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Microsemi Reports Modest Increases in Sales and Income in Q1 2013
Microsemi Corporation reported unaudited net sales for Microsemi’s first quarter of fiscal 2013, ended Dec. 30, 2012, were $247.6 million, up 2.8 percent over the prior year quarter. GAAP gross margin was 57.6 percent, improving 540 basis points over the prior year quarter and improving 40 basis points sequentially. GAAP operating margin was 10.3 percent, […]
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Automotive Electronics
Maxim Reports Small Decline in Revenue in Q2 2013
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. reported net revenue of $605 million for its second quarter of fiscal 2013 ended December 29, 2012, a 3% decrease from $623 million revenue recorded in the prior quarter. Tunc Doluca, President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, “We are pleased that the breadth of our businesses allowed us to achieve revenues […]
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Automotive Electronics
ams and Mouser form Worldwide Distribution Partnership
ams AG and Mouser Electronics Inc. announced a new distribution partnership. ams provides innovative solutions to the most challenging applications that require extreme precision, accuracy, dynamic range, sensitivity and power efficiency. “We have always been dedicated to forming strategic partnerships with companies that share our forward-minded business vision,” says Mike Scott, Vice President of Semiconductors […]
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1.2KAutomotive ElectronicsEric Lidow — Pioneer in Power Semiconductors
International Rectifier announced with deep regret that Eric Lidow, the company’s founder and former Chairman and CEO passed away on January 18,...
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Automotive Electronics
TI Q4 2012 Revenue was $2.98 Billion Down 13% from Q4 2011
Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) reported decreased financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with the previous quarter (the third quarter of 2012 and with the fourth quarter of the previous year (2011). Revenue of $2.98 billion in Q4 of 2012 represented a decline of 13% from the previous quarter and a decline of […]
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1.1KAutomotive ElectronicsBalqon Introduces ZEVQON Electric Vehicle Motor Controllers for Commercial Truck and Bus Markets
Balqon Corporation has released a complete line of next-generation electric vehicle motor controllers, named ZEVQON™, designed for emerging zero-emission commercial truck and...
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Batteries and Portable Power
European Collaboration to Prepare European Electricity Networks for Influx of Electric Vehicles
A European consortium, consisting of DNV KEMA, Fraunhofer ISE, EMD International, RAH and RFVV, has begun an EU funded project to develop modeling and simulation tools for optimally integrating electrical vehicles (EVs) into electricity networks. The project, Novel E-Mobility Grid Model (NEMO), plays a key role in the further development of electric mobility in Europe […]
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988Communications PowerIR’s 300V Power FETs Offer Benchmark Rds(on) to Improve Efficiency in Industrial Apps
International Rectifier Corp. (IR) has introduced of a family of 300V devices featuring IR’s latest power MOSFET silicon that deliver benchmark on-state...
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2.4KAutomotive ElectronicsDelta-Q Redefines Battery Charger Durability for Class 3 Lift Trucks
Delta-Q Technologies will release its new IC650TM industrial battery charger to the materials handling industry at ProMat 2013. The IC650 is a...
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1.0KAutomotive ElectronicsROHM Adds Wide-Terminal Low-Ohmic Chip Resistors for Current Detection
ROHM Semiconductor has expanded its lineup of high-power, wide-terminal, low-ohmic chip resistors designed for current detection in automotive systems, motors, power supply...
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Communications Power
TI Integrates USB on C2000 Piccolo Microcontrollers, Enabling On-The-Go Field Diagnostics and Communications
Helping customers develop end products requiring on-site connectivity, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has announced its newest 32-bit, real-time C2000™ Piccolo™ F2806xU microcontrollers (MCU) with integrated USB connectivity. In many applications, such as consumer and industrial motor control systems, industrial power systems, telecom and data systems, wind and solar energy generation and general power electronic applications, […]
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1.1KAutomotive ElectronicsXMC1000 Industrial Microcontrollers from Infineon Hit New Price/Performance Levels Enabled By 65nm e-Flash Technology on 300mm Wafers
Infineon Technologies AG has presented its new 32-bit microcontroller family XMC1000, which uses the ARM® Cortex™-M0 processor. With the XMC1000, Infineon is...
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1.8KCommunications PowerSingle-Phase Energy-Measurement Processors Accurately Monitor Power at a Fraction of the Cost
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. is now sampling the 78M6610+PSU /78M6610+LMU single-phase energy-measurement processors. These processors are an energy-measurement subsystem in a single...
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Communications Power
TDI Hires Joe DeLuca as VP Marketing & Sales
Joseph DeLuca has joined TDI Power Corp. as Vice President Marketing and Sales for worldwide operations. In his new role Joe will be responsible for establishing marketing and sales programs targeted at TDI Power’s key market segments. Joe DeLuca has held senior strategic marketing, sales and development leadership positions in the power, telecommunications and aerospace […]
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1.4KAutomotive ElectronicsSurface-Mount Transformers for Industrial LANs Developed by Wurth and TI
Wurth Electronics Midcom Inc. introduces a tiny series of surface mount transformers developed with Texas Instruments to be used with the SN6501...
