LONDON – Boosted by its acquisition of Sanyo's semiconductor business, On Semiconductor registered a 49 percent sales increase in 2011 and moved into the top 25 chip companies, according to a ranking of companies by 2011 chip sales compiled by market research company IC Insights.

Xilinx, Inc. has launched its first Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP), which the company touts as a major milestone in the roll-out of a complete embedded processing platform that for the first time offers developers ASIC levels of performance and power consumption, the flexibility of an FPGA and the programmability of a microprocessor. Customers who have developed systems using the...