Altera’s Stratix II GX FPGA Development Board Provides XLoom With a Unique Bit Error Rate Testing Environment
Continuing to demonstrate the flexibility and versatility FPGAs offer, Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) today announced XLoom Communications is leveraging its Stratix® II GX FPGA signal integrity development kit to provide a unique bit error rate (BER) testing environment. Altera’s [...]

NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today announced that Theo Claasen, Executive Vice President responsible for Business Development, will retire from the company with effect from 1 August. At the same time the company announced that Hein van der Zeeuw, Executive Vice President, responsible for Operations, has decided to resign from his [...]

Magazine’s InfoTech 100 List Ranks Companies by Combined Total Revenues, Revenue Growth, Return on Equity and Shareholder Return
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) has been named to BusinessWeek magazine’s InfoTech 100 list of top-performing global technology companies. Cypress ranked No. 44 on the index, which rated approximately 800 publicly traded technology companies on four areas of [...]

ConnectX® 20Gb/s InfiniBand Adapters Provide Unprecedented Performance for Leading Compute Clusters
Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX) (TASE:MLNX), a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, today announced that its ConnectX 20Gb/s adapters with PCI Express Gen2 support provide the optimal low latency, high-performance interconnect for the IBM System Cluster 1350, IBM’s high-performance, high-density cluster [...]

Power Factor Correction Using an Enhancement-Mode SiC JFET
SemiSouth Laboratories, Inc.:
WHO: SemiSouth Laboratories Inc., a silicon carbide (SiC) based semiconductor company, along with the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) at Mississippi State University, will discuss the characteristics of SemiSouth’s normally-off, SiC JFET in power factor correction applications based on the drop-in replacement results [...]

As well as providing significant opportunities for carriers and OEMs alike, femtocells look set to be a lucrative opportunity for semiconductor vendors. A new Research Brief from ABI Research finds that the market is primed to grow from just under $72 million in 2008 to over $1.8 billion in 2013, at an annual compound growth [...]

Sela Ltd., providing automated SEM and TEM sample preparation failure analysis equipment to the semiconductor industry, has re-hired Oran Collins as their vice president for sales and marketing.
Collins held the same position for Sela from 1999 to 2006. For the last two years he was employed by semiconductor metrology supplier Jordan Valley Semiconductors. The [...]

Mindspeed® Appoints Jim Cao as Senior Vice President of Operations
Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced the appointment of Jing (Jim) Cao as senior vice president of operations.
Cao’s experience spans fifteen years of increasing responsibility for semiconductor manufacturing operations in both integrated and fabless companies, [...]

STMicroelectronics, Intel and Francisco Partners Complete Deal to Create New, Innovative Memory Company
Numonyx B.V. officially became a new semiconductor company today, focusing on delivering innovative memory solutions using combinations of leading NOR, NAND and RAM memory technologies as well as new Phase Change Memory (PCM). The new company starts as the leading dedicated memory [...]

London, UK – March 24, 2008 – Toric Limited, a London-based semiconductor IP licensing company specialising in jitter suppression and high-speed clock generation technology, has appointed Ian Walsh as VP of Business Development.
Ian’s responsibilities include worldwide sales and business development for Toric’s PhaseFilter and Multi-Clock Generator (MCG) products that are based on the company’s patented [...]