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Integrated Device Technology has today announced that Richard D. Crowley, senior vice president and chief financial officer, will be resigning his position with IDT to pursue another executive opportunity. The Company has appointed Brian C. White as chief financial officer effective September 11, 2013. White has more than 25 years of accounting and financial experience, including six years as vice president of finance and treasurer at IDT.

Research Media Ltd is proud to be media partner to ECOC 2013 (European Conference on Optical Communications). Organised by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Europe’s largest professional body of engineers, the conference takes place at the ICC London ExCeL from 22 to 26 September. The five day conference will feature presentations from leading and respected global industry experts and institutions about the latest develop...

IC Insights has published a list of the top semiconductor sales leaders for the first half of 2013. The list showed the usual big-time players that we’ve come to expect like Intel, Samsung, and TSMC, leading the way in semiconductor sales through the first six months of the year. What stood out nearly as much, however, was that only one Japanese company—Toshiba—was present among the top 10 suppliers through the first half of 201...

Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy and AREVA declare that they have reached an agreement aimed at improving the safety of nuclear power plants through the delivery of filtered containment venting systems. The two companies intend to work together, including the adoption by Hitachi-GE of AREVA technology for the design, fabrication, and installation of these components. They will be used for the boiling water reactors in Japan.

Cadence Design Systems reveal that Hitachi decreased development time and accelerated time to market for new IT products by utilizing the Cadence Rapid Prototyping Platform. Hitachi collaborated with Cadence as a strategic partner on an integrated verification and early software development environment to enhance quality and shorten turnaround time for Hitachi’s new IT products. Hitachi successfully implemented a system-level co-verification en...

Couldn’t get to Nuremberg in time for this spring’s PCIM (power control, intelligent motion) exhibition? Here’s a digested summary of the most compelling new products and other interesting developments from the show. Sally Ward-Foxton rounds up the most interesting MOSFETs, excellent IGBTs and the best of the rest from PCIM 2013.

Dassault Systèmes today announced its intent to acquire Apriso for approximately $205 million. The acquisition of the Long Beach, California-based Apriso enriches the global manufacturing operations management capabilities of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

OLED lighting developments are taking place worldwide, with a lot of the research focused on phosphorescent OLED materials, which have a theoretical luminous efficacy four times higher than fluorescent materials. Last month, Konica Minolta unveiled its new flexible OLED lighting panels at the Lighting Fair 2013 exhibition in Tokyo. The company has developed its own blue phosphorescent materials, enabling it to commercialize the world's first OLED...

by Raghu Das, CEO, IDTechEx LCD panel makers in Taiwan, Japan and Korea have been suffering. Despite the growing demand for LCDs the high number of panel makers and new competition from China has resulted in tough price competition for panel makers, to the point that many panel makers are no longer profitable. In 2012, Samsung Electronics moved their LCD business units into a separate entity. One report suggests that the Taiwanese have investe...

Crocus Technology announces today the appointment of Dr. Ken Mackay as vice-president of technology development. Mackay was previously director of memory cell engineering at Crocus, a post he held for two and a half years, where he was in charge of developing and integrating magnetic and thermal properties of semiconductor materials.