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Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced record third quarter fiscal 2010 sales of $513.3 million, up 24% sequentially and up 12% from the third quarter of the prior fiscal year. Third quarter net income was $106.9 million, or $0.38 per diluted share, including previously announced restructuring charges totaling $5.5 million, or approximately $0.02 per diluted share. On a year over year basis, third quarter net income and diluted earnings per ...

UMC and Xilinx Inc. today announced they have fully qualified the Virtex-6 FPGA family on the foundry's high- performance 40nm logic process. The qualification is the result of the close work between engineering teams from both companies to further enhance yield, reliability and cycle time. The full qualification of the Virtex-6 family signifies the transition to 40nm volume production following UMC's first shipments of the devices in March 2009.

PLX Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLXT), a leading global supplier of consumer storage silicon and software, today announced its network attached storage (NAS) solutions, which include the industry's highest-performance system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices, exceeded one million units having been shipped to global customers. This landmark achievement validates a broad consumer market adoption of PLX® NAS solutions and reflects the rising demand of easily a...

Minicom Advanced Systems - a leading developer of IT & KVM remote access and management solutions, announced that it is partnering with SharkRack, a premier provider of infrastructure solutions for data centers and network rooms. SharkRack chose Minicom as their KVM vendor because of their advanced IP KVM and KVM over CAT5 product lines, which include remote access management solutions, KVM switches, LCD drawers with integrated KVM switches, and ...

Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a world leader in product safety and conformity testing and certification services, today announced UL International (UK) Ltd. (UL UK) has been appointed as a Notified Body to the Construction Products Directive (CPD). UL UK is now notified as a certification and inspection organization for fire detection and alarm equipment and fire resistance products and systems. The company can now offer CE Marking services wit...

Heraeus has acquired the thick film cermet product line from LORD Corporation. LORD entered this market in 2002 by acquiring Metech, a leading manufacturer of cermet and polymeric thick film solutions.

SiTel Semiconductor today announced that its DECT / CAT-iq technology has been integrated into Broadcom’s single-chip Integrated Access Device (IAD). The device is the first of its kind to offer ADSL2+ broadband internet, 802.11n wireless connectivity Gigabit Ethernet switching, Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) and Voice over IP (VoIP). It features a DECT CAT-iq core from SiTel that supports DECT, DECT6.0 and CAT-iq for excel...

Datatronics Romoland, Inc., a global leader in advanced custom magnetic component technologies for military, medical and other mission-critical applications, today announces the renewal of its AS9100 Certification.

Sondrel, the leading European physical implementation IC design house, was today presented with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category by the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, Mary Bayliss.

Celcite Management Solutions (www.celcite.com), the world’s leading provider of network optimization tools for wireless networks, today announced that it had been named by Washington SmartCEO magazine as one of the publication’s fifth annual Future 50 winners, in partnership with Clifton Gunderson LLP. The Future 50 program recognizes the 50 fastest-growing companies in the Greater Washington area, based on employee and revenue growth. The aw...