Vishay announced a series of self-regulating PTC (positive temperature coefficient) thermistors for heating applications. The directly heated PTCHP series devices are optimized for use as heating elements in home appliances such as thermal actuators, insecticide and perfume vaporizers, and small war...

International Rectifier has introduced a set of 600V high-voltage integrated circuits (HVIC). This IRS212x family of 600V single-channel gate drivers is suitable for motor control applications at low-, mid- and high-voltage levels and in a variety of circuit topologies including three-phase inverter...

Zilog announced the strengthening of his senior management team with the addition of Rick Bosshardt as the company's vice president of worldwide distribution sales. Bosshardt comes to Zilog from Freescale Semiconductor Corporation where he served as vice president of global distribution. Prior to Fr...

Freescale announced financial results for the third quarter 2007. Net sales were $1.45 billion, compared to $1.62 billion in the third quarter of 2006. The net loss was $261 million, compared to a net profit of $257 million in the third quarter 2006.

Segment results The Transportation and Standar...

Net revenues at STMicroelectronics for the third quarter increased 6.1% sequentially to $2,565 million from the $2,418 million reported in the prior quarter, with growth led by application-specific wireless and computer products. The Company reported net income of $187 million. In the year-ago quart...

Actel has named Jay Legenhausen as its new senior vice president of worldwide sales. The 17-year veteran will lead Actel's initiatives for its FPGA and programmable system chip (PSC) solutions. Legenhausen comes from Cypress Semiconductor, where he served as vice president of sales.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced a line of camera modules featuring its Dynastron image sensor technology. This family of camera modules, which includes the TCM9200MD, TCM9100MD and the TCM9000MD, were developed using Toshiba’s chip scale camera module (CSCM) manufacturing technology a...