Belden will purchase Hirschmann Automation and Control (HCA) together with certain affiliates from HgCapital, a European private equity investor, for a cash purchase price of approximately $260 million. HAC is a supplier of Industrial Ethernet solutions and industrial connectivity. HAC is led by Rei...

Four european providers of electronic components engineering, testing and procurement services for the space, defence, aeronautics and medical industries have merged under a newly created holding company, the Alter Technology Group. The Group comprises IGG Component Technology of Great Britain, Hire...

Spectrum Control, a designer and manufacturer of electronic control products and systems, announced that Spectrum Microwave, its wholly owned subsidiary, has acquired substantially all of the assets and assumed certain liabilities of EMF Systems. EMF, based in State College, Pennsylvania, designs an...

Infineon has closed off the first quarter 2007 with a turnover of 2.13 bn Euro, but without the Qimonda portion this was reduced to 958 m Euro. In Q1/2006 this was 1.67 bn Euro and 996 m Euro without Qimonda. The company achieved an Ebit of 216 m Euro. Infineon without Qimonda achieved an Ebit of mi...

The Würth Elektronik eiSos group has announced the purchase of the North American Midcom Inc. with headquarters in Watertown, South Dakota on the 23rd of January 2007. Midcom’s product palette ranges from standardized LAN transformers for digital applications, through ADSL transformers up to custome...

Lattice Semiconductor announced for the fourth quarter 2006 a revenue of $61.8 million, an increase of 15 percent from the $54.0 million reported in the same quarter a year ago, and a decrease of three percent from the $63.5 million reported in the prior quarter. PLD revenue for the fourth quarter w...

Mathstar, a fabless semiconductor company, is building up a sales network in Europe. In addition to new sales and application engineers, the company also works together with representatives. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland this is Varep, in France it is EMG2 and in England it is Ultimate Marketi...