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Sharp Devices Europe finalizes its restructuring: focus is on LCDs and LEDs
Sharp Devices Europe finalizes its restructuring: focus is on LCDs and LEDs
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Now registered as a limited company in Germany, Sharp Devices Europe (SDE), previously operating as Sharp Microelectronics Europe, has finalized…
2.2-mm pitch wire to board connector for power supplies is ideal for portable devices, LED lighting and gaming
2.2-mm pitch wire to board connector for power supplies is ideal for portable devices, LED lighting and gaming
New Products |
German distributor MSC is now making available Hirose's DF61 series of wire to board connectors which offer improved power supply…
Bluetooth Smart temperature sensor enables a smartphone to monitor temperature
Bluetooth Smart temperature sensor enables a smartphone to monitor temperature
Technology News |
Nordic Semiconductor ASA has announced that British startup, Blue Maestro, has specified a Nordic nRF51822 System-on-Chip (SoC) in each of…
Soitec and SunEdison announce patent license agreement
Soitec and SunEdison announce patent license agreement
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Soitec and SunEdison have announced that they have entered into a patent cross-license agreement relating to silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer products.

UK manufacturing facility to boost delivery of complete turn-key microwave assemblies
UK manufacturing facility to boost delivery of complete turn-key microwave assemblies
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Luso Electronics has announced the opening of a new design and manufacturing facility that will boost the company's delivery of fully integrated turn-key installations and microwave products to meet increasing…
Hella opens new R&D centre for automotive systems and components
Hella opens new R&D centre for automotive systems and components
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Automotive supplier Hella KgaA has dedicated a new research and development centre to novel technologies for next-gen individual mobility. The centre, based at the company's headquarters in Lippstadt (Germany), will…
Emergency Steer Assistant can avoid collisions
Emergency Steer Assistant can avoid collisions
Technology News |
If in road traffic suddenly an obstacle appears in front of the vehicle, drivers have to react within fractions of a second. In many cases, the natural response time of…
Compact single channel gate driver focuses on applications up to 1200-V
Compact single channel gate driver focuses on applications up to 1200-V
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Infineon Technologies AG has unveiled the company's 1EDI EiceDRIVER Compact Single Channel Gate Driver at the SPS IPC Drives trade fair for electrical automation. The gate driver support applications with…
SolarWorld plans to takeover Bosch solar plants in Europe
SolarWorld plans to takeover Bosch solar plants in Europe
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SolarWorld AG, parent company of SolarWorld Industries America Inc., is to take over much of Bosch Solar Energy, boosting SolarWorld's annual global production capacity to more than 1 gigawatt at…
Touch-enabled notebook PCs on the rise: shipments could approach 20 million in 2013 says NPD DisplaySearch
Touch-enabled notebook PCs on the rise: shipments could approach 20 million in 2013 says NPD DisplaySearch
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Touch-panel notebook PC shipments will reach 19.8 million units, or 11 percent penetration, in 2013. By 2017, touch-panel penetration is expected to reach nearly 40 percent (64.2 million units) according…
Coherent polymer fibre supports high resolution remote imaging
Coherent polymer fibre supports high resolution remote imaging
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OMC has released a coherent polymer fibre which bungles thousands of individual polymer fibre cores arranged coherently at each end such that the image incident on one fibre face is…
LPCB approved 10.25-A PSU meets the needs of all fire alarm systems
LPCB approved 10.25-A PSU meets the needs of all fire alarm systems
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Kentec has introduced the KD25800 series LPCB approved PSU which is a lightweight, robust, fully enclosed unit with a 10.25 A load capability for powering fire alarm control and indicating…
H.264 video streamer/recorder boards operate standalone
H.264 video streamer/recorder boards operate standalone
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Advanced Micro Peripherals’ StreamCorder-SD4 and StreamCorder-HD boards are standalone, intelligent streaming and recording solutions that accept video inputs for real time H.264 compression, local storage and streaming over 100/1000 MBit…
Compact air vent protects sensitive automotive components
Compact air vent protects sensitive automotive components
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With its GORE PolyVent Compact Series, W. L. Gore & Associates offers a higher-performance venting in a smaller footprint for automotive electronic housings.
