IBM Corp. has said it plans to acquire Transitive Corp. (Los Gatos, Calif.), a developer of virtualization technology that has its R&D base in Manchester, England.
REACH and the electronics supply chain: Are you ready? There are many reasons why the electronics industry should be concerned about the European Union's chemical law, REACH, and all of them will impact your bottom line.
European component distribution sales fail to meet expectations The European electronic component market available for distributors (DTAM) has shown a quarter-on-quarter growth in the first quarter of 2008 but below the expected level according to figures from The International Distribution of Electronics Association (IDEA).
EU-funded project to support multicore system programming A consortium of 9 industrial partners and research institutions has received a 4 million euro subsidy to conduct a three-year research project aiming to simplify parallel programming by developing integrated Transactional Memory systems for multicore computers.