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Semiconductor streamlining

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:26:13 +0000

Hitachi High-Technologies and Renesas Technology have agreed to a transfer of the semiconductor manufacturing equipment business of wholly owned Renesas subsidiary, Renesas Eastern Japan Semiconductor, to Hitachi High-Tech Instruments, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi High-Technologies.

Wireless deal

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:44:20 +0000

Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with LS Research, a wireless development company.

Taiwan ranks three in connectors

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:50:27 +0000

Taiwan is being recognised as the key manufacturer of ICT products, including personal computers, notebooks, monitors and motherboards, and has cultivated a strong connector industry, ranked at three in global production value.

Embedded takeover

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:55:19 +0000

Kontron has acquired Digital-Logic, headquartered near Solothurn in Switzerland.

LCD glass continues to be scarce

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:19:07 +0000

In its Quarterly LCD Glass Subsctrate Report, DisplaySearch says that TFT LCD glass tightness this year will continue as TFT LCD panel makers are increasing capacity use and demanding more glass substrate from suppliers.

Ultra-shallow junctions for sub-32 nm CMOS devices

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:22:18 +0000

IMEC has combined vapour-phase doping and sub-melt laser annealing to fabricate high-quality, defect-free, ultra-shallow junctions (USJs) with abrupt dopant profile.

Server shipments still down

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:41:08 +0000

In the second quarter of 2009, Asia Pacific continued its downward trend in server shipments with a 17.2% year on year decline, with shipments totaling 323,388 units.

Solar panel output trials

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:37:39 +0000

National Semiconductor and SunEdison, a solar energy services provider, have begun field trials to optimise the energy output of solar arrays.

Quad-band 3G HSPA+ module

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:52:41 +0000

The Sierra Wireless MC8700 module for HSPA+ networks is said to take advantage of the fastest mobile broadband networks available worldwide, enabling the expansion of product development into applications requiring higher bandwidth.

Soldiers turn a march into a charge

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:33:58 +0000

Engineers at Leeds are developing a way to capture the kinetic energy produced when soldiers march and use it to power their equipment.

Online resource for design engineers

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:00:34 +0000

An online technology resource and community for electronic design engineers has been launched at www.element-14.com.

GaN-on-Si program launched

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:51:45 +0000

IMEC has launched an industrial affiliation program to focus on the development of GaN technology for both power conversion and solid-state lighting applications.

AC load banks

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:20:28 +0000

Avtron AC single- and three-phase load banks with dissipation capacities to 6 MW are now available. The banks, in addition to resistive loads, are also available as lagging reactive loads to 1575 kVAr. In addition, the combined resistive-reactive loads and resistive loads can be paralleled with reactive loads.

M to M modems

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:20:29 +0000

M2M Connectivity has released the Maestro Heritage series of modems and kits that combine a base unit offering GSM/GPRS/EDGE with pluggable boards catering for diverse machine to machine applications.

Ethernet microcontrollers

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:20:14 +0000

NEC Electronics has developed nine 32-bit All Flash microcontrollers with built-in ethernet interface and embedded flash memory.

Boost converter

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:20:13 +0000

Linear Technology has announced the LT8415, a low-noise micropower boost converter with integrated dual half-bridge switches.

DC/DC controller

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:20:33 +0000

Linear Technology has announced the LT3757, a wide input range DC/DC controller for boost, flyback, SEPIC and inverting power supply applications, capable of generating either positive or negative regulated output voltages.

Module firmware

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:20:30 +0000

M2M Connectivity, Sierra Wireless’s Australian and New Zealand distributor for embedded modules, has available firmware for the HSPA+ MC8700 module - MC8700 Telstra M2.0.9.3AP firmware.

Buck-boost controller

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:20:15 +0000

Linear Technology has announced a high reliability (MP) grade version of the LTC3780, a high-efficiency synchronous buck-boost switching regulator DC/DC controller that operates from input voltages above, below or equal to the output voltage.

Low-value resistors

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:20:11 +0000

Vishay’s Power Metal Strip current sensing resistors combine good performance in high-temperature applications with a wide range of package sizes and a choice of values from 0.0002 to 1 Ω.