Industry News

February 2012

Maxwell Technologies' Swiss Subsidiary Receives Government Funding to Develop Improved Dielectric Material for High Voltage Capacitors

Maxwell Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXWL), a leading producer of energy storage and power delivery products, announced today that its Swiss subsidiary will receive approximately $600,000 from the

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02/29/2012

ABB wins $90 million power order to improve grid stability in Michigan

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth around $90 million from American Transmission Co. (ATC) to supply a power solution that will help control the flow of

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02/29/2012

Rogers to Show & Present Power Electronics Solutions at the Motor, Drive & Automation Systems Conference In Orlando, Florida

Rogers Corporation (NYSE:ROG), represented by its Power Distribution System (PDS) Division, will showcase some of its more popular products for power electronics applications at the upcoming Motor,

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02/29/2012

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STMicroelectronics Leverages STM32 "DNA," Targeting Budget Applications

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and a world leader in microcontrollers, has expanded its most successful

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02/29/2012

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The Bergquist Company Increases Capacity at Prescott Facility by Adding Advanced New Production Line

The Bergquist Company has expanded its Thermal Substrates facilities in Prescott, Wisconsin (USA), adding extra capacity using state-of-the-art automation that minimises waste thereby enhancing environmental

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02/29/2012

VACUUMSCHMELZE presents its materials expertise in Cores and Components at Tube & Wire 2012

VACUUMSCHMELZE GmbH & Co. KG (Hanau) will again attend the 2012 Tube & Wire (26 to 30 March) in Düsseldorf. At booth A49 in Hall 16, the Hanau-based company will once again live up to its credo "Advanced

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02/27/2012

Award-winning DesignSpark PCB design software headlines at RS Stand 156, Hall 1, 28 February - 1 March, Messezentrum Nuremberg, Germany

RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the world's leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products, is using this year's Embedded World

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02/27/2012

TTI, Inc. Announces 2011 Winners of the Supplier Excellence Awards

TTI, Inc. a global distributor of interconnect, passive, electromechanical and discrete components, today announced the winners of its prestigious 2011 North America Supplier Excellence Awards. Melanie

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02/26/2012

Tablets Will be First Mobile Devices to Feature MIPS(R) Architecture for Both Applications and Baseband Processing

Altair Semiconductor, MIPS Technologies, Inc.(Nasdaq:MIPS), and Ingenic Semiconductor today announced that they are bringing Altair's MIPS-Based(TM) FourGee(TM) LTE chipset to MIPS-Based Android(TM)

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02/25/2012

Wind River to Introduce Safe and Secure Partitioning for Industrial and Automotive Applications

Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced enhancements to its VxWorks safety solutions, including safe and secure partitioning via the upcoming version of Wind River

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02/25/2012

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Powerstax Appoint Wavelength Electronics as UK Manufacturers Representative for MIL Power Solutions

Powerstax, one of Europe's leading value-added power solutions manufacturers, has added Kent based Wavelength Electronics Limited to its global network of sales representatives to ensure its UK customers

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02/23/2012

STMicroelectronics announces changes in executive management

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, today announced that Carlo Ferro has accepted to focus on the turnaround

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02/22/2012

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Power Integrations Launches Convenient Online Selection Tool for LED Driver Reference Designs

Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI), maker of the world's most efficient, longest-lasting off-line LED driver ICs, today launched an online selection tool that enables users to rapidly identify the

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02/22/2012

NXP's Complete Product Catalog Now Available in Windows Phone App

NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI) has introduced the NXP mobile app for Windows® Phone, enabling faster and easier access to all NXP products and support. NXP is the first semiconductor company to

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02/22/2012

Frequency Electronics Closes on Acquisition of Elcom

Frequency Electronics Inc. (Nasdaq:FEIM) today announced the completion of the purchase of all the capital stock of Elcom Technologies, Inc. it did not own, resulting in 100% ownership. Frequency

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02/22/2012

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Breakthrough order for DC technology

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order from ship owner Myklebusthaug Management to supply the first ever direct current (DC) power grid on board a ship. The equipment

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02/22/2012

DELTA Launches ASIComplete Partner Program

DELTA, the European leader in ASIC supply chain services, announced today the immediate availability of its new ASIComplete program - an innovative European partnership program for ASIC design houses

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02/22/2012

Cree Joins Forces with League of Green Embassies to Drive Energy Savings and Showcase Sustainable U.S. Building Products

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), announces participation in a series of energy efficiency renovations across U.S. Embassies in Vienna, Rome, Berlin, Madrid and Lisbon. The installation of energy-efficient

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02/22/2012

Philips Joins EMerge Alliance Board

The EMerge Alliance - an open industry association leading the rapid adoption of safe, direct-current (DC) power distribution standards for commercial buildings - today announced Philips is upgrading

