FEATURES
- Synaptics capacitive touchscreens: Just the right touch for appliances
June 24, 2010 | 7:59 pm
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. - SID 2010 roundup: Day 3
May 27, 2010 | 7:27 pm
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. - Top 50 Distribution Leaders
May 13, 2010 | 1:55 pm
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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Linecard Expansions
- Digi-Key, PEWA expand distribution agreement
July 23, 2010 | 6:06 pmDigi-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.
- Arrow, Exar sign pan-European distribution agreement
July 23, 2010 | 5:59 pmExar as signed a pan-European distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics to distribute its entire product portfolio.
- Symmetry signs AvaLAN Wireless Systems
July 21, 2010 | 4:30 pmSymmetry Electronics has signed an agreement with AvaLAN Wireless Systems to distribute its entire product lineup, targeting its long range RF modules.
- Digi-Key, Silicon Labs offer 24-hr lead times for programmable XOs
July 20, 2010 | 5:47 pmSilicon Laboratories Digi-Key are partnering to deliver high-performance programmable oscillators (XOs) with 24-hour lead times.
- TTI adds Cooper Bussmann products
July 15, 2010 | 2:12 pmTTI has entered into a global distribution agreement with Cooper Bussmann to distribute the Coiltronics, PowerStor and Bussmann product brands.
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Tag Archive
element14 launches legislation portal
element14, Premier Farnell's online technology resource and community for electronic design engineers, has launched an electronics industry legislation information portal. »
Littelfuse SPA sample kits only available at Mouser
Mouser Electronics is the exclusive distributor of Littelfuse's Silicon Protection Array (SPA) sample kits. »
Digi-Key to supply ARM-based embedded dev board for $179
Digi-Key is offering the new BeagleBoard-xM development board that breaks the 1-GHz barrier, aimed at embedded designers and developers for $179. »
Avnet offers LIGHTFAIR demos online
If you missed Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas at this year's LIGHTFAIR International show, you can view the distributor's demonstrations at www.em.avent.com/lightfair. »
Newark names new president
Premier Farnell has announced the hire of Gert Labuschagne to the position of president at Newark. Labuschagne will be responsible for leading all of Newark's operations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. »
Newark supplies Tyco Electronics MultiGig RT connectors
Newark now carries Tyco Electronics' MultiGig RT family used in VITA 46 applications. These connectors provide high-speed data rates for communications, military, medical and industrial control applications not available with traditional VME connectors. »
Digi-Key stocks Amphenol Connex BNC for video connectors
Digi-Key stocks Amphenol Connex's high-performance BNC for video connectors. Applications include video control panels, video add-on cards as well as video routers and switching equipment and video display and monitoring. »
Digi-Key beefs up Tyco Electronics parts data
Digi-Key now provides direct access to more than 28,750 3-D models and 60,000+ datasheets for Tyco Electronics products at the Digi-Key Supplier Marketing Center (SMC) designed for the electronic components manufacturer. »
Digi-Key continues to ship product despite flight delays
Digi-Key continues to ship product to customers in Europe and the United Kingdom despite flight delays due to volcanic ash from an erupting volcano in Iceland. »
WPG/Yosun merger to rival Arrow, Avnet as top distributor
If the merger of WPG Holdings Limited and Yosun Industrial Corp. is approved, the company could become the world's largest electronics distributor, according to iSuppli Corp. »
EA Blog
- Next-gen smartphones need multisensor devices
July 13, 2010 | 12:31 pmThere 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.
- Global Wind Day: Five wind facts
June 14, 2010 | 5:40 pmThe 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.
- Mobile designs fuel the demand for smaller, cheaper and less power hungry accelerometers
May 27, 2010 | 7:39 pmSeveral 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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New Products
- NXP low-power IC targets solar PV apps
August 27, 2010 | 6:08 pm
NXP offers a low-power IC aimed at MPPT applications using PV cells or fuel cells. - C&K mini slide switches withstand high temps
August 27, 2010 | 5:59 pm
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. - Archive for New Products »