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The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) has renamed and expanded its leadership council for Europe. The new name is the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Leadership Council, which reflects the multiple countries within EMEA that are playing a more significant and growing role within the industry. The Council, which...

Nokia has announced that it will make approximately $75 M of fresh investments in its manufacturing plant in Sriperumbudur, Chennai, India, in 2008. This investment is geared towards enhancing the capacity of the manufacturing plant to cater for the burgeoning need of the Indian and other emerging markets. Raimo...

Geensys , a specialist provider of embedded development tools, value-added embedded engineering and consulting services and embedded software IP, has expanded into Germany with the opening of a new direct sales and support office in Munich. Formed recently from the merger of TNI-Software and Ayrton Technology and with well...

Bidders in the upcoming US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) auction of 700 MHz spectrum can arm themselves with a valuable advantage - the new 700 MHz AuctionPlanner product from Comsearch, an Andrew Corp. company. AuctionPlanner provides the critical information that spectrum bidders need to assess the incumbent environment both...

In a new twist on the traditional December activity of surveying the year just past and speculating about what the new one will bring, ABI Research, a market research firm focused on the impact of emerging technologies on global consumer and business markets, has released a white paper entitled...

Emanuel Merulla, antenna design engineer for MegaWave Corp. , Boylston, MA, has applied a new absorbing boundary technique in the Flomerics MicroStripes 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulation solution, to accelerate the design of low-profile and zero-profile antennas installed in the Earth. The new technique significantly reduces the computer memory requirements...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that Allion Test Labs Inc. is using the Agilent HDMI product suite as the primary test solution for its newly completed HDMI 1.3b test environment. The Agilent HDMI test solution includes the DSO80804B high-performance oscilloscope, the E4887A TMDS signal generator and the N5998A protocol analyzer...

Newtec , an innovator in the satellite and communications industry, announced that Tellitec has become a fully integrated subsidiary of the Newtec group, bringing with it an extensive range of IP software solutions. Newtec is a Belgian group of companies of which Newtec Cy N.V. is the parent company....

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. recently received two awards from the National Electronic Distributors Association (NEDA). Vishay received the awards, one for Active Component Manufacturer of the Year and one for I, P and E (Interconnect, Passive and Electromechanical) Component Manufacturer of the Year, at NEDAs annual Executive Conference in Chicago,...

Published December 10, 2007 Harlan has selected one question from his "Ask Harlan" column to be featured in the November issue. Harlan will be monitoring the responses and will ultimately choose the best answer to the question. All of the responses to the featured question will be posted on...