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“Project P” and “Hi-MoCo” Research Projects Launched
AdaCore today announced its participation in “Project “P” and “Hi-MoCo” (High-Integrity Model Compiler), two open-source research efforts supported and partly funded by the French and Estonian national governments and the European EUREKA agency. The combined projects, which started in October 2011, aim to provide an open-source, tunable and qualifiable code generation framework for domain-specific modeling languages.
STARCHIP Acquires Contactless Technology through Partnership with CEA-Leti
StarChip and CEA-Leti have signed an agreement to develop a Contactless Front End for Smart Card applications. The Contactless Front End is the result of Leti’s many years of expertise in Contactless and will enable applications such as Transport, Banking and Identity.
SolarWorld announces International Trade Commission ruling: Chinese imports are harming U.S. solar manufacturing industry
SolarWorld Industries America Inc. commended a key, unanimous U.S. trade determination issued today that Chinese imports of solar cells and panels into the United States have harmed American domestic solar manufacturers. The company said the resounding ruling confirms the position of a manufacturing coalition it leads that China’s systematic and state-sponsored unfair trade practices are anticompetitive.
EnOcean Alliance Shows Innovative Wireless Products for Green Buildings at Ecobuild 2012
The EnOcean Alliance, together with supporting partners Alpha Micro, Ecologix Controls and EnOcean, will show an impressive portfolio of wireless products on stand S400 at Ecobuild, 20-22 March 2012, ExCel London.
Broadcom Announces 11 Percent Increase in Quarterly Cash Dividend
Broadcom Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors has approved an 11 percent increase in the quarterly cash dividend to $.10 per share ($.40 per share on an annual basis) payable to holders of the Company's Class A and Class B common stock. Today's announcement builds on the Company's strategy to return meaningful capital to shareholders.
Cortus and SST to Jointly Exhibit Low Power IP Solutions for System on Chip (SoC) Design at Embedded World 2012
Cortus S.A., and Silicon Storage Technology (SST), Inc. will be showing their low power IP products for embedded system on chip (SoC) designs at Embedded World 2012 in Nuremberg, Germany. The exhibit will combine Cortus’ silicon efficient, ultra low power 32 bit microcontroller cores with SST’s low power, ultra high endurance embedded flash non-volatile memory (NVM) technology.
STI Electronics, Inc. Continues Growth with Record Sales in 2011
STI Electronics, Inc., announces its most successful year to date. “Thank you to all of our customers and staff members for your continued support in 2011. Financially, STI had our best year ever and we are looking forward to an even stronger 2012 as we approach our 30th year serving our customers and our industry,” commented David Raby, President & CEO of STI Electronics.
Continental Shows Ethernet Test Setup
Continental, the international automotive supplier, is a new member of the OPEN Alliance SIG (One Pair Ether-Net Alliance Special Interest Group). The OPEN Alliance is dedicated to spreading the use of Ethernet networks as the standard solution for in-vehicle applications. We regard Ethernet as the ideal solution for system integration in vehicle electronics. In the OPEN Alliance SIG, we can define standards across the industry, and thus minimize...
BASF invests $50 million to acquire equity ownership position in Sion Power
BASF today announced that it has invested $50 million to acquire an equity ownership position in privately held Sion Power, the global leader in the development of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries, based in Tucson, Arizona.
Two Billion Bosch Mems Sensors
Bosch has set a new production volume record: the technology company has manufactured two billion MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) sensors since production began 16 years ago. While it took 13 years to produce the first billion, the two-billion mark was recently crossed, just three years later. And production volumes are still growing. Recently, annual production has reached almost half a billion units – more than 1.3 million every worki...