Freescale announced the appointment of Dr. Lisa Su to the position of Senior Vice President and General Manager, Networking and Multimedia. Dr. Su joined Freescale in 2007 as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. She replaces Lynelle McKay, the prior general manager, who recently annou...

In 2008 the manufacturers of electrical drives in Germany expects growth of sales of 4.1 percent according to the segment of Electrical Drives in the German ZVEI Association of Automation. This would be the 6th successive growth year. The number of employees will increase by approximately 4 percent ...

The PR4404 from Prema is a LED driver providing more than 150mA out of one battery cell and up to 300mA from two batteries for one to three power LEDs. A hold input allows controlling the LED brightness via a PWM signal or switching the LED from a microcontroller. Several applications and circuits c...

Advantech has named Alex Lin to Managing Director for Europe. Lin will also continue to act as COO and Leader of the Embedded ePlatform Organisation. As a supplier of industrial computers and embedded platforms, the company want to increase its focus on Europe. With more than 3400 employees, Advante...

The sales of semiconductors in Germany in August, according to ZVEI, was plus 1.5 percent on a Dollar basis and thus slightly above that of the previous month. Compared to the same month of the previous year, the dollar-based sales increased by 5.3 percent after a plus of 4.2 percent in July 2008 an...

Artisan Software Tools has announced the appointment of Hedley Apperly as Vice President of Marketing. He joins Artisan Software Tools from Select Business Solutions, where he was employed as a Senior Vice President, primarily responsible for marketing and strategy. Prior he worked for Select, Aonix...

Matrox Concord GigE is a new family of interface cards that are pre-licensed for use with the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) and pre-configured to minimize application setup time. The single-port Matrox Concord GigE is factory-configured to maximize the size of jumbo packets and manage interrupt moder...