SunPower Corp. announced that it has signed two agreements with NorSun AS to support its solar cell manufacturing expansion plans. Under the terms of the first agreement, SunPower will purchase sufficient silicon in ingot and potentially wafer form from NorSun to satisfy production requirements for up to approximately two gigawatts of solar cell production, based […]
austriamicrosystems announced that it expanded its digital potentiometer portfolio with the AS1506, an 256- tap SPI-interfaced nonvolatile digital potentiometer available with 10,...
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. announced that Hydro ASA acquired an additional 934,462 shares of Ascent Solar common stock and 1,965,690 Class B warrants through the exercise of an option previously granted to Hydro and approved by Ascent Solar’s shareholders in June 2007. Gross proceeds to the company from the follow on investment are $10.48 million, […]
Spain’s Solarig, a supplier of photovoltaic panels, has signed a strategic deal to take a 25% stake in Zhejinang Shuqimeng Energy Technology,...
ExtraEnergy, in cooperation with the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan and other renowned testing organizations, announced the formation of the ’Battery...
Smith Electric Vehicles announced that it will be investing an initial US$30 million (€15 million) to launch a new range of zero...
Nokia today issued a product advisory for the Nokia-branded BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd. of Japan between December...
EPCOS AG and Chinese conglomerate Xiamen Xindeco Co., Ltd. (Xindeco) are expanding their joint venture, EPCOS (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. (EPCOS (Xiamen)). The two partners have agreed to this move subject to approval by the relevant authorities and by Xindeco’s shareholders meeting. Launched at the end of 2005, the joint venture manufactures aluminum electrolytic capacitors and […]
STMicroelectronics announced that Philippe Lambinet has joined the company as Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the company’s Home Entertainment and Displays (HED) Group, reporting directly to President and CEO Carlo Bozotti. He will also hold responsibility for ST’s Grenoble, France, site. Lambinet, who holds a MSc. in Electronics from the Paris Ecole Supérieure […]
Zentro Elektrik GmbH announced that it is expanding its range of DC – UPS systems for supplying power to safety relevant installations...
Moixa Energy has released its USBCELL – a rechargeable battery that can charge from any USB port without the need for any...
Systems Development & Solutions (SDS), headquartered in Paris, France, announced the arrival of three new series of high-voltage power supply units. The newly added DA and DE Series delivers up to 6W of power from 1 to 6kV with input voltages between 15 and 24V, and the APD Series provides up to 100mW of power […]
STMicroelectronics announced a new series of 8-bit flash microcontrollers, within the ST7Lite family, featuring up to 24 I/O (input/output) lines. The ST7Lite is designed specifically for simpler products such as security and lighting systems, power management, small appliances, sensors and motor control. The new ST7LITE49M series, available in an LQFP32 package for mass production and […]
Powerstax announced its new D1000 modular power units that offer up to 1000W of dc power from vehicle or other mobile or...
Chipidea®, a provider of analog/mixed-signal subsystems and intellectual property, announced what is claimed to be the industry’s most compact, silicon-proven step-down dc-dc converter IP core to support an external supply voltage up to 4.2V while using regular 3.3V System-on-Chip (SoC) devices found in CMOS processes. The CI2512tl Step-Down DC-DC Converter IP core is the latest […]