Vicor reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 2009. Revenues for the fourth fiscal quarter decreased to $49,138,000, compared to $51,324,000 for the corresponding period a year ago, but increased from $47,746,000 for the third quarter of 2009. Net income for the...

Electronic components distributor Digi- has signed a deal for the global distribution of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power management devices from EPC. Established in 2007, EPC is a fab-less company with subcontract manufacturing in Taiwan. EPC's key markets include voltage controllers, LED boost co...

The Embedded World ended last Thursday with a growth of exhibitors and visitors. 730 Companies – an increase of 4% on the previous year – presented their products and services to 18,350 trade visitors (+16%). The accompanying congresses, Embedded World Conference and the Electronic Displays Conferen...

In the calendar year 2009 (financial year 2010) Mentor Graphics achieved a turnover of US$ 802.7 million with a net loss of US$ 21.9 million. Sales increased by 1.7% in comparison to 2008. The loss was reduced by 76%.

In the fourth quarter a turnover of US$ 237.1 million was booked with a net pr...

Lantiq Deutschland has filed suit in the German District Court of Düsseldorf against Billion Electric Taiwan, for patent infringement. Lantiq asserts that some of Billion’s ADSL2/ADSL2+ modem products infringe upon Lantiq’s intellectual property, where these products contain a communications semicon...

Exide Technologies, provider of stored electrical-energy solutions, announces that Michael Ostermann, President of the Exide Transportation Europe operating division, also will lead the Company’s Industrial Energy Europe division under his new title as President Exide Europe. Effective March 1, 2010...

Atego, a supplier of modeling and development tools for safety-critical embedded systems and software has acquired Blue River Software GmbH, extending its embedded development software portfolio to now include C++ tools. Atego’s acquisition of Blue River closely follows its creation from the recent ...