RF Industries Ltd. (San Diego, CA) announced that net income for the three months ended January 31, 2002, was $82,000, or $0.02 per diluted share, compared to $245,000, or $0.06 per diluted share, for the same quarter last year. Net sales were $2,185,000 compared to $2,349,000 for the same period last year. RFI President and […]
As an extension of a memorandum of understanding signed last September, Ericsson (Stockholm, Sweden) Mobile Platforms and Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas, TX)...
Adept Technology Inc. (San Jose, CA) announced that it is taking additional measures to restructure the company to fit current market conditions. Adept intends to maintain the focus of its resources on key markets with potential high growth. The company believes that this focus is a critical strategy that leverages product initiatives that embody Adept's […]
Amkor Technology Inc. (Chandler, AZ) and Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (Shanghai, China) have signed a letter of intent to form a multi-purpose alliance offering total supply chain solutions for customers in the rapidly growing microelectronics market in China. Amkor will become GSMC's customer, with GSMC providing wafer services to Amkor, who will in turn assist […]
Intersil Corp. (Irvine, CA) and Elantec Semiconductor Inc. (Milpitas, CA) announced the signing of a definitive agreement for Intersil to acquire Elantec. Under the terms of the agreement, Elantec shareholders will receive 1.24 shares of Intersil stock and $8.00 in cash for each Elantec share. Based on Intersil's closing price of $36.65 per share on […]
Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc. (South Portland, ME) announced that it has filed a shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that would be available for one or more follow-on public offerings of its Class A common stock. Up to a total of 24,150,000 shares may be offered, including 14,175,000 newly issued shares by […]
Huaneng Power International Inc. (Hong Kong) announced that it is planning further acquisitions to expand its scale of operations. The announcement comes after the company said its acquisition of Shandong Huaneng in 2001 was instrumental in its 37-percent increase in profits last year.
Fairchild Semiconductor International (San Jose, CA) announced new additions to its PowerTrench MOSFET line, which provide optimized combined high-side/low-side switch efficiency in synchronous rectifier designs. The FDS6688 and the FDS6694 utilize PowerTrench MOSFET technology and are suitable for notebook, desktop computer and isolated dc/dc converter applications. The FDS6694 and FDS6688 matched pair chipset provides RDS(on) […]
Tae Hwa Trans Co. Ltd. (Korea) announced several series of toroidal current transformers with an accuracy of less than 0.2 class, which...
Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, AZ) announced the release of its new 80mA low dropout (LDO) regulator in a space-saving SC-70 package. Designated...
Matsushita Electronic Components Co. Ltd. (Japan) announced the new E12 Series of thick-film chip resistors, which offer a resistance range of 10...
Vishay Intertechnology Inc. (Malvern, PA) announced its 592D Sprague tantalum capacitors, offered in X and Y case sizes that are 2mm and 2.5mm high (respectively), which are designed for noise suppression and capacitive decoupling applications, making the capacitors suitable for use in slim-line products such as wireless PCMCIA cards and cellular phones. The 592D Series […]
Xiamen Faratronic Co. Ltd. (China) announced the CBB72 Series of polypropylene film capacitors, offered in capacitance values from 5nF to 432nF with...
Elcon Products International Co. (Fremont, CA) has enhanced its line of CROWN EDGE card edge-style, high-current power connectors with support for current interruption under load as defined by safety regulatory agencies and new board termination options. CROWN EDGE is a family of versatile modules that utilize high-performance Crown contact technology reconfigured to create a card […]
STMicroelectronics (STM, Geneva) has confirmed that, if approved, the $0.04 dividend to be proposed at the company's annual general meeting in Amsterdam on March 27, 2002, will be declared on Monday April 22, 2002. STMicroelectronics' announcement follows the recent announcement by Borsa Italiana of the admission of STMicroelectronics shares to the MIB 30 index effective […]