The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy of the US Department of Energy (Washington, DC) announced that 14 university teams from...
Baxi Group Ltd. (UK) announced that it has acquired European Fuel Cell GmbH (EFC) from Hamburg Gas Consult GmbH (HGC, Hamburg, Germany),...
Fairchild Semiconductor International (South Portland, ME) announced the opening of a Package and Technology Knowledge Center to be based in Bucheon, South Korea. The center will research new packaging materials to improve thermal and mechanical performance and develop new assembly techniques. "Bucheon has a world-class design and manufacturing facility for Fairchild, making it an ideal […]
Fujipoly America Corp. (Carteret, NJ) announced its new Sarcon® SF-Nd phase-change interface materials for use in high-performance microprocessors requiring minimal thermal resistance...
Dynex Power Inc. (UK) announced the retirement of Jack Lawrence from its board of directors and the appointment of Richard Carl who is a Partner at Lawrence and Company (Toronto, Canada. Carl has broad-based experience in investment research, equity sales and trading. "First, on behalf of the board and the senior management of the company, […]
Sure Power Corp. (Danbury, CT) has appointed Tishman Technologies Corp. Executive Vice President and Managing Director Joseph Ryan, Jr. to its board of directors. Ryan was appointed based on his more than 25 years of construction and technology experience. Ryan's competencies include substantial expertise in addressing the unique requirements of data and communications networks requiring […]
Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, MA) debuted two new members of its dBCOOL™ family of ICs, the ADT7460 and ADT7463, for thermal systems controllers and notebook and desktop PCs. The ADT7460 and ADT7463 can optimize fan speed for systems in which internal configurations such as PCI or AGP add-in cards may one day be installed, or […]
Galaxy Power Inc. (Westborough, MA) introduced its new second-generation Pisces II Series of dc/dc CoolConverters™, which offer 60A and a 2.5V output...
UNIPOWER Corp. (Coral Springs, FL) introduced its new PowerCassette® Series of single-output, front-end modules, which are available in hot-swap or chassis-mount versions,...
Modine Manufacturing Co. (Racine, WI) announced that it completed the sale of its Canadian after-market operations, which was part of a previously announced plan to reduce excess capacity. In addition to its Canadian aftermarket operations, Modine has announced the closure of three other North American facilities, located in St. Paul, MN; Knoxville, TN; LaPorte, IN; […]
International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA) introduced an expanded and improved portfolio of automotive HEXFET® power MOSFETs with 10 percent lower...
Pacific Scientific (Rockford, IL), a subsidiary of Danaher Corp. (Washington, DC), announced its 40kHz, pulse-wave-modulation frequency, PD2400 micro-step drive, which delivers high...
Toshiba Corp. (Japan) announced that it will increase the MOSFET assembly and test capacity of its Himeji, Japan, operations and Buzen Toshiba Electronics Corp. Capacity will be increased from the current 30 million units a month to about 45 million units a month. In addition, the company will also boost LED assembly capacity from 70 […]
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI, Dallas, TX) disclosed plans to enter a strategic cooperation agreement with Semiconductor Manufacturing Int. Corp. (SMIC, China) to be completed by the end of 2002. TI expects the agreement to expand its production capacity for semiconductor products. The first phase of the agreement is scheduled to be implemented in 2003. SMIC […]
Fuel cell developer Sulzer Hexis Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) has signed a distribution agreement with natural-gas supplier Gasverbund Mittelland AG (GVM, Arlesheim, Switzerland)...