Renesas Technology Europe announced the SH72531, a 32-bit MCU designed for powertrain control of automobile engines and transmissions. The device features a operation of up to 120 MHz and 1.25 megabytes of on-chip high-speed flash memory.

The EDA Consortium (EDAC) Market Statistics Service (MSS) announced that the electronic design automation (EDA) industry revenue for Q3 2008 declined 10.9 percent to $1258.6 million compared to $1412.1 million in Q3 2007. The four-quarter moving average declined 2.8 percent. Note that revenue number...

At Kemet Marc Kotelon has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Global Sales. He joined the company in 1994 and was Vice President, Sales EMEA prior to his promotion. He has also held various other positions in sales and marketing in France, Germany and the USA and is currently based at Kemet’s Eu...

Within the Executive Board of the Weidmüller Group, Detmold/Germany, it comes to a change. Effective 1 February 2009 Harald Vogelsang, presently Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of a Business Unit of the VDO Automotive AG, Regensburg, will take over in the Executive Board of the ...

The founder and former CEO of Maxim Integrated Products, John F. Gifford, suffered an apparent heart attack and passed away at January 10th. Gifford founded Maxim in 1983 and served as the company’s CEO until his retirement in 2007. He worked at Fairchild, initially in sales in Los Angeles, and late...

The German manufacturer of fast PC based digitizers, Spectrum Systementwicklung, now also offers a complete .NET integration for the latest series of PCI and PCI Express cards.

Texas Instruments announced that Kent Novak has been elected senior vice president & general manager of TI's DLP Products division. In his new role, Novak will direct all development and delivery of DLP technology including all core business units and emerging applications within the division. Novak...