One of the biggest challenges facing power supply engineers, salesmen and distributors alike, is how to ensure that you are quickly selecting the right manufacturer and product for an application. The advent of CD over paper catalogue improved the situation, as did the web over CDs, but now we have a new generation of product […]
International Rectifier Corp. announced the introduction of a family of StrongIRFET™ power MOSFETs featuring ultra-low on-state resistance (RDS(on)) for a wide variety...
Renesas Electronics has developed the RAA20770X Series of mini-POL converters for ASICs and other large-scale logic circuits in a wide variety of...
Powerex announces the availability of a 3300V/200A (QID3320002) and 4500V/150A (QID4515002) dual High Voltage IGBTs (HVIGBTs). These extended voltage HVIGBTs have been...
Excelsys announces the release of their ruggedized XF Series of 400~1,000 Watt field-configurable AC/DC power supplies intended for harsh environments including Mil-COTS...
To increase the efficiency of inverters up to 400kW, circuit topologies have been developed that are optimized for specific applications. However, interleaved,...
Taking the complexity out of motor control designs, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) introduces its latest motor control solution — new highly integrated...
CISSOID introduces the CHT-NMOS8001, the latest member of its EARTH family of general purpose transistors. The CHT-NMOS8001 is an N-channel MOSFET guaranteed...
Vicor Corporation currently expects to report fourth quarter fully diluted earnings at an essentially break-even level (i.e., either a small net income or net loss). Based on existing backlog, the Company expects to report a net loss for the first quarter of 2013. Addressing current performance trends, Dr. Patrizio Vinciarelli, Vicor’s Chairman of the Board […]
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. released the Si7655DN, the industry’s first – 20 V p-channel MOSFET in a 3.3 mm by 3.3 mm package...
Renesas Electronics announced the R-IN32M3 series of industrial Ethernet communication chips with support for multiple communication protocols in response to the rapid...
GM Ventures has invested for the second time in Proterra Inc., a Greenville, S.C.-based company that makes a battery-electric, fast-charge bus. GM Ventures and six other companies invested a total of $23 million in a new round of financing for Proterra, the bus manufacturer said Tuesday. GM Ventures’ investment was not disclosed. Other investors included […]
Amantys Limited announced the successful closure of a new funding round of $8m. This significant new financing enables Amantys to expand into...
XP Power announced the ECP60 series of compact low profile 60 Watt AC-DC power supplies. These highly efficient units, typically 88% efficiency,...
In a bold move to make 8-bit architectures obsolete, NXP Semiconductors announced the LPC800 — a 32-bit microcontroller designed specifically for the...