Modine Manufacturing Co. (Racine, WI) reported notable improvement in its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2003. Sales for the fourth quarter increased 7.6% to $272.6 million from $253.4 million reported a year ago. Net earnings for the quarter improved significantly to $8.1 million, or $0.24 per fully diluted […]
Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. (Japan) announced the development of a sheet-type heatsink that the company claims is the world's smallest and enables...
Bi-Sonic Technology Corp. (Taiwan) announced the release of a CPU cooler that features a cooling fan that uses ventral fin blades, which...
Minebea Co. Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan), parent company to NMB Technologies Corp. (NMB, Chatsworth, CA), announced its withdrawal from the power supply industry by the end of this year. In response to rapid changes in the business environment, Minebea is focusing all efforts and resources on the company's core business areas of electro-mechanical components (ball bearings, […]
Advanced Power Technology Europe (Bordeaux, France), a division of Advanced Power Technology Inc. (APT, Bend, OR), announced its new product line of standard power modules in new packages, which will be available, including 600V and 1,200V PT IGBTs, for the ultimate in a high switching speed IGBT module, non-punch-through IGBTs for switch-mode power supplies and […]
Royal Philips Electronics (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) announced a significant advancement for the innovative Low VCEsat (BISS) transistor family. Pushing performance boundaries, Philips has become the first semiconductor company to offer the market BISS transistors in the 1612-sized SOT666/SS-Mini package. Capable of collector currents up to 2A, the PBSS4240V and PBSS5240V offer best-in-class performance, delivering increased […]
GrafTech International Ltd. (Wilmington, DE) announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2003. Net loss was $9 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, including $12 million ($19 million before tax), or $0.21 per diluted share, of previously announced restructuring charges for organizational changes and closure and settlement of various defined benefit plans. […]
Tsinghua Huatian Technology Development Co. Ltd. (THTD, China) announced its new AE-076 CPU cooler, which features an 80mm x 80mm x 25mm...
OSI Fibercomm (Hawthorne, CA) introduced four miniature packages for its InGaAs photodiodes for laser diode monitoring. With active area sizes of 120µm, 300µm, 400µm and 500µm, the photodiodes are low noise, have a high responsivity (1310nm to 1550nm) and operate in a spectral range from 900nm to 1,700nm. Applications include diode laser monitors, high-speed optical […]
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Seoul, Korea) announced mass production of a four-chip, multi-chip package (MCP) for mobile handsets. The company also announced a new integrated software system that greatly reduces the development time of MCP, system-in-package (SiP) and system-on-chip (SoC) designs by enabling simultaneous design of semiconductor circuits and packages. Samsung's MCP stacks four chips […]
Intersil Corp. (Irvine, CA) announced its new dual-rail, hot-swap controller targeted primarily for the new PCI Express bus. The new Endura™ ISL6161 allows boards to be safely inserted and removed from live backplanes. The IC controls both 12V and 3.3V power buses, offering programmability and fast-response protection. In addition to PCI Express, the ISL6161 is […]
Turck Inc. (Minneapolis, MN) introduced three new additions to its line of line of high temperature sensors, which range up to 160°C...
STMicroelectronics Inc. (Geneva, Switzerland) introduced a 200A version of its advanced family of IGBTs that features low forward-voltage drops at high currents. Such devices belong to the low drop family of ST's IGBTs that ensure low on-voltage losses without using any heavy metal doping or electronic radiation to reduce the lifetime of minority carries. The […]
Wuxi Xuyang Electronics Co. Ltd. (China) announced its new K Series of bi-directional thyristor diodes (SIDACs), available in DO-15 and DO-201A packages,...
Solar Grade Silicon LLC (SGSilicon, Moses Lake, WA), a joint venture of Advanced Silicon Materials LLC, a subsidiary of Komatsu Ltd. and Silicon Technologies AS, and a subsidiary of Renewable Energy Corp., has begun full production of polycrystalline silicon at its Moses Lake facility. The initial startup has been successful with all polysilicon chemical vapor […]