Industry News
November 2011
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT®; NASDAQ: IDTI), the Analog and Digital Company™ delivering essential mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, today announced that the IDT CPS-1848 and CPS-1616
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11/30/2011
Fulfilling the need for ultra-low-power microcontrollers (MCUs) in the automotive market, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced the qualification of MSP430™ 16-bit microcontrollers
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Date:
11/30/2011
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International Light Technologies (ILT), a leading designer, manufacturer and distributor of light measurement and detection systems, is pleased to announce that the ILT CanopyLight™ LED Retrofit Kit
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Date:
11/30/2011
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Arrow Electronics announces the start of an enhanced technical support programme for Texas Instruments' (TI) new SIMPLE SWITCHER nano modules and regulators. TI's nano products are power management
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11/29/2011
Higher power efficiency, density, reliability, and lower volume and cost: How to reach these goals and what solutions are feasible? These topics will be discussed at the 7th CIPS Conference by power
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11/28/2011
Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch technology solutions, today announced a complete Digital Audio Platform for consumer, automotive and industrial applications.
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Date:
11/28/2011
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Powersolve continues to bring innovative power products to the marketplace with the introduction of Lithium Polymer thin cells that can be manufactured down to just 0.4mm thick. The CP Series consists
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Date:
11/27/2011
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Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller and radio company, has introduced a software tool enabling designers to accurately predict battery cell life expectancy in applications based on its
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11/26/2011
Laird Technologies, Inc., a global leader in the design and supply of customized performance-critical components and systems for advanced electronics and wireless products, today announced that it
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11/26/2011
TDK-Lambda UK, a group company of the TDK Corporation, announces that its scope for safety testing has recently been updated to include the Third Edition of 60601-1, the new safety standard for Medical
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11/25/2011
Dialog Semiconductor Power Management And Audio ICs Adopted By Samsung for Android Based Smartphones
Dialog Semiconductor plc (FWB: DLG), a provider of highly integrated innovative power management, audio and short range wireless technologies, has announced that it is shipping system level power
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Date:
11/25/2011
LEDnovation, a leading innovator in LED lighting and replacement lamp technology, today announced availability of the EnhanceLite® PAR38 Spot. With a 3000K color temperature and tight, 14° beam angle,
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11/25/2011
Matrox Graphics announced today its Matrox Avio KVM extender and Matrox Mura™ MPX Series video wall controller boards will be demonstrated together, as key components of a collaborative, high-performance
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Date:
11/25/2011
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The latest figures point to significant growth in the Chinese solar market, underlining the ever more important role it plays in the global solar industry. The international role of the Chinese companies
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Date:
11/25/2011
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REpower Systems SE has concluded a contract with EverPower for the delivery of a total of 68 wind turbines. REpower MM92 type turbines are destined for the Twin Ridges wind project in Somerset County,
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Date:
11/25/2011
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One of the largest on roof photovoltaic projects in the free state of Thuringia was inaugurated on November 21st. The State Environment Minister Juergen Reinholz officially inaugurated the solar plant
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Date:
11/25/2011
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Jon Boxall, Global Head of Semiconductors and Electronics Test & Measurement, RS Components Nicola Gomiero, Distribution Sales Director, LeCroy
RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the world's leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products, has received the 2011 ‘Distributor of
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Date:
11/24/2011
Molex Incorporated and TMG Technologie und Engineering GmbH have announced a strategic cooperation focusing on industrial communication technologies and service activities for protocol stack integration.
