXI and PC-Based test equipment and test solutions, and Pickering Interfaces, a global market innovator in signal switching and conditioning, announced today that they are embarking on a Strategic Alliance program.

Microtune announced that Shanghai Digivision Ltd., a leading company in the Chinese digital television (DTV) industry, selected the Microtune MT2066 single-chip broadband tuner for use in its advanced high-definition cable set-top boxes for the Chinese market.