Zilker Labs Inc. (Asutin, TX) announced that it has been invited to join leading power supply and semiconductor manufacturers in a coalition formed by Artesyn Technologies. The initiative is focused on developing a new digital protocol, called Power Management Bus or PMBus™, which will define an open architecture for power system control over an industry-standard […]
Volterra Semiconductor Corp. (Fremont, CA), a provider of high-performance analog and mixed-signal power management semiconductors, reported financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2004. Net revenue for the fourth quarter of 2004 was $14.6 million, an increase of 125% over net revenue of $6.5 million for the fourth quarter of […]
Primarion Inc. (Tempe, AZ), a mixed-signal semiconductor company that provides digital control of power solutions, announced its second-generation suite of Primarion™ Digital...
Primarion Inc. (Tempe, AZ), a mixed-signal semiconductor company that provides digital control of power solutions, announced its new high-efficiency 1U voltage regulator module (VRM) reference boards, which combined with Primarion's Digital Multiphase Power chipset, delivers 86% efficiency at 105 A load currents, while meeting the difficult power requirements of next-generation microprocessors. The Primarion 1U VRM […]
Potentia Semiconductor Corp. (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), a power-management company, announced its configurable PS-2406 power subsystem controller IC, which provides comprehensive power management of up to four secondary-side dc-dc power converters and offers a serial data link to the company’s range of primary-side power-management ICs. The PS-2406’s ability to monitor and act on power system information […]
iWatt Inc. (Los Gatos, CA), a power management IC company developing and marketing digital controllers for power supplies, announced that Curtis Davis has been appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer. Davis, who has more than 25 years experience in the semiconductor industry, brings significant operating and technology development expertise that will be instrumental in […]
iWatt Inc. (Los Gatos, CA), a power management IC company developing and marketing digital controllers for power supplies, announced that Jim McCreary has joined the company as Vice President of Engineering. McCreary leads the company's engineering efforts and product development strategy. He brings strong engineering leadership and distinct IC-domain expertise as well as a proven […]
iWatt Inc. (Los Gatos, CA), a power management IC company developing and marketing digital controllers for power supplies, announced that Larry Finch, a managing director at Sigma Partners, was elected Chairman of the Board. Finch brings a wealth of operational experience in moving early-stage technology companies through high-growth stages of development. He has advised more […]
Power-One Inc. (Camarillo, CA) announced that net sales for the fourth fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2004, increased 7% to $71.9 million compared with $67 million for the fourth quarter of 2003. For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004, net sales were $280.3 million, an improvement of nearly $24 million, or 9%, over net […]
The 17th Annual Embedded Systems Conference will be held March 6-10, 2005, at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, CA. Featuring new one-day and two-day seminars focused on design issues in emerging technology sectors, including consumer systems, 3G cellular, and network systems and enabling technologies such as field-programmable gate arrays, digital signal processors and […]
Summit Microelectronics Inc. (San Jose, CA) announced its new SMM150 digital power supply marginer that can easily be designed to work with...
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI, Dallas, TX) and Mitsubishi Materials Corp. announced that Mitsubishi has selected TI's PurePath Digital™ technology for its latest power line communication (PLC) module. Leveraging TI's digital amplifier technology, MMC recently developed its PLC units to provide full digital streaming audio. Mitsubishi Materials is using TI's TAS5001 PWM processor and TAS5122 power […]
TDK Innoveta Inc. (Plano, TX) expanded its Supereta family with the iQN Series of 35 V/6 A and 28 V/7 A industry-standard,...
Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, AZ), a provider of microcontroller (MCU) and analog semiconductors, announced its new PIC16F785, which provides a complete set...
HIPAC Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, CA), a developer of integrated power solutions for battery-powered applications, announced that Director of Engineering Dr. Javad Mahdavi and Dr. Ali Emadi, will present at Darnell Group Inc.'s (Corona, CA) 2005 Portable Power Developer's Conference (PPDC 2005) at the Hyatt Hotel in San Jose, CA, April 18-20, 2005. In the […]