Touch user interfaces have made significant advances in the consumer electronics market particularly for mobile phones and notebook computers, opening the door for adoption in other applications including white goods, computer peripherals, medical equipment, and instrumentation. Synaptics made its debut in the home appliance market earlier this year with the launch of the Samsung Hauzen ZERO air conditioner.
The standout products on day three of the SID 2010 conference is Universal Display's new PHOLED display architecture with a unique four-color, sub-pixel design, which promises to drive commercial development of all-phosphorescent active-matrix OLEDs and Sony's tiny rollable OLED display that can wrap around a pencil.
Smaller distributors were the only ones to post sales gains in 2009. Interestingly, two of the five distributors that posted growth last year -- Interstate Connecting Components and Sherburn Electronics -- derive 100 percent of their sales from interconnect products. Both of them also target the military/aerospace industry. Here are the top 10 sales leaders by ICs, passives/electromechanical devices, interconnects and computer products as well as sales growth.
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Digi-Key’s expanded distribution agreement with Panasonic Electric Works Corporation of America (PEWA) allows the distributor to sell PEWA’s products in the Asia-Pacific territories, in addition to the existing franchises for the Americas, Japan, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.
Exar as signed a pan-European distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics to distribute its entire product portfolio.
Symmetry Electronics has signed an agreement with AvaLAN Wireless Systems to distribute its entire product lineup, targeting its long range RF modules.
Silicon Laboratories Digi-Key are partnering to deliver high-performance programmable oscillators (XOs) with 24-hour lead times.
TTI has entered into a global distribution agreement with Cooper Bussmann to distribute the Coiltronics, PowerStor and Bussmann product brands.
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Awareness of "sustainability" has mushroomed in recent years, due to anxieties over energy security and global warming. One significant driver of our energy appetite is the rapid growth of the electronics industry -- worldwide energy demand for household electronics is projected to triple over the next 20 years. »
Major electronics contract manufacturers are faced with tight inventories of parts and finished products and a glut of raw materials, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp. »
August contract prices for NAND memory devices moved lower across most densities, led by the 32-Gb part, with a 5 percent decline, reported market research firm Gartner. »
National Semi adds the WEBENCH LED Architect to its online WEBENCH Designer tools portfolio to help designers optimize their lighting system designs for performance, size and cost. »
AMD has revealed new details on its two next-generation x86 processor core implementations, including the company's unique approach to high-performance, multi-threaded computing, and a sub-one-watt capable low-power design at this week's Hot Chips 22 symposium. »
Nokia and the University of Oulu have opened their joint research center in Oulu, Finland. The Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center will initially conduct research for new mobile user experiences that could leverage the increasing processing and graphics power of mobile devices. First... »
Chip suppliers are reporting rising inventory, but market research firm iSuppli Corp. says there is no cause for concern with demand expected to increase during the coming months. »
RF Monolithics, Inc. (RFM) has announced that Murata Electronics North America purchased 533,000 shares of RFM Common Stock at $1.31/share, in a private transaction. The purchase represents less than five percent of RFM’s outstanding stock. »
Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, along with MathWorks and Texas Instruments, is offering a new series of workshops targeted at digital signal processing (DSP) system design using Xilinx FPGAs with high-speed data converters. These workshops will start on September 21, 2010, and will be held... »
Microchip unveils two new digitally controlled dc/dc converter reference designs with advanced, high-efficiency topologies that make it easier for designers to optimize their systems for lower cost, higher power output or greater energy efficiency, which also translates into a lower carbon footprint. »
There is no doubt that designers of next-generation smartphones will add gyroscopes to their bills of material for enhanced gaming functionality and indoor location-based services. But, most likely, we will start to see, in addition to multi-axis gyroscopes, more multisensor packages that combine accelerometers and a gyroscope. The benefits: speedier design, simplified supply chain and lower costs.
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) has highlighted “Five Wind Facts,” a guide to the benefits of wind energy as one effort to market Global Wind Day, June 15. AWEA also plans to announce the winner of its Twitter background photo contest via Facebook and Twitter on Global Wind Day.
Several top suppliers of three-axis accelerometers — including Analog Devices, Bosch Sensortec, Freescale, and STMicro — have beefed up their product portfolios over the past year with some significant enhancements aimed at lower power consumption, higher resolution, and smaller packaging.
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NXP offers a low-power IC aimed at MPPT applications using PV cells or fuel cells.
C&K Components offers a series of low-cost, miniature slide switches. The OS Series of RoHS-compliant switches feature a new high-temperature option for lead-free soldering.
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