Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced the first device in a family of ESD protection diodes aimed at interface protection applications for high-speed data ports. The DF2S6.8UFS electrostatic discharge protection diode is a low capacitance diode from Toshiba. The company’s line-up of ESD protectio...

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and the Investment bank Goldman Sachs have taken over the American electronic company Harman International Industries for approximately 7.8 bn US$. Harman is active primarily in the Audio sector. Included in this group are the Austrian microphone and earphone manu...

STMicroelectronics completed its ST7 UltraLite family of 8-pin microcontrollers - intended for HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning), home appliance, lighting control and power-tool markets. With a 2-Kbyte Flash program memory, and 128-bytes of data EEPROM, the new tiny devices have a lar...

It was announced on 1st May 2007 that German manufacturer of Frequency Control products Jauch Quartz GmbH has purchased the remaining shares of Logic Electronic Components Ltd whom have acted as sole distributor for Jauch in the UK & Ireland for 20 years. Jauch is a manufacturer of frequency con...

In the second quarter Tyco Electronics achieved a turnover of 3.42 bn US$. This amount exceeds the comparison value of 2006 by 6%. The net profit was 455 m US$, which is 2% less than the Q2/2006.

Exar and Sipex have entered into a merger agreement to combine the two companies. Under the terms of the agreement, Sipex stockholders will receive 0.6679 of a share of Exar for each share of Sipex. Exar stockholders will own approximately 67.6% and Sipex stockholders will own approximately 32.4% of...

Ultralife Batteries reported record quarterly revenues of $32.3 million, an increase of 76% over the $18.3 million reported in the same three-month period in 2006. Operating income for the first quarter of 2007 was $0.6 million compared with $0.2 million a year ago. Revenues in the first quarter of ...