Agilent Technologies announced the appointment of new distributors for its test and measurement products in Europe. Distribution agreements have been reached with the following companies in the respective countries:

• Austria: Elsinger Electronic Handel Gmbh
• France: Francaise d'In...

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From the 1st of July the new Chairman of the Board at Agilent Technologies Deutschland will be Dr. Günter Nill. The 55-year old is the successor of Reinhard Hamburger, who will leave the company. Nill began his career in 1976 at the then Hewlett Packard works in Waldbronn near Karlsruhe as Applicati...

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Bourns, manufacturer of analogue, power supply and passive modules has bought the automobile sensor segment from the American SSI Technologies for an undisclosed sum. In the taken-over company department of sensors, SSI develops and produces monitoring systems for ABS and pressure. The remaining par...

For approximately 600 m US$, the Marvell Technology Group has taken over the “Communications and Application Processors” segment from Intel. The transaction is scheduled to be completed within five months. In this segment, Intel employs approximately 1400 employees and has developed the Xscale proce...

The automation company, Jetter, closed off its business year in March with a turnover of 25.1 m Euro and a profit before interest and taxes (EBIT) of 1.6 m Euro. The turnover was 11% above that of 2005. The EBIT exceeded the previous year’s value by 78%. The company profit was 2.2 m Euro (includes t...

ARM has acquired Falanx Microsystems, an graphics IP company headquartered in Trondheim, Norway. The company has net assets of NOK 2 million and develops graphics accelerator IP and software for semiconductor system-on-chip (SoC) vendors. The acquisition fits the ARM strategy of enabling users to cr...