The specialist company for embedded software tools, IAR, has employed Thomas Winkler for the newly created position of European Sales Manager. Winter brings six years of experience as General Manager of the Scandinavian operating system manufacturer Enea Embedded Technology with him. Previously he w...

The new Chairman of the ZVEI-Zentralverband Elektrotechnik und Elektronikindustrie [German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturer’s Association] will be Dr. Klaus Mittelbach. The 51-year old Mittelbach was the Manager of the Department of the Environment and Technology of the Federal Association of ...

Magma Design Automation, a provider of chip design solutions, has acquired Sabio Labs, a provider of analog IP process migration technology. Sabio Labs technology will be incorporated into the Titan Mixed-Signal Design Platform to provide a solution for analog IP process migration and mixed-signal d...

The embedded Award 2008 was presented again this year for pioneering products and developments in the three categories hardware, software and tools. The winners 2008 are F&S Elektronik Systeme – category software, Atmel – category hardware and Hitex – category tools

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Maxwell Technologies reported a net loss of $1.1 million, on revenue of $17.0 million for its fourth quarter ended December 2007, compared with net income of $633,000, on revenue of $15.1 million for the same period in 2006. The revenue for the year 2007 was $56.8 million with a net loss of $15.7 mi...

MoSys announced the appointment of Didier Lacroix as its Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Prior to MoSys, Lacroix was vice president of worldwide sales of Chipidea, a company acquired by MIPS. Previously, he was co-founder of NanoZilla of Los Gatos, a management consulting firm devoted to the adop...

The European components distribution experienced a decline of 6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007 and 1.9 percent in the full year. According to DMASS (Distributors’ and Manufacturers’ Association of Semiconductor Specialists), the semiconductor distributor and manufacturer members achieved quar...