TechTalk

The nascent exponential growth of smart phones, iPADs, tablet PC, notebooks and netbooks contributed to an insatiable demand for wireless networks’ data speed and capacity. Wireless service providers

I had the pleasure of talking with Bob Reay, Vice President, Mixed Signal Products and Alison Steer, Product Marketing Manager, Mixed Signal Products for Linear Technology about a revolutionary new

I had the pleasure to talk with Parker Hannifin Corporation. With annual sales exceeding $12 billion in fiscal year 2011, Parker Hannifin is the world’s leading diversified manufacturer of motion and

I had the pleasure to talk with Afshin Odabaee, Product Marketing Manager, DC/DC µModule Products at Linear Technology Corporation. Afshin explained that current loops in different parts of a system

I had the pleasure to talk with Tony Armstrong, Linear’s Power Director, about Linear’s new product, which does not suffer the encumbrance and unreliability experienced with the use of optocouplers.

I had the distinct pleasure to visit Vincotech in the Munich area of Germany and to talk with Joachim Fietz, the company’s CEO. Having its main business activities in Europe and Asia, Vincotech specializes

I had the great pleasure to meet with Jon Harper, Fairchild’s Market Development Manager. Jon took me through the technology behind the company’s latest innovation which addresses the continuing pressure

Lattice Semiconductor redefined the low cost, low power mid-range FPGA market with its announcement of the next generation LatticeECP4™ FPGA family, with 6 Gbps SERDES in low cost wire-bond packages,

I had the great pleasure to talk with Tony Armstrong, Linear’s Power Marketing Director He is responsible for all aspects of the power conversion and management products from conception through obsolescing.

I had the pleasure to talk with Mark Cieri, Director of Business Development and Marketing, at Enpirion. Mark has nearly 20 years of management experience at premier technology companies, and he draws

I had the pleasure to talk with Piyush Sevalia, Vice President, Marketing for the SiTime Corporation. SiTime Corporation is an analog semiconductor company which offers MEMS-based silicon timing solutions

I had the pleasure to meet with the leaders of a new company, Amantys, who are fast becoming a formidable force in the power industry. Bryn Parry, Managing Director who was previously General Manager

I had the pleasure to talk with Bob Scannell, Business Development Manager, MEMS/Sensors Technology Group for Analog Devices. He told me about the company’s new tactical grade sensors for high performance

I had the pleasure to talk with Mike Kania, Director of Business Development based out of Eltek Valere U.S. in Richardson, TX. Mike told me about Eltek’s new industrial building block: A high reliability

I had the pleasure to interview Michael McCorquodale, Ph.D of Integrated Device Technology, Inc (IDT) to talk about the company's new innovation of its new ultra high perfomance CMOS Oscillators. IDT

I had the pleasure to meet with Mike Jones, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Micrel and Eberhard Haug, Senior FAE for Central Europe, who presented Micrel’s groundbreaking new technology which

I had the great pleasure to talk with Bob Dobkin, Vice President, Engineering, Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of Linear Technology. Founded 30 years ago, the company commemorated three decades

Power Integrations, the leading supplier of high-voltage integrated circuits used in energy-efficient power conversion. The company's innovative technology enables compact, energy-efficient power supplies

The accelerating use of smart phones, tablets and network-centric devices continues to put pressure on mobile wireless network upgrades to alleviate congestion. The rush to deploy the next generation

I had the pleasure to talk with Dan Lenskold, Senior Manager, Strategic Business Development, Analog & Power Division for IDT about the company’s breakthrough power architecture which improves power

The growth of the mobile Internet has been more dramatic than any pundit could have imagined. Fueled by the iPhone and other smartphones, enthusiastic mobile Internet users have turned to email, video,

I talked with Mark Adams, CUI’s VP of Advanced Power Marketing, about CUI’s new power topology which is set to propel quarter-brick bus converter to benchmark power density. CUI is leveraging their

I had the pleasure of an interview with Mark Edwards, Sales Director of Aim-TTi, Thurlby Thandar Instruments Ltd, based in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK. The 13 year close links with Cambridge University

I had the pleasure to meet with Thomas Neyer, Vice President of High Voltage Semiconductor Technology at Fairchild Semiconductor, to discuss the setup of the company’s new High Voltage R&D Centre in

