Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD, Sunnyvale, CA) announced that their chairman and CEO, Jerry Sanders, will turn over position of CEO to Hector Ruiz, effective April 2002. Sanders, who is 64, will retain the chairmanship through 2003. Currently Ruiz is serving as both president and COO of the company. The coming retirement of Sanders will […]
International Rectifier (IR, El Segundo, CA) has expanded its engineering capabilities and dc/dc power management integrated circuit (IC) product lines with the acquisition of Unisem Inc., completed on January 5, 2001. Among the new products IR acquired with Unisem are switching control ICs and LDO regulators, which the company claims meet or exceed voltage and […]
International Rectifier (IR, El Segundo, CA) and Ideas Electronics (Singapore), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Enersave Holdings Ltd., recently collaborated to develop a new line of electronic ballasts (ECGs), the Multi-Lamp ECGs. Available in single, twin and dimming versions, the new ECGs allow one ballast to be deployed on lamps with different wattages. Ideas Electronics claims […]
International Rectifier (IR, El Segundo, CA) announced the expansion of its fast recovery epitaxial diode (FRED) family to include four new 400V...
Advanced Power Technology Inc. (APT, Bend, OR) has reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2000. Revenues for the fourth quarter of 2000 were $12.5 million, up 60 percent over the $7.8 million achieved in the fourth quarter of 1999 and up 3.4 percent sequentially from the $12.1 million recorded […]
di/dt Inc. (Carlsbad, CA), which recently launched the Q Series of quarter-brick dc/dc converters, has already updated the current rating for the devices. The converters are now rated 35A and 25A, depending on the version. Claimed to be the first surface-mount converters in the quarter-brick format, these converters weigh only 27g and measure 2.3" x […]
ON Semiconductor (Phoenix, AZ) announced the availability of a dc/dc converter that they claim extends battery usage in portable equipment powered by one or two battery packs. With an efficiency rating of 85 percent, the new NCP1402 micropower Power Factor Modulator (PFM) step-up dc/dc converter has an output voltage of 1.9V. Available in a low […]
General Semiconductor Inc. (Melville, NY) reported results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2000. Sales increased 6.3 percent, to $119.9 million, from the $112.8 million recorded in the fourth quarter of 1999. Sales of $493.7 million for the year increased 18.4 percent over the $417.1 reported in 1999 and reached a record high. […]
The semiconductor products sector of Motorola (Schaumburg, IL) announced that, in a continuation of cost-reduction measures that began in the fourth quarter, further steps to boost efficiency and improve profitability are being taken. These measures will include a substantial reduction in capital spending and operating budgets, further business and manufacturing consolidations, and the elimination of […]
National Semiconductor (Furstenfeldbruck, Germany) announced a new family of supervisory ICs with a variety of factory-programmable features that can be configured in hundreds of possible combinations. Housed in the chip-scale micro SMD package, the LM3700 family uses EEPROM technology and is designed to monitor power supplies in intelligent instruments, cellular phones, computers, PDAs, pagers and […]
di/dt Inc. (Carlsbad, CA) recently launched the Q Series, a comprehensive portfolio of next-generation open-frame 24V- and 48V-input quarter-brick dc/dc converters for...
International Rectifier (IR, El Segundo, CA) announced a 1,000V radiation-hardened (rad-hard) power MOSFET. IR claims that the IRHY7G30CMSE rad-hard power MOSFET improves...
Tyco Electronics Power Systems (Mesquite, TX) announced a new Galaxy Power System, the GPS4812, which is suitable for use in -48Vdc applications. The GPS4812 provides power ranging from 100A to 400A in a half-height cabinet for mounting on top of VRLA batteries, up to 800A in a full-height single cabinet, or up to 1,200A in […]
Infineon Technologies (Munich, Germany) has begun producing its thinQ! family of Schottky diodes based on silicon carbide (SiC) technology. The company claims that, compared with conventional power diodes in silicon or gallium arsenide technology, SiC Schottky diodes allow significantly lower switching losses and higher switching frequencies, while offering much higher operating voltage ranges. The company […]
Siliconix Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) announced that net income for the year ended December 31, 2000 was a record $107.6 million, or $3.60 per share, an increase of 63 percent over the $66.1 million, or $2.21 per share, achieved in 1999. Net sales in 2000 were a record $473.1 million, a 23 percent increase over […]