Credence Systems, a provider of test solutions for the consumer semiconductor industry, has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its operations in Amerang, Germany, Credence Systems GmbH, to Advantest Corporation. Advantest will purchase the operation for US$5.0 million. In connection with th...

According to the ZVEI, the semiconductor market in Germany in May was substantially below that of the previous month and at the lowest level for more than 6 years. Thus, the turnover for May 2008 was 19% below that of the comparable month in 2007. Cumulated, the growth in Germany in the first five m...

New CEO at Lattice Semiconductor Lattice Semiconductor appointed Bruno Guilmart as the company's president and chief executive officer, effective July 7, 2008. Guilmart most recently has been CEO of the Unisem Group, a provider of semiconductor assembly and test services. Before joining Unisem, he s...

Exar appointed Paul Pickering Senior Vice President of Marketing. Pickering has over 26 years of semiconductor marketing and sales experience and most recently was the Vice President of Field Operations for Innovative Silicon: Prior to Innovative Silicon, HE was executive vice-president of sales and...

Freescale announced the five finalists invited to compete in the company’s first green engineering design contest. The Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) Design Challenge Europe finalists will strive to develop the next generation of sustainable embedded systems based on Freescale’s energy-efficient t...

Texas Instruments has acquired Florida-based Innovative Design Solutions (IDS) for its expertise in developing analog chips and integrated solutions. IDS has been a long-time supplier to TI. The company designs integrated high-speed analog products for applications such as test and measurement, comm...

Agilent has acquired substantially all of the assets of Taiwan-based Escort Instruments, a supplier of low-cost test and measurement instruments and a subsidiary of Unitech Printed Circuit Board. Financial details were not disclosed. The acquisition includes Escort Instruments’ R&D, marketing, i...