H Power Corp. (Clifton, NJ) announced the opening of its new manufacturing and testing facility in Monroe, NC. The custom-built, 90,000sqft facility will be used to manufacture stationary, portable and mobile fuel cell products. H. Frank Gibbard, CEO of H Power, commented, "We are pleased to have reached another milestone in the company's development as […]
ON Semiconductor Corp. (Phoenix, AZ) announced that total product revenues in the second quarter of 2001 were $307.3 million, a decrease of 14 percent from the first quarter of 2001, and a decrease of 38 percent compared to the second quarter of 2000. Excluding amortization of intangibles, restructuring and other non-recurring charges, the company had […]
Microsemi Corp. (Santa Ana, CA) reported financial results for the quarter ended July 1, 2001. Net sales for the quarter were $60.1 million. Net sales from continuing business for the quarter were $59.5 million, compared with $59.9 million in the third quarter of 2000. Third quarter pro-forma net income increased 39 percent to $4.9 million, […]
Power-One Inc. (Camarillo, CA) announced the new 200W four-output CPD200-4530 power supply. The device provides up to 40A of 5V, or 3.3V,...
Ballard Power Systems (Canada), Shell Hydrogen (Netherlands) and Westcoast Energy Inc. (Canada) announced the creation of Chrysalix Energy Limited Partnership (Canada), a...
Artesyn Technologies (Boca Raton, FL) announced a new addition to its range of high-efficiency, quarter-brick, dc/dc converter modules. The new EXQ125 Series...
Lithium Power Technologies Inc. (Manvel, TX) announced that the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization's (BMDO) small business innovation research program has sponsored a Phase I contract to design and develop new power-source technologies for satellites. Lithium Power Technologies intends to develop flexible, energy-dense, powerful and lightweight modular components for anti-missile defense applications, next-generation military applications, space […]
IXYS Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) reported revenues of $25.6 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2001, which is an increase of 10 percent over the $23.3 million revenue for the same quarter in the prior fiscal year. Sequentially, however, revenues decreased 20 percent from the $32.0 million reported for the quarter ended March 31, […]
Vicor Corp. (Andover, MA) and its subsidiary, VLT, announced that it has entered into a patent license agreement with Siemens Corp. (New York, NY). Under the license agreement between the companies, Siemens has acquired worldwide, non-exclusive rights to use power-conversion technology covered by Vicor's reset patent, US Patent Re. 36,098. The reset patent enables the […]
Vishay Intertechnology Inc.'s (Malvern, PA) Siliconix Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) has released several new power MOSFETs in a lead-less package type. The...
EnerSys Inc. (Reading, PA) has launched an addition to its line of Phoenix batteries that is claimed to increase performance up to...
Vicor Corp. (Andover, MA) announced its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2001. Revenues for the quarter were $50,260,000, in comparison with $62,778,000 for the corresponding period a year ago. The company reported a net loss for the quarter of $953,000, compared with a net income of $8,215,000 in 2000, and a diluted […]
The 17th Annual Battery Conference on Applications and Advances, sponsored by the department of electrical engineering at California State University (Long Beach, CA), will be held from January 15-18, 2002. The conference will feature two parallel tracks of 11 technical sessions. Track A will address high-power systems and Track B will address low-power systems. Engineers, […]
Avansys (San Jose, CA) announced the promotion of Bill Balfour to vice president of sales and marketing for Power Avansys, the US sales and marketing division of Avansys. Balfour has been entrusted with the responsibility for all sales, marketing and distribution operations in the North American market. Prior to joining Avansys as the national sales […]
Degree Controls Inc. (degreeC, Milford, NH) announced its entry into the European market with a technical sales and manufacturing engineering support office in Wexford, Ireland, through Thermal Solutions. With degreeC's engineering support, Thermal Solutions will be able to provide integrated products and services such as turn-key fan-tray assemblies, thermal-management controllers, custom heatsinks, thermal analysis and […]