Bentley Long was appointed Exar's Vice President, Worldwide Sales. He replaces Gene Schaeffer, who resigned for personal reasons. Long has over 20 years of semiconductor sales and marketing experience including the last 11 at Exar where he was most recently Vice President of the Americas and Global ...

National Instruments reported quarterly revenue of $205 million, up 13 percent year-over-year and the company’s best year-over-year revenue growth quarter for 2007. Net income for Q4 2007 was a record $45.7 million.

NI virtual instrumentation and graphical system design products, which constitute...

Omron has brought Masashige Fukumoto to Munich from the factory in Kurayoshi, Japan and announced Andreas Barth, a touch sensor expert with a background in semiconductors and software development tools, as European touch sensor specialist. Both will work alongside Jens Vogt, market development manag...

Kemet announced a cost savings initiative that involves the reduction of approximately 120 employees in the United States and approximately 250 in Mexico. It also entails further relocation of some processes to China from Mexico and the US. Small numbers of employees in other facilities around the w...

In the business year 2007 Cypress had a turnover of 1.6 bn US$ and thus exceeded the results of the previous year by 46,2%. The net profit was 399.2 m US$ compared with of 39.5 m US$ in 2006. The fourth quarter ended with a turnover of 431.2 million US$ and a net profit of 8.0 million US$. In compar...

For the 3rd quarter 2008, Microchip reported a turnover of 252.6 m US$ with a net profit of 80.1m US$. Compared to the third quarter of 2006 the turnover increased by 1.6 m US$. The profit rose by 10%.

In the year 2007, programmable logic manufacturer Lattice had a turnover of 228.7 m US$ and a net loss of 239.8 m US$. This turnover is 7% below that of 2006. In that year a net profit of 3.1 m US$ was still made. The fourth quarter 2007 with a turnover of 53.1 m US$ showed a net loss of 229.5 m US$...