Maxwell Technologies reported a net loss of $2.6 million, on revenue of $14.2 million for its third quarter 2007. That compares with a net loss of $5.4 million, on revenue of $14.0 million for the same period in 2006. Boostcap ultracapacitor revenue increased 28 percent sequentially, from $3.9 milli...

Cypress Semiconductor announced the appointment of David Kranzler as Vice President of the Timing Solutions business unit, effective immediately. Kranzler recently served as senior vice president of Product Development at Savi Technologies, an early pioneer of RFID solutions that was acquired by Loc...

Vishay released a series of surface-mount infrared receiver modules. Designed for long-range operation in infrared remote control, data transmission, and light barrier applications, the TSOP85 series is intended for use in portable systems requiring ultra-small component profiles. Typical end produc...

QuickLogic announces the addition of a SPI (serial peripheral interconnect) Host Controller to its customer specific standard product (CSSP) functional library. The SPI interface gives mobile device designers a low pin-count alternative to SDIO or mini-PCI for implementing high speed connections to ...

Lattice Semiconductor and Dune Networks, a provider of networking devices for Data Center, Enterprise and Carrier Ethernet scalable switching platforms, will collaborate in the development and marketing of SPAUI-based networking solutions. LatticeSCM FPGAs provide a programmable platform to bridge t...

Maxim Integrated Products introduces the MAX5957/MAX5958 (triple) and MAX5959/MAX5960 (quad), fully integrated, 3-/4-channel hot-plug controllers for safe insertion and removal of PCI-Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, PCIe) cards from live PCI-Express hot-plug slots. The target app...

Cirrus Logic has named Scott Anderson as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Mixed-Signal Audio division of the company. Until 2005, Anderson was with Freescale where his last position was as COO. He joined Cirrus as successor to Jason Rhode who moved up to the top position of President...