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Date:
11/24/2011
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AVX Corporation was chosen as the first stop on the Rutronik "Customer Meets Supplier Tour." AVX, a leading manufacturer of passive electronic components and interconnect solutions, recently hosted
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11/24/2011
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, will develop key applications for an instrument designed for meteorological observations onboard satellites for the Canadian Space Agency's
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Date:
11/24/2011
Avnet Abacus, one of Europe's leading interconnect, passive, electromechanical and power distributors, has announced that it has signed a Pan-European franchise agreement with Murata covering the
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Date:
11/24/2011
Maxwell Technologies' (Nasdaq: MXWL) Chief Executive Officer, David Schramm, will make a presentation at 10:00 AM (PST), December 1, at the Robert W. Baird & Co. 2011 Clean Technology Conference at
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Date:
11/22/2011
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STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and a world-leading supplier of set-top box ICs, has obtained MoCA®
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Date:
11/22/2011
Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today focused the spotlight on its new global distribution
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Date:
11/22/2011
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Analog Devices Inc. (ADI: NYSE), a global leader in high-performance signal processing technology, has been named one of the world's most innovative companies, according to the Thomson Reuters 2011
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Date:
11/21/2011
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RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the world's leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products, today announced full details of its
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Date:
11/21/2011
For over ten years, design engineers have attended our intensive four-day laboratory workshops to gain a unique hands-on experience. Mornings are steeped in theory, design ideas, control schemes and
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Date:
11/21/2011
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Powerstax, one of Europe's leading value-added power solutions manufacturers, is pleased to announce that its MEDISTAX® range of power supplies for medical applications has now been approved to the
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Date:
11/21/2011
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, today announced updates to its Identify® and
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Date:
11/18/2011
Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced its global distribution agreement with
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Date:
11/18/2011
Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced that it has finalized an exclusive international
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Date:
11/17/2011
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Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), today announced the addition of vibration energy harvesting manufacturer, Midé to its line card. Avnet will offer
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Date:
11/17/2011
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Nextreme Thermal Solutions, the leader in micro-scale thermal management and power generation solutions, has developed two new energy harvesting subsystems for the plumbing and HVAC industries. The
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Date:
11/17/2011
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Diodes Incorporated wins the NMI's Manufacturing Site of the Year award for 2011. Pictured left to right are: Derek Boyd, CEO of the NMI, Craig Davey, Principal Equipment Engineer, Diodes Incorporated and John Langhan, Director of award sponsor Merit Merrell.
Diodes Incorporated has picked up two awards from the United Kingdom's National Microelectronics Institute (NMI) at its prestigious Industry Summit & Gala Dinner and Awards 2011 held at the Wyndham
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Date:
11/17/2011
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Nitronex, a leader in the design and manufacture of gallium nitride (GaN) based RF solutions for high performance applications in the defense, communications, cable TV, and industrial & scientific
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11/16/2011
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has agreed to acquire Powercorp, an Australian renewable power automation company. This acquisition strengthens ABB's portfolio of control technologies
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Date:
11/16/2011
Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced an exclusive global distribution partnership
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Date:
11/16/2011
Cree, Inc.'s Ruud Lighting subsidiary, based in Racine, Wisc., will hold a groundbreaking ceremony today to highlight a 208,000-square-foot expansion to its manufacturing facility. The company's $24.5
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Date:
11/16/2011
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Avnet Abacus, one of Europe's leading interconnect, passive, electromechanical and power distributors, has announced two new piezo electric buzzers from Kingstate Electronics Corporation via a Pan-European
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Date:
11/16/2011
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Energy Micro and Hakuto sign a distribution agreement for Japan. Jun Takagi, Director & Vice President Semiconductor Devices First Division of Hakuto is pictured with Energy Micro's President and CEO, Geir Førre.
Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller and RF radio company, has announced a distribution agreement with Hakuto in Japan. Hakuto will promote Energy Micro's complete range of ultra low
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Date:
11/16/2011
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With the challenges and pressures to deliver on time and within spec first time; a scenario that all designers now find themselves in, it is imperative that a high quality design reference is close
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11/15/2011
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, announces a special pre-conference training event focused specifically on the importance of transformers at power generation stations.
