At the National Instruments’ Media Roundtable briefing yesterday, Chandran Nair, Managing Director for National Instruments ASEAN, discussed the high performance value of the Company’s latest test version of the graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system development, LabVIEW 8.6. Building on the inherent parallel nature of graphical programming, LabVIEW 8.6 delivers new tools to help engineers and scientists take advantage of the benefits of multicore processors, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and wireless communication. Chandran also touched upon the Company’s most recent financial performance. National Instruments saw a record revenue of $740 million in 2007, of which $205 million alone was from the last quarter of that year. These figures against the backdrop of a not-so-robust global economy. He said: "It is precisely the economic slowdown that is compelling engineers to become more productive by looking at an alternative to reduce test expenditure. This is precisely what the NI LabVIEW 8.6 offers, together with a host of other functions to make tests easier for the designengineer.” | 
