Toyota Motor Corp. (Torrance, CA) reported that the City of Los Angeles has increased its fleet of Toyota Prius hybrid gas-electric cars from 23 to 130. The original 23 sedans purchased last year for the city's motor pool, and regular use by departments such as parking enforcement, proved so popular that Los Angeles decided to […]
The European Union (EU, Brussels, Belgium) Commission has approved a joint venture between Emerson Electric Co. (St. Louis, MO) and auto parts maker Dana Corp. (Toledo, OH) to develop vehicle components. The deal was approved under the commission's simplified antitrust procedure, which clears mergers or acquisitions after one month if no objections are raised. The […]
Honeywell International (Minneapolis, WI) announced that its Automation and Control Solutions (ACS) unit has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of privately held Sensotec Inc. (Columbus, OH), which is a supplier of sensors used extensively in test and measurement applications in the automotive, oil and gas, aviation, semiconductor, industrial and medical industries. The transaction […]
Ansoft Corp. (Pittsburgh) and International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA) announced the release of a model library containing IR power-management components for use within Ansoft's SIMPLORER®. The library contains nearly 700 ready-to-use models of IR's diode, insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), and power metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) components for automobiles, aircraft, portable electronics and appliances. […]
Linear Technology Corp. (Milpitas, CA) introduced the new LTC6800, a low-cost, high-precision, instrumentation amplifier that features rail-to-rail input and output, works on...
Siliconix Inc. (Santa Clara, CA), a subsidiary of Vishay Intertechnology Inc. (Malvern, PA), announced that net income for the year ended December 31, 2002, was $46.2 million, or $1.54 per share, an increase of 206 percent from the $15.1 million, or $0.51 per share, achieved in 2001. Net sales in 2002 were $372.9 million, a […]
ON Semiconductor Corp. (Phoenix, AZ) announced that total revenues in the fourth quarter of 2002 were $266 million, a decrease of $6 million, or two percent, from the third quarter of 2002 and a decrease of $1 million, or 0.5 percent, from the fourth quarter of 2001. The company reported a net loss of $42 […]
Ansoft Corp. (Pittsburgh, PA) announced that Founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Zoltan Cendes was recently elected an Institute of Electrical and...
Astris Energi Inc. (Mississauga, ON), developer of alkaline fuel cell technology, and CareAction Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) announced a $15-million joint venture destined...
President George W. Bush urged Congress to "think beyond the normal" and approve his plan to spur development of clean-burning hydrogen fuel...
Nissan Motor Co. (Tokyo) and UTC Fuel Cells (UTCFC, South Windsor, CT), a part of United Technologies Corp. (South Windsor, CT), announced the signing of an agreement to jointly develop proton-exchange membrane fuel cell technology. Under terms of the agreement, Nissan will obtain rights to UTCFC's technology, and the two companies will continue to jointly […]
Dynetek Industries Ltd. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) announced that it has been selected by Deere and Company (John Deere) to supply its 5,000psi (350bar) hydrogen storage system as part of a technology demonstrator, fuel-cell-powered, commercial work vehicle. The demonstrator will be a modified John Deere Pro-Gator™ utility vehicle. "We are excited to partner with John Deere […]
Diodes Inc. (Westlake Village, CA) a manufacturer and supplier of discrete semiconductors, reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2002. Total revenues for the year 2002 increased 24.3 percent to $115.8 million from $93.2 million for the year 2001. Net income for year 2002 was $5.8 million, or $0.65 per […]
Ansoft Corp. (Pittsburgh) released the SIMPLORER® Power Suite, an integrated software package that addresses the rapidly increasing demand for smaller, more reliable...
International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA) and Xilinx Inc. announced the immediate availability of the Accelerator motor control design platform, based on the low-cost Xilinx Spartan-IIE FPGA and International Rectifier motion control mixed signal chip set. The Accelerator platform provides a low-cost, reconfigurable signal processing architecture using parallel processing and soft peripherals that is […]