This
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Date:
11/15/2011
INSIDE Secure and Integrated Device Technology (NASDAQ: IDTI) today announced that the two companies have collaborated to bring to market a compact, single-package secure microcontroller and oscillator
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Date:
11/15/2011
Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announced today a five-city SpeedWay® technical seminar series focused on data converters. Taught by technical specialists
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Date:
11/15/2011
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Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that Netezza, an IBM Company and the leader in data warehouse appliances, is using the innovative programmable Lattice Power Manager
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Date:
11/14/2011
Freescale Semiconductor and Telecom Italia presented the latest advancement of the Energy@Home consortium during the recent Design with Freescale (DWF) Italian session in Milan. The Energy@Home consortium,
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Date:
11/14/2011
FEI (Nasdaq:FEIC), a leading instrumentation company providing imaging and analysis systems for research and industry, today announced that it has acquired TILL Photonics of Munich, Germany. TILL
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Date:
11/14/2011
Ventyx®, an ABB company, today announced a significant new software license contract that will contribute to reliable power distribution for the Lyse Group, an energy and telecommunications company,
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Date:
11/14/2011
TTI, Inc. has received industry accolades for its 2010 marketing efforts from the Electronics Components Industry Association (ECIA) and UBM Electronics. The awards were presented at the annual conference
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Date:
11/12/2011
The American Automotive Policy Council (AAPC) applauds the commitment made today by the Asia-Pacific region's Trade Ministers to facilitate the cross-border trade and approval of energy-efficient
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Date:
11/12/2011
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Renesas Electronics Europe offers two compatible microcontroller (MCU) families designed to provide flexible and scalable solutions for the next generation of smart meters. Both RX210 and RX630 MCUs
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Date:
11/11/2011
Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), today announced that it has added Digilent, Inc., a leading manufacturer of Xilinx development boards, programming
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11/11/2011
Magma Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that Adapteva used Magma software to tape out the Epiphany-IV 64-core microprocessor array IC targeted
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Date:
11/11/2011
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Left to right: Fred Bell, Vice President, Global Distribution, Molex Roger Pickett, Head of Electronic purchasing, RS Components Valerie Ramon, Category Business Manager, Emech & Connectors, RS Components Mark Davies, Distribution Corporate Account Manager, Europe, Molex Chris Page, General Manager Electronics, Electrocomponents Paul Keenan, Regional Sales Manager, Northern Europe, Molex
RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the world's leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products, has received the '2011 Global Catalogue
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Date:
11/11/2011
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WAGO Corporation's EPSITRON® COMPACT Power Supply family has earned Germanischer Lloyd (GL) approvals and has passed Environmental Category C and EMC2 testing. A marine mainstay, GL approval brings
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Date:
11/11/2011
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Starter packs for graphics display designers are available from Electronic Assembly, a company, which specializes in industrial displays. The packs contain an extensive development toolkit for users
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Date:
11/11/2011
Dongbu HiTek today announced that it has begun volume production of DC/DC converters for Wuxi Silicon Technology (WST), a fabless semiconductor company based in Wuxi, China. The synchronous step-down
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Date:
11/11/2011
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In lab tests OSRAM was successful at achieving lighting values of 32lm/W for the flexible OLED - a new peak value.
OSRAM has recorded yet another important success with regard to research in the field of organic light diodes (OLED). The company's researchers have developed so-called "flexible" OLED, which attain
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Date:
11/11/2011
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REpower Systems SE has signed a contract with EDF EN Canada Inc. to supply a total of 75 wind turbines in the Canadian province of Québec. This is the third release order from the framework agreement
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Date:
11/10/2011
RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq GS: RFMD), a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, today announced that
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Date:
11/10/2011
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Based on its comprehensive portfolio of high performance connectors, ERNI Electronics is constantly and consistently further developing its range of services. The offering includes state-of-the-art
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Date:
11/10/2011
Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced an exclusive global distribution partnership
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Date:
11/09/2011
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Depco Power Systems is proud to be the official state of Texas vendor for Atlas Copco generators as of October 4, 2011. The Atlas Copco brand has a long-standing history in the world of power generation
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Date:
11/09/2011
Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry's broadest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, today announced that Clare semiconductor
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Date:
11/09/2011
Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), a leading global technology distributor, announced today that it has agreed to purchase the French company DE2 SAS, to strengthen its Avnet Embedded business unit in EMEA.
