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....

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 a...

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 ...

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 propert...

In its second quarter 2007, Ansoft achieved a turnover of 20.5 m US$ and achieved a net profit of 3.7 M US$ from it. In comparison to Q2/2006 the turnover rose by 14%. The net profit was reduced by 10...

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...

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 16...