Setron, the Braunschweig (Germany) distributor of electronic components, has announced the filling of the new position of the Director Application & Technical Marketing with Bernd Riemann (45). Rieman will lead the Technical Marketing and the team of application engineers. With his new position ...

In 2007 Freescale, with a turnover of 5.72 bn US$, achieved a net loss of 1.61 bn US$. In comparison with 2006 the turnover sank by approximately 10 %. The losses were reduced by almost 20%. In the 4th quarter a turnover of 1.54 bn US$ resulted in a net loss of 525 m US$. In Q4/2006 the turnover was...

Lattice Semiconductor announced that its Board of Directors has begun a search for a new chief executive officer and that Steve Skaggs will be resigning effective as of May 31, 2008 as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Skaggs has served as CEO since 2005 and is expected to continu...

Distributor Premier Farnell has announced the winner of the 2007 Live EDGE Electronic Design for the Global Environment challenge as John Noble from Malaysia. He has designed a product called MyFan, a ceiling fan that combines an electronically commutated motor and controller, and aerodynamically ef...

Zilog reported results for its 2008 fiscal year, third quarter. For the quarter, sales were $17.0 million, a sequential increase of 2 percent. The GAAP net loss for the quarter was $2.4 million, compared to a GAAP net loss of $1.9 million in the preceding quarter.

Altera announced 2007 sales of $1.26 billion, down 2 percent compared with $1.29 billion in 2006. Net income for 2007 was $290.0 million, versus net income of $323.2 million in 2006. Fourth quarter sales were $323.2 million, up 2 percent from the fourth quarter of 2006 and up 2 percent from the thir...

ON Semiconductor announced that total revenues in the fourth quarter of 2007 were $407.9 million, an increase of approximately one percent from the third quarter of 2007. Total revenues during the fourth quarter included approximately $385.1 million of product revenues and approximately $22.8 millio...