The Board of Directors of Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG has resolved the following amendment to its stock option program: shares to be delivered based on options granted after January 1, 2006, will not anymore be made available from the conditional capital but purchased on the stock exchange.
Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX) hat heute die Unterzeichnung eines verbindlichen Abkommens zur Übernahme von WISchip International Ltd. bekannt gegeben
The Micronas Group generated consolidated net sales of CHF 225.2 million in the third quarter, 14.9 percent higher than in the previous quarter. Operating profit (EBIT) improved by 87.7 percent to CHF 27.4 million, equivalent to 12.2 percent of net sales.
The Micronas Group generated consolidated net sales of CHF 225.2 million in the third quarter, 14.9 percent higher than in the previous quarter. Operating profit (EBIT) improved by 87.7 percent to CHF 27.4 million, equivalent to 12.2 percent of net sales.
The Frankfurt Stock Exchange has today published its decision regarding the delisting of the shares of Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Prime Standard Segment). Accordingly, Micronas shares will only be traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange until December 20, 2005.
Micronas today announced the successful porting of LogiWays' Magello digital TV middleware to the Micronas MDE 95xyD set-top box (STB) chip in cooperation with Nagravision, a world leader for conditional access (CA) systems.
Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX), a leading supplier of innovative application-specific IC system solutions for consumer electronics, today launched their next generation COFDM demodulator IC.
Micronas announced that Loewe's Xelos A 42 Plasma TV, Xelos A 37 LCD TV and Xelos A 32 LCD TV all feature Micronas' truD® and RealMotion® technologies. These three TVs, launched earlier this year in the European and Australian markets, use the Micronas FRC 9429A truD Frame Rate Converter IC
Optimized for advanced flat panel display TVs, Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX), a leading supplier of innovative application-specific IC system solutions for consumer electronics, today unveils a highly integrated IC family that takes HDTV picture quality on LCD and Plasma TVs to new levels of performance.
Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX) a leading supplier of innovative application-specific IC system solutions for consumer electronics, today announced availability of its highly-anticipated DRX-H family of multi-standard 8VSB/QAM/QPSK/NTSC demodulator products targeting applications in Digital TV-sets, set-top boxes, multimedia-PCs, DVD recorders, PVRs and tuner modules.
Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX), a leading supplier of innovative application-specific IC system and sensor solutions for automotive and consumer electronics, announced it has joined the LIN Consortium. Micronas is currently shipping several millions of embedded microcontrollers as well as hall-effect sensors into automotive applications.
Micronas, a leading supplier of IC and sensor system solutions for automotive and consumer electronics, has expanded its CDC 32xxG family of controllers with the CDC 3217G and CDC 3257G MCUs.
In the second quarter of 2005, the Micronas Group generated consolidated net sales of CHF 196.0 million, slightly above the previous quarter. The order intake rose by 35.8 percent to CHF 238.4 million. The book-to-bill ratio was 1.22.
Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG whose shares are listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Prime Standard Segment) has decided today to delist its shares from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and to concentrate the trading of its shares on the SWX Swiss Exchange.
In the second quarter of 2005, the Micronas Group generated consolidated net sales of CHF 196.0 million, slightly above the previous quarter. The order intake rose by 35.8 percent to CHF 238.4 million. The book-to-bill ratio was 1.22.
On July 1, 2005, the new ad hoc publicity directive of the SWX Swiss Exchange enters into force. Financial figures (annual and interim results) are classified in principle as potentially price-sensitive facts and are consequently subject to a reporting requirement in the context of ad hoc publicity.
Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX), a leading supplier of innovative application-specific IC system solutions for consumer and automotive electronics, today announced the opening of Micronas Semiconductor R&D (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Panasonic AVC Networks Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (PAVCKM) awarded Micronas its prestigious Special Award in appreciation of outstanding continuous support and participation in its "Q-up" campaign during the year 2004.
