LEM announced the acquisition of the Danish company Danfysik ACP A/S. The company is a provider of current transducers for medical scanners, precision industrial motor controls and test & measurement. LEM has acquired the transducer activity with a turnover of CHF 7.6 million in 2008 and 15 empl...

Mirics Semiconductor is developing mobile TV and radio solutions for smartphone applications by migrating its FlexiTV platform to the ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 applications processors. In targeting the ARM Cortex applications processors, Mirics will enable low cost, region independent mobile TV an...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors for the second quarter of 2009 were $51.7 billion, a 17 percent increase from the first quarter when sales were $44.2 billion, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported. Second-quarter sales declined by 20 percent from the $64.7 billion recorded in the l...

Integrated 2kV-isolated quad output power SoC Akros Silicon introduces an isolated quad-output digital power SoC for isolated DC-DCs that are used in a industrial, datacom, automotive, medical, residential gateway, display and other distributed power applications. Built around Akros' GreenEdge digit...

Keithley Instruments announced results for its fiscal 2009 third quarter 2009. Net sales were $23.4 million, a decrease of $17.5 million, or 43 percent, from net sales of $41.0 million in last year’s third quarter. Net sales decreased two percent compared to the second quarter of fiscal 2009. The Co...

LDRA has integrated the LDRA tool suite with the Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio and Code Composer software development environments. TI’s development environments offer a set of integrated development tools that can be further enhanced with TI and third-party plug-ins. As the LDRA tool suite...