Ansys closed the business year 2008 with a turnover (GAAP) of 478.3 million US$. In comparison with 2007 the sum increased by 24.1 percent. The net profit in 2008 was 111.7 million US$ which is an increase of 35.6 percent over the previous year. In March 2008 Ansys purchased the Ansoft Company for 8...

Sasco Holz, a distributor of the Arrow Electronics group will be called only Sasco from the 1st of March. The supplier of analogue and digital semiconductors, embedded solutions and passive modules, expects to be better known and better established as a brand in the market. This change of name will ...

Analog Devices has acquired power-line communications technology from Domosys Corporation, a privately held company based in Quebec City, Canada. That includes the PowerBUS RHINO power-line communications technology and all related patents, hardware, and software. This technology is effective for th...

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced breakthroughs in multi-bit-per-cell technology for NAND flash memories. In the 32 nanometer (nm) generation, Toshiba has realized a 3-bit-per-cell 32 gigabit (Gb) chip, smaller than a 2-bit-per-cell 16Gb chip fabricated with 43nm technology, which is cu...

Wind River acquires privately-held Tilcon Software, a provider of software for creating and deploying graphical user interfaces in embedded devices. Founded in 1987 and located in Ottawa, Canada, Tilcon currently has 18 employees and is focused on embedded graphics solutions. With this acquisition, ...

Austriamicrosystems recorded that group revenues for fiscal year 2008 reached EUR 184.7 million, 4.7% below the previous year’s revenues. On a constant currency basis, full year revenues decreased by only 2.2% compared to the previous year. Revenues for the fourth quarter 2008 were EUR 43.2 million,...

Microchip announces a series of I2CTM EEPROM devices. The 24VLXX series has an operating voltage down to 1.5V for both read and write operations, with a very low operating current of less than 400µA. These 1kbit and 2kbit EEPROM devices support two different write-protect features; the 24VL014, 24VL...