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02/21/2012

VACUUMSCHMELZE demonstrates expertise and technology leadership at elektro:mobilia in Cologne

The automotive industry is constantly searching for innovations and production-ready ideas for eco-friendly and future-proof drive systems. In 2012, ZVEI (German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers'

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02/21/2012

Toshiba Develops the Circuit Technique for Power Efficiency Improvement in CMOS Power Amplifier for Mobile Phones

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed the world's first circuit technology to remove distortion in wireless transmissions that can be directly integrated into a CMOS radio frequency

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02/21/2012

Analog Devices Delivers Innovative Patient Monitoring Solutions at DESIGNMED 2012

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a world leader in high-performance analog, mixed signal and embedded signal processing solutions, will showcase innovative patient monitoring solutions and vital sign monitoring

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02/21/2012

Wind River Showcases DPI for Network Security at Mobile World Congress

Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, is working with Sensory Networks, a leading provider of pattern matching and deep packet inspection (DPI) software acceleration technology,

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02/21/2012

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Maxim to Demonstrate Highly Integrated Solutions for Embedded Designs at Embedded World Exhibition & Conference 2012

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM) will offer a rich choice of design ideas for embedded applications at the upcoming Embedded World Exhibition & Conference 2012 in Nuremberg/Germany (February

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02/20/2012

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TE-CORE, Micropelt�s new configurable energy harvesting DC source, offers battery alternative.
The thermoharvesting power module is built around the new SMD thermogenerator in package (TGP).

Arrow Electronics and Micropelt sign pan-European distribution deal

Arrow Electronics and Micropelt have signed an agreement that will enable Arrow to offer Micropelt's full range of thermoelectric energy-harvesting semiconductor devices and systems to its customer

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02/20/2012

Digi-Key Corporation and F-RAM-Pioneer Ramtron International Corporation Sign Global Distribution Agreement

Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry's largest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, today announced

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02/18/2012

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Farnell's Robert Rospedzihowski and Jo Brook receive the VARTA Distributor of the Year Award from Andrew Cranke.

Farnell receives European Distributor of the Year award from VARTA Microbattery GmbH

Farnell has been presented with the European Distributor of the Year Award for 2011 by VARTA Microbattery GmbH, the global manufacturers and designers of rechargeable and primary battery systems.

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02/18/2012

New Analog Devices Design Tool Simplifies RF Design & Speeds Time To Market

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) announced the release of a new version of its popular ADIsimRF™ design tool. ADI's ADIsimRF design tool is the software accompaniment to Analog Devices' complete portfolio

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02/18/2012

Wind River and Digia Collaborate to Extend Qt Commercial Support for VxWorks

Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, and Digia, Qt Commercial, a pioneer in the commercial development, licensing, support and services of Qt for desktop and embedded development,

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02/18/2012

Synopsys and Arteris Enable Earlier Multicore SoC Architecture Optimization with Faster Turnaround Times

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, and Arteris Inc., the inventor and leading supplier

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02/18/2012

Power is PCIM 8-10 May, Nuremberg

Reported by Cliff Keys, Editorial Director, PSD

I participated at the PCIM press conference in Munich, Germany to find out what was in store for the next PCIM. In my opinion it will be full of the most interesting products and conferences that

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02/18/2012

Mouser Stocking NXP Semiconductor's LPC4300 Cortex™-M4 / M0 MCUs

Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced the availability of NXP Semiconductor's

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02/17/2012

RS Components launches a new UK digital catalogue

RS Components (RS), the world's leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products and the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), has launched a new digital catalogue

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02/17/2012

Synopsys and Arteris enable earlier multicore SoC architecture optimisation with faster turnaround times

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02/17/2012

Acal BFi receives 2011 Distributor Gold Performance Award for EMEA from Honeywell Sensing and Control

Acal BFi - a division of Acal plc (FTSE: ACL) - announces that it has received the 2011 Distributor Gold Performance Award for EMEA from Honeywell Sensing and Control (S&C). "Acal BFi developed

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02/17/2012

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New Videos Introduce Free Power Electronics Publication

Available in seven languages, these new videos provide a one-minute introduction to How2Power Today, a free and unique power electronics newsletter. If you're not already receiving How2Power Today,

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02/17/2012

Microsemi Participates in European Funded Program to Further Electrify Next-generation Aircraft

Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced its participation in a multi-disciplinary

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02/17/2012

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TDK-Lambda's NV700 modular power supplies meet latest medical approvals

TDK-Lambda UK, a group company of the TDK Corporation, has attained 3rd Edition IEC/EN 60601-1, ANSI/AAMI ES60601-1 and CAN/CSA-C22.2 No 60601-1-08 medical safety approvals for its NV700 modular AC-DC

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02/17/2012

VACUUMSCHMELZE presents its expertise in advanced materials at the Photovoltaic Solar Energy Symposium in Bad Staffelstein

