Infineon sales for the 4th quarter of the business year 2008 were 1.153 billion Euro and thus 12 percent above the value of the previous quarter as well as 2 percent above the comparable period of the previous year. For the reported period, the company showed a loss of 763 million Euro. The sales fo...

Virage Logic has sent a proposal to the Board of Directors of LogicVision to acquire the company for $1.05 per share in cash. The proposal values LogicVision at approximately $10.0 million.

Virage Logic is a provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) for the design of complex integrate...

Synopsys will acquire the CHIPit business unit of ProDesign, a provider of ASIC and System-on-Chip (SoC) verification systems. ProDesign is a privately held company headquartered in Bruckmuhl, Germany. Its CHIPit line of ASIC prototyping tools provides verification and validation through the SoC and...

According to the ZVEI-Association of Electronic Components and Systems, the sales of semiconductors in October on a Dollar basis were 5 percent below that of the previous month. Compared to the corresponding month of the previous year, the sales in October sank by 7 percent. Cumulated over the first...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors declined by 2.4 percent in October to $22.5 billion compared to sales of $23.0 billion in October 2007, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported. October sales were 2.1 percent lower than the $23.0 billion in September 2008. Sales for the first ten mont...

Avnet Electronics Marketing, Texas Instruments and Xilinx have launched an eight-part, weekly video series emphasizing power supply design techniques for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The Analog eLab video series features engineering subject matter experts from Avnet, TI and Xilinx, discus...