Infineon announced the planned acquisition of Texas Instruments’ DSL Customer Premises Equipment business. The transaction is expected to close in the summer of 2007. Infineon plans to continue supporting Texas Instruments’ product portfolio and existing customer designs while leveraging the acquire...

Conexant Systems announced that Daniel Artusi will join the company as president and chief executive officer. His first day with Conexant will be Monday, July 9, 2007. He will also become a member of the company’s board of directors. Artusi, 52, succeeds Dwight W. Decker, 57, who in March of this ye...

Zarlink will acquire the privately held Legerity, a developer of voice ICs for carrier, enterprise and residential gateway equipment for US $134.5 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close in late July. Zarlink's portfolio of network synchronization, voice enhancement and telecom-related...

Epson Toyocom Corporation has added the RA-4565SA with support for high-speed serial interfaces to its lineup of real-time clock modules that can operate in high-temperature environments, in vehicular applications and industrial machinery. Samples will begin shipping in August 2007. The RA-4565SA&nb...

The exhibition board of the SPS/IPC/DRIVES has two new members. These are Markus Paschmann from Sick und Bernhard Schmeing fromABB Stotz-Kontakt. Chairman of the committee is Wolfgang Tondasch from Panasonic Electric Works Deutschland. The SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2007 will take place from the 27th to the 29t...

North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.67 billion in orders in May 2007 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.00 according to the May 2007 Book-to-Bill Report published today by SEMI. A book-to-bill of 1.00 means that $100 worth of orders were rec...

The german controls manufacturer, Jetter, achieved a company turnover in the past business year (End: March 2007) of 36.6 m Euro. This exceeded the results of the previous year by 46%. Before taxes and interest (EBIT) the profits increased by 110% to 3.5 m Euro.