Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) recently released the bq2000T, a programmable, monolithic IC for fast-charge management of nickel cadmium (NiCd), nickel metal-hydride (NiMH) or lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries in single- or multi-chemistry applications. After detecting battery chemistry, the bq2000T is designed to determine optimal charging and termination algorithms to allow accurate and safe termination of fast charge, […]
Philips Semiconductors (Sunnyvale, CA) announced the CapFREE family of capacitor-free LDOs. The first memeber in the family, the 150mA SA57000-xx offers fixed-output voltages between 2.5V and 3.6V. It requires no capacitor because its outputs are stable regardless of the ESR. "Eliminating capacitors with our CapFree family is a breakthrough that resonates with system designers everywhere," […]
Unipower Corp. (Coral Springs, FL) has released a free CD that features its complete line of OEM and telecommunications power systems. The...
Philips Semiconductors (Netherlands) announced that its semiconductor division will post an operating loss of 175.0 million euros in the second quarter. The company expects that revenues will fall 20 to 25 percent compared with the first quarter. Philips also announced that it will take a one-time restructuring charge of about 90.0 million euros for the […]
Surge Components Inc. (Deer Park, NY) announced that Alan Plafker has joined its board of directors. Plafker has been appointed as a member of the board's audit and compensation committees. As a result of his appointment to the audit committee, Surge remains in full compliance with the audit-committee independent director composition requirements of the Nasdaq […]
General Semiconductor Inc. (Melville, NY) expects its second-quarter revenues to be down 15 to 17 percent from $102.0 million in the first quarter of 2001. Earnings for the quarter are now expected to be about $0.01 to $0.03 per share. The company reports, however, that new product sales are continuing to grow, and investments in […]
Fairchild Semiconductor (San Jose, CA) unveiled a new family of 500V, fast-recovery MOSFETs designed to enhance performance in telecommunications and server power...
Vishay Intertechnology (Malvern, PA) has launched a new solid tantalum chip capacitor that it claims features the industry's lowest ESR rating for...
Gowanda Electronics (Gowanda, NY) introduced a new series of vertical, surface-mount, toroidal power inductors. This new SMP 2007 Series consists of miniaturized...
Maxim Integrated Products (Sunnyvale, CA) announced the new MAX1864/MAX1865 power-supply controllers. Operating off an unregulated dc supply, the MAX1864 generates three positive...
Diodes Inc. (Westlake Village, CA) announced that it has named Dr. Keh-Shew Lu to its board of directors. Lu has been senior vice president of Texas Instruments (TI, Dallas, TX) and manager of its worldwide mixed-signals products group since June 1998. His areas of expertise include the mixed-signal portion of TI's digital signal processing solutions, […]
Astec (Carlsbad, CA) announced the opening of its new design center located in Austin, TX. The new design center, which is nearly 14,000sqft, joins Astec's three other North American design centers and seven design centers worldwide. It was built to address the rapid growth in the dc/dc power supply markets, especially in the areas of […]
IXYS Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) announced that it won its patent-infringement case against International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA), which it filed in Mannheim, Germany. IXYS had filed a patent-infringement lawsuit charging IR with infringing on at least two of IXYS's German power-module patents. The claim has been upheld and the court ruled that […]
National Semiconductor Corp. has named Lewis Chew as its new CFO. Chew has been acting CFO since April 2001, when Donald Macleod,...
Microsemi Corp. (Irvine, CA) has entered into agreements in principle to acquire Compensated Devices Inc. (CDI, Melrose, MA) and New England Semiconductor Corp. (NES, Lawrence, MA). Microsemi believes that the acquisitions will strengthen its product offering with space- and military-qualified Schottky diodes and high-reliability bipolar transistors. Microsemi will pay $11.5 million and $9.1 million, respectively, […]