Fairchild Semiconductor International (South Portland, ME) announced the opening of a Package and Technology Knowledge Center to be based in Bucheon, South Korea. The center will research new packaging materials to improve thermal and mechanical performance and develop new assembly techniques. "Bucheon has a world-class design and manufacturing facility for Fairchild, making it an ideal […]
Intersil Corp. (Irvine, CA) announced the new Endura™ ISL6571 SynchroFET™ IC, a driver combined with two MOSFETs in a power-efficient, quad flat-pack,...
Zetex Inc. (Hauppauge, NY) announced its new ZV950 Series of hyper-abrupt varactor diodes with a tuning range from 0.5V to 2.5V, which...
Zetex Inc. (Hauppauge, NY) introduced the ZXFV302 multi-plexer chip, which provides a bandwidth of 240MHz and a slew rate of 450V/µs, and...
Nanomix Inc. (Emeryville, CA), a nanotechnology company developing components for electronics, sensor applications and energy storage, announced the close of a $9.0...
New York prosecutors have unveiled new criminal charges against former Tyco International Ltd. (Pembroke, Bermuda) CEO Dennis Kozlowski, who is already under indictment for tax evasion. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau reported that a grand jury indicted Kozlowski, and former Tyco CFO Mark Swartz, on charges of enterprise corruption. The charges allege that Kozlowski and […]
Ericsson (Stockholm, Sweden) announced that it was surprised by a downgrade of its long-term credit rating from Ba1 to Ba2 by Moody's Investor Service that was expected to cost the company about 55 million kronor ($5.85 million) in raised interest payments. Ericsson said the downgrade was unexpected given the success of its recent 30 billion […]
Sirenza Microdevices Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) announced that it has completed its acquisition of Xemod Inc. (Tempe, AZ) for $4.5 million in cash, with additional cash considerations for Xemod's achievement of technology licensing objectives. As a result of the acquisition, Xemod President and CEO Joseph Johnson will join Sirenza as chief technology officer. Xemod Vice President […]
Dynex Power Inc. (UK) announced the retirement of Jack Lawrence from its board of directors and the appointment of Richard Carl who is a Partner at Lawrence and Company (Toronto, Canada. Carl has broad-based experience in investment research, equity sales and trading. "First, on behalf of the board and the senior management of the company, […]
Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (Fort Collin, CO) announced changes in operations designed to reduce redundancies and better align the company's recently acquired mass flow controller business within its operating framework. The plan includes manufacturing and facilities consolidations, related headcount reductions of approximately 100 individuals or seven percent of the workforce, and stringent discretionary spending restrictions. […]
IMP Inc. (San Jose, CA) announced that it has signed a joint venture agreement with Minghua Co. (Ningbo, China) to contribute equipment, technology and business, with Minghua providing facilities, clean rooms and infrastructure. The total investment of the joint venture company is $31.0 million, with IMP receiving a total of $140.0 million when certain specific […]
Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, MA) debuted two new members of its dBCOOL™ family of ICs, the ADT7460 and ADT7463, for thermal systems controllers and notebook and desktop PCs. The ADT7460 and ADT7463 can optimize fan speed for systems in which internal configurations such as PCI or AGP add-in cards may one day be installed, or […]
Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, MA) announced its new ADP3205 dc/dc converter and programmable multi-phase controller for mobile CPUs. The ADP3205 is targeted for thin, light and ultra-portable notebook PCs for maximum operating times and high performance. The new ADP3205 multi-phase core controller and its previously introduced ADP3415 dual-MOSFET driver form a three-phase controller/driver chip set […]
Micrel Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, CA) announced its new MIC922 and MIC923 tiny, low-power, high-gain-bandwidth, operational amplifiers. The MIC923 achieves a 2,200V/µs...
International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA) introduced the new 600V K Series HEXFET® power MOSFETs that have 45 percent lower on-resistance...