Whenever someone in authority—such as the government, law enforcement or research firms — can’t answer a seemingly straightforward question, they often lapse into “it is being investigated;” “it is a moving target;” or my personal favorite: “it is still very fluid.” Of course individuals and organizations want data, statistics and facts from their authorities, but…
Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced third quarter fiscal 2015 sales of $594 million, down 2% from the prior quarter and up 1% from the same quarter of the prior fiscal year. Third quarter fiscal 2015 net income was $168 million or $0.62 per share, including a $0.2 per diluted share benefit primarily related to…
Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), today released a new MicroZed™ Embedded Vision Carrier Card kit to help engineers more quickly and efficiently deploy solutions incorporating the versatile and low-cost MicroZed™ System-on-Module (SOM). The kit builds on the MicroZed SOM by providing a video-specific carrier card, with camera connector, for…
Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), is helping to eliminate time and cost barriers to develop industry-leading embedded machine vision applications with today’s release of the Smart Vision Development Kit featuring the Xilinx® Zynq®-7015 PicoZed System-on-Module (SOM). The low-cost, all-in-one kit enables engineers in markets such as banking, medical scanning,…
Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), kicked off the North American leg of the international X-fest seminar series earlier this month. X-fest offers free hands-on training for FPGA, SoC, DSP and embedded systems designers targeting Xilinx® All Programmable products. Avnet has created a short video to give engineers an insider’s…
Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced first quarter fiscal 2015 sales of $613 million, down 1% from the prior quarter and up 6% from the same quarter of the prior fiscal year. First quarter fiscal 2015 net income was $174 million or $0.62 per diluted share. The Xilinx Board of Directors announced a quarterly cash…
Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), today introduced the Artix®-7 50T FPGA Evaluation Kit featuring the Xilinx® Artix®-7 FPGA, a low-cost device, with half the power consumption and twice the performance and logic capacity versus previous generations. The Artix-7 50T FPGA Evaluation Kit allows engineers to evaluate the small form-factor…
In spite of the electronics industry’s ongoing efforts, there may be no “best way” to fight counterfeit components. One of the hurdles in this effort is the issue of anonymity as it pertains to reporting the inadvertent acquisition a counterfeit. There mere admission that a counterfeit got through a company’s firewall casts doubt on that…
Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced fiscal 2014 sales of $2.38 billion, up 10% from the prior fiscal year. Fiscal 2014 net income increased 29% to $630 million, or $2.19 per diluted share, versus fiscal 2013 net income of $488 million or $1.79 per diluted share. Fourth quarter fiscal 2014 sales were $618 million, up…
El Segundo, Calif. —Led by memory chip sales, global semiconductor revenue increased 5.0 percent in 2013, according to the latest research from IHS Technology. Total semiconductor revenue reached $318.1 billion in 2013, up from $303.1 billion in 2012. Last year’s growth “reversed the disappointing 2.4 percent loss of 2012, when revenue contracted from $310.6 billion in 2011,”…