Avnet Electronics Marketing Offers IBM Foundry Solutions
Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a part of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), has expanded its engineering services capabilities with the addition of IBM Foundry solutions. This is a result of the expanding relationship that Avnet has with IBM. Under the terms of the new agreement, Avnet will now offer IBM Foundry solutions in North America.
Kontron Discusses Carrier Board Design Services Program
Kontron strengthens its position as a top outsourcing partner for customer specific embedded computer technology. One of the highlights are carrier board designs for computer-on-modules (COMs) with application specific interfaces and industrial functions for automation, entertainment, gaming, telecommunication, medical applications, test and measurement, transportation and POS/POI. The designs are based on the COM standards: COM Express(TM) / ETXexpress, microETXexpress, nanoETXexpress, ETX®, X-board® and DIMM-PC.®
Siliconaire, Fastrack Design Offer Total Turnkey Service
Siliconaire Inc, which offers world-class operations-level services to fabless semiconductor start-ups, and Fastrack Design Inc, a provider of advanced Custom ASIC design solutions, announced the formation of a partnership that will offer their customers total turnkey service. Existing fabless ASIC models have a lot of margin built in to the unit cost of finished parts. The new model, on the other hand, preserves the margin for fabless customers and provides a true value-add to both entrepreneurs and investors.
Sagantec, Time To Market Partner for IC Design Migration Solutions
Sagantec and Time To Market Inc. (TTM) of San Jose, CA, announced a collaboration to jointly deliver complete integrated circuit (IC) design migration solutions. This program offers a variety of unique strategies for re-implementation of existing designs to new process technologies.
austriamicrosystems Expands Multi-Project Wafer Service
austriamicrosystems' (SWX: AMS) business unit Full Service Foundry expands its cost-efficient and speedy ASIC prototyping service, known as Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) or shuttle run, with a more extensive schedule for 2008. The service which combines several designs from different customers onto one wafer allows sharing the costs for wafer and masks among a number of different shuttle participants.
Pace Outsources Set-top Box NPI, Prototyping to PartnerTech
Pace Micro Technology plc (LSE:PIC), the leading independent developer of digital TV technologies for the global pay TV industry, has selected PartnerTech, one of Europe's leading contract manufacturing companies, to provide a fast-turnaround new product introduction (NPI) and prototyping service covering its market leading range of digital set-top boxes. The business will be fulfilled from PartnerTech's UK facilities in Poole and Cambridge.
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