X-FAB Silicon Foundries announced sales of USD 186.2 million for the first half of 2007, an increase of approximately 69% year-over-year. In the second quarter, the company recorded sales of USD 100.8 million, for the first time surpassing the USD 100 million mark in a quarter. Earnings before inter...

Schroff introduces another member of its MicroTCA product range - an intelligent fan unit whose speed is regulated by the MicroTCA Shelf Manager. This fan unit is classified as a cooling unit (CU) in the MicroTCA “language”. It consists of a micro controller, the so-called EMMC which establishes the...

MIPS Technologies, a provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores, will acquire privately-held Chipidea Microelectronica, an independent Portugal based supplier of analog and mixed signal intellectual property. MIPS will pay an aggregate of $147 million in cash, with an additional...

According to DMASS (Distributors’ and Manufacturers’ Association of Semiconductor Specialists), the semiconductor distributor and manufacturer members achieved Q2/2007 quarterly distribution revenues of 1.37 Billion Euro. The first half of 2007 still showed 0.9% growth compared to all-time-high leve...

Synopsys reported for its third quarter 2007 revenue of $304.1 million, a 10 percent increase compared to $277.2 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2006. On a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis, net income for the third quarter of fiscal 2007 was $24.9 million, compared to $7...

With the launch of the GP1S296HCPSF, Sharp Microelectronics is presenting a photo interrupter that measures 2.5 x 1.8 x 1.9 mm. The housing volume for the sub-miniature photo interrupter is merely half that of the technically comparable precursor model. Sharp has achieved this level of miniaturisati...

Maxim purchases the Storage Products Business of Vitesse Semiconductor located in Colorado for $63 million in cash. An additional amount up to $12 million in cash will be payable by Maxim upon the achievement of certain commercial milestones through the end of Vitesse's 2008 fiscal year on September...