Microchip adds complete 3-phase BLDC motor drive capability
Microchip adds complete 3-phase BLDC motor drive capability
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A three-phase BLDC motor gate driver with power module provides all the power, sensing and protection functions needed to implement a robust, highly-efficient solution; it integrates voltage regulators, current-sensing amplifiers…
Load-switch IC offers on-resistance of 18.4 milliohms
Load-switch IC offers on-resistance of 18.4 milliohms
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This device from Toshiba is an ultra-low-voltage switch in a correspondingly small package, intended for use as power management switch ICs in smartphones, tablets, laptops and other mobile equipment.
Panasonic to sell wafer fabs to Tower
Panasonic to sell wafer fabs to Tower
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As part of efforts to stem loses and halve its workforce, Panasonic is planning to sell three Japanese wafer fabs to foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel), according to…
Sharp Devices Europe finalizes its restructuration: focus is on LCDs and LEDs
Sharp Devices Europe finalizes its restructuration: focus is on LCDs and LEDs
Business news |
Now registered as a limited company in Germany, Sharp Devices Europe (SDE), previously operating as Sharp Microelectronics Europe, has finalized its restructuration to focus on four vertical markets, Automotive, Infrastructure…
Sony files patent for the SmartWig
Sony files patent for the SmartWig
Technology News |
Sony has filed a patent for the invention of the smartwig, as companies around the world rush to try and carve out a position in wearable electronics.
Emergency Steer Assistant avoids collisions
Emergency Steer Assistant avoids collisions
Technology News |
If in road traffic suddenly an obstacle appears in front of the vehicle, drivers have to react within fractions of a second. In many cases, the natural response time of…
Performance monitoring solution helps provide intelligent control of high power systems
Performance monitoring solution helps provide intelligent control of high power systems
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A performance monitoring solution designed to enable companies to monitor high power IGBT module systems in locomotive, wind turbine, High Voltage DC and industrial drive applications was unveiled this month…
2.2-mm pitch wire to board connector for power supplies
2.2-mm pitch wire to board connector for power supplies
New Products |
German distributor MSC is now making available Hirose's DF61 series of wire to board connectors which offer improved power supply reliability and is ideal for applications such as robots, portable…
Freescale and MicroSys cooperate on industrial functional safety
Freescale and MicroSys cooperate on industrial functional safety
Feature articles |
Freescale Semiconductor and embedded system solutions provider MicroSys Electronics GmbH are collaborating to establish the industry’s an integrated development platform for functional safety. The SafeAssure kit speeds development of industrial…
High-speed CAN transceivers for industrial and automotive designs
High-speed CAN transceivers for industrial and automotive designs
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A series of rugged devices features ultra-low quiescent current and is engineered to address stringent electromagnetic compatibility requirements without external noise filtering…
1200V, compact gate driver with coreless transformer technology
1200V, compact gate driver with coreless transformer technology
New Products |
Infineon's 1EDI EiceDRIVER is a compact single-channel gate driver for applications with isolation voltages of up to 1200V. The galvanically isolated driver components are based on the Coreless Transformer Technology,…
LTE-Advanced carrier-aggregation compliance verified in HiSilicon chipset
LTE-Advanced carrier-aggregation compliance verified in HiSilicon chipset
Feature articles |
Anite, wireless equipment test specialist, has verified Release 10 LTE-A protocols in HiSilicon’s latest LTE-A chipset, advancing development of LTE-A CA (carrier aggregation) capable devices.
Tiny ESD protection diodes provides high surge capability
Tiny ESD protection diodes provides high surge capability
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Vishay Intertechnology has a series of surface-mount ESD protection diodes in the low-profile SMF package. For portable electronics, SMFxxA series devices provide high surge capability of 200W at 10/1000 μsec.
Rohde & Schwarz’ GNSS simulator adds Chinese BeiDou standard
Rohde & Schwarz’ GNSS simulator adds Chinese BeiDou standard
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Rohde & Schwarz has extended the capabilities of its SMBV100A vector signal generator by adding BeiDou/Compass capability to its integrated GNSS simulator. With the R&S SMBV-K107 option the GNSS simulator…


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