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
Cymbet claims first universal energy harvesting PM unit
Cymbet debuts the EnerChip energy processor, a universal energy harvesting power management unit for ultra-low-power energy harvesting-based systems. The EnerChip EP CBC915 is claimed to be the first device to work universally across all energy harvesting transducer technologies including photovoltaic, thermoelectric, piezoelectric and electromagnetic. »
Energy storage market poised to reach $44 billion in 2015
The market for batteries, supercapacitors and fuel cells targeting transportation and smart-grid applications will more than double from $21.4 billion in 2010, reaching $44.4 billion in 2015, according to a new report from Lux Research. »
SAE releases interface standard for hybrid/electric vehicles
SAE International has released a standard that provides a standard interface between plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles, and electrical charging systems. »
Arrow, IPS ink global distribution deal
Infinite Power Solutions (IPS) has announced a global distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics to distribute IPS' INFINERGY Micro Power Module (MPM) product family. »
Saft to build lithium-ion battery factory in Florida
Saft is planning to build a new lithium-ion (Li-ion) factory in Jacksonville, Florida, that will roughly generate 2779 jobs in the area over the next six years, thanks to a $95 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The project is estimated to cost about $200... »
Delphi, GM to get share of $151 M DOE funding
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced major funding for 37 energy research projects. Among the award winners include Delphi Automotive Systems, General Motors, EaglePicher Technologies, Envia Systems, FastCAP Systems and Phononic Devices in the areas of vehicle technologies, energy storage and waste heat capture. »
RoseStreet Labs breakthrough: carbon-free hydrogen fuel source using thin-film solar cell
RoseStreet Labs Energy (RSLE) has announced a major breakthrough for generating hydrogen gas directly from sunlight with a photoelectrochemical cell (PEC). »
Lux ranks advanced battery companies
A new analytic tool from Lux Research will help materials suppliers and OEMs as well as startup companies and investors evaluate advanced battery technologies for electric vehicles, the power grid and other applications. »
EA Blog
- element14 releases list of ecodesign regs outside the EU
September 6, 2010 | 1:59 pmelement14 just released a summary of energy-efficiency and energy labeling requirements for electrical products required in countries outside the EU.
- 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.
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New Products
- TI delivers 2.4-GHz SoC for remote controls
September 6, 2010 | 3:57 pmTI claims the first fully optimized IEEE 802.15.4 system-on-chip (SoC) for remote control applications.
- Vishay debuts white LED with high luminous intensity
September 6, 2010 | 2:48 pm
Vishay offers a white 3-mm LED, optimized for high-end applications, with a high luminous intensity ranging from 4,500 mcd to 11,250 mcd at 20 mA. - Archive for New Products »