Xicor and Digi-Key Enter Distribution Agreement; Digi-Key to sell Xicor Mixed-Signal Products.Business/Technology Editors MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 25, 2001 Xicor, Inc. (Nasdaq: XICO) and Digi-Key Corporation (Digi-Key), of Thief River Falls, Minnesota Thief River Falls, also called Thief River or TRF, is a city in Pennington County, Minnesota, USA. The population was 8,410 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Pennington County6. U.S. today announced that they have entered into a worldwide distribution agreement. Under the terms of this agreement, Xicor will franchise Digi-Key to resell Xicor mixed-signal products through Digi-Key's catalog distribution channel. Digi-Key's catalog is the resource of choice for design engineers looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. immediate availability of product for breadboarding Breadboarding Assembling an electronic circuit in the most convenient manner on a board or other flat surface, without regard for final locations of components, to prove the feasibility of the circuit and to facilitate changes when necessary. , prototypes and pilot production. It is distributed every 120 days to a mailing list An automated e-mail system on the Internet, which is maintained by subject matter. There are thousands of such lists that reach millions of individuals and businesses. New users generally subscribe by sending an e-mail with the word "subscribe" in it and subsequently receive all new of approximately 4.5 million engineering and purchasing contacts worldwide. "Xicor is very pleased to add Digi-Key to our distribution lineup. This catalog is a standard fixture on every design engineer's desk," said Michael Levis, Xicor's vice president of marketing. "This agreement will provide our customers with the immediate availability of product that Digi-Key offers through their fulfillment services." "Xicor's mixed-signal products are ideal for Digi-Key. They are exactly the kinds of products our customers depend on Digi-Key to provide." said Stan Springsteen, Digi-Key's vice president of purchasing. "Xicor complements our lineup of other well known analog & mixed-signal IC suppliers." About Digi-Key Digi-Key is among the top 15 electronic component distributors in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Implementing a catalog and internet based selling strategy, Digi-Key sells over 150,000 products representing more than 220 manufacturers. The Company's highly automated approach to order fulfillment Order fulfillment (in BE also: order fulfilment) is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. Sometimes Order fulfillment allows for industry leading performance in on-time delivery, response time and overall performance. Digi-Key catalog, ordering information and corporate background information is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.digikey.com. About Xicor Xicor designs, develops and markets a wide variety of programmable mixed-signal integrated circuits A mixed-signal integrated circuit combines analog circuits with digital signal processing (DSP) circuits on a single semiconductor die. An integrated circuit that includes both analog and digital circuitry (but no DSP), like a 555 timer, is generally not considered a mixed-signal used in networking, computing, communication and industrial applications. The Company's products include digitally controlled potentiometers and system management IC's that allow system designers to digitally control analog functions in signal processing See DSP. , microprocessor monitoring and power management. Xicor product, corporate and financial information is readily available on the World Wide Web at http://www.xicor.com. Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. Statement Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release are forward looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. These risks may include the impact of competing products and pricing, timely design acceptance by our customers, timely ability to ramp new products into volume production, industry wide shifts in supply and demand for semiconductor products, and other risks detailed from time to time in Xicor's SEC filings. Note to Editors: "Xicor" and "XDCP" are registered trademarks of Xicor Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. |
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