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NXP today announced that Mark Lunsford has joined the company as vice president of sales and marketing for the Americas. He is responsible for overseeing NXP’s Americas sales and marketing teams, focused on helping customers succeed with NXP’s mixed-signal and standard products solutions and enabling new business opportunities.

NXP Semiconductors today announced that its secure microcontroller-based chip technology MIFARE DESFire has been selected by the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), an IT organization under the Ministry of Railways, to power contactless smart cards for automatic fare collection using ATVMs (Automatic Ticket Vending Machines) across various cities in India. Indian Railways, one of the largest and busiest rail transport networks in the w...

Laird Technologies today announced that the Patent Board ranks the company as #17 in Industry Impact, #19 in Innovation Cycle Time, and #41 overall in the board’s Top 50 Scorecard for Telecommunications – an increase of 16 points from its previous ranking.

Intersil is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its rebirth as an independent company. On Friday, August 13, 1999, Intersil was officially spun-off from Harris Corporation and became a standalone semiconductor enterprise. Just six months after the spin-out, Intersil joined the NASDAQ and completed the largest semiconductor Initial Public Offering (IPO) at that point in history.

The National Microelectronics Institute (NMI) and the Scottish Semiconductor Supplier Forum (SSSF) have announced that the boards of both trade associations have agreed to a merger. The move sees the NMI assume full responsibility for all activities of the SSSF, whose 60-strong membership will be invited to transfer to the NMI.

GOEPEL electronic, worldwide leading vendor of JTAG/Boundary Scan solutions compliant with IEEE1149.x, announces the incorporation of the company Flying Test Systems Ltd. (FTSL) into the global alliance program GATE (GOEPEL Associated Technical Experts). The focus of the cooperation is on the development and practical implementation of new elements and technologies for extended JTAG/Boundary Scan instrumentation.

National Instruments recognised 20 innovative applications developed by engineers, scientists and researchers from around the world at the second annual Graphical System Design Achievement Awards earlier this month. At the award ceremony held during the annual NIWeek graphical system design conference and exhibition in Austin, Texas, winners from 10 categories ranging from academic/research to prototype/validation test were recognised for develop...

GOEPEL electronic, a leading vendor of JTAG/Boundary Scan solutions compliant with IEEE1149.x announces the incorporation of the Chinese company Fulitech (Full Linkage Ltd.) into the global alliance program GATE (GOEPEL Associated Technical Experts).

CUI Inc is now a member of the Power Management Bus Implementers Forum (PMBus). PMBus is an industry standard developed to allow power converters to communicate over a digital bus. Current PMBus adopters include semiconductor companies such as TI, Infineon, and Intersil, power supply companies like Delta and Artesyn, and OEMs like Dell and Intel.

National Instruments, a leader in control design and embedded systems, and Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp., a leader in mechanical design software, today announced their collaboration on a pioneer mechatronics tool that helps mechanical and control engineers work together to lower the cost and risk of motion system design. Seamlessly connecting NI LabVIEW graphical system design software and SolidWorks® 3D CAD software, the new virtual proto...