Jennic has announced that its chips, modules, stacks and development kits now form part of a ZigBee compliant platform.The company's products were tested by TÜV Rheinland Group and have been considered ready for use out of the box by developers building products for wireless sensor networks based on...

STMicroelectronics reports net revenues for the second quarter of $2,495 million, 15.4% above the $2,162 million reported in last year’s second quarter. The Company had a net income of $168 million. In the year-ago quarter, STM reported a net income of $26 million.

Texas Instruments reported revenue of $3.70 billion for the second quarter of 2006. Revenue was 11 percent higher sequentially and 24 percent higher than the same quarter a year ago. As previously announced, the company received a $70 million royalty settlement in the quarter that was included in re...

In its second quarter of the current business year, Kontron achieved a turnover of 93.3 m Euro and thus exceeded its previous year’s result by 31%. In the first 6 months of this year the results totalled 179.9 m Euro. With an EBIT of 6,7 m in the second quarter, the results of the company were 36% a...

By utilising AnalogicTech’s AAT1231, designers can use a single wire to digitally control white LEDs. The AAT1231 is a high frequency, inductive boost DC/DC converter for controlling white LEDs in portable systems operating from single-cell lithium-ion/polymer batteries. Delivering 50mA up to 24V, t...

Magma Design Automation, a provider of semiconductor design software, announced the acquisition of ACAD, a developer of simulation and power analysis solutions for ICs. A key product of ACAD is FineSim Pro, a simulation analysis tool that incorporates transistor-level simulation analysis capabilitie...

For approximately $5.4 billion the processor manufacturer AMD will acquire the graphic, chipset and consumer electronics company ATI. Combining technologies, people, and complementary strengths, AMD plans to deliver in 2007 customer-centric platforms for the benefit of customers who want to collabor...