Today iSystem AG based in Schwabhausen Germany and Goepel electronic GmbH based in Jena Germany announced their cooperation in the field of hardware component tests. iSystem has been accepted by Goepel in their GATE (GOEPEL Associated Technical Experts) program as a select member. Up to now both com...

NXP announced that, with effect from May 18, Ruediger Stroh will join NXP as General Manager of the identification business. He takes over running the identification business from Christophe Duverne. Stroh began his career at Siemens where he held multiple management positions. He then became Senior...

Atmel announced its AT88SA-ADK1 Rhino+ AVR -based development kit for its AT88SA102S CryptoAuthentication IC. Atmel’s AT88SA102S device is an secure authentication IC, with an embedded SHA-256 engine and 256-bit cryptographic key that make it virtually impossible to crack using brute force methods. ...

Summit Microelectronics has expanded its programmable battery charger integrated circuit (IC) family with the introduction of the SMB329. Based on the integrated SMB339 family, the SMB329 integrates additional features, such as "instant-on", even with a dead battery, and real-time charge current mon...

The organizers of the PCIM 2009, which ended on the 14th of May in Nuremberg in Germany reported stable figures for the fair. 255 Companies (2008: 250) presented their goods and services on an area of 10,700 sq, m (2008: 10,600 sq. m), Approximately 6,000 visitors (2008: 6,493) attended the fair cen...

Agilent reported revenues of $1.09 billion for the second fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2009, 25 percent below one year ago. Second quarter GAAP net loss was $101 million. Last year’s second quarter GAAP net income was $173 million. During the second quarter, Agilent had restructuring and asset imp...

TI has acquired Luminary Micro , a supplier of ARM Cortex-M3-based 32-bit microcontrollers. With this acquisition, TI now offers the Stellaris portfolio, which addresses mainstream 32-bit MCU applications with the general-purpose processing power of the ARM Cortex-M3 core and advanced communication ...