The Supervisory Board of Infineon Technologies AG appointed Dr. Reinhard Ploss to the Management Board, effective June 1, 2007. He will be responsible for Operations, comprising advanced logic and power logic front-end manufacturing, back-end manufacturing, logistics and quality management units pre...

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and the Investment bank Goldman Sachs have taken over the American electronic company Harman International Industries for approximately 7.8 bn US$. Harman is active primarily in the Audio sector. Included in this group are the Austrian microphone and earphone manu...

It was announced on 1st May 2007 that German manufacturer of Frequency Control products Jauch Quartz GmbH has purchased the remaining shares of Logic Electronic Components Ltd whom have acted as sole distributor for Jauch in the UK & Ireland for 20 years. Jauch is a manufacturer of frequency con...

In the second quarter Tyco Electronics achieved a turnover of 3.42 bn US$. This amount exceeds the comparison value of 2006 by 6%. The net profit was 455 m US$, which is 2% less than the Q2/2006.

Exar and Sipex have entered into a merger agreement to combine the two companies. Under the terms of the agreement, Sipex stockholders will receive 0.6679 of a share of Exar for each share of Sipex. Exar stockholders will own approximately 67.6% and Sipex stockholders will own approximately 32.4% of...

Ultralife Batteries reported record quarterly revenues of $32.3 million, an increase of 76% over the $18.3 million reported in the same three-month period in 2006. Operating income for the first quarter of 2007 was $0.6 million compared with $0.2 million a year ago. Revenues in the first quarter of ...

In the 2nd quarter of the business year 2007 Epcos achieved a turnover of 365 m Euro and therefore exceeded the value of the previous year’s quarter by 13%. The largest growth was in the automobile electronics segment. From the point of view of regions, Epcos achieved its greatest growth in Germany ...