News & Analysis

Fairchild Semiconductor will demonstrate its innovative and highly efficient solutions for power supplies, lighting, motor control, automotive and industrial applications at Power Conversion Intelligent Motion (PCIM) Europe in Germany, May 12-14, 2009 in booth 601. Fairchild will show its broad range of integrated motor drive solutions that drive highly efficient inverter-based motors and its comprehensive solutions for linear fluorescent lamps (...

Keithley Instruments has announced its results for its fiscal 2009 second quarter ended March 31, 2009. Net sales of $24.0 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2009 decreased $15.9 million, or 40 percent, from net sales of $39.9 million in last year’s second quarter. Sales outside of the Americas represented approximately 70 percent of total sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2009. Two percentage points of the decrease was the result ...

NXP Semiconductors has announced first quarter sales of USD 673 million, a comparable decrease of 29.4% from the fourth quarter of 2008. Adjusted EBITDA in the first quarter amounted to a loss of USD 71 million, down from a profit of USD 183 million in the first quarter of 2008 and down from a profit of USD 41 million in the fourth quarter of 2008. Adjusted EBITA showed a loss of USD 188 million this quarter compared to a profit of USD 41 million...

Nextreme Thermal Solutions, the leader in microscale thermal and power management products for the electronics industry, and Nucletron Technologies GmbH, a leading source for high tech systems and components in Europe, have entered into a distribution agreement under which Nucletron will distribute Nextreme’s thin-film thermoelectric products in Europe. The distribution agreement opens up Nextreme’s first sales and marketing channel in Europe...

National Instruments reported quarterly revenue for Q1 2009 of $158 million, representing an 18 percent year-over-year decline. Net income for Q1 was $0.4 million. Non-GAAP net income was $3.1 million, with non-GAAP fully diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.04. The company’s non-GAAP results exclude the impact of both stock-based compensation and the amortization of acquisition-related intangibles. Reconciliations of the company’s GAAP and...

Sondrel, the European physical implementation IC design house, has today been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category. The award is the result of the company’s success – due in part to the flexible design methodology it has developed for managing costs and durations of projects, and a software environment that allows switching between third party tools for optimum results whilst incorporating debug and mana...

Agilent Technologies has just announced the winner of the company's first-ever Agilent Early Career Professor Award. Dr. Boris Murmann, assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, has been selected to receive the prize, which provides an unrestricted research award of $50,000 per year for two years to Stanford in Professor Murmann's name.

Schaffner has announced a new range of EMC/EMI filters for use with photvoltaic solar energy inverters. The use of efficient EMC/EMI filters on the DC output side of PV inverters contributes significantly to compliance with the EMC directive and increases system reliability.

In accordance with the requirements of the UK Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, every nuclear site licensee in the UK must justify their safety case in order to operate in the UK. This involves substantiating the safety certification of each instrument involved.

Texas Instruments has announced the company’s strong endorsement of the ZigBee Alliance’s recent announcement to integrate Internet Protocol (IP) and open standards. The plan to incorporate global IT standards from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will allow continued growth of smart grid applications beyond the smart meter with the proven ZigBee Smart Energy public application profile. ...