News & Analysis
AMD Announces Chief Financial Officer Transition
AMD today announced that Thomas Seifert informed the company of his decision to resign as senior vice president and chief financial officer to pursue other opportunities. Devinder Kumar, senior vice president and corporate controller, will serve as interim chief financial officer while a search commences for Mr. Seifert’s replacement. Kumar has served as the Company’s corporate controller since 2001. Seifert’s departure is not b...
Xilinx Acquire Wireless Backhaul Solutions Provider Modesat Communications
Xilinx today announced the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Modesat Communications, a high performance wireless backhaul solutions provider with industry leading capabilities and roadmap. OEMs focusing on mobile backhaul platforms can now take advantage of Xilinx All Programmable 7 series FPGAs and Zynq-7000 SoCs combined with Modesat wireless backhaul solutions to gain market competitiveness and differentiation.
LSI Named Most Adoption-Friendly Technology Company
LSI today announced its selection by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption as the top company in the technology, information and research industries on the 2012 Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces List. This is the fourth consecutive year that the foundation has ranked LSI first in its industry. LSI also ranked sixth in the nation overall as well as fifth in the large employer category.
Comtree to Demonstrate VisionMaster’s New M500 Manual 3-D SPI Unit
VisionMaster announces that its distributor, Comtree will demo its M500 Manual 3-D SPI system at the upcoming Mississauga EPTECH Electronics Show, scheduled to take place September 27, 2012 at the Mississauga Convention Centre in Canada.
Digia’s Completion Of Acquisition Paves Way For Qt
Digia today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the Qt software technologies and Qt business it announced in August 2012. As Digia now becomes responsible for Qt activities including product development and commercial and open source licensing, the acquisition paves the way for Qt to become the world’s leading cross-platform application development framework across desktop, embedded and mobile platforms.
DesignWare DDR4 Memory Interface IP from Synopsys
Synopsys has today announced that it has enhanced it DesignWare DDR Memory Interface IP portfolio with the release of support for DDR4 SDRAMs. By supporting DDR4 as well as DDR3 and LPDDR2/3 in a single core, the DesignWare DDR solution enables designers to interface with either high-performance or low-power SDRAMs in the same system-on-chip, which is a key requirement of many SoCs such as applications processors for smartphones and tablets.
HARTING sign Integrator Partner Agreement with Tritec
HARTING has announced the signing of an Integrator Partner Agreement with Tritec Systems with the intention of further developing sales and business opportunities for HARTING’s RFID product range. The partner agreement brings together the best qualities from both parties to benefit the end customers. Under the terms of the agreement, HARTING will train and support the Tritec team in HARTING’s family of ruggedised RFID tags, readers and softwa...
2012 Special Edition Train Themed Aluminum Chassis
Lian-Li has unveiled the PC-CK101 train themed aluminium chassis. Resembling a traditional steam engine train while still functioning as a computer case, this Lian Li 2012 Special Edition Chassis combines the train and DIY builder enthusiast worlds into one. Lian Li will also be launching a giveaway of the PC-CK101 to one lucky fan along with the release of the PC-CK101 on their new Facebook page.
Phoenix Photonic Enhance Firebird Range at ECOC 2012
Phoenix Photonics has today unveiled two new products as part of its expanded Firebird instrumentation range at the ECOC exhibition, Amsterdam, 17-19 September (Stand number 614). ECOC marks the global launch of a programmable polarization control instrument and an associated polarization controller microprocessor interface.
Nihon's Keith Sweatman to Present at SMTA International
Nihon Superior has announced details of its participation in the Technical Program of SMTAI 2012, which is being held in the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel, Orlando, FL, from October 14-18, 2012. The paper, “Optimizing Solder Paste for Void Minimization with Vacuum Reflow” will be presented in Session SMT7, 4-5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 17 in the Asia 2 meeting room.