Micronas is proud to announce that the third generation of its ARM7TDMI® based 32-bit dashboard controller is embedded in Volkswagen's new Passat. The implementation of a high performance controller in such a high volume automotive platform is a milestone in the architectural design of car cockpit systems.
As expected, the 2005 business year got off to a difficult start for the Micronas Group. In keeping with the general market situation, consolidated net sales for the first three months of the current year amounted to CHF 193.1 million, 13.8 percent lower than in the previous quarter. The gross margin was around 32 percent; profit for the reporting period amounted to CHF 7.8 million.
Optimized for LCD-TV applications, Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX), a leading supplier of innovative application-specific IC system solutions for consumer electronics, today announced a break-through in full-featured LCD-TV solutions; a single-chip TV solution with dedicated features such as 3D comb filter, component input for HDTV signals, and LVDS outputs.
Micronas successfully passed the ISO/TS 16949 certification process. All international automotive manufacturers have acknowledged the ISO/TS 16949:2002 norm as a common basis for business, ensuring that agreed specifications are met precisely at all times. Automotive
Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX), a leading supplier of innovative, cutting-edge application-specific IC system solutions for consumer electronics, today announced that it has licensed the High-Definition Multimedia Interface™ (HDMI™) and Digital Visual Interface (DVI) receiver intellectual property (IP) for integration in their consumer ICs from Silicon Image, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIMG), a leader in multi-gigabit semiconductor solutions for the secure transmission and storage of rich digital media.
The corporate-level "Best Supplier Award" is the highest honor given to suppliers from Samsung. This year's award citation acknowledges that Micronas "provided outstanding support and contributed the most extended to Samsung Electronics".
Micronas, a leading supplier of IC and sensor system solutions for automotive and consumer electronics, announced today a new 8/16 bit controller platform that lowers overall system cost while increasing the range of memory options available to designers
Optimized for consumer video and multimedia applications such as personal video recorders (PVRs), set-top boxes and projectors, Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX), a leading supplier of innovative application-specific IC system solutions for consumer electronics, today announced its fourth generation of full-feature video acquisition ICs with dedicated new features like component video input and detection of Macrovison® 7.1 anti-taping technology.
In a challenging economic environment, the Micronas Group succeeded in further increasing sales and earnings in 2004. Although the momentum of the earlier quarters slackened somewhat in the last three months of the reporting year, the Group sustained a high level of performance.
The convergence of the PC and entertainment worlds moved a step closer today with the announcement of two key PC television products based on Micronas' cutting-edge nGene® Dual Channel PCI Express™ Multimedia Controller.
Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX) presents FRC 9429A, the latest generation of frame rate converter with vector-based motion estimation and compensation. With this technology, the chip calculates the shift in position of every object on the screen between each frame. It then uses this information to precisely interpolate the object's location in intermediate frames. The result is smooth real motion, instead of the edgy movements and blurring common to conventional DTV displays.
Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX), and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS are to engage in a long-term partnership with the aim of further refining the 3-D Hall sensors developed at the Fraunhofer IIS to the point where they are ready for marketing.
Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX), today announced the launch of a new COFDM (coded orthogonal frequency division multiplex) demodulator IC, the flagship of the Micronas 4th generation demodulator series.
Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX), a pioneer in the field of single chip decoders for hybrid TVs, today unveiled the MDE 95xyD product family of DVB decoders targeting the booming DVB set-top box (STB) market.
Despite the difficult business climate, the Micronas Group achieved a further modest sales increase in the third quarter of 2004. On the other hand, the slowdown in new orders that became apparent in the second quarter of the year could not be reversed.
Arena brings digital technologies, new features and PC connectivity to the high-volume mid-range audio market while providing a cost-effective design and a new level of support to audio equipment manufacturers.
Together with 20 other Freiburg companies and municipal departments, Micronas GmbH was awarded the City of Freiburg's Ecological Transport Seal for the second time last Thursday. Managing Director, Klaus Heberle, received the certificate in person from Mayor Dr. Matthias Schmelas.
