Linear Technology Corp. (LTC, Milpitas, CA) announced the LT6220, LT6221 and LT6222 single, dual and quad, rail-to-rail, input and output, precision op...
Tessera Technologies Inc. (San Jose, CA), a developer of semiconductor packaging technology for miniaturization of electronic products, announced the filing of a registration statement for the initial public offering of up to $75 million of its common stock. The securities to be offered in the proposed IPO will include shares to be issued and sold […]
Fairchild Semiconductor International (South Portland, ME) announced that order rates and backlog are improving and reaffirmed its previous guidance, including its expectation that third-quarter revenues will be sequentially lower by 4% to 6%. "At the beginning of this quarter, based on our starting backlog and concerns about our Asian distributor inventory levels, we guided third-quarter […]
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, CA) announced it has become the first silicon vendor to achieve USB On-The-Go (OTG) compliance certification from the USB Implementers' Forum (USB-IF) for a microprocessor-based, embedded, USB OTG controller. Cypress's EZ-OTG™ (CY7C67200) controller allows portable electronic devices to communicate with one another without connecting to a PC. The (CY7C67300) device […]
Hynix Semiconductor Inc. (Ichon, Korea) has completed the development of its 0.18µm high-voltage process technology, which was developed to address the increased requirement for a "one-chip" total solution on LCD driver ICs (LDIs), which includes gate, source, controller, dc/dc converter and SRAM. The "one-chip" solution offers a reduced chip size and weight, resulting in a […]
WJ Communications Inc. (WJCI, San Jose, CA), a leading designer and supplier of radio-frequency (RF) semiconductors and multi-chip modules, announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Alien Technology Corp., a provider of high-volume, low-cost, radio frequency identification (RFID) products. WJ is applying both its radio expertise and RF semiconductor integration intellectual property […]
ON Semiconductor Corp. (Phoenix, AZ) announced that it has received approval to transfer the listing of its common stock from the Nasdaq SmallCap Market to the Nasdaq National Market. Effective at the market open September 3, 2003, ON Semiconductor's stock is scheduled to begin trading on the Nasdaq National Market under its current ticker symbol: […]
Siliconix Inc. (Santa Clara, CA), a subsidiary of Vishay Intertechnology Inc. (Malvern, PA), announced a next-generation TrenchFET technology yielding power MOSFETs that...
American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC, Westborough, MA) announced that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed public offering of 4,000,000 shares of its common stock. The lead underwriter for the offering will be Needham and Company Inc. The offering will include an option for the underwriters to […]
Actel Corp. (Mountain View, CA) announced the availability of its reprogrammable, non-volatile ProASIC Plus field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), tested and verified to operate over the full military temperature range of -55°C to +125°C. With densities ranging from 300,000 to one million system gates, the single-chip, military-qualified APA300, APA600 and APA1000 devices are offered in three […]
Semiconductor maker Ramtron International Corp. (Colorado Springs, CO) announced that all eight-pin, SOIC, ferro-electric random access memory (FRAM) products are now available in environmentally friendly "green" packaging. Responding to the industry's drive toward the lead-free packaging of electronic products, Ramtron has removed lead (Pb) from finished packaging as well as brominated, flame-retarding compounds from encapsulants […]
Semtech Corp. (Camarillo, CA), a leading producer of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, announced results for its fiscal-year 2004 second quarter that ended July 27, 2003. Net sales for the second quarter of fiscal-year 2004 were $44.6 million, an increase of 1% compared to the net sales of $44 million for the first quarter of […]
Vertilas GmbH (Germany) presented its new VL-1550 Series of uncooled vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) diode chips, which are designed for use in Gigabit Ethernet, fiber channel, and CWDM transceiver modules and systems. Emitting light at 1,550nm wavelengths, the vertical cavity structure of the product is employed to obtain high threshold and operating current […]
Mysticom Ltd. (Israel) announced its new MY3124, a XAUI-to-XAUI retiming transceiver that features dual-10GbE serial interfaces with programmable data rates running from...
Megatone Electronics Corp. (Taiwan) has released its MEA (flat oval) and MET (tubular) metallized, polyester film capacitors with axial lead. Featuring high...