In October 2006 the American Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported worldwide semiconductor sales of 21.9 bn US$. This is 9.2% more than in October 2005. Compared to the previous month (21.4 b US$), the sales rose by 2.5%.

At Vogt electronic, Dr. Hans-Joachim Dittloff has been named as new Chairman of the Board; he will hold the post together with Dr. Jürgen Sturhahn The 47-year-old Dittloff was last Managing Director and Vice-President Engineering at Agere (whose take-over by LSI Logic was announced today) and before...

Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) is presenting its HC25 wireless module, which can be used all over the world thanks to its triband UMTS and quadband GSM functionality. It is based on the 3.6 Mbps HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) data transmission technology. The module complies wit...

Qualcomm will acquire for cash WLAN technology provider Airgo Networks and the majority of RF Micro Devices' (RFMD's) Bluetooth assets. Palo Alto, California-based Airgo possesses intellectual property assets and resources in WLAN technology and has provided WLAN products to both manufacturers of ac...

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For $4 billion in stock LSI Logic will buy Agere Systems. Agere shareholders will receive 2.16 shares of LSI for each share of Agere they own. The combined company, to be called LSI Logic Corporation, will offer building block solutions including semiconductors, systems and related software for sto...

In retrospect, the Mesago Frankfurt, organizer of the Nuremburg SPS/IPC/Drives, is satisfied with the trade fair which ended on 30 November 2006. The fair company reported 1 203 exhibitors (2005: 1 160) more than 43 000 visitors (2005: 34 653) and 478 participants in the parallel-held congress (2005...