The 27th Photovoltaic Solar Energy Symposium will be held at Banz Monastery, Bad Staffelstein, from 29 February to 2 March 2012. VACUUMSCHMELZE GmbH & Co. KG (Hanau) will again take part, this year

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02/17/2012

Energy Micro's Tiny Gecko energy-friendly microcontroller shortlisted in 2012 ACE Asia Awards

Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller and radio company, today announced that its EFM32 Tiny Gecko low-energy microcontroller has been named as a finalist in the China Annual Creativity

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02/17/2012

BlueGiga development kit from Avnet Embedded speeds next generation Bluetooth SMART design

Avnet Embedded in EMEA, an Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) company, today announced a special offer on Bluegiga's Bluetooth SMART (also known as Bluetooth 4.0) BLE 112 development kit. Costing just $300, the

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02/16/2012

STMicroelectronics Named Among Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has announced that for the third year in succession it has been ranked

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02/16/2012

IDT To Present and Showcase Industry-leading Products at Embedded World 2012

Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT®; NASDAQ: IDTI), the Analog and Digital Company™ delivering essential mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, today announced that it will be presenting and exhibiting

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02/16/2012

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Power Integrations Announces LED Driver Reference Design for High-Efficiency Universal-Voltage Fluorescent Tube Replacement

Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI), maker of the world's most efficient, longest-lasting off-line LED driver ICs, today announced a new reference design (DER-286) describing a 30 W LED tube replacement

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02/14/2012

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Sofradir earns top spot as supplier of a key class of advanced infrared products to military and space

Sofradir, a leading developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared detectors for military, space and industrial applications, announced today that it has secured the world market leadership with

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02/14/2012

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First IEEE International Electric Vehicle Conference To Showcase Emerging Trends In EV Technology

Providing a unique interdisciplinary forum for engineers, researchers and government professionals in the emerging field of electrified transportation, the first IEEE International Electric Vehicle

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02/14/2012

Digi-Key Corporation Announces Global Distribution Agreement with Marktech Optoelectronics

Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry's largest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, and Marktech Optoelectronics today announced

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02/13/2012

CSR selects Synopsys for advanced-node SoC design

Synopsys, Inc. a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, today announced that CSR plc, a leader in wireless, location

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02/13/2012

Pictured from left to right: Dave Amps UK Sales Manager - Routeco, Markus Lorenz - Molex, John Harrison - Molex, Tony Usher Operations Director - Routeco, Gordon Graham - Molex

Molex announces distribution agreement with Routeco in UK

Molex Interconnect GmbH announced the new distribution agreement with Routeco Limited located in Milton Keynes. Routeco will promote and sell the Brad® industrial product range from Molex particularly

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02/13/2012

Mouser and Amphenol TCS Initiate Worldwide Distribution Agreement

Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced a new partnership with Amphenol TCS, a

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02/13/2012

PV Inverter Market Achieves Record Shipments in 2011

The PV inverter market achieved a new record in 2011 with shipments exceeding 26 GW for the first time according to preliminary results from IMS Research. The research firm found that inverter shipments

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02/13/2012

Dialog's ongoing partnership agreement spans multiple phone designs

Dialog Semiconductor plc (FWB: DLG), a provider of highly integrated innovative power management, audio and short range wireless technologies, has announced that its ultra low power Green VoIP chip

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02/13/2012

DSP Group Partners With Jungo to Develop DECT ULE-Based Home Automation & Security Solution

DSP Group(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:DSPG), a leading global provider of wireless chipset solutions for converged communications at home, and Jungo Ltd., an NDS Group company and a leading provider of unified

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02/13/2012

Power supply app and web interactive product selector launched

XP Power today announced two new online product selection tools for engineers that ease the process of choosing a power supply. Available from the XP Power web site, http://www.xppower.com, the product

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02/13/2012

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Energy Micro and Pengutronix demonstrate the world's most energy friendly Linux for ARM Cortex-M3

Energy Micro and Pengutronix today announced that they will be demonstrating μClinux for Cortex-M3, embedded Linux running on the energy friendly EFM32 Gecko range of microcontrollers. This new

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02/12/2012

CISSOID in a New Research Project to Reduce CO2 Emissions

CISSOID, the leader in high temperature semiconductor solutions, announced today its participation in a multi-disciplinary consortium tasked with developing innovative CMOS-compatible, high temperature

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02/12/2012

RS Components adds Freescale Kinetis microcontrollers to its offer

RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the world's leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products, has announced that it is now stocking

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02/12/2012

ABB wins substations order with Hydro One in Canada

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won a major order from Hydro One Networks Inc., the power transmission and distribution utility of the Canadian province of Ontario, to

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02/12/2012

Fairchild Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies Expand Compatibility Partnership for Power MOSFETs, Providing Customers Supply Chain Security

