Pulizzi Engineering (Santa Ana, CA) has been issued US patent number 6,137,706 for their recently-released TPC 2562 Series of ac power distribution...
Abacus Controls (Somerville, NJ) is offering a series of new inverters, called Power Recyclers, which span the power range from 3kW to...
Dynaload (Randolph, NJ) has introduced a high-voltage, high-power water-cooled load, the WCL4881000-12000. The company maintains that this active load is suitable for...
Semtech Corp. (Newbury Park, CA) announced a new device that they claim simplifies and lowers the cost of designing highly-efficient core power...
AVX Corp. (Myrtle Beach, SC) is supplying technology and components that power the international space station (ISS). Switch-mode power supply capacitors and...
International Power Sources Inc. (Holliston, MA) announces the IMP30 Series, a line of medical-grade desktop ac/dc power supplies. Applications for these products...
APW Ltd. (Waukesha, WI) announced that is has opened a new power supplies manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China. The management team and a work force of approximately 40 people are already in place. APW believes that the Shanghai location is favorable, as APW has an existing enclosure manufacturing facility in Shanghai and there exists an […]
ZANE International Inc. (Grand Junction, CO) announces the DC Linear Power Supply. ZANE claims that the product's switching and linear stages are closely coordinated via an optical coupler, thus boosting efficiency and power density to near the level of buck topologies. They also maintain that the device is quiet and has low RF emissions.The DC […]
Sprague-Goodman Electronics (Westbury, NY) has added a new capacitance range to its line of SURFTRIM surface-mount trimmer capacitors. The three models in...
General Semiconductor Inc. (Melville, NY) has updated its business outlook for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2001. As a result of the recent softness in order trends, including some customer cancellations and push-outs, fourth quarter revenues are expected to be 5 to 7 percent below third quarter revenues of $130.5 million. Diluted earnings per […]
ON Semiconductor (Phoenix, AZ) has opened a center for microelectronics at the College of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Slovak University of Technology (Bratislava, Slovakia). The ON Semiconductor Centre for Microelectronics at STU (ONMiST) will allow the Slovak University of Technology to advance capability in the modeling, design and characterization of semiconductor building […]
SEMIKRON International (Nürnberg, Germany) launched a new SKiiP generation at electronica 2000. SKiiP 3rd generation is based on a modular power section comprising a dual switch with the new IGBT 3 — 1,200V — and inverse controlled axial lifetime diodes. The new generation has compatible interfaces and dimensions with the present SKiiP product line. Semikron […]
Jack Kilby, an employee of Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) since 1958, won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for his part in...
C&D Technologies (Blue Bell, PA) introduced the WPN30R Series of 30W regulated high-density dc/dc converters. These converters feature a remote sense facility that allows the user to compensate for long line lengths. Available with an input voltage range of either 18 to 35Vdc or 36 to 75Vdc, the dc/dc converter can be specified with single […]
Micrel Semiconductor (San Jose, CA) has developed a three-zone thermal supervisor IC for thermal management using embedded thermal diodes such as those found in Intel Corp.'s Pentium III CPU. The MIC384, part of a family of system and thermal management products, features one local and two remote temperature measurement zones, a programmable interrupt output and […]