LOWELL, MA – Tyco Electronics today announced it intends to sell its Radio Frequency Components and Subsystem business.
The segment represented about $500 million of total the business unit’s $887 million in sales in 2007, but is considered a non-strategic business.
Headquartered in Lowell, MA, the unit employs about 2,000 people at 11 locations throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Tyco has no current plans to sell its Public Safety/Land Mobile Radio Systems and Products businesses, which are also part of the Tyco Electronics unit.
SAN JOSE – The MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council will hold its 6th Annual MEMS packaging symposium on May 22.
The one-day event will take place at the Wyndham Hotel in San Jose, and will explore new applications, market opportunities, and enabling technologies for MEMS, including emerging biomedical and consumer sectors.
The program will include talks on MEMS and the consumer, automotive and biomedicine markets, and on the impact of wafer-level packaging and 3-D ICs on foundries and the industry.