Effective immediately, Dr. Norman Sheridan takes over responsibility for technology and manufacturing. Up to now, Sheridan was responsible for Flash Products. Before coming to Zilog he was Director of the American Consulting Division at Mentor Graphics. A further change at the management level will ...

After a lapse of 6 months, the American semiconductor specialist Sipex at last has a CEO again. Ralph Schmitt comes from Cypress where he was in charge of Sales and Marketing and will now take over the post of chief in turbulent times at Sipex: In the middle of June the company was removed from the ...

Symmetricom Inc. and Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Symmetricom would purchase Agilent's Frequency and Time Standards product line. Under the terms of the proposed transaction, Symmetricom will pay approximately $8.0 million i...

Both sides have now come to an agreement over the years-long dispute between Wind River Systems and Green Hills Software. Wind River will now make its VxWorks real-time operating system available as Object Code to Green Hills. In addition, clear definitions have been made to the registered brand nam...

At Tektronix, the year ended with a turnover of 1.03 billion US$ and a net profit of 81.6 million US$. The turnover rose by 12% in comparison to the previous year but the profit sank by 30%. The fourth quarter, with a turnover of 261.0 million US$ and a profit of 21.2 million US$, contributed to the...

Tilcon Software, a supplier of graphic development tools for the embedded market has named Franz-Josef Maintz as Sales Director for Europe. He will be responsible for building up the European sales channels in the automotive, medicine technology, consumer devices and industry automation markets and ...

Instrumentation manufacturer Tektronix has taken over the Oregon domiciled TDA Systems for an undisclosed sum. TDA Systems developes analysis software for oscilliscopes and test applications which Tektronix has in the past installed in its products. TDA, which was founded in 1998, will be incorporat...