News & Analysis

Agilent Technologies announced its sponsorship of the electrical engineering undergraduate teaching lab at Santa Clara University (SCU) in Silicon Valley. The lab is designed to give students access to the most current electronic test equipment used in the industry.

Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) and Varian, Inc. (NasdaqGS: VARI) today announced that they have been granted conditional antitrust clearance from the European Commission for Agilent's proposed acquisition of Varian.

Fairchild Semiconductor today announced results for the fourth quarter ended December 27, 2009. Fairchild reported fourth quarter sales of $354.5 million, up 7 percent from the prior quarter and 11 percent higher than the fourth quarter of 2008.

NXP and Intrinsic-ID, an emerging semiconductor intellectual property (IP) and services provider, today announced a collaborative agreement to license and deploy a hardware intrinsic security (HIS) solution in NXP’s next-generation SmartMX security chip technology. The partnership enables NXP to utilize Intrinsic-ID’s QuiddikeyTM solution to secure SmartMX-powered assets against cloning, tampering, theft-of-service and reverse engineering.

Intense Ltd, developer of next generation semiconductor lasers, systems and solutions, and Compound Semiconductor Technologies (CST) have announced that the two companies have completed a deal to consolidate their business operations in the UK. CST has acquired the UK fabrication assets of Intense Ltd. in Hamilton, Scotland. As part of the deal Intense has taken a minority stake in the enlarged CST business and will complete the process of conso...

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.

Intense Ltd., developer of next generation semiconductor lasers, systems and solutions, today announced that Berthold Schmidt has been appointed CEO of the company. Scott Christie, former CEO, has stepped up to become Executive Chairman of the Board. Schmidt, in his new role as CEO, has promoted Kevin Laughlin to Chief Commercial Officer, widening Laughlin's current remit to take global responsibility for all business development, sales, and mark...

Avago Technologies a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced the industry’s most energy efficient 1MBd digital optocoupler. Avago’s compact low power ACPL-M50L single channel optocoupler, which operates on approximately 80 percent less drive current than today’s standard 1MBd digital optocouplers, targets designers of communication interfaces, micr...

A seminar for System Integrators and OEMs working in the road, rail or marine sectors will take place at the Russ Hill Hotel ,Gatwick, on 17th March 2010. The event is guaranteed to provide innovative new ideas and excellent core knowledge on the application of technologies such as Wifi, 3G and redundant Ethernet communications for Transport Systems. The one day event is completely free of charge and includes a full cooked lunch providing an exce...

PREMO will co-participate with Marke Elektronik, sales representative in Turkey, at the World of Industry (WIN) Fair, Eurasia’s biggest manufacturing industry fair celebrated in Turkey. The event will take place from 25-28 February in Istanbul. Visit us at Hall 2/ booth B250.