Cypress Semiconductor has named Ludwig Klingenbeck as the new Managing Director of the German GmbH as well as Sales Manager for Central Europe. He is stationed at the German subsidiary in Zorneding near Munich and is responsible for activities in Germany and Austria. Klingenbeck comes from QuickLogi...

Maxim Integrated Products has acquired a wafer fabrication facility in Irving, Texas from Atmel for approximately $38 million. The facility, located on approximately 39 acres, is comprised of approximately 622,000 square feet of clean room and office space. Approximately 60,000 square feet is curren...

Maxwell Technologies reported a net loss of $4.3 million on revenue of $12.6 million for its first quarter ended March 2007, compared with a net loss of $7.5 million, on revenue of $12.0 million for the same period in 2006. Boostcap ultracapacitor revenue for Q107 increased by 18 percent to $3.3 mil...

Markus Kahmen (44) has taken up the new position of Vice President Sales International at the German-domiciled specialist manufacturer of passively ventilated industrial computers, Penta in Puchheim near Munich. The target fields for Penta’s industrial PCs are internal-company material management, p...

In the 1st quarter of 2007, Kontron achieved a turnover of 95.9 m Euro. This is 11% more than in the same quarterly period of the previous year (86.6m Euro). The net profit was 4.9 m Euro which was 45% above that of the previous year (3.4 m Euro).

The MathWorks has acquired PolySpace Technologies, a software company based in Grenoble, France that provides embedded software tools for the automatic detection of run-time errors at compile time. PolySpace tools are currently used in aerospace, automotive, defense, transportation, consumer electro...

Nu Horizons Electronics, a global distributor of semiconductor, display, illumination and system solutions, announced the expansion of the company’s European operations with the addition of a new subsidiary headquartered in Munich, Germany. The new division, Nu Horizons Electronics GmbH, is being le...