Analysis

Intersil has announced the appointment of David Bell as President and Chief Operating Officer, effective April 2, 2007. In addition, Mr. Bell will become a member of the Company's Board of Directors. Most recently, Mr. Bell served as President of Linear Technology from June 2003 until January 2007. Prior to becoming President, Mr. Bell served as Vice President and General Manager of Power Products from 2002 to 2003 and as General Manager of Po...

Renesas Technology Corp. and ZMD AG have announced a joint development agreement enabling Renesas to incorporate ZMD’s RF technology into Renesas microcontrollers (MCU) to develop a 900MHz band ZigBee chipset. Based on this agreement, the two companies will set up a collaborative development team with the aim of bringing a ZigBee chipset to market. The resulting advanced chipset is expected to accelerate the development of various types of IEEE...

Bristol-based microprocessor start-up XMOS Semiconductor has become the 100th member of the National Microelectronics Institute (NMI), the trade association representing the semiconductor industry in the UK and Ireland.

Avago Technologies has announced the launch of a new user-friendly lighting portal that contains all of its LED lighting components and solutions in one convenient location -- www.avagotechlighting.com. This new web-based comprehensive resource centre was developed specifically for lighting designers who are constantly faced with time-to-market issues and need to quickly find the right LED solution to shorten their design cycle. Avago is a leadin...

National Instruments UK and Ireland has announced the 2007 Oil and Gas Industry Symposium, a one-day complimentary seminar that takes place on Tuesday 15th May 2007 at The Hilton Aberdeen Treetops hotel. This Symposium is part of a series, presented by NI and partners, that reaches 13 major drilling and exploration cities across North America, South America and Europe.

Tony Blair has visited Zetex Semiconductor’s Oldham Headquarters during a fact-finding trip to the North West of England. He was accompanied on a one hour tour of the Zetex Technology Park by Zetex Chief Executive Officer Hans Rohrer.

Green Hills Software has announced that Saab Bofors Dynamics AB has selected the Green Hills Software INTEGRITY RTOS, networking middleware and Ada-MULTI integrated development environment (IDE) for the next phase of its RBS15 project. The RBS15 is a next generation fire-and-forget, multi-purpose surface-to-surface missile system.

UK-based Digital Signage solutions manufacturer, ONELAN reports a 100% year-on-year increase in sales of their Net-Top-Box (NTB) 100 series in 2006. Monthly sales of the company’s multimedia players, which allow the upload of customised material onto any LCD or plasma screen (freeview TV, ticker-tape news from internet, video, graphics etc), also hit an all-time time high last month since their launch in 2004.

Photonic Products, the UK opto-electronics device manufacturer and laser diode specialist, has introduced the Opnext HL6750MG 685nm laser diode for use in medical and biomedical applications such as x-ray scanners, industrial and medical sensor light sources and as a light source for various other types of optical equipment such as distance meters, barcode scanners and high resolution CTP.

Avago Technologies has announced it has added a line of single-mode SFP transceivers for long reach SONET OC-48 to its METRAK family of SONET products. The AFCT-5745xZ line of transceivers includes high-performance, cost effective modules for serial optical data communications that range from 125 Mb/s to 2.7 Gb/s. The new SFP OC-48 transceivers are ideal for OADMs, metro routers and multiservice switches.