The new cost-effective approach offers previously unknown versatility and design advantages. Micronas family of audio processors integrate DSP-Power, audio connectivity and analog I/O into one universal IC.
Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX), a leading supplier of semiconductors to the consumer electronics market, today demonstrates a breakthrough in multimedia architecture at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco: NgeneTM is based on the switched point-to-point PCI ExpressTM architecture, enabler of greater bandwidth and performance required for PC-based multimedia applications.
Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX) launches a new PVP 9390A single-chip picture-in-picture solution meeting the TV manufacturer's demand for a standalone PIP IC solution at a price which is compatible with mid-range and low-end TVs.
Demand for Micronas products continued to grow in the second quarter of the current business year. In the first half of the year, sales were up by 39.5 percent and earnings by 74.3 percent compared with the same period a year ago.
Micronas today unveiled the fourth generation of its COFDM (coded orthogonal frequency division multiplex) demodulator IC: The DRX 3973D addresses all types of atmospheric and dynamic interferences with new adaptive compensation schemes and paves the way for excellent reception in the more vulnerable DVB-T regions (Digital Video Broadcast Terrestrial), as found in fringe signal areas and indoor reception.
Micronas is the world's first TV manufacturer independent semiconductor company to offer a digital add-on module for conventional analog TV chassis designs. The MicModule provides an easy upgrade solution for analog TV designs both Flat Panel Display and CRT to manufacturers looking to enter the integrated digital TV (IDTV) market.
Micronas today introduces the world's first IDTV reference design for the complete signal processing of digital and analog signals on one single board. The new reference board "PEPER Digital" allows the design of 100 Hz CRT integrated digital TVs (IDTVs).
Micronas today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire LINX Electronics, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company that develops innovative digital television solutions for improved reception of high-definition television (HDTV) signals.
Genesis Microchip Inc. (Nasdaq:GNSS), a world leader in the development of image processing technologies for LCD TVs and other consumer display products, and Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX), a leading supplier of cutting-edge IC and sensor system solutions for consumer and automotive electronics, today announced their joint LCD TV reference design, the V2E.
Micronas today announced a new solution solving the problem of audio information being asynchronous with lip movement on flat panel TVs. The new approach, working with on-chip RAM, delays audio information until it is synchronous with lip movement.
For the Micronas Group the 2004 business year got off to a good start. In the first three months, consolidated net sales reached CHF 237.3 million, 9.6 percent higher than in the final quarter of 2003. Net profit rose to CHF 37.3 million, a 20.3 percent improvement on the previous quarter.
Expanding its product line of display processors and scalers, Micronas today announced its new DPS 9455B aiming at the fast growing market for flat-panel TVs. The DPS 9455B features HDTV and a PC signal input as well as line-based de-interlacing.
Gametrac Europe Ltd, subsidiary of Jacksonville, FL based Tiger Telematics Inc (TIGR) and Zurich, Switzerland based semiconductor manufacturer Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX, Frankfurt: MNSN) today announced that Gametrac Europe will use two of Micronas' cutting edge audio ICs to bring extensive audio features into its 400-MHz-processor powered multi-entertainment Gametrac (GT) device, unveiled at the Microsoft booth at CES this year.
Micronas today announced that Wavecom, a provider of integrated wireless technology solutions for Vertical Applications (including machine-to-machine, automobiles and wireless local loop) and Personal Communication Devices (PCDs including telephone handsets and smartphones), selected two Micronas audio ICs for its Compact 605 and 610 multimedia mobile phone platforms.
Micronas, a leading supplier of innovative application-specific IC system solutions for consumer electronics and automotive electronics, announced today that the latest-generation single-chip TV Audio processors of the MSP 46xyK family are now available with pulse width modulation (PWM) audio outputs.
