Linear Technology Corp. announced the introduction of a new line of power management chips that combines high performance power functions in compact...
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announced the sampling of its 16 MHz MSP430F47x4 ultra-low power microcontrollers (MCU) for one- and multi-phase metering. By integrating up to four individual 16-bit sigma delta analog to digital converters (ADCs), a 32×32-bit hardware multiplier, a 160 segment LCD driver with contrast control, up to 60KB of flash memory and a […]
TDK Innoveta Inc. has strengthened the recent iSA series of 1/16 Brick dc-dc power modules by adding to the range of low...
Intersil Corp. introduced two new families of 128-tap, non-volatile single, dual, and quad digitally controlled potentiometers (DCPs). These families of DCPs with...
Maxim Integrated Products Inc. has acquired a wafer fabrication facility in Irving, Texas from Atmel for approximately $38 million. The facility, located on approximately 39 acres, is comprised of approximately 622,000 square feet of clean room and office space. Approximately 60,000 square feet is currently clean room space with the capability of expanding to 100,000 […]
Intel® Corp. recently disclosed that the company plans to include HomePlug® AV technology as an optional feature on select 2008 desktop platforms. Founded in 2000, the HomePlug Alliance is said to be the only powerline communications organization to offer an open-standard based technology backed by multiple silicon providers and a strict product certification process developed […]
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) introduced its third-generation Fusion Digital Power™ controllers and new plug-in modules. The highly configurable and feature-rich products digitally...
Bodine Electric Co. introduced a new digital Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) controlled version of its INTEGRAmotor line of standard products. INTEGRAmotors combine all four elements of a typical motion control system – a control, a brushless dc motor, a gearhead, and an optical encoder – into one compact package. The all-in-one design is claimed to […]
Systel Development and Industries Ltd., a mixed-signal semiconductor specialist in the field of Digital Configurable Power Management ICs, announced that it will soon premiere and demonstrate the technology of its IDC2000 ICs family and Evaluation Kit for applications in lighting and energy saving building control systems. This will include multi-channel ballast functionality which the company […]
Power-One, Inc. announced that for the first fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2007, net sales were $124.0 million and net loss was $0.14 per share, compared with revenue and a net loss of $64.6 million and $0.06 per share, respectively, during the first quarter of 2006. Consistent with the company’s announcement in April 2007, revenue […]
GarrettCom™ Inc., has added an industrial-grade PES42P Power Source Edge Switch to its line of Magnum™ Power over Ethernet (PoE) switches that...
Summit Microelectronics has expanded its family of Programmable Power Manager (PPM) integrated circuits (ICs) with two new devices targeted at higher-power applications....
IBM and austriamicrosystems announced the signing of a development agreement for an advanced high-voltage (HV) complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process technology to be used in a range of consumer, automotive, industrial and medical applications. IBM and austriamicrosystems will enhance IBM’s 180 nanometer (nm) radio frequency (RF) CMOS process technology with austriamicrosystems’ proprietary high-voltage module. […]
Primarion announced the addition of the dual-output, dual-phase PX7522 to the Primarion Di-POL™ product family of fully programmable digital power conversion and...
Delta Electronics announced the availability of prototype power supplies supporting the PMBus™ standard at the 2007 Spring Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Beijing. PMBus (Power Management Bus) is a new industry standard for power subsystem management. Intel is promoting PMBus at IDF to drive market awareness and adoption of the first truly open communications standard […]