The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported that worldwide sales of semiconductors in May were $24.7 billion, a sequential increase of 4.5 percent from April 2010 when sales were $23.6 billion and a year-on-year increase of 47.6 percent from May 2009 when sales were $16.7 billion. The year...

After 35 years, including seven years on the Executive Board and five years as its Chairman, Michael Vohrer (62) has announced his retirement. As of July 1, 2010, his colleague Manfred Fleischmann will serve as President and CEO. Gerhard Geier, previously Head of the Radiomonitoring and Radiolocatio...

Digi-Key has entered into a global distribution agreement with Rose+Bopla Enclosures, a division of Phoenix Mecano Incorporated. Rose+Bopla Enclosures manufactures an extensive line of off-the-shelf enclosures, machine control enclosures, and suspension arm systems.

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Keithley Instruments will broadcast a free, web-based seminar titled “Understanding the Basics of Electrical Measurements” on Thursday, July 8, 2010. Designed for scientists and engineers with little experience of performing electrical measurements, this one-hour seminar aims to equip them with a fu...

Rohde & Schwarz is launching two new product families that will position the company as an oscilloscope vendor in the global marketplace. The company is starting out with two product families and a total of six instruments. The R&S RTO family, comprising oscilloscopes with bandwidths of 1 GHz and 2 ...

Atmel has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Smart Card (SMS) business based in Rousset, France and East Kilbride, UK to Inside Contactless. Inside will pay $37 million in cash at the closing, subject to a post-closing working capital adjustment and an additional cash consideration of u...

Batterien-Montage-Zentrum (BMZ) and Cham Battery, a Chinese battery manufacturer, have signed an cooperation agreement. Within the framework of the future cooperation, BMZ will not only use Cham Battery’s in their own battery packs, but furthermore will also take over marketing and sales of the batt...