In April 2010 total sales achieved by the printed circuit board manufacturers in Germany was 7.6 percent less than in the previous month which included three more working days. The ZVEI trade association PCB and Electronic Systems reported that total sales in April 2010 exceeded those in April 2009 ...

Since 1 July 2010, Thomas Braun is vice president of sales for Arrow Central Europe. In this function, he is responsible for Arrow’s sales activities in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium. He succeeds Eric Schuck who was recently appointed vice president of sales for Arrow EM...

Texas Instruments will purchase two wafer fabs and manufacturing equipment located in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan. The assets currently are operated by Spansion Japan Limited (SJL).

This purchase increases the production capacity of TI for analog semiconductors. It includes a 200mm wafer fab currently...

ON Semiconductor and Sanyo Electric announced the signing of a definitive purchase agreement providing for the acquisition of Sanyo Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Sanyo Electric, and other assets related to Sanyo Electric's semiconductor business, by ON Semiconductor in a cash and stock transaction ...

The EDA Consortium (EDAC) Market Statistics Service (MSS) today announced that the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry revenue for Q1 2010 was $1247 million, a 4.6 percent increase compared to $1192.1 million in Q1 2009. Sequential EDA revenue declined 1.2 percent, while over the last four q...

The Central Association of the German Electrical and Electronics Industry (ZVEI) reported that new orders for the German electrical industry in May 2010 were up 26 percent compared with the previous year. The chief economist of the ZVEI, Dr. Andreas Gontermann, said that the strongest impulses were ...

Keithley Instruments announced its new Nanotechnology Technical Test Library on CD. The content of this free CD is helping to advance electrical measurements by providing technical papers, articles, data sheets, and links to online seminars covering a wide range of nanotechnology test applications. ...