News & Analysis

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today reported revenues of $1.17 billion for the fourth fiscal quarter ended Oct. 31, 2009, 21 percent below one year ago. Fourth quarter GAAP net income was $25 million, or $0.07 per diluted share. Last year's fourth quarter GAAP net income was $231 million, or $0.64 per share.

The Portland Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics, today announced that release 2010 of the PGI line of high-performance parallelizing compilers and development tools for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows will be available on Tuesday, November 17. PGI 2010 is the first general release to include full support for the PGI Accelerator Programming model v1.0 standard on x64 processor-based systems incorporating NVIDIA CUDA,1-enabled Graph...

NXP today announced a global strategic licensing agreement for NXP’s MIFARE technology. The licensing agreement now enables STMicroelectronics to integrate the entire MIFARE family into its security solutions for mobile phone and banking applications. It will facilitate the convergence of the MIFARE infrastructure and Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled mobile devices, accelerating worldwide contactless application deployments.

Abilis Systems, a Kudelski Group company, (SWX:KUD) and a pioneer RF semiconductor company, announces the acquisition of Freescale Semiconductor CMOS Modulators and Silicon Tuner product lines. The acquisition of these assets will allow Abilis to expand its broad portfolio of leading, silicon-based digital TV (DTV) and tuner solutions and better address the needs of the growing digital TV market, and in particular of Digital Terrestrial (DTT) and...

PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Nasdaq: PMCS), the premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, and Entropic Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTR), a leading provider of silicon and software solutions to enable connected home entertainment networking, today announced they are collaborating to develop an innovative and cost-effective solution for delivering >100Mb/s broadband connectivity to each customer in MSO fiber deployments. The compani...

PMC-Sierra, Inc the Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, today announced the company was selected as one of the top 10 competitive telecom brands in the optical communications industry in China by the Asia-Pacific Optical Communications Committee and the China Institute of Communications. The award was presented at the recent 2009 China Optical Communications Development and Competitiveness Forum (ODC’09) in Beijing.

Stinova Ltd., developer of Digital Signage software solutions, and designer and manufacturer of industrial PCs Lanner Electronics Inc. join forces to target the rapidly growing Digital Signage market segment.

KSW Microtec AG, one of the world’s leading suppliers of RFID components and inlays for secure cards, documents and other form factors, will present a new generation of prelaminates for eGovernment, ePayment and Access applications in at ID WORLD International Congress 2009 in Milan, from November 3rd to 5th.

Oxley Developments has won the prestigious Innovation and Technology Award at the 2009 CN Group Business Awards. The award was presented to Oxley Technical Director Darren Cavan and Business Development Manager Phil Robinson in recognition of the company’s success in remaining at the forefront of innovation and technology for over 60 years. The judges on the night praised Oxley as being ‘outstanding,’ and a clear winner in the category.

Zigor had the crowds flocking to its stand at the Misco Expo on 14 October, with over 150 visitors in the first couple of hours. Zigor has moved up to the position of number two UPS supplier to Misco after signing up the distributor just 14 months ago when Zigor launched in the UK.