Sipex Corp. (Billerica, MA) announced the availability of its SP6641 PFM boost converter in a five-pin SOT-23 package, the latest product in...
Ansoft Corp. (Pittsburgh, PA) announced financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2001. Revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2002 totaled $11.2 million, an increase of 29 percent compared to $8.7 million reported in the previous fiscal year's first quarter. Pro-forma net income for the first quarter of fiscal 2002 was […]
Advanced Power Technology Inc. (APT, Bend, OR) announced it is implementing further cost-reduction actions in light of continued weak market conditions in the worldwide communications and semiconductor capital equipment markets, which collectively accounted for approximately 58 percent of the company's revenue in the first half of 2001. These actions are in addition to the cost […]
Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) announced that it plans to donate $250,000 to the ongoing relief efforts following Tuesday's tragic events in the US, and match company employee donations up to an additional $750,000. "All citizens of the world were affected by these tragic events and we are committed to assisting those who are […]
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI, Dallas, TX) announced two switched capacitor dc/dc converter families, which give designers increased simplicity and small size for...
Microsemi Corp. (Irvine, CA) announced that it has introduced a new voltage-mode pulse-width modulator controller designed to minimize external components for regulating power. Designated the LX1684 controller, the new switching regulator has a high-efficiency synchronous driver and is optimized to provide 12V to 3.3V or 12V to 2.5V regulation. It also can convert 5V or […]
Central Semiconductor Corp. (Hauppauge, NY) announced the new CZTA44HC 400V, high-current transistor. Through the development of the new CP319 chip, this new...
Fairchild Semiconductor International (Rosemont, IL) announced the introduction of a new optically isolated error amplifier. The FOD2712 optically isolated error amplifier combines...
Invensys Powerware Division (Raleigh, NC) and Active Power Inc. announced a new agreement that will expand their relationship to distribute Active Power's...
KB Electronics Ltd. (Bedford, Nova Scotia) unveiled a new corporate identity. The privately owned company is now known as Pivotal Power, effective September 4, 2001. Company executives feel that the new brand name and image better reflect the firm's experience and accomplishments in the military defence sector and will drive its vision of growth in […]
Fairchild Semiconductor International (San Jose, CA) announced its first slew-rate control IC, the FDG901D, capable of reducing current inrush spike voltage and...
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI, Dallas, TX) has acquired Graychip (Palo Alto, CA), a company known primarily for reconfigurable digital converters used in communications systems. Graychip employs 14 people. Terms of the company's deal with TI were not released. "This adds another link in the total signal-processing chain that TI offers to customers," stated Gregg Lowe, […]
National Semiconductor (Santa Clara, CA) announced the LM2698, the latest innovation in switching regulators for boost applications that combines boost switching technology...
International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA) introduced the UFB200FA20 and the UFB200FA40 200A, ultrafast, ultrasoft general-purpose output rectifiers in the SOT-227 package. The new devices are made for output rectification circuits in high-current applications, such as welding, power supplies and battery chargers. The 200A rectifiers have up to 11 percent faster recovery time than […]
International Rectifier (IR, El Segundo, CA) introduced three new multiphase, high current dc-dc converter reference designs. All three reference designs use the...