Intersil has introduced a battery authentication ICs for cell phones. The ISL9206 and ISL9206A are battery authentication ICs that incorporate Intersil’s FlexiHash+ engine. It provides very high levels of security using a basic challenge/response scheme based on 32-bit challenge code and 8-bit respo...

The MSC Vertriebs GmbH in Stutensee, Germany has acquired the majority shareholding of Able Design, a company founded in 1994 for the marketing of modules with TFT electro-luminance and plasma displays. Able is situated in Munich and also develops customer-specific display solutions and in 2007 achi...

Gleichmann Electronics presents part number NL8048BC19-02, the 7.0 inches TFT display, designed by NEC LCD Technologies and built using twisted nematic (TN) technology. It has a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels and is controlled via a selectable 6-bit or 8-bit low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS)...

Rafael Schröer has been named as the new Managing Director of the German subsidiary of Kyocera. Schroer was previously the General Manager of the Kyocera Fineceramics GmbH. Within the EMEA segment he is responsible for the activities for the product areas solar, LCD, thin film components, automotive...

TTTech, a supplier of solutions in the field of time-triggered technologies, and ON Semiconductor, have agreed to join forces to develop a controller for TTP (Time-Triggered Protocol). This controller is targeted at cross-industry applications and especially the aerospace market. TTTech and ON Semic...

Synopsys, a company working on software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Synplicity, a supplier of field programmable gate array and IC design and verification solutions.

In addition to Synplicity's solutions for FPGAs, ...

AMD announced the appointment of Nigel Dessau as chief marketing officer. Dessau joins AMD from Sun Microsystems, where he was senior vice president of storage marketing and senior vice president of alliances and licensing. Prior to that, he was CMO of StorageTek and spent 19 years at IBM. In Septem...