According to the industry association Spectaris, the German medical technology industry increased its exports in 2007 by 6.7 percent to approximately 11.1 billion Euro and thus made around 64 percent of its turnover abroad. Almost 41 percent of the exports were to counties in the European Union, fol...

Zilog reported results for its 2009 fiscal year first quarter. Sales were $18.2 million, a sequential and year-over-year increase of 8 percent. The net loss was $1.7 million, and was lower than the previous quarter loss of $1.9 million and lower than the net loss of $3.0 million for the fiscal first...

International Rectifier announced the appointment of Tim Phillips as Vice President, Enterprise Power Business Unit. He will be responsible for product development, systems applications engineering and product marketing for IR's computing and communications product lines including DC-DC ICs, DirectF...

Cypress named Ben A. Lee as senior vice-president of worldwide sales, reporting to Christopher Seams, executive vice president of sales and marketing. Most recently, Lee was Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Trident Microsystems. Previously Lee worked for Apexone, Altera, National Semiconductor ...

Augusta Technologies, which specializes in sensor and automation technologies and is headquartered in Munich, has purchased the Canadian Prosilica Company through its subsidiary, Allied Vision technologies. Prosilica, founded in 2003, provides high resolution cameras with Gigabit Ethernet interface ...

Omron Electronic Components Business Europe announced a restructured European sales management team, promoting Leon Mordang to European Sales Manager and José Gonzalez to lead a newly created Application Oriented Sales team. Under the new structure, Mordang heads up an integrated European sales team...

Atmel announced revenues for the second quarter of 2008 of $420.9 million, a 2.4% increase compared to $411.2 million for the first quarter of 2008 and a 4.1% increase compared to $404.2 million for the second quarter ended June 30, 2007. Microcontrollers, a core business, continued to deliver solid...