ON Semiconductor Corp. (Phoenix, AZ) announced that it and its wholly owned subsidiary, Semiconductor Components Industries LLC, intend to issue approximately $200 million principal amount of senior secured notes due 2010 in a Rule 144A private offering. ON Semiconductor plans to use the net proceeds from the offering to prepay a portion of Semiconductor Components' […]
Bel Fuse Inc. (Jersey City, NJ) announced preliminary and unaudited results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2002, and for the year then ended. Net income for the fourth quarter increased to $1,925,000, or $0.17 per diluted share. This compares to a net loss for the fourth quarter of 2001 of $8,228,000, or $0.77 […]
Analog Devices Inc. (ADI, Norwood, MA) announced revenues of $467.4 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2003, which ended February 1, 2003. Revenues increased 19 percent from the first quarter of fiscal 2002 and three percent from the immediately prior quarter. The quarter's diluted earnings per share (EPS) under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) […]
The IRC Advanced Film Division TT electronics plc (Munich, Germany) introduced a TO220-style power resistor using a reliable, economical, copper thick film....
International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA) introduced the new IRLR7833 and IRLR7821 HEXFET power MOSFETs designed using the latest stripe-trench technology...
TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. (Hillsboro, OR) announced that a complaint has been filed against its wholly owned subsidiary, Sawtek Inc., and several executives of Sawtek. The complaint alleges Sawtek, and certain executive officers of Sawtek, with violations of federal securities law. TriQuint's Chief Financial Officer, Raymond Link states, "This complaint is totally without merit; the company […]
Signal Technology Corp. (Danvers, MA), a provider of electronic components, subsystems and system solutions for defense and space applications, announced the receipt of a three-year contract to supply power conversion technology for an AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) missile telemetry system. The first year's release is valued at $600,000, and the award has […]
Honeywell International (Minneapolis, WI) announced that its Automation and Control Solutions (ACS) unit has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of privately held Sensotec Inc. (Columbus, OH), which is a supplier of sensors used extensively in test and measurement applications in the automotive, oil and gas, aviation, semiconductor, industrial and medical industries. The transaction […]
Ansoft Corp. (Pittsburgh) and International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA) announced the release of a model library containing IR power-management components for use within Ansoft's SIMPLORER®. The library contains nearly 700 ready-to-use models of IR's diode, insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), and power metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) components for automobiles, aircraft, portable electronics and appliances. […]
Intersil Corp. (Milpitas, CA) announced two new additions to its LINEARLINK™ high-performance RS-232 interface line, the ISL4260E and ISL83386E. The ISL4260E joins...
Gowanda Electronics (Gowanda, NY) announced a new series of surface-mount inductors, the SMRF 1812S, which offers the same design as the company's...
Linear Technology Corp. (Milpitas, CA) introduced the new LTC6800, a low-cost, high-precision, instrumentation amplifier that features rail-to-rail input and output, works on...
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI, Dallas, TX) introduced its new UCC2851x family of combination controllers, which combines power-factor correction (PFC) and pulse-width modulation (PWM) functions onto one integrated circuit for off-line distributed power systems such as desktop and server power converters, and monitor and display power systems. The UCC2851x family provides complete control functionality for any […]
Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. (Camarillo, CA) announced that its board of directors adopted a stockholder rights plan designed to enhance the board's ability to protect stockholders against, among other things, unsolicited attempts to acquire control of Vitesse that do not offer an adequate price to all stockholders or are otherwise not in the best interests of […]
International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA) introduced the new WARP2™ 600V/50A, 35A and 20A non-punch through (NPT) IGBTs with improved turn-off characteristics for high-current, high-frequency, switch-mode power supply (SMPS) circuits in telecom and server systems. The new WARP2 NPT IGBTs are co-packaged with HEXFRED® diodes, which enable better performance compared to the integral body […]