The IMEC research center and the K.U.Leuven University in Leuven, Belgium, announced it has conferred the degree of doctor honoris causa on Wim Roelandts, ex-chairman and CEO of programmable logic device vendor Xilinx Inc.

Xilinx Inc. announces the EasyPath-6 FPGAs that claims to offer the lowest total cost with the lowest-risk from high-performance FPGA to production ready devices in just six weeks.

November 17, 2009 -- Coreworks S.A., a leading provider of audio semiconductor IP solutions, is now demonstrating their Dolby Digital Professional Audio Encoder and its Dolby Digital and MPEG1 Layers I and II decoders at Inter-Bee 2009, held in Chiba City, and at Embedded Technology , held in Yokohama.

Programmable logic vendor Xilinx Inc. Tuesday introduced the latest of its targeted design platforms, this one targeting broadcast connectivity applications.

Nov. 18, 2009 -- Xilinx, Inc. today introduced the industry's first Broadcast Connectivity Targeted Design Platform with Xilinx Virtex -6 FPGAs to simplify development of serial digital interface solutions for high-performance broadcast audio and video systems.

EasyPath-6 FPGAs Deliver the Lowest Total Product Cost for 40-nm FPGAs in the Shortest Time with No Risk and Complete Support for all FPGA Features SAN JOSE, Calif.

Xilinx, Inc. today announced the availability of the industry's first IBIS-AMI models for FPGA transceivers.

Continuing with players in the smartphone arena, today we look at Tellabs . Like Palm and Xilinx , the long-term timeframe chart exhibits good volume characteristics and a huge tradeable range.

Morgan Stanley cut its rating on the semiconductor industry to cautious from attractive on Tuesday, warning the risk of an inventory buildup and growth peak.

That breakout would definitely be a signal to own this stock if it happens. The past couple of days, we have looked at the end products in the list of companies that Jim Cramer has focused attention on, code-named the mobile Internet tsunami.

At the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design this week, a couple of influential people from the world of EDA hosted a sort of roundtable discussion on EDA and how it needs to change to be successful in 2020.

Xilinx K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of Xilinx, Inc. , today announced that the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan selected Virtex -5 and Spartan -3A FPGA families for its SASEBO-GII boards for side channel attack standard evaluation and partial reconfiguration.

Aptar Group fell on the quarterly sales decline of 11%. Shoe retailer DSW Inc surged after it lifted annual earnings outlook.

The Avnet Electronics Marketing operating group of Avnet, Inc. , and Xilinx, Inc.

Xilinx, Inc. and ARM [ ; ] today announced they are collaborating to enable ARM processor and interconnect technology on Xilinx FPGAs.

Second quarter net income was $64.0 million , or $0.23 per diluted share, including previously announced restructuring charges totaling $5.9 million , or approximately $0.02 per diluted share.

The recession had a severe impact on the semiconductor industry in 2008, but the programmable logic device market was one of the few segments which saw growth.

BANGALORE, INDIA: Chipmakers Cypress Semiconductor Corp and Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc posted better-than-expected quarterly results, helped by improving demand, strong order rates and lower costs.

Programmable logic supplier Xilinx Inc. exceeded analyst estimates Wednesday with its quarterly report and outlook for the current quarter.

The recession had a severe impact on the semiconductor industry in 2008, but the programmable logic device market was one of the few segments which saw growth.