Friedhelm Loh was confirmed in his position as President of the ZVEI-Zentralverband Elektrotechnik und Elektronikindustrie [German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturer’s Association] for a further three years. Loh is the owner and Chairman of the board of Friedhelm Loh Stiftung & Co. KG in Haiger,...

Transmeta has initiated a process to seek a potential sale of the Company. The Company has entered into two agreements with Intel for the licensing of certain Transmeta technologies and intellectual property and for the accelerated payment of its receivables from Intel, which will result in a one-ti...

Keithley Instruments introduces the Model 2308 Portable Device Battery/Charger Simulator, a dual-channel battery- and charger-simulating power supply designed to provide the testing of both the growing range of mobile phones with new, complex transmission schemes and other types of new portable devi...

MultiMediaCard Association (MMCA) and JEDEC Solid State Technology Association (JEDEC) announced plans to merge certain MMCA assets, including embedded MMC (e-MMC) and miCARD specifications, trademarks and Intellectual Property rights, into JEDEC. The merger follows a partnership forged during the d...

Xilinx announced a single-FPGA solution for telecommunications equipment manufacturers developing 40- and 100-Gigabit Ethernet (GE) solutions. Xilinx has added the Virtex-5 TXT platform to its family of 65-nanometer FPGAs. The platform consists of two devices that deliver 6.5Gbps serial transceivers...

Schurter’s IEC C14 inlet with EMI filter, series 5120 ECO design, meets the demands of IT, medical and industrial appliances and is now also available as snap-in mounting version. The series combines an IEC C14 or C18 inlet with line filter in various mounting styles. The EMI filter is dimensioned a...

Renesas is planning a sale of its production facility in Germany (Renesas Semiconductor Europe in Landshut, RSEL) – to Silicon Foundry Holding (SFH). SFH is a Germany-based company specializing in semiconductor foundry services. RSEL has been present in Landshut for 28 years and has produced microco...