TelCom Semiconductor Inc. (Mountain View, CA) announced nine new inverting charge-pump voltage doublers, the TC1682 through TC1684, the TC2682 through TC2684 and...
EOS Corp. (Camarillo, CA) has signed an agreement with Pacific Marketing Specialists Inc. (Redmond, WA) to sell its power supplies throughout the region. Through this partnership, EOS expects to grow sales and brand awareness of its products among design engineers and manufacturers in Oregon, Washington, Western Idaho, and Alaska.Under the terms of the agreement, Pacific […]
Intersil Holding Corp. (Irvine, CA) has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell 10 million shares of Class A common stock. The company plans to sell three million shares and net $148.0 million, according to the filing. It plans to use the proceeds for general corporate purposes, including research and development, sales and […]
ON Semiconductor (Phoenix, AZ) announced that it will triple its research and development spending by 2001 over its 1999 spending levels and will double the product introductions it plans to release in this year to 400. The company plans to commit 80 percent of its research and development to analog-power management and broadband applications, with […]
Vishay Intertechnology Inc. (Malvern, PA) announced that it has acquired the business of Spectrol Electronics Corp. (Ontario, CA). Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition will be immediately accretive. Vishay would not comment on whether it is adding Spectrol facilities in California or the United Kingdom, or employees through the acquisition from […]
AXT Inc. (Fremont, CA) filed with regulators for a public offering of 2.2 million common shares, of which 100,000 will be sold by stockholders. AXT expects to raise about $82.2 million from the sale, according to a prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It said it will not receive any proceeds from the […]
SL Industries Inc. (Mt. Laurel, NJ) announced that revenue for the second quarter ended June 30, 2000, increased 33 percent to $44,144,000, a new record for the period, from $33,151,000 for the second quarter of 1999, and $43,537,000 for the first quarter of 2000. Net income for the second quarter was $796,000, or $0.14 per […]
Artesyn Technologies (Boca Raton, FL) unveiled the NXI110 Series of 110W, non-isolated, dc/dc converters for the next-generation of micro-processors. The NXI110 provides...
Intersil Holding Corp. (Irvine, CA) announced the latest addition to its family of power semiconductors. The 150V family of UltraFET MOSFETs is designed for use in uninterruptible power supplies, dc/dc converters and power supplies, and general-purpose load control. Intersil claims that the device improves the power efficiency required to enable high-speed computing and Internet data […]
Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) announced its Austin Lite Power Module Series, a new product in Lucent's original Austin Series dc/dc point-of-load...
Power-One (Camarillo, CA) has added the RPM5ERERKYH to its High Power Series. The RPM5ERERKYH is designed to power semiconductor test equipment and other high current, 1V applications. It provides an adjustable output from 1.0V to 1.8V at 640A; requires no minimum load for operation and incorporates extensive transient protection. The device also features current share […]
Intersil Holding Corp. (Irvine, CA) released its multiple-output dc/dc controller CPU power regulator for advanced configuration power interface (ACPI)-compliant PCs. This power regulator uses Intel's Tahoma Pentium 4 (P4) that interfaces with Rambus memory. According to Intersil, the ACPI specification enables computers to transition into an active state to perform routine activities. When tasks are […]
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI, Dallas, TX) stated that it has finalized its $7.6-billion acquisition of Burr-Brown Corp. (Tucson, AZ). The move keeps the digital DSP company within huge profit reports in the 3G phone, DSL and consumer audio-systems markets. TI said it plans to integrate its process technologies with Burr-Brown's analog expertise to build DSL […]
ON Semiconductor (Phoenix, AZ) announced that it has completed the facility construction in the first phase of expansion of its manufacturing facility in Aizu, Japan. The expanded facility will provide new manufacturing capacity to support ON Semiconductor's strategic growth in efficient analog integrated circuits and better power-management devices for wireless applications. The Aizu plant handles […]
MagneTek Inc. (Los Angeles, CA) reported increases in revenue, income and earnings per share for fiscal 2000, ended June 30, 2000, compared with prior year results. Operations that are for sale were reported on a discontinued basis, as the company focuses exclusively on fast-growing markets for digital power products. Continuing operations reported total revenue of […]