PMC-Sierra, a provider of broadband communications and storage semiconductors, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Silver Lake Partners to acquire the storage semiconductor business of Agilent Technologies for approximately $425 milli...

More turnover, more profit

ARM announced it has acquired Keil, a independent provider of software development tools for the microcontroller market.  Keil operates jointly through two privately-owned companies, Keil Elektronik GmbH in Munich, Germany, and Keil Software, Inc. in Plano, Texas. 

The 23-person company...

The Kontron AG, manufacturer of embedded computers, achieved a turnover in the third quarter of the current business year of 73.5 m Euro (Q3 2004: 64.3 m Euro). The profit for this period was 4.2 m Euro compared to 2.9 m Euro in the same period of the previous year.

The Supervisory Board and Management of the gfu have unanimously decided to hold the IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) in Germany annually in future. In this, they are following a recommendation of the Fachverbandes Consumer Electronics in the German ZVEI as well as well known exhibitors who have...

The manufacturer of components for electrical connection technology, Weidmüller, is expanding its logistics and galvanics segments at its headquarters in Detmold and is opening a new production facility in Rumania. The company intends to invest more than 18 million Euro in Germany and Eastern Europe...

The global semiconductor market is expected to grow 6.6 percent on an annualized basis to $227 billion in 2005, according to fall forecast of the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS). Projected growth in the worldwide semiconductor market will accelerate to 8.0 percent in 2006 and 10.6 percen...