UR Holding published its annual report 2008. Consolidated sales totalled €32.1 million. Compared to the same period in the previous year, this represents a fall of around 31%. Despite the low level of sales, operating earnings (EBIT) increased by 18% to €0.5 million. Net loss improved from €-0.4 mil...

IDT announced that Mansour Izadinia will join the company as vice president of analog technology and strategy. He will be responsible for planning, developing and integrating analog technologies and processes across the company as well as strategically expanding the company’s analog-intensive focus....

Maxim Integrated Products introduces the MAX11040 4-channel, 24-bit simultaneous-sampling ADC. Up to eight MAX11040 devices can be daisy-chained to provide a sampling capacity of up to 32 channels. The device achieves this capacity and scalability with a cascadable SPI/QSPI/MICROWIRE interface, whic...

STMicroelectronics brings two 512-Kbit devices that offer as the company stated the highest density memories available in the industry-standard 2 x 3 x 0.6mm 8-pin Micro Leadframe Package (MLP).

The new devices are the M95512 featuring a 20MHz SPI port, and the M24512 with an I2C interface suppo...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors rose to $16.5 billion in May, an increase of 5.4 percent from April when sales were $15.6 billion, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported. May sales were 23.2 percent lower than May 2008 when sales were $21.5 billion. All sales numbers represent a thr...

Semiconductor distributor Silica announced the formation of the “Smart µSolutions Alliance”, a partner network committed to driving the development and adoption of Intel’s Atom processor platform. The Partner Network will support customers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The Alliance aims at si...

The General Meeting of the Messe München GmbH [Munich Fair] has voted Klaus Dittrich as the successor of Manfred Wutzlhofer as Chairman of the Board from the 1st of January 2010. Manfred Wutzlhofer will leave the undertaking on the 31st December 2009 as planned. Klaus Dittrich (54) has been a member...