Loyalty Founder Enterprise Co. Ltd. (LFE, Taiwan) announced the availability of its H101 3U/4U Camel Series of copper heatsinks. Measuring 89.9mm x...
Darnell Group Inc. (Corona, CA) announced publications of its new Trends in Power Distribution: Global Market Forecasts, Power System Architectures and Demand Characteristics, Fourth Edition. The 300-page report provides a comprehensive analysis of distributed power architecture (DPA) market characteristics and trends. Included are discussions of the economic factors affecting the market; changing business models; trends […]
Quantum Leap Packaging (Wilmington, MA), a developer of low-cost, high-performance, liquid crystal polymer (LCP) packaging solutions for high-volume electronic and optical components, announced that it has received $3.5 million in Series A financing from Battery Ventures (San Mateo, CA). As part of the investment, Battery Venture's Morgan Jones has joined the company's board of directors. […]
RO Associates Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) announced its new QV24-3.3-35-1 high-efficiency, second-generation, quarter-brick, which features a 24V input and 3.3V at 35A with...
American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC, Westborough, MA) reported financial results for the second quarter and the first six months of fiscal year 2004 ended September 30, 2003. Net revenues for the second quarter of fiscal 2004 were $9.6 million, up 115% over net revenues of $4.5 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2003, and up […]
Danaher Corp. (Washington, DC) introduced its new Kollmorgen S200 Series brushless servo drives, which are the first all-digital industrial drives with a...
Transpro Inc. announced that it has signed a three-year supply agreement with Cummins Power Generation (CPG), a division of Cummins Inc. (Columbus, IN). The agreement is expected to generate over $15 million in revenues during its life, and extends Transpro's current relationship with CPG. Under the agreement, Transpro's Heavy-Duty Group will supply cooling systems for […]
Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) announced that it has purchased from Philips its 8in semiconductor wafer fabrication facility in San Antonio, TX. The acquisition includes a 168-acre campus site with a submicron 8in wafer fabrication facility capable of producing eight million moves per year, or up to $500 million per year of revenue. The […]
IRC Inc. (Corpus Christi, TX) introduced the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) family of its TaNFilm® and TaNSil® thin film resistors. Using the same...
Vishay Intertechnology Inc. (Malvern, PA) announced the availability of more than 120 diode devices in the SMF (DO219-AB) package, which combines high power capability and miniaturized dimensions of 3.7mm x 1.8mm x 0.98mm to allow considerable space savings on printed circuit boards. The SMF (DO219-AB) package meets the demand for smaller and thinner diodes that […]
RO Associates Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) announced the release of a new ultra-high-efficiency, high-current half brick with 48V input and 1.8V at 80A. The isolated, fixed-frequency, state-of-the-art design uses synchronous rectification, an integrated planar transformer, and a low-loss multi-layer PCB to provide 80A of 1.8Vdc power. The high efficiency of over 88% allows them to be […]
Modine Manufacturing Co. (Racine, WI) reported its financial results for the second quarter ended September 26, 2003. Sales for the second quarter increased over 1% to $279.1 million from $275.3 million reported a year ago. Sales were positively impacted by net favorable currency exchange rates, primarily the stronger Euro, which added about $13.5 million to […]
Gresham Power (Salisbury) announced a new power-conversion front-end for telecommunications and cellular infrastructure applications. Gresham's new Strongbox is the first product to...
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI, Dallas, TX) announced the delivery of select analog semiconductors in its NanoStar™ wafer chip-scale packaging (WCSP), which shrinks package size, increases design flexibility and improves reliability without sacrificing performance. Unlike plastic packages, NanoStar has no molding compound, lead frame, wire bonds or leads. Using standard surface-mount technology assembly procedures, NanoStar can […]
FDK Corp. (Japan) announced the launch of its new non-isolated, point-of-load (POL), dc/dc converters, the W Series, which feature an electric power efficiency of up to 95% at the maximum as a high-efficiency POL power supply that responds to decentralization of electric equipment. The series comprises 72 models with a lineup of single in-line (SIP) […]