Infineon announced that the carve-out of its memory products business group into a new company will be effective on May 1st, 2006. The new company named Qimonda will start its operations headquartered in Munich. Qimonda will have the legal form of a German Aktiengesellschaft (AG) and will initially ...

Parallax, based in Rocklin, California, previously mainly known as manufacturer of the so-called BasicStamp, a micro-controller system based on PIC controllers from Microchip, has developed its own micro-controller, called the “Propeller” utilizing an architecture that is different in many aspects f...

Intersil announced the hire of Peter Oaklander to the position of senior vice president of Worldwide Sales, located at Intersil's headquarters in Milpitas, California. He will replace Alden Chauvin, who will retire later this year. Mr. Oaklander spent the past 20 years at Analog Devices, most recent...

LSI Logic appointed Badar Baqai as Vice President Engineering of the IP Products and Solutions organization within Custom Solutions Group Marketing. Baqai will lead the IP Products and Solutions organization to internally develop differentiating silicon, robust intellectual property (IP) and establi...

Two to three percent growth

Effective immediately, the distributor, Spoerle will include all the products of the Norwegian company Chipcon in its catalogue. Chipcon is the manufacturer of Zig-Bee solutions and proprietary HF ICs and is an independent company owned by Texas Instruments.

Upwards trend