Mips Technologies has named Art Swift as vice president of marketing. Swift has held a range of senior marketing and general management leadership roles including president and CEO of Unidym and president, CEO and senior vice president of marketing at Transmeta Corporation. Prior to Transmeta, he wa...

Ultralife has acquired all of the assets and assumed substantially all of the liabilities of the tactical communications products business of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for a total of approximately $5.7 million in cash, effective as of March 20, 2009. For the fiscal year e...

Infineon and Bosch are widening their cooperation to include power semiconductors. The collaboration between the companies has two key aspects: First, Bosch is to license from Infineon certain manufacturing processes for power semiconductors – specifically, for low-voltage power MOSFETs (metal oxide...

Epcos has developed two PTC components with stainless steel packages for sensing the level of liquids. The B59050D1100B040 type is suitable for measuring water levels and can be operated within a temperature range of between +10 °C and +65 °C. The B59050D1120B040 variant is designed for liquids with...

For an undisclosed sum National Semiconductor has acquired Act Solar, a privately held solar energy company that provides power optimization solutions for commercial and utility-scale solar installations. With the acquisition National expands its portfolio of power optimization technologies along wi...

Avago Technologies announced it 3-Watt (3W) Moonstone tricolor red, green and blue (RGB) LEDs for use in a wide range of solid-state architectural and commercial lighting applications. Avago’s ASMT-MT00 3-in-1 LEDs delivers a light output performances of 108 lumens and can be independently controlle...

In the 4th quarter 2009, the distributor Premier Farnell achieved sales of 200.2 million GBP (approximately 212.3 million Euro) which are thus 8 percent below the figures achieved for the same quarter of the previous year. The profit after taxes was 9.0 million GBP (approximately 9.5 million Euro). ...