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NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) In 2007, according to the National Cancer Institute, an estimated 67,100 new cases of bladder cancer will be diagnosed in the United States and 13,750 people will die of the disease. For most men suffering from invasive bladder cancer, the most serious kind, treatment typically involves open surgery to remove the bladder as well as the nearby prostate and reconstruction of an ileum conduit or neobladder to divert urine. In 20-30 percent of cases of bladder cancer involving men, an incidental finding of prostate cancer will also be discovered.

MALVERN, PA (MARKET WIRE) Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) today expanded its family of Gen III TrenchFET® power MOSFETs with the release of a new 25-V n-channel device offering the industry's lowest on-resistance and on-resistance times gate charge for a device with this voltage rating in the PowerPAK® SO-8 package type.

AUSTIN, TX and BEAVERTON, OR (MARKET WIRE) Leaders of the chip making industry have assembled in Austin, Texas this week to examine, in part, equipment productivity at the ISMI Symposium On Manufacturing Effectiveness, including details presented by Dennis J. Bonciolini -- the CTO of CyberOptics Semiconductor -- of a 300mm fab's implementation of wireless machine-vision devices to teach robot wafer-transfer coordinates and improve tool production time 600 percent.

PORTLAND, OR (MARKET WIRE) Williams Controls, Inc. (the "Company") (NASDAQ: WMCO) today announced that it has engaged the investment banking firm D.A. Davidson & Co. to assist the Company in pursuing strategic acquisitions to enhance company and shareholder value. D.A. Davidson will assist Williams' management in pursuing acquisition opportunities related to Williams' existing business. Williams is interested in exploring acquisitions of companies, operating divisions, and product lines for the heavy truck, bus, and off-road vehicle markets, with specific emphasis on pedal systems, joysticks, sensors, hand controls

BEAVERTON, OR (MARKET WIRE) Tektronix, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, today announced several new probe tips with signal bandwidths to 8 GHz including high temperature applications for the P7500 Series TriMode(TM) Differential Probe. The new tips are designed specifically for probing DDR2 and DDR3 memory DIMMs and are also useful for general purpose probing applications. The new accessories use socket cable technology for quick and easy attachment. The new TriMode tips provide improved usability and lower cost per solder point than existing market

FREMONT, CA (MARKET WIRE) SMART Modular Technologies (WWH), Inc. ("SMART" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SMOD), a leading independent manufacturer of memory modules, solid-state drives, embedded computing subsystems, and TFT-LCD display products, today announced a new line of ultra low profile (ULP) DDR3 Registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) for advanced telecommunications computing architecture (ATCA) blade platforms used in telecom, networking, and embedded computing applications. SMART's comprehensive line of new RDIMMs has been designed to satisfy stringent thermal performance specifications.

OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) MOSAID Technologies Inc. (TSX: MSD) today announced that Panasonic Corporation of Osaka, Japan, is the first company to license a significant portfolio of microcomponent patents to which MOSAID has exclusive licensing rights.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (MARKET WIRE) Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, wireless, storage and security applications, today announced that Cavium Networks management will be presenting at the following financial conferences during the fourth quarter of 2008.

OTTAWA, CANADA (MARKET WIRE) The following document corrects and replaces the release sent earlier today at 4:25 PM EDT. In the Third Quarter Fiscal 2009 Guidance section, "Zarlink expects second quarter earnings of between break-even and US$0.02 per share" should be "Zarlink expects third quarter earnings of between break-even and US$0.02 per share". Complete corrected version follows.

OTTAWA, CANADA (MARKET WIRE) Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. (TSX: ZL) today issued results for the Fiscal 2009 second quarter ended September 26, 2008, prepared in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).