GLOUCESTER, MA — (Marketwire) — 08/12/11 — Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. ("Varian") (NASDAQ: VSEA) achieved a significant milestone yesterday in the proposed merger between Varian and Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT). At a special stockholders meeting yesterday, Varian stockholders voted to approve the merger. Gary Dickerson, Chief Executive Officer of Varian Semiconductor, said, "Gaining shareholder approval is a significant step in the process to com
PITTSBURGH, PA — (Marketwire) — 08/12/11 — HWI Global, Inc. (OTCBB: HWIC), a leader in clean room design engineering and construction servicing clients in the life science, health science, nanotechnology, microelectronics and aerospace industries, today announced results of operations for the second quarter of 2011.Deric Haddad, President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "During the second quarter of 2011, contract revenues totaled approximately $1.0 million as compared to approxim
SANTA CLARA, CA — (Marketwire) — 08/10/11 — NVIDIA today announced it plans to appoint Steve Scott, a longtime Cray Inc. executive, to help spearhead the company-s high performance computing initiative.As chief technology officer (CTO) for NVIDIA-s Tesla business unit, Scott will be responsible for the Tesla roadmap and architecture. Tesla is rapidly becoming a fundamental technology in accelerated high performance computing and is expected to be the cornerstone in the race to exascale.Scot
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — (Marketwire) — 08/10/11 — Despatch Industries, a leading technology and equipment provider for the solar industry, announces the availability of new, patent-pending SolectFire technology. SolectFire is the company-s most recent advancement to its market-leading CF Series firing furnace platform. Results of SolectFire production testing have shown efficiency gains of up to.09 percent. SolectFire also provides flexibility to upstream processes and alternative pastes.SolectFi
HILLSBORO, OR — (Marketwire) — 08/08/11 — Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that XENTROTEC CO., LTD., Seoul, Korea, has chosen the mid-range LatticeECP3 FPGA for use in its digital video recorder (DVR) solution. XENTROTEC, which recently introduced its new multichannel HD video multiplexer and HD digital video recorder solution at ISC WEST 2011, selected the LatticeECP3 FPGA over competing FPGAs and application-specific alternatives because the LatticeECP3 dev
SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwire) — 08/05/11 — QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the leader in low power Customer Specific Standard Products (), today announced that Paul Karazuba, QuickLogic-s Senior Marketing Manager, is scheduled to present at the Multimedia Day — Audio/Video Processing Technology Forum Taipei, Taiwan.: Taipei Westin Hotel, B3 Yong Le Grand Ballroom: Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 11:10 a.m.The latest generation of smart phones and tablet computers feature larger, more vib
ROCKVILLE, MD — (Marketwire) — 08/02/11 — MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of the new report "2011 Optoelectronics," to their collection of market reports. For more information, visitOptoelectronics are still currently the fastest growing individual semiconductor product segment, and, as a result, are becoming introduced into many new end markets. In particular, the mounting need for efficiency across the entire industry has led to new developments and applications
SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwire) — 08/01/11 — QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the leader in low power Customer Specific Standard Products (), is proud to announce the release of its second generation DPO (Display Power Optimizer) technology, which offers additional system battery life extension capabilities through a novel feature called -Intelligent Brightness Control.-Intelligent Brightness Control improves upon the previous generation of DPO technology by increasing power savings when