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, and Infineon Technologies (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) today announced the extension of their

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02/12/2012

Entropic Communications, P&F USA Simplify the Hospitality Television Experience

Entropic Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTR), a leading provider of silicon and software solutions to enable connected home entertainment and P&F USA, the exclusive licensee for Philips Hospitality

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02/07/2012

Fairchild Semiconductor's LED Driver Compatible with Traditional TRIAC Dimming, Analog Dimming and Non-Dimming Lamp Designs

LED lighting has evolved into a promising solution for replacing conventional lighting sources, such as fluorescent and incandescent lights. However, designers face several obstacles in residential

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02/07/2012

AMSC Provides Litigation Update

AMSC, a global solutions provider serving wind and grid leaders, today provided an update regarding its legal actions in China. As previously reported, AMSC has filed for arbitration and has filed

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02/07/2012

Obama Administration Fight FOIA Request to Figure Out Danger to Taxpayers in the Event of Default in Deal More Than 12 Times the Size of Solyndra

With the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) believed to be within days of announcing the final federal approval of the controversial Vogtle nuclear project, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy

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02/07/2012

Texas Instruments names Chris Allexandre Vice President of Europe Regional Sales and Applications

Texas Instruments today announced that Chris Allexandre has been elected a vice president of the company. In his new role, Allexandre will implement the TI sales strategy in Europe and drive revenue

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02/07/2012

Nextreme Achieves New Milestone in Cooling Performance for Thin-film Thermoelectrics

Nextreme Thermal Solutions, the leader in micro-scale thermal management and power generation solutions, today announced that its thin-film thermoelectric technology has achieved a 60.1°C temperature

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02/07/2012

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Ericsson Power Modules Takes Significant Step Forward with New Digital-Power Technology to Reduce Power Consumption

Ericsson has unveiled its second digital-power Advanced Bus Converter platform for use with board-mounted DC/DC power modules in telecom and datacom applications. The company's new FRIDA II platform

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02/06/2012

Electricity Access Still Insufficient in Developing Countries

Despite massive gains in global access to electricity over the last two decades, governments and development organizations must continue to invest in electrification to achieve critical health, environmental,

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02/06/2012

Avnet Electronics Marketing Introduces the Xilinx Kintex™-7 FPGA DSP Development Kit with High-Speed Analog

Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announced today the Xilinx Kintex™-7 FPGA DSP Development Kit with High-Speed Analog, supporting Xilinx's 7 series Targeted

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02/06/2012

Tektronix Wins Two Best in Test Awards From Test & Measurement World

Tektronix, the world's leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, today announced that Test & Measurement World has honoured the MDO4000 Mixed Domain Oscilloscope Series with a 2012 Best in Test award

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02/06/2012

INSIDE Secure chosen by leading smartphone manufacturer

INSIDE Secure, a leader in semiconductor solutions for secure transactions and digital identity, today revealed that it is integrating its near field communication (NFC) solutions into a next-generation

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02/06/2012

Micron Technology Announces New Chief

Micron Technology, Inc.announced earlier today (Feb 3) that the company is deeply saddened by the death of Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton in a small plane accident in Boise. Mr. Appleton was 51.

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02/05/2012

Steve Appleton, CEO of Micron Technologies and a longstanding member of the Board of SIA

Semiconductor Industry Association Offers Its Deepest Sympathies at the Passing of Steve Appleton, SIA Board Member and Micron CEO

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is saddened by the tragic news of the death of Steve Appleton, CEO of Micron Technologies and a longstanding member of the Board of SIA. Steve was recognized

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02/05/2012

Key Corporation Agrees to Global Distribution Agreement with LeCroy

Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry's largest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, today announced the signing of a global distribution

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02/05/2012

David J Hayes, Deputy Secretary, US Department of Interior

Fast Tracking Commercial Offshore Wind Power in the US

Echoing President Obama's State of the Union call for additional clean energy development, the US DOI and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has taken a major step towards commercial-scale offshore

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02/05/2012

Mouser Electronics and Monolithic Power Systems Sign Worldwide Distribution Agreement

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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02/03/2012

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Ridley Engineering Design Center Update

NEW! 135 Articles Added to the Design Center Library Visit our new Design Center page and enter the Design Center Library. We have added 53 new design tip articles to our existing library.

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02/03/2012

DuPont and Suntech Sign Strategic Agreement

DuPont and Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., the world's largest producer of solar panels, have signed a strategic agreement to help increase the supply of photovoltaic materials and technologies

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02/02/2012

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ALPS Develops and Commences Mass Production of "HGPRDT Series" High-Precision Latch 2-Phase Type Magnetic Sensor

ALPS ELECTRIC EUROPE GmbH has developed the HGPRDT Series high-precision latch 2-phase output* type magnetic sensor for use in automotive equipment, supporting a wide operating temperature range between

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Date:

02/02/2012