Nuvera Fuel Cells Inc. (Cambridge, MA) and Air Liquide (France) announced their agreement to form a joint venture to be based in Sassenage, France, near Grenoble. The company, whose name has not yet been announced, will develop and market, on a global scale, complete power production systems based on fuel cell and fuel processor technology. […]
ON Semiconductor (Phoenix, AZ) announced an addition to their sub-1V IC family. The new NCS2001 is a low-power, rail-to-rail input and output CMOS operational amplifier that provides sub-1V interfaces, active filters, PCMCIA cards, ASIC input drivers and DSP interfaces. The NCS2001 is housed in a SOT-23-5 package with two industry-standard pinouts. Additional features of the […]
Moltech Power Systems (Gainesville, FL) has expanded its power options for portable electronics with its newest lithium-ion standard battery pack. The NI2040A17,...
Duracell (Bethel, CT) recently introduced the Duracell Ultra CR-V3. An extension to the Duracell Ultra line of photo lithium batteries, the CR-V3 was designed to meet the power demands of the growing number of CR-V3 compatible digital cameras. The company claims that the new battery lasts up to twice as long as any other commercially […]
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 […]
Lithium Technology Corp. (Plymouth Meething, PA) recently provided an update on the status of its planned merger with Ilion Technology Corp., formerly Pacific Lithium Ltd. (PLL, New Zealand). On October 2, 2000, PLL domesticated into the US as a private Delaware-based corporation. PLL changed its name to Illion Technology Corp. Ilion's anticipated IPO and NASDAQ […]
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. (TAEC, San Jose, CA) announced the addition of advanced lithium batteries (ALB) to its line-up of rechargeable batteries. Combining the flexibility of lithium polymer technology with the high-energy density of traditional lithium-ion batteries, Toshiba claims that the new ALBs reduce the cell thickness to as low as 1mm. In addition, […]
Valence Technology (Henderson, NV) announced that it received an additional order, valued at approximately $730,000, for their Model 25A batteries for use...
ZeTek plc (UK) recently began operation of a mass-production fuel cell plant in Cologne, Germany. The CEO of the company, Nick Abson, reported that he already had orders worth nearly $3.0 million to the end of June. He declined to name his customers, but they include a major US utility, a logistics company and British […]
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 […]
DuPont (Wilmington, DE) announced that it has formed a fuel cell unit to capture a piece of the growing market for clean-energy technology. Dupont stated that it expects this market to be worth $10 billion by the end of the decade. The formation of the DuPont fuel cell division provides a business platform from which […]
Moltech Power Systems (Gainesville, FL) has expanded its product family with a new NiMH Cs cell designed for high-temperature applications and back-up...