News & Analysis
NXP Strengthens Management Team
NXP Semiconductors today announced the extension of its management team with the appointments of Kurt Sievers as general manager for the automotive business and Frans Scheper as general manager for the standard products business. Both executives will report directly to President and CEO Rick Clemmer. The positions will enable NXP to further deliver on its strategy of building leadership in High Performance Mixed Signal (HPMS) technology, while ma...
NXP Semiconductors Announces Third Quarter 2009 Results
NXP Semiconductors today announced third quarter sales of USD 1,034 million, a comparable increase of 19.2% and a nominal increase of 20.7% from the second quarter of 2009. While the effects of the economic and financial crisis continue to have an impact on the industry, the increase in sales on a sequential basis was visible across all business segments and regions.
Cable Set-Top-Box Platform from STMicroelectronics Drives Value-Added Digital-TV Services in China
STMicroelectronics has announced that its highly integrated single-chip STi5197 cable STB decoder is now shipping in high volume to leading STB makers in China. The STi5197 includes a QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) demodulator and MPEG-2 audio/video-decoding and application-processing functions making the chip ideally suited to the cost-effective solutions being requested by operators in all markets. The chip also supports all major condit...
STMicroelectronics Reports 2009 Third Quarter and Nine Month Financial Results
STMicroelectronics reported financial results for the 2009 third quarter and nine months ended September 26, 2009. President and CEO Carlo Bozotti, “The third quarter progressed well in line with our expectations, with strong sequential sales growth, a significant reduction in our inventory and continued improvement in operating cash flow.
congatec AG reports record order levels
congatec AG, a leading supplier of embedded computer modules, announces that the company has registered record order levels for the first nine months of 2009. For the first time in the history of the company, orders reached a volume of over 10 million Euro. Part of the orders are to be delivered within this current year while the other part will be delivered in the first half of 2010. Growth was particularly strong in the field of low-power compu...
Imagination and NAVTEQ enter agreement to stimulate developer adoption of 3D graphics in navigation and location-based services (LBS)
Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies company, has teamed up with NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of digital map, traffic and location data for in-vehicle, portable, wireless and enterprise solutions, to drive innovation in graphics for location-based services (LBS). Imagination and NAVTEQ Network for Developers (NN4D.com) aim to stimulate increased developer adoption by providing technical documentation and resourc...
Freescale and Synopsys announce multi-year strategic collaboration agreement to increase verification productivity
Synopsys, Inc. has announced the expansion of its verification collaboration with Freescale. The integration of complex hardware enabled by Moore’s law, IP, and embedded software content in modern devices is causing a rapid increase in verification complexity. Freescale and Synopsys have broadened their ongoing collaboration to manage this growing complexity. In addition to verification performance, efficiency, and methodology, the expanded col...
Wolfson Power Management IC selected for IREX Technologies’ new touch-screen eReader
Wolfson Microelectronics has announced that IREX Technologies has selected the WM8352, a Wolfson power management device with integrated stereo CODEC, for its innovative new touch-screen eReader, the DR800SG. The WM8352 is part of the successful portfolio of Wolfson AudioPlus devices, which offers a highly integrated solution delivering superior sound quality and extended battery life to leading edge portable multimedia devices, such as the IREX ...
Power Protection/Control From FDB Electrical
FDB Electrical has announced its FDB27 range of Hangar Power Distribution Cubicles (PDC) which has proved to be the benchmark for individual circuit protection in RAF Bases around the world. Designed in accordance with MOD and PSA specifications, the FDB27 range provides electrical protection and control for power supplies to ground support equipment in hangars, workshops and garages.
Fischer moves to new headquarters and production site
In response to increasing market needs, Fischer Connectors SA has just moved its headquarters and primary production center to new facilities along the lake of Geneva in Saint-Prex, Switzerland, just 10 km away from their former location in Apples.