Axiom Microdevices Inc. publicly rejected charges that one of its employees had stolen trade secrets from Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, TX), the company in which the Axiom employee had once worked. Last month, Silicon Laboratories said it had filed an intellectual property lawsuit against Axiom and Ali Niknejad, a member of Axiom's technical advisory board […]
Dongguan Richwell Electronics Co. Ltd. (China) introduced its new SBY1E473KxxS505 ceramic capacitor, which is targeted for use in power supplies and monitors....
Infineon Technologies AG (Germany) announced that it plans to acquire the 13 percent minority holding in its 300 mm Dresden, Germany, subsidiary for about $343 million. Financing will come from the creation of 27 million new shares through a capital increase in kind. Now that the contractual conditions allow Infineon to acquire the minority holdings […]
Top-Up Ind. Corp. (Taiwan) debuted its 18PR1SVB-D variable resistor, which has a 10 kiloohm to 500 kiloohm resistance range; ±20 percent total...
Agere Systems Inc. (Allentown, PA) reported that it has accelerated its 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi chipset to deliver 150Mbit/sec using software enhancements. The WaveLAN chipset WaveLAN can support applications such as streaming media within the home, transmitting large data files, or routing multiple Wi-Fi devices to an external hard disk drive. The chipset will be in volume […]
Molex Inc. (India) released its first voltage regulator module (VRM) connector that supports VRMs in 1U servers, the iCool, which can be...
AVX Corp. (Myrtle Beach, SC) has developed a unique base metal electrode (BME) system featuring a soft termination layer for its multi-layer...
Zhejiang Hengyi Electrical Co. Ltd. (China) announced its HY145-C car audio capacitor, which supplies an instantaneous burst of current for greater bass...
NEC Electronics Corp. (Japan) announced its new V850E/RS1™ 32-bit microcontroller for the automotive market, which offers a 40 MHz V850E™ controller core; a 10-bit, 16-channel, analog-to-digital converter with auto discharge and diagnostic functionality; a buffered clocked serial interface; and flash memory with hardware in-circuit error correction coding. The V850E/RS1 controller is suited for real-time, safety-critical, […]
SMK Corp. (Japan) has developed a "five-in-one card connector" that is compatible with seven types of memory cards, including the Memory Stick,...
Camden Electronics (UK) has launched a range of plug-and-socket connectors that provide faster and safer connections in a wide range of lighting...
Vensik Electronics Co. Ltd. (Taiwan) announced its 10400 Series of PC/104 female connectors that come with copper-alloy, gold-over-nickel contacts; press-fit terminals; and...
Dongguan Richwell Electronics Co. Ltd. (China) announced its new HEZ2H103MXXA516 ceramic capacitors, targeted for use in power supplies and monitors, which feature...
Silicon Wave (San Diego, CA) and RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD, Greensboro, NC), a provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits for wireless communications applications, announced their new UltimateBlue™ Bluetooth®, single-chip IC, the SiW1722, designed to meet the RF, power and cost requirements of CDMA mobile phones using CDMA chipsets with an integrated Bluetooth baseband. […]
Fairchild Semiconductor International (South Portland, ME) introduced its new dual n-channel FDC6000NZ MOSFET device that combines Fairchild's PowerTrench® MOSFET silicon technology with...