Silicon Laboratories, a provider of analog-intensive mixed-signal ICs, announced the promotion of Mark Thompson to vice president and general manager of microcontroller products. Mr. Thompson replaces Derrell Coker who retired at the end of 2008. Mr. Thompson joined Silicon Labs in 2000 and served a...

ON Semiconductor has announced a distribution and support agreement with Compel, Russia’s largest electronics component distributor. Under the terms of the agreement, Compel will provide customers with access to a broad range of ON Semiconductor technologies including power, analogue, DSP, mixed-sig...

NXP Semiconductors announced the appointment of Richard L. Clemmer as President and CEO. He succeeds Frans van Houten who is leaving NXP. Clemmer, 56, currently a member of NXP's Supervisory Board, was most recently chief executive officer of Agere Systems. Prior to Agere, he served as chief financi...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors declined in November to $20.8 billion, a decline of 9.8 percent from November 2007 when sales were $23.1 billion, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported. Sales were 7.2 percent lower than the $22.4 billion in October 2008. Excluding memory products fr...