Infineon announced that the carve-out of its memory products business group into a new company will be effective on May 1st, 2006. The new company named Qimonda will start its operations headquartered in Munich. Qimonda will have the legal form of a German Aktiengesellschaft (AG) and will initially ...

Rohde & Schwarz announced LXI-validated spectrum analyzers (R&S FSL, R&S FSQ and R&S FSx family). They meet the class C specifications defined in the LXI standard. The company is a member of the Board of Directors of the LXI Consortium and promotes the development of the standard. The Munich company...

Parallax, based in Rocklin, California, previously mainly known as manufacturer of the so-called BasicStamp, a micro-controller system based on PIC controllers from Microchip, has developed its own micro-controller, called the “Propeller” utilizing an architecture that is different in many aspects f...

Intersil announced the hire of Peter Oaklander to the position of senior vice president of Worldwide Sales, located at Intersil's headquarters in Milpitas, California. He will replace Alden Chauvin, who will retire later this year. Mr. Oaklander spent the past 20 years at Analog Devices, most recent...

Lattice Semiconductor announced the availability of several ispLeverCORE Intellectual Property (IP) modules that are user configurable via its IPexpress design flow. The IPexpress flow is included as a standard feature in Lattice’s ispLEVER design tool suite and supported functions include DDR, Ethe...

LSI Logic appointed Badar Baqai as Vice President Engineering of the IP Products and Solutions organization within Custom Solutions Group Marketing. Baqai will lead the IP Products and Solutions organization to internally develop differentiating silicon, robust intellectual property (IP) and establi...

Göpel electronic introduces SFX-TAP(x)/FXT, transceivers which are additional components to the JTAG/Boundary Scan hardware platform Scanflex. These TAP transceivers (SFX transceivers) we developed for the integration into In-Circuit Testers (ICT) and optionally offer 2, 4, 6 and 8 parallel, indepen...