The Distributor Abacus Group has named Graham McBeth as Managing Director for Europe. In this new position he will lead the three Abacus business segments: Electronic Components Distribution (ECD), Embedded System Group and the Eledis and Dubilier product lines that the company produces itself. Grah...

Xilinx announced that Vincent Ratford, 56, has been promoted to vice president and general manager of the processing solutions group (PSG) from his current position as vice president of marketing, business development and silicon architecture for PSG. Ratford succeeds Omid Tahernia, 47, who departed...

At International Rectifier Dr. Michael A. Briere has been appointed to the role of Executive Vice President, Research & Development and Chief Technology Officer. Briere joined International Rectifier in 2003 and most recently served as the company’s Executive Vice President, Research & Devel...

Varta and the buyer of the micro-battery segment that it sold at the end of 2006 are still arguing about the final purchase price. The buyers were the VEG Beteiligungs GmbH and Buy-Out Beteiligungs-Invest AG (VEG/GEP) with headquarters in Vienna. Subject to verification of the purchase price adaptat...

The Section Messtechnik und Prozess¬automation in the ZVEI-Fachverband Automation [Measurement and Process Automation in the ZVEI Automation Association] forecasts a growth in the year 2007 of 10% to 11% in its field. This would be an increase of 1% from the business year 2006. The growth is general...

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reports a worldwide turnover for semiconductors for August 2007 of 21.5 bn US$. This value is 4.9% above that of the August of the previous year. Compared to the previous month, the turnover rose by 4.5%. The “bringer” of this increase in turnover was the...

Design Synopsys has acquired Sandwork Design, a privately held, Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of analog and mixed-signal (AMS) verification solutions. Sandwork's approach to verification enables engineers to analyze and debug complex AMS systems-on-chips. Sandwork's products, combined with Sy...