Cadence and Globalfoundries have entered into a multi-year software and services agreement for advanced semiconductor design. As part of the agreement, Globalfoundries has adopted a suite of Cadence technologies to aid in the design, verification and manufacturing of complex semiconductor devices ta...

Murata Manufacturing Company announced that it has purchased the multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) business from Panasonic Electronic Devices (PED). The two companies will work together to ensure a transfer of not only technology, distributors and customers but sales, patents and some facilities b...

Cadence announced the appointment of John Bruggeman as senior vice president and chief marketing officer. He reports directly to Cadence president and chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan. Bruggeman most recently served as chief marketing officer at Wind River Systems. Before joining Wind River he was...

In 2008 the financial crisis affected the German distribution market for electronic components. However, order books in the industry were well-filled until the third quarter of 2008 and this ensured that the DTAM in 2008 only fell by eight percent compared with 2007. Since 2004 total sales have in f...

International Rectifier announced financial results for the fourth quarter fiscal year 2009, ended June 28, 2009. Revenue for the fourth quarter fiscal year 2009 was $159.6 million. Excluding Intellectual Property and Transition Services segment revenue, fourth quarter fiscal year 2009 revenue from ...

Effective September 1, 2009 the Supervisory Board of the Weidmüller-Group appoints Volpert Briel as member of the Executive Board. Briel will assume responsibility for the Weidmüller Group’s sales division. The main focus will be on Central Europe as well as on the growing markets Asia and America. ...

Electronic component distributor Digi-Key announced the expansion of its distribution agreement with Cooper Bussmann from a North American agreement to a global agreement. Cooper Bussmann products offered by Digi-Key include Cooper Bussmann circuit protection fuses and ESD suppressors, Coiltronics i...