EMCO High Voltage Corp. (Sutter Creek, CA) announced the new H Series, a high-voltage power supply that delivers 15W of power and...
SL Industries Inc. (Mt. Laurel, NJ) announced that its board of directors recently approved a series of business restructuring actions in its power eletronics group. These actions include adjusting manufacturing capacity and reducing personnel. The first of these actions involves a personnel reduction of 175 employees at the company's Condor DC Power Supplies (Oxnard, CA) […]
Artesyn Technologies Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 29, 2001. Revenue for the quarter totaled $127.7 million, down from $164.3 million a year ago. The company incurred a cash loss for the quarter of $0.17 per share, compared to cash earnings of $0.32 per diluted share in 2000. […]
di/dt Inc. announced the introduction of its new Japanese-language website, http://www.didtjapan.com. The new site offers complete company information, a listing of di/dt's...
Degree Controls Inc. (Milford, NH) announced the release of the customized Tortoise Back heatsink solution for dc/dc converters used in communications applications. "Given the extreme nature of thermal management issues that the communications industry faces, new designs that resolve specific thermal problems are in strong demand," said Sam Hopp, vice president of sales and marketing. […]
Tyco Electronics' Elcon (Fremont, CA) introduced the Dual Crown Clip, a dual-pole version of its true hot-plug, high-current, crown-clip socket connector used...
Zhongxi Micro-Electronics Component Co. Ltd. (China) is now offering the LGC0402(1005)CW inductors, which operate over an inductance range from 1nH to 40nH,...
Luxon Electronics Corp. (Taiwan) announced plans to expand its monthly capacity for V-chip aluminum electrolytic capacitors. The company wants to increase production to 750 million units, from 400 million units, by the end of 2001. Shou-hwa Tsai, spokesperson for the company, stated that the manufacturing technology for the chip models was acquired from Matsushita (Japan). […]
NEC Corp. (Japan) has developed the NB/P Series of conductive-polymer, solid electrolytic capacitors fabricated using niobium. The initial product, the NBPD0E227M, has a capacitance of 220uF. Its ESR is 55mohms maximum and its dc-rated voltage is 2.5V. It features a D case size, measuring 7.3mm x 4.3mm x 2.8mm. With a shape and structure identical […]
Micrel Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, CA) announced that it has increased the operating frequency of its SupwerSwitcher SO-8 buck regulator to 500KHz....
General Semiconductor (Melville, NY) reports that it is developing a 200-million-cell-per-square-inch technology that promises to shrink power MOSFETs in half while simultaneously producing four times as many as before. The devices, called GENFETs, will be suitable for use in cellular phones, notebook computers, PDAs and other wireless devices. The GENFETs are produced using the company's […]
Micrel Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, CA) announced the first two devices in a new generation of micropower CMOS low-dropout (LDO) regulators for...
Micrel Semiconductor (San Jose, CA) has developed a 4MHz rail-to-rail operational amplifier that operates from a 2.7V supply while consuming 81uW. The...
Infineon Technologies (Germany), Philips Semiconductors (Netherlands) and STMicroelectronics (Switzerland) unveiled a proposal for a standard for defining and evaluating lead-free semiconductor devices. Starting in February 2001, the companies have developed the proposed standard, which provides a common definition of lead-free and assesses factors such as solderability and reliability of alternative materials. "At present, there is […]
Allegro MicroSystems Europe (UK) debuted the A8906CLB, a bi-directional, three-phase, brushless dc motor controller/driver IC with back-EMF sensing. The new device incorporates self-contained, back-EMF sensing motor startup and running algorithms. A programmable digital frequency-locked loop speed-control circuit, together with linear current-control circuitry, provides motor-speed regulation. The device's serial port allows the user to program various […]