Hans Kleis, CEO Sharp Electronics Europe will resign in July 2007 for personal reasons. The successor to the Dutch national will be Toshiyuki Tajima, currently in charge of the Sharp factory in Poland.

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has reported for April 2007 a worldwide semiconductor turnover of 19.9 bn US$. The value is 2.1% below the results of March 2007. However, this is an increase of 1.6 % in comparison to the results of the previous year. The turnover in the first 4 months 2...

UR Holding has appointed Joe Matano to the newly created position of Group Director of Power Solutions. Matano has been managing director of UR in the UK since he established the division in 1999 and retains that role whilst taking responsibility for UR’s power supply business across Europe. The com...

The Singapore domiciled Flextronics has bought its US competitor Solectron for 3.6 bn US$ in cash and shares. After the takeover, Flextronics will employ 200 000 people in 35 countries a will have an annual turnover of around 30 bn US$.

Synplicity will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Hardi Electronics, a developer of off-the-shelf ASIC prototyping boards, for $24.2 million in cash. Hardi’s ASIC prototyping systems work seamlessly with Synplicity’s Certify and Synplify Premier synthesis products and its Identify and Identif...

The Workshop for Women in Design Automation (WWINDA), part of the 44th Design Automation Conference (DAC) to be held in San Diego, California, June 4 - 8, 2007, announced that its student sponsorship program will enable graduate students to attend the workshop and DAC thanks to the generous support ...

Micrel announced the hiring of David Chalmers Schie as the Company's new Vice President of Analog Design Engineering/R&D. Mr. Schie will be responsible for overseeing the definition, design, development and release of Micrel's Analog product line which accounts for more than two-thirds of the Co...