Protel International has announced a five year OEM agreement with California based semiconductor manufacturer Amtel Corporation.

Philips Components has announced alliances with several technology companies, namely Cambridge Silicon Radio, Intersil Corp, Silicon Wave and WIDCOMM.

Solectron, a provider of electronics manufacturing and supply-chain services, said its tender offers to acquire all of NatSteel Electronics' shares and bonds closed with tendered shares of 99% of the issued share capital and tendered bonds of 99%.

AEEMA's inaugural national conference and exhibition will be held in Melbourne 27 - 29 May 2001. The theme of the conference is cleaner, greener, smarter, with a focus on commercial buildings.

Analog Devices has announced that it has acquired Signal Processing Associates, (SPA) Australia, a developer and supplier of voice processing and fax/data relay software for telecommunications applications.

In an increasingly mobile world of go-anywhere, do-everything personal products, the semiconductor industry is locked into a search for technologies that support lower power consumption and enhanced reliability in highly integrated LSI.

Representatives of AEEMA, and its partner forum the Consumer Electronics Suppliers Association (CESA), attended a workshop at Environment Australia to further progress the development of a draft ANZECC National Shared Product Stewardship Agreement for the Electrical and Electronic Industry.

The Defence Electronics and Systems Association (DESA), an operating division of the Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (AEEMA), has welcomed the tabling of the government's Defence white paper, Defence 2000: Our Future Defence Force.

NSW businesses have blamed the GST and the Olympics for the weakest manufacturing business conditions since the 1990 recession in a new survey.

To develop a strong vertically integrated photonics industry in Australia, maximum cumulative 'value-add' needs to be retained here, according to Angus M Robinson, Executive Director, AEEMA.

AEEMA will be holding a policy forum on December 12 between 10:00am to 5:00pm at the Lehany Theatre, CSIRO National Measurement Laboratory, Bradfield Road, West Lindfield Sydney.

The EMC 2000 Symposium was held in Washington with a record number of attendees and exhibitors.

The Premier of Victoria, the Honourable Steve Bracks today officially opened Australia’s first large-scale silicon chip manufacturing plant at Robert Bosch Australia in Clayton.

The ACA is conducting a voluntary trials of materials for self-assessing electromagnetic radiation (EMR) compliance.

Two Sydney scientists have reportedly pulled off one of Australia's biggest private technology deals, selling their Radiata Communications company for $567 million to Cisco.