I had the pleasure of a dialog with Alex Lidow, Co-founder and CEO of Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC). EPC designs, develops, and produces Gallium-Nitride-on-Silicon transistors and integrated

I had the pleasure to talk with Greg Davis, Senior Marketing Manager for the Mobile Audio Product Line at Fairchild Semiconductor. Prior to Fairchild, Greg was the Senior Director of the Portable Audio

Maxim has announced the acquisition of the MEMS specialist firm, SensorDynamics. The lucrative MEMS sensor market is reported to be growing at almost twice that of the analog market . Sensors are

I was fortunate to be invited to the opening of Semikron’s modern logistics centre which coincided with the company’s 60th anniversary. Semikron has further expanded its headquarters in Nuremberg and

I had the pleasure to talk with Piyush Sevalia, Vice President of marketing at SiTime about the company’s new VCTCXO products covering 1 to 220MHz frequency, industrial temperature and 500 fs jitter,

I had the pleasure to talk with Parviz Ghaffaripour, President & CEO of California-based Akros Silicon. The company provides leading edge, intelligent energy management ICs. Akros’ disruptive silicon

I had the opportunity to talk with Paul Daigle who is responsible for business development and new product definition for the Teridian energy measurement development team at Maxim Integrated Products.

I had the pleasure to meet with Robert Green, President and CEO of Renesas Electronics Europe at the company’s recent press briefing in Munich, Germany. Robert gave an open and frank update on the

I had the pleasure to talk with TI's Uwe Fuhrmann, who manages the development of Texas Instruments’ Analog Automotive business in EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa). He has over twenty years of experience

I had the opportunity to talk with Peter Bruhns, Senior Director Product Management, who is in charge of product and application management worldwide at Enecsys. Enecsys develops, manufactures and

I was fortunate to meet with Anders Frederiksen, Segment Marketing Manager for ADI recently at the PCIM show in Nuremberg. ADI’s demonstrations showed how to simplify feedback and sensing, isolation

I had the great pleasure to meet with the management team of the Korean Specialty Foundry, Dongbu HiTek. The company held special presentations

I had the pleasure to talk with Maury Wood, general manager, High Speed Converters for NXP. Here we discussed the innovations that NXP is bringing to the fast growing and demanding communications sector.

At the Microchip press conference in Munich, Germany, I was fortunate to meet with Vince Sheard, Microchip's MPLAB IDE Software Manager and to see first hand Microchip demonstrate its next-generation,

I attended the European press launch for ON Semi’s new Q32M210 precision mixed-signal microcontroller for portable sensing applications. This product is ideal for industrial and medical applications

Ethernet standards require the data cable to be isolated from the system chassis due mainly to ground loops, which can corrupt data, and possible ground potential differences in the Ethernet cable

I had the great pleasure to speak with Andrew Sawle, Executive Director, Package Technology Development at International Rectifier. Basically, I wanted to find out what IR was doing to advance energy

I had the recent pleasure to talk with Tony Armstrong, Linear’s Director of Product Marketing for Power Products, about the company’s latest high voltage controller and power manager, the LTC4000,

I had the pleasure to talk with Antonio Fernández, Renewable Energy & SmartGrid Vertical Segment Director EMEA for EBV. He explained what EBV is doing for its customers and its manufacturers. It was

National Semiconductor today introduced 12 new SIMPLE SWITCHER® power modules, the first to drive up to 10A of output current and comply with the CISPR 22 (Class B) radiated and conducted electromagnetic

I met with Doug Amos, business development manager, solutions marketing for the Synplicity business group, René Richter, corporate applications engineering manager, both from Synopsys, and John Heighton,

I had the pleasure to meet with Hardy Schmidbauer, Product Marketing Manager for wireless products at Silicon Laboratories, who provides strategic and product line marketing support for the company’s

IR’s new PowIRstage® solution beats today’s industry-best with up to a staggering 3% higher electrical efficiency. I had the opportunity to talk with a very busy Deepak Savadatti, IR’s Executive Director,

I had the great pleasure to talk with Phil Davies, VP Global Sales & Marketing for Vicor, who has recently joined the company. Vicor Corporation has long been the pioneer in the design, development,

A new LED illumination in Denver is proving attractive and appealing, but perhaps the most impressive aspects of the new installation are the cost and energy savings. Total savings on a yearly basis,