Connected Energy Corp. (Rochester, NY) and Plug Power Inc. (Latham, NY) have signed an agreement to provide Plug Power customers with a web-based system for centrally managing Plug Power GenSys™ fuel cells. With Connected Energy's Central Operating Management System (COMSYS™), users only need an Internet Explorer browser on their PC to have the ability to […]
BCComponents International BV (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) announced its new long-leaded, negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistor sensors that combine high electrical accuracy with...
Dynex Power Inc. (Ottawa, Canada) announced that, subject to regulatory approval, the company has raised $250,000 through a private placement of one million common shares at $0.25 per common share. A large portion of the shares are being purchased by the directors of the company. The net proceeds from this placement will be used for […]
American Power Conversion Corp. (APC, West Kingston, RI) announced enhancements to its Smart-UPS® uninterruptible power supply (UPS) line with the introduction of a 1U rack-mount model. The new 1U rack-mount Smart-UPS, available in 750VA and 1,000VA, provides power protection for rack-mounted business critical servers, including blade servers, appliance servers and new Itanium-2-based servers in a […]
Royal Philips Electronics (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) announced that it now offers an extensive range of small logic packages that enhance the miniaturization...
Diotec Semiconductor GmbH (Heitersheim, Germany) announced development of a new production process that allows direct bonding of semiconductors to heatsinks by means of a "cold spraying" industrial process. Silicon chips can be soldered directly onto heatsinks made from aluminum. The new packaging technology can be used wherever the heatsink is also conducting current, including at […]
Linear Technology Corp. (LTC, Milpitas, CA) announced its new LTC4241 hot-swap controller, which allows a board to be safely inserted and removed...
Siliconix Inc. (Santa Clara, CA), a subsidiary of Vishay Intertechnology Inc. (Malvern, PA), announced net income of $13.3 million, or $0.45 per share, for the quarter ended September 28, 2002. This compares to a net loss of $877,000, or $0.03 per share, in the third quarter of 2001 and net income of $11.2 million, or […]
IXYS Corp. (Santa Clara, CA), a supplier of power semiconductors and ICs for power conversion, motor control, medical electronics and telecommunication applications, announced its new direct-aluminum-bonded (DAB) substrate technology. The DAB technology is claimed to be more advanced than the direct-copper-bonded (DCB) technology, which has been used for the production of integrated power semiconductor modules, […]
Fujipoly America Corp. (Carteret, NJ) announced the SARCON® XR-e and XR-j thermal gap filler pads that feature thermal conductivity and thermal resistance,...
Absopulse Electronics Ltd. (Carp, ON) introduced the new PFC6000 modular, hot-pluggable power system with power-factor-corrected input. The new unit is suitable for applications requiring high-current and high-output power typically used in microwave, telecom and industrial environments. The PFC6000 delivers 6kW from a 230Vac single-phase input (90Vac to 264Vac universal input range). The unit can be […]
EM Microelectronic (Marin, Switzerland) announced that it is ready to start producing a high-performance, ultra-low-voltage and ultra-low-power integrated circuit (IC) using fully...
Researchers from the University of Iceland announced the invention of a radical device, the Thermator, which can produce electricity from water. While thermo-electric generators have been used to power spacecraft, using heat from radioactive materials, the Thermator works on nothing more than hot water through use of the thermo-electric effect. Professor Thorstein Sigmarsson of the […]
Tsinghua Huatian Technology Dev. Co. Ltd. (China) announced the new AE-2388 CPU cooler, which features a cooling fan that rotates at 3,000rpm...
Royal Philips Electronics (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) announced a new line of n-channel, MOSFETs in the thin small outline package 6 (TSOP6), based...