CANNES, FRANCE -- Outsourcing has become such
an integral part of successful business practice that many
organisations are embarking on outsourcing programmes almost without
thinking. Research firm Gartner today warned against such compulsive outsourcing and
advised organisations to begin a more disciplined approach to
multisourcing in order to achieve business growth and agility.
SAN JOSE -- The Semiconductor
Industry Association today applauded congressional action to
provide a significant increase in federal funding for the National
Science Foundation in 2006.
Congress appropriated $5.65 billion
for the NSF, an increase of 3.3% over last year.
PALO ALTO,
CA -- IPCore Technologies Corp., China's largest design
service company, has selected the Agilent Technologies 93000 SOC series for testing digital, mixed-signal and RF devices.
Agilent is also collaborating with IPCore on test-program and
load-board design.
"[We] found that the Agilent 93000 system
offered a scalable platform with the flexibility, accuracy and speed we
require," said Randy Cao, senior director of turnkey operations,
IPCore. "Agilent has demonstrated its strong commitment and support
capability to the high-end SOC test market in China."
Agilent has installed more than 1,000 9300 systems worldwide.