Alexander d'Arbeloff , who co-founded Teradyne before becoming the eighth chairman of the MIT Corporation, died on Tuesday, July 8. He was 80. With his wife d'Arbeloff created the Fund for Excellence in MIT Education to support teaching innovations in science and engineering. The pair also supported...

Impinj announced the acquisition of Intel Corporation’s RFID operation, a business created by Intel’s New Business Initiatives (NBI) incubator and which developed the R1000 RFID reader chip. Financial terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed. The acquisition enhances Impinj’s position in the...

Ansoft founder and chief technology officer Dr. Zoltan Cendes received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Achievement Award. The award, given to Cendes for his "contributions to the widespread use of user-friendly software tools for e...

Effective immediately, the products of the power supply specialist Advanced Analogic will be sold worldwide by Future Electronics. The range of products include switch regulator modules, battery managers, battery loaders, power supply managers and modules for operation of white LEDs.

TranSwitch will acquire Centillium Communications. TranSwitch is a provider of carrier-class semiconductor solutions for EoS (Ethernet over SONET/SDH), Broadband Access and Carrier Ethernet applications. Centillium develops Fiber-to-the-Home and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol solutions. TranSwitch wil...

Digital Power announced the appointment of Mr. Amos Kohn to serve as the Company's President and CEO. Kohn has been a director of the Company Board of Directors since 2003. After that he has been the Managing Director of TechLead. Previously he worked for Scopus Video Networks, ICTV, Liberate Techno...

Ceradyne will acquire SemEquip for approximately $25 million in cash at closing, plus contingent payments of up to $100 million during the 15-year period following completion of the merger based upon revenues achieved over that period by SemEquip. Privately held SemEquip, based in North Billerica, M...