Intersil announced the promotion of Roberto Magnifico to the position of vice president of Sales, Europe, located at Intersil's sales office in Lausanne, Switzerland. Magnifico joined Intersil in 1997 as a marketing manager and progressed to sales director for Europe in 2002. Prior to Intersil, he w...

The German Industry Association for Optical, Medical and Mechatronic Technologies (Deutscher Industrieverband für optische, medizinische und mechatronische Technologien) expects a growth of more than 10% for 2006. Thus, besides the double-figure growth in exports, a positive trend has also appeared ...

Vishay announced a surface-mount Power Metal Strip resistor that is a 1-W current sensing resistor in the 1206 package size. The WSLP1206 resistor features a very low 2-mΩ to 50-mΩ resistance value range, and high-temperature performance up to 170°C. It is intended for current sensing and ...

Azzurri Technology will purchase GD Technik, a UK based Semiconductor Distributor. The completion of this transaction is expected to be 1st October 2006. Azzurri Technology Limited was founded in July 1997 and has subsidiaries in Germany, France, Italy and the UK. Azzurri's forecasted sales for 2006...

The German component distribution market grew in the second quarter 2006 by 17.3% to 587 million Euro. This was reported by the Association for Component Distribution (FBDI) on behalf of its members. The Book-to-Bill ratio (comparison of orders received to turnover) was reduced to 1.02 but the order...

Actel introduced Silicon Sculptor 3, a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) programming tool. The software includes a high-speed USB 2.0 interface that allows a customer to connect as many as 12 programmers to a single PC. Further, Silicon Sculptor 3 is compatible with adapter modules from Silicon S...

Xilinx announced availability of version 8.2i of his Platform Studio tool suite for embedded processing design. The tool suite is part of the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit (EDK) and introduces access support for the company's 65nm Virtex-5 LX domain-optimized FPGAs. The latest release of Platform ...