NEC America announced that Kunitomo Matsuoka, Associate Senior Vice President of NEC Corp. (Tokyo, Japan), has been appointed President of NEC America, effective immediately. NEC America is a leading provider of innovative communications products, solutions and services that has served the carrier, enterprise and wireless market sectors for more than 40 years. Matsuoka, an executive […]
AMI Semiconductor Inc. (AMIS, Pocatello, ID), a leader in the design and manufacture of application-specific integrated circuits, announced that renowned industry marketing...
Intersil Corp. (Milpitas, CA) announced two new ultra-high-speed LINEARLINK™ RS-485/422 serial data transceivers, the ISL4486 and ISL81486. Both ICs are half-duplex configurations that operate from a nominal 5V supply over a wide ±10% tolerance voltage range of +4.5V to +5.5V, which relaxes supply requirements and reduces costs. The ISL4486 provides a 40Mbps data rate and […]
STMicroelectronics Inc. (ST, Geneva, Switzerland) has been awarded the Best Industrial Renewable Energy Partnership as part of the European Commission's (EC) Campaign for Take-Off for Renewable Energy Awards 2003. ST received the prize for its program to achieve an objective of 15% of renewable energy sources by 2010. Georges Auguste, corporate vice president, director of […]
Power Integrations Inc. (San Jose, CA), a leader in power conversion semiconductor technology, announced the new three-member LinkSwitch TN family of power...
Alfalight Inc. (Madison, WI), a manufacturer of diode lasers, announced that it has expanded its portfolio of fiber-coupled laser products with its 20W Combined Power Module (CPM-20). The CPM-20 produces a high-brightness, multi-mode output beam by combining the output of seven individual high-power emitters. The compact, easy-to-integrate package operates from a standard, low-current power supply. […]
HiTek Power Corp. (Santee, CA) has added a new member to its HiGen family of X-ray generator power supplies, a compact, 50W...
Darnell Group Inc. (Corona, CA) announced that it has reached a publications milestone with its PowerPulseDaily email newsletter and PowerPulse.Net website publications....
Vishay Intertechnology Inc. (Malvern, PA) announced the release of a new 0.25W, surface-mount, Power Metal Strip® resistor with a power rating that...
austriamicrosystems AG (Graz, Austria) unveiled the AS3603, an enhanced version of its AS3601 power management unit (PMU) platform. Providing mobile device manufacturers...
STMicroelectronics Inc. (ST, Geneva, Switzerland) introduced a set of four high-speed CMOS, 20-bit bus switches that are pin-compatible with existing TTL parts. They are designed for use in applications such as PCI hot card insertion and voltage level translation, notebook docking stations, memory interleaving and general-purpose switching. The parts are compatible with TTL outputs and […]
Pulse Engineering Inc. (San Diego, CA) announced a new series in its family of multi-phase, high-efficiency, shielded, shaped core, power inductors. The...
AVX Corp. (Myrtle Beach, SC) recently released SpiCAP version 3.0, an online engineering tool that generates the frequency response and characterizes AVX...
Linear Technology Corp. (LTC, Milpitas, CA) announced that net sales for its second quarter ended December 28, 2003, were $186,021,000, an increase of 28% over net sales of $145,045,000 for the second quarter of the previous year. The company also reported net income for the quarter of $74,335,000, or $0.23 diluted earnings per share, an […]
Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (St. Louis, MO), introduced its new web portal, http://www.emersonnetworkpower-it.com, which explores power system needs and considerations from an IT manager's point of view. IT managers can now turn to a new IT portal for expertise and analysis on the power, environmental and connectivity systems computers and other electronics […]