In its 4th business quarter 2008, National Semiconductor reported a profit of 462 m US$ (turnover Q4 2007: 455.9 m US$). Of this the company made a profit of 83 m US$ (profit Q4 2007: 90.1 m US$).

In the 1st quarter of the business year 2009, distributor Premier Farnell achieved a turnover of £ 199.3 m. This is an increase over the previous years results of 6%. The net profit before taxes was £ 24.0 m and is 37% more than the value for Q1/2008.

Xilinx announced a corporate reorganization into functional areas. As a result the company will eliminate approximately 250 positions, or about 7 percent of the Company's global workforce. The workforce reduction is expected to be completed by the end of the next fiscal quarter. Xilinx expects to re...

FormFactor has appointed Mario Ruscev, currently president, as its next chief executive officer (CEO). Ruscev, 51, will succeed Igor Khandros, 53, FormFactor’s founder, who will become executive chairman of the FormFactor board of directors. Khandros will succeed Jim Prestridge, 76, its current chai...

The Rittal GmbH & Co. KG, Herborn, has named Roland Chochoiek (46) as the new Managing Director for the segment Electronic Structured Systems worldwide. Chochoiek was Marketing Director of the industrial computer manufacturer Force (later Solectron, still later Motorola).

For an as yet undisclosed sum, Weidmüller has acquired all the shares of the Heyfra Electronic in Lutherstadt Eisleben, Germany. The company will be renamed Weidmüller Heyfra and is to be built up as a competence centre for communication electronics with an emphasis on industrial Ethernet. Heyfra wa...

In April 2008 the American Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported worldwide semiconductor sales of 21.2 bn US$ . This is 5.9% more than in April 2007. The sales figures are unchanged from those of the previous month. For the first 4 months of this year the industrial association reported ...