The Varta AG has now found a buyer for the remaining business segment of micro-batteries. At the end of the year it will be transferred to the VEG Beteiligungs GmbH and the Buy-Out Beteiligungs-Invest...

Spectrum Control is taking over all shares of the Californian Potentiometer manufacturer JDK Controls. The purchase price is 4.1 m US$ including the takeover of various JDK debts. JDK is involved in t...

Lattice Semiconductor has expanded its ispClock 5300S family of in-system programmable, single-ended clock buffer devices with the release of the pin-compatible ispClock5316S (16-output) and the ispCl...

Fairchild Semiconductor’s multi-media switches FSA201 and FSA221 integrate both USB and negative swing (low-distortion) audio switching functionality into a single package. This integration enables po...

Intersil announced that Lou DiNardo, who was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer in January 2006, is no longer employed by the company. Prior to his current position he was Executive Vice ...

Tyco Electronics has joined the SiRF Value Added Manufacturer program. As a SiRF VAM, Tyco Electronics will release a family of GPS module products based on SiRF’s SiRFstarIII architecture. The first ...

Maxim Integrated Products introduces the MAX6782-MAX6790, low-power (5.7µA), 1% accurate, battery monitors capable of monitoring up to four voltage levels. These devices are dedicated for monitoring s...