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11/08/2011
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RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the world's leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products, today unveiled Version 3 of DesignSpark
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Date:
11/08/2011
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, today announced that it received TSMC's 2011
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Date:
11/08/2011
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that it is providing funding for a team of leading energy organizations to perform a broad study that will assess the most promising sites for high
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Date:
11/08/2011
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Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that it has shipped more than 15 million Power Manager devices. All seven Power Manager devices have been broadly adopted in a wide
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Date:
11/08/2011
PCIM South America will be held for the first time from 11 - 13 September 2012 in Sao Paulo. Following the success of PCIM Europe and PCIM Asia, organizer Mesago PCIM GmbH is launching the new event
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Date:
11/07/2011
Trilliant, a global smart grid communications leader, today announced that 16 leading home energy companies have joined with Trilliant to deliver simplified, interoperable energy awareness devices
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Date:
11/07/2011
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Programmable powerline modem operates in harsh industrial environments
Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) introduces the MAX2982, the first broadband, HomePlug® 1.0-compliant, powerline communications transceiver for harsh industrial environments. The MAX2982 is
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Date:
11/06/2011
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ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT), a leading global manufacturer and supplier of connectors, interconnects, and cable assemblies, has developed a rugged, lightweight, "no-profile" interconnect system designed
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Date:
11/06/2011
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Rutronik offers the first intelligent IGBT (integrated insulated gate bipolar transistor drive optocoupler with integrated IGBT protection functions from Renesas.
The PS9402 comprises a gallium-aluminum-arsenide
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Date:
11/05/2011
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Designers facing the challenge of designing a flyback circuit for their applications' power supply just had their job made easier. Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of
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11/05/2011
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Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces that more than 930 LR6(TM) six-inch LED downlights and LR24(TM) LED lay-in luminaries have been installed at Camp Pendleton Marine
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Date:
11/04/2011
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Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced the immediate availability of modules supporting
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Date:
11/04/2011
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TDK-EPC, a group company of TDK Corporation, celebrated the opening of its second factory in Málaga, Spain. The new plant for the development and manufacture of power capacitors is located in the
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Date:
11/04/2011
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Luso Electronics Distribution, the sole UK and Ireland representative for SynQor power supplies and related components, has announced availability of the new SynQor RailQor series of DC-DC converters
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Date:
11/04/2011
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Lisa Keller, Director Front End Product and Program Management Bill Smith, Director Product Management for Board Mount Power Mike Schiano. Director Planning and Business Development
Murata Power Solutions today announced three senior Product Management and Business Development appointments that have global responsibilities.
Bill Smith is promoted to the position of Director
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Date:
11/04/2011
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BEKA LEDlume with Oslon SSL LED by OSRAM Opto Semiconductors offer energy-efficient and long-lasting street lighting.
The "BEKA LEDlume" is the latest range from the South African street lighting manufacturer BEKA. All variations of these luminaires are equipped with Oslon SSL LED by OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. The
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Date:
11/03/2011
Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI), the leader in high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion, today announced an agreement with SemiSouth Laboratories to act as a sales
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Date:
11/03/2011
Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced its partnership with Toumaz, a pioneer
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Date:
11/03/2011
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, and IO, the leading provider of next-generation modular data center technology and services, have agreed to partner in the development of a
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Date:
11/02/2011
VACUUMSCHMELZE GmbH & Co. KG (Hanau) will exhibit at Euromold in Frankfurt for the second time in 2011. The world's leading trade show for mould making and tooling design and development will be held
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Date:
11/02/2011
ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) today completed the previously announced spin offs of its Defense and Information Solutions business and its Water Technology and Services business.
With the spin offs
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Date:
11/02/2011
Master Distributors, a leading distributor of electromechanical, interconnect, and passive components, announces that it carries a broad selection of TE's Corcom standard power entry modules and power
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Date:
11/02/2011
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Football fans of the University of Michigan kicked off the 2011 season enjoying a new look to Michigan Stadium, now complete with newly upgraded scoreboards from Lighthouse Technologies. The state-of-the-art
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Date:
11/02/2011
Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announces the launch of its second Medical Applications
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Date:
11/01/2011
Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry's broadest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, today announced the global addition of ILLUMRA
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Date:
11/01/2011
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