Linear Technology Corp. (LTC, Milpitas, CA) announced higher sales and net income, but warned that bookings had softened a bit. The company also reported that net sales for its fiscal first quarter climbed to $253 million, a 45% year-over-year increase and a 6% sequential increase. Net income grew to $103 million, or $0.33 per diluted […]
Power Distribution Inc. (PDI, Richmond, VA) announced its wall-mounted PDI remote power panel, which is suitable for expanding data centers and for...
Cherokee International LLC (Tustin, CA), a manufacturer of switch-mode power supplies, announced its new CAR1248 front-end/rectifier intended for low-profile, distributed power architecture...
Socket Communications Inc. (Newark, CA), the Mobile Connection™ company, announced its Mobile Power Pack, a small and lightweight mobile charging source for portable electronic devices such as pocket PCs, cell phones, smart phones, digital cameras and MP3 players, as well as Socket products such as the cordless GPS receiver, modem, serial adapter and hand scanner. […]
Alliance Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) announced the expansion of its family of CPU supervisor products to include two new product families, the ASM1232 and ASM1832 general-purpose supervisors, which are designed to keep systems from malfunctioning during power-up, power-down or brownout conditions. The ASM1232 and ASM1832 ICs are low-power supervisory circuits designed for monitoring power […]
SatCon Technology Corp. (Cambridge, MA), a leader in power and energy management, announced the launch of its new 500 kW grid-connected PowerGate™...
STMicroelectronics Inc. (ST, Geneva, Switzerland) announced that the company will redeem all of its remaining outstanding Liquid Yield Option™ Notes (LYONs) on November 12, 2004, at a redemption price equal to $888.96 per $1,000 principal amount. The redemption price is comprised of $784.84 principal amount at issuance plus the accrued original issue discount calculated through […]
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI, Dallas, TX) announced an advanced power conversion integrated circuit for portable, small form factor color displays. The new...
Power Distribution Inc. (Richmond, VA) announced the release of a split-core version of it's patented Branch Circuit Monitoring System technology (BCMS) to...
C&D Technologies Inc. (Tucson, AZ) announced that it has closed the acquisition of Celestica's Power Systems (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) division. The all-cash transaction was valued at $52.8 million. C&D Technologies President and Chief Executive Officer Wade Roberts, Jr. stated, "The acquisition of Celestica's Power Systems operation is C&D's third completed transaction in the power electronics […]
Kirk Pond, CEO of Fairchild Semiconductor International (South Portland, ME) announced that the company is searching for companies to acquire in Japan...
Sabritec (Irvine, CA) introduced a new line of ESD filter composite connectors for circular, rack and panel, and D-Sub miniature receptacles. Offering...
Ericsson (Sweden) announced that 265,519,834 B-shares of company stock have been converted to the same number of A-shares in the first conversion round. Shareholders in Ericsson have in the first conversion round tendered 265,519,834 B-shares for conversion to the same number of A-shares. As a result of the first conversion round, the total number of […]
Xantrex Technology Inc. (Burnaby, BC) announced that it has again been selected as a supplier of photovoltaic (PV) solar power inverters by PowerLight Corp., a manufacturer of solar-electric products and energy efficiency services. The companies have signed a multi-year supplier agreement, which follows their successful partnership of more than 10 years in the US. "We […]
Artesyn Technologies Inc. (Boca Raton, FL), a leader in power conversion solutions for the communications industry, and Astec Power (Carlsbad, CA), a business of Emerson (St. Louis, MO), jointly announced that they have formed a coalition of leading power supply and semiconductor manufacturers that have agreed to develop and support a new communications standard defining […]