“When our customers come to us for high-performance interconnect solutions, they often have a need for signal integrity expertise,” comments Gordon Vinther, President of Ardent Concepts. “With the addition of Liberty Research to our portfolio of services, we are better positioned to help our customers achieve their electrical performance objectives in test and functional interconnect with signal integrity validation and simulation solutions not offered by other connector firms.”

(January 24, 2008) Unterpremstaetten, Austria and Victor, NY — austriamicrosystems, a designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs for communications, industry, medical, and automotive applications, and New Scale Technologies Inc., a developer and manufacturer of miniature motion systems, have announced the completion of a Series B preferred equity transaction. austriamicrosystems has made a $6 million investment in exchange for a 25% minority share in privately-held New Scale of Victor, NY.