56,321 Visitors were counted by last Thursday when the SPS/IPC/Drives 2011 in Nuremberg in Germany closed its doors (2010: 52,028 visitors). Also the congress held in parallel showed an increase in visitors with 349 participants (2010 302). A total of 1,429 exhibitors (2010 1,232) showed their produ...

MSC offers four 32-bit All Flash microcontrollers (MCUs), the uPD70F3515, uPD70F3514, uPD70F3512 and the uPD70F3510 from Renesas Electronics. They feature a processing performance of up to 1024 Dhrystone MIPS. The latest members in the V850E2M/MN4 embedded flash microcontroller family with a clock ...

Analog Devices announced the appointment of Mr. Gernot Faigel to the position of Regional Channel Director, EMEA Region (Europe, Middle East and Africa). In this role, he will manage ADI’s distribution business across the region and will be responsible for optimizing ADI’s sales and support model f...

With an export volume of 13.5 billion Euros, the German electrical industry in September exported 3% more than in the previous year. From January to September 2011 the electrical exports totalled 112 billion Euros. This is a growth of 8% over the previous year. In September 2011, the imports of ele...

Kemet has introduced its HiQ-CBR Series Surface Mount Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors (MLCCs) in C0G dielectric. The HiQ-CBR Series features a robust and stable copper base metal electrode dielectric system that provides low loss performance (high Q). These devices are suitable for applications like r...

The Supervisory Board of Infineon decided to follow the recommendation of the Management Board and to propose to the upcoming Annual General Meeting a 20 percent dividend increase to Euro 0.12 per qualifying ordinary share.

The 2011 fiscal year saw Infineon pay a dividend again for the first tim...

Intersil announced Gerry Edwards has been appointed the company's new Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations and Technology. He joins Intersil from National Semiconductor where he had served as Vice President of Worldwide Operations and Quality since 2009.

Prior to this role, Edwards serv...