Op/ed: Camarillo is a battleground in fight for U.S. solar jobs
Until this level playing field returns, we must continue to fight for America’s renewable-energy industry.
Read More →Hot commodities: Greenhouse tomato growers eye competition
Houweling’s Tomatoes in Camarillo and Windset Farms in Santa Maria view Mexican farmers as their biggest competition.
Read More →A $494M bet on bandwidth: Semtech places its chips on Canadian firm
Ontario-based Gennum makes chips used by video firms for high-integrity signals.
Read More →Semtech to buy Canadian firm for $494M
Camarillo-based semiconductor firm Semtech plans to buy a Canadian chipmaker for $494 million. The agreement to buy Burlington, Ontario-based Gennum is Semtech’s second large acquisition since 2009, when it closed a deal to buy Irvine-based Sierra Monolithics for $180 million. The Gennum deal fits neatly into the strategic plan put in place by Semtech’s leadership Read More →
Read More →Startup scores Amgen exec
PBS Biotech, a Camarillo-based startup focused on biotechnology equipment founded by a former Amgen scientist, has added major firepower to its advisory board with a key former Amgen executive. George Morrow oversaw global operations for Thousand Oaks-based Amgen, the world’s largest biotech firm, for eight years before retiring last year. He came to Amgen after Read More →
Read More →Semtech’s earnings rise
[wikichart align=”right” ticker=”NASDAQ:SMTC” showannotations=”true” livequote=”true” startdate=”30-05-2011″ enddate=”30-11-2011″ width=”300″ height=”245″] Camarillo-based Semtech, a chip design firm, posted 67 percent increase in quarterly earnings on a slight increase in sales for the most recent quarter. Semtech, which is in its 2012 fiscal year, said third quarter net income came to $27 million, compared with $16.1 million a Read More →
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