Keithley Instruments will broadcast a free, web-based seminar titled “Understanding the Basics of Parallel Wafer Level Reliability” on Thursday, January 26, 2012. Parallel wafer level reliability (WLR) testing provides a tool to accelerate throughput significantly by providing statistically signific...

Intel reported full-year revenue of $54 billion (2010: $43.6 billion), operating income of $17.5 billion, and net income of $12.9 billion (2010: $11.5 billion). For the fourth quarter, the company posted revenue of $13.9 billion, operating income of $4.6 billion, and net income of $3.4 billion.

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Microsemi has acquired the telecom clock generation, synchronization, packet timing and synthesis business from Maxim Integrated Products. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquired product lines and technology are vital to the effective and efficient delivery of time-sensitive vo...

Digi-Key and Vicor have signed a global distribution agreement. Vicor offers a portfolio of high efficiency, high density power distribution architectures that enable customers to efficiently convert and manage power from the wall plug to point-of-load and address a broad range of power system requ...

Cree announced revenue of $304.1 million for its second quarter of fiscal 2012, ended December 25, 2011. This represents an 18% increase compared to revenue of $257.0 million reported for the second quarter of fiscal 2011 and a 13% increase compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2012. GAAP net inco...

The current IMS Research study (January 2012) shows that Infineon holds a 51.5 percent share in the NFC security microcontroller market. The name of the study is “The World Market for NFC – 2012 Edition”. Market share of other suppliers are: NXP 31.8%, Samsung 8.6%, STMicroelectronics 5.6%. NFC cont...

AMS Technologies announced, that Sweden based Azpect Photonics will join the AMS Technologies team. The acquisition creates a large pan-European consultancy and solution provider for Optical, Power and Thermal Management Technologies. The original founders and the local Nordic Sales, Application Eng...