Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) has announced the outline of its new mid-term business plan, named Value Creation 21, for the three-year period from April 2001 through March 2004. The Value Creation 21 plan seeks to establish a "new Matsushita" that will place top priority on providing value-adding services to customers through the […]
Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc. (South Portland, MA) has reiterated its guidance expecting fourth quarter 2000 sales to be approximately $490 million. "This quarter so far is progressing in line with the projections we made during our third quarter earnings conference call about five weeks ago," said Kirk Pond, chairman, president and CEO of the company. […]
California Micro Devices Corp. (CAMD, Milpitas, CA) has announced the availability of its CMPWR160 integrated circuit (IC) which is designed to provide an integrated power management solution targeting Universal Serial Bus (USB) peripherals and other hot insertion equipment. The CMPWR160 combines an LDO with a power-on-reset pulse generator. To meet the specification requirements of both […]
Unique Mobility Inc. (UQM, Golden, CO) announced today that its proprietary power electronics play a critical role in two subsystems on the Army's Crusader 155mm self-propelled howitzer currently under development. UQM has teamed with Barber-Nichols Inc. (Arvada, CO), and MPC Products Corp. (Skokie, Il), to provide subsystems to the program. One UQM electronic controller drives […]
INCEP Technologies (San Diego, CA) announces the addition of Dr. Carl Hoge as senior IC packaging architect. Dr. Hoge brings over 21...
IMP Inc. (San Jose, CA) reports plans to expand its fab operations in India to produce six-inch wafers. The analog IC firm also denied recent rumors which claimed that the company planned to close down or move from its San Jose facilities. "Our intent has never been to shut down or move any of our […]
Maxim Integrated Products (Sunnyvale, CA) recently introduced the MAX1773 IC that serves as the control logic for a system with multiple power...
General Semiconductor Inc. (Melville, NY) has expanded its Schottky rectifier product line. The company now offers Schottky products with reverse voltages up...
ON Semiconductor Corp. (Phoenix, AZ) has released a dc/dc converter it claims is 60 percent smaller in package size as compared to ON Semi’s previous offering, the MC33466. The NCP1400 is aimed at battery-powered consumer products such as handheld games, cellular phones and digital cameras. Because it is a micropower pulse width modulator (MPWM) step-up […]
Maxim Integrated Products (Sunnyvale, CA) introduced the MAX8880/MAX8881 ultra-low-supply-current low-dropout linear regulators. Designed for portable applications, these devices have PMOS pass elements...
IXYS Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) has been granted a patent for its chip-on-chip technology that enables integration for smart power semiconductors. The new patent, US patent No. 6,107,674, covers a power semiconductor device structure in which the power semiconductor chip is used as the substrate onto which other control and driver chips are bonded to […]
Zetex (Oldham, UK) is now offering a single-cell dc/dc converter designed for applications in which step-up conversion from a very low input...
According to Forbes.Com (New York, NY) in an article online, International Rectifier (IR, El Segundo, CA) has, in the last four weeks, raised its year 2001 consensus earnings estimate 7 percent, to $2.82 per share. IR, which is a $753 million company, is currently reported to have a cash pile of about $800 million, thanks […]
Murata Electronics North America Inc. (Smyrna, GA) has launched a new line of 0201-packaged negative-temperature-coefficient (NTC) thermistors that the company maintains are among the smallest chip thermistors available. Aside from benefits such as a short lead time and miniature size, Kozo Kagawa, Murata's group product manager, claims that the NTC thermistor has several other engineering […]
Semiconductor maker Altera Corp. (San Jose, CA) reported that John Daane would become president and CEO, effective Thursday, 30 November, 2000. Daane...