Cree, Inc. and Eta Devices, Inc. will demonstrate the world's most efficient reported power amplifier for mobile base stations at the 2013 Mobile World Congress, February 24-28 in Barcelona, Spain. Current generation mobile base station amplifiers employing silicon LDMOS transistors can provide amplifier efficiencies up to 45 percent. By contrast, Eta Devices' next-generation power amplifiers […]
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) had added two 3-phase, brushless DC (BLDC) motor drivers that allow designers to spin motors in minutes rather than months. Traditional BLDC motor designs require five to 10 components, along with firmware. The sensorless 5-V, 680-mA DRV10866 and the 12-V, 1.5-A DRV11873 cuts this component count to one with no firmware […]
SMILE FC System Corporation ("SMILE FC"), a joint venture between Intelligent Energy Ltd. and Suzuki Motor Corporation has successfully established a ready-to-scale...
Infineon Technologies AG has received the first customer go-aheads for products of the CoolMOS family produced by the 300-millimeter line at the...
ROHM Semiconductor recently announced that they have begun mass-production of 1200V/180A-rated SiC MOS modules for inverters/converters used for industrial equipment, photovoltaic power...
TDK Corporation has added EPCOS MKP film capacitors of the B3267*P* series with a significantly reduced volume. For example the type with...
Chilisin Electronics Corp. and Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. have entered into a worldwide, nonâ€exclusive licensing agreement that grants Chilisin patent coverage of highâ€current, molded power chokes / inductors, including the right to manufacture, have manufactured, use, sell, offer for sale, distribute, import and export such products. Chilisin's highâ€current and molded power chokes / inductors include its […]
Renesas Electronics Europe announced the availability of a large number of new low power, low voltage microcontrollers (MCUs). Renesas is expanding the...
A new world-leading center for energy harvesting and generation is being set up at the University of Bath. Called the "Nemesis" project,...
AVX Corporation and KEMET Corporation have both announced that they have not been affected by the mineral thefts that have taken place in and around the Tanzanian port city of Dar es Salaam, which are reportedly impacting the global supply of tantalite. "AVX has a longstanding policy of maintaining considerable stocks of validated conflict-free raw […]
According to a statement released today by Airbus, "the root causes of the two recent industry lithium-ion (Li-ion) main batteries incidents (on...
STMicroelectronics has unveiled its latest battery fuel-gauging device featuring patented innovations that improve long-term accuracy. This tiny chip, the STC3115, can be...
Power electronics are experiencing a continuous rise in their power densities. As a consequence, thermal management for today's power semiconductors must be...
Technology Dynamics, Inc. (TDI) has announced the acquisition of the assets, operation and IP of Ansmann USA Corp. industrial division. The new company is now named Nova Battery Systems (NBS) which continues to reside in its current address at 10 Washington Ave., Fairfield NJ 07004. Terms of the acquisition were not announced. Ansmann's European operations […]
XP Power today announced the JCA10 series of single and dual output 10-Watt metal cased dc-dc converters. Already a popular dc-dc converter...