Fairchild Semiconductor International (San Jose, CA) announced the new FAN7601, a programmable-frequency, current-mode, pulse-width modulation controller that meets the International Energy Agency's...
Intersil Corp. (Irvine, CA) announced the opening of a new Dallas-based design center with full front-to-back capabilities including applications, IC design, product engineering and test development, to focus on front-end to back-end Endura power management technologies to further push the company into portable, hand-held and 48V markets. Plans are to staff the facility with about […]
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, CA) announced that revenue for the 2002 fourth quarter was $174.4 million, down 15 percent from the prior-quarter revenue of $205 million, and down nine percent from year-ago fourth-quarter revenue of $191.1 million. Pro-forma net loss for the 2002 fourth quarter was $14.9 million, resulting in a pro-forma loss per […]
Lattice Semiconductor Corp. (Hillsboro, OR) announced financial results for the fourth quarter and year ending December 2002. For the year 2002, revenue was $229.1 million, a decrease of 22 percent from the $295.3 million reported in 2001. For the fourth quarter, revenue was $57.7 million, an increase of 11 percent from the $52.1 million reported […]
Axcelis Technologies Inc. (Beverly, MA) announced results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2002. Worldwide sales for the fourth quarter were $97.6 million, down 29 percent sequentially from the third quarter, and up 56 percent from the fourth quarter of 2001. Net sales for the quarter were $65.5 million, down 30 percent […]
Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, AZ) reported net sales and earnings for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2002. Net sales for the quarter were $171 million, an increase of approximately one percent from sales of $169.7 million in the immediately preceding quarter, and an increase of approximately 21 percent from sales of $141.9 million […]
For the quarter ended December 2002, International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA) reported net income of $10 million, or $0.16 per share, excluding charges, on revenues of $209.5 million, compared to net income of $10.8 million, or $0.17 per share, on revenues of $172.1 million in the prior-year quarter. Including charges of $179.8 million […]
Integrated Device Technology Inc. (IDT, Santa Clara, CA), a leading communications IC provider, announced that its board of directors has approved an expansion of its stock repurchase program to purchase up to an additional five million shares of IDT common stock. Any repurchases under the company's stock repurchase program may be made from time to […]
C&D Technologies Inc. (Tucson, AZ) has expanded its family of magnetic products for power applications with a series of space-saving, general-purpose, pulse...
CE+T s.a. (Wandre, Belgium), a leading company developing digital inverter power solutions, has now completed its range of lower-end, fail-safe, bypass systems....
Lattice Semiconductor Corp. (Hillsboro, OR) announced the launch of a new family of ispPAC® mixed-signal, programmable logic devices (PLDs) for power management, which features in-system programmable analog and logic blocks, and provides optimized power supply management functions critical to the operation of multiple power supply electronic systems. The first device in the ispPAC family, the […]
Shanghai Krah Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China) introduced the new SKE021 and SKE022 wirewound resistors, which are available with resistance values ranging...
BCComponents International BV (the Netherlands), a new addition to Vishay Intertechnology Inc. (Malvern, PA), announced the release of a pair of NTC thermistors Series that are coated with glass for environmental protection and feature nickel barrier contacts for improved soldering characteristics. The 2322 615 3x and 2322 615 5x Series of surface-mount thermistors are designed […]
Alliance Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) introduced its new family of spread spectrum ICs designed specifically for switched-mode power supplies (SMPS). The AS80M18xx family is designed to work as companion chips to standard, off-the-shelf pulse-width modulator (PWM) controllers. The AS80M18xx family for SMPS reduces the electromagnetic interference (EMI) by modulating the PWM gate drive signal […]
Directed Energy Inc. (DEI, Fort Collins, CO), a wholly owned subsidiary of IXYS Corp., announced that it has developed and introduced a family of high-speed, high-voltage, GaAs schottky diodes with fast recovery times. The new line offers unprecedented recovery time performance while exhibiting a low forward-voltage drop, making it suitable for high-frequency, switch-mode power supplies; […]