Texas Instruments reported in its first-quarter earnings a 12% drop. TI earned $516 million in the recent quarter, compared with $585 million a year earlier. Revenue fell to $3.19 billion from $3.33 billion a year ago.

Silicon Image, a developer of semiconductors for the secure storage, distribution and presentation of high-definition content, has promoted Sal Cobar, 53, to the position of vice president of world-wide sales. Cobar, previously senior director, strategic accounts and Americas sales, is responsible f...

Dallas Semiconductor, subsidiary of Maxim Integrated Products, introduces the DS26519, a 16-port T1/E1/J1 long- and short-haul transceiver. The high integration of the DS26519, along with its 1.8V/3.3V power operation, makes it usefull for channel service units (CSUs), data service units (DSUs), mux...

Frontier Silicon extends its portfolioof mobile TV solutions with the launch of a single-chip receiver for T-DMB and DAB-IP broadcasts. The IC, called Paradiso 1T (FS1032), has been created using enhanced system-in-package (SiP) techniques, incorporating Frontier Silicon's digiSHIELD technology, to ...

The German Medical Technology Association Spectaris expects that the producing medical technology companies in Germany will end the year 2007 with a turnover profit of up to 8% and that the total turnover of the industry will rise to approximately 17.2 bn Euro.

In the previous year 2006 the numb...

Microchip announces the inauguration of a new Design Centre in Bucharest, Romania. Microchip has initially recruited 15 staffers, with a total of 30 jobs planned by the end of 2008 and 100 over the next four years. The centre forms part of Microchip’s worldwide network of Design Centres located in I...

On the 1st of May 2007, Fortec Elektronic intends to take over the Autronic Steuer- und Regeltechnik Company in the course of a so-called Asset Deal. Autronic was founded in 1973 in Ludwigsburg in Germany and produces customer-specific DC/DC converters. In 1988 the company moved into its works in Sa...