EaglePicher Corporation (EPC) will sell its wholly owned subsidiary EaglePicher Technologies to OM Group for $171.9 million plus the assumption of certain pension and other post retirement benefit obligations. The proposed transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to...

Bel Fuse will acquire Cinch Connectors from Safran, a French industrial group, for $37.5 million in cash plus approximately $1.5 million for the assumption of certain expenses. The transaction will be funded with cash on hand. Headquartered in Lombard, Illinois and with manufacturing facilities in V...

The TRACE32 debuggers from Lauterbach, the manufacturer of microprocessor development tools, now support the ARM Cortex-A5 processor. The Cortex-A5 micro architecture is delivered within either a single core processor or a scalable multicore processor, the Cortex-A5 MPCoreTM, which consists of up to...

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced a range of optically coupled isolators designed to drive IGBTs and power MOSFETs in applications requiring output currents up to ±6.0A. The TLP358 family of driver IC photocouplers is for industrial inverters, AC/DC servos, induction heating systems, fa...

Vincotech announces a telematics platform which will feature the SiRFstarIV technology. The A1091 platform integrates the antennas into a rugged and waterproof enclosure for tracking applications in harsh environments. In order to meet identified customer requirements the new A1091 integrates all an...

Microchip announces the PIC16(L)F1826 and PIC16(L)F1827 general-purpose 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) — the latest PIC MCUs to feature the Company’s Enhanced Mid-range core. With this extension into the 18-pin range, the PIC16(L)F1826/7 MCUs provide an advanced peripheral set that includes an mTouch...

Intersil acquires Rock Semiconductor, a Chinese privately-held, fabless semiconductor company for power management solutions. Rock provides analogue and mixed-signal integrated circuits for wireless, audio, video and data communications solutions. The products are primarily used in the consumer end ...