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.
Top 15 articles for 2009
Here’s a list of the top 15 articles since our launch in August 2009. Hot topics include memory devices, motor control, power supplies,FPGAs, EMI filters and application-specific capacitors.
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Top 15 articles
1. Global DRAM market climbs 34% in Q2
2. Weathering the recession storm, Part 2
3. How to create linear motion step-by-step
4. Earthquake disrupts LCD glass supply, no major impact on panel production, says iSuppli
5. iSuppli teardown: iPhone 3G S BOM and manufacturing cost is $178.96
6. Infineon tops power semiconductor ranking
7. Microchip launches dev boards for motor control designs
8. Avnet releases Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA evaluation and development kits
9. Gartner’s top 10 technologies and trends for 2010
11. Pricing continues to rise for DDR2, DDR3 and NAND memory devices
12. Silicon-based EMI filters reduce cost, improve receiver sensitivity in wireless handsets
13. Avnet recognized for improving data-center efficiency
14. Application-specific capacitors: A custom fit for any application
15. Aspen Avionics selects SigmaQuest to improve root cause analysis
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.