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
iWatt digital PWM IC cuts component count in appliances, motor control, smart meters
iWatt enters the industrial market with a 800-volt (V) primary-side regulated AC/DC digital PWM IC. »
Power management IC market to grow nearly 40% in 2010
The power management semiconductor market will reach $31.4 billion in 2010, up 39.9 percent from $22.4 billion in 2009, according to a new report from iSuppli Corp. This year's expansion will reverse the losses of 2009, which declined 15.8 percent, and is expected to yield the highest growth rate during the next four years. »
ON Semi to buy Sanyo’s chip business
ON Semiconductor will purchase Sanyo Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., and other assets related to its semiconductor business, for $366 million in a cash and stock transaction. The acquisition is expected to boost ON Semi's manufacturing scale, broaden its product portfolio and expand its presence in the Japanese market. »
Newark doubles Maxim inventory
Newark, part of global Premier Farnell, has doubled the number of products from Maxim Integrated Devices including some of the latest medical and industrial devices it stocks for same-day shipping. »
ADI digital temp sensors claim highest accuracy over wide temp range
Launched at Sensors Expo, ADI offers two fully calibrated, 16-bit-resolution, high-linearity digital temperature sensors that claim the industry's highest level of precision over a wide operating temperature range. »
Greenliant Systems buys Microchip’s memory assets
Greenliant Systems has purchased the NANDrive, NAND Controller and Specialty Flash Memory assets of Microchip Technology Inc. The three product lines will form the core of Greenliant's solid-state storage product portfolio for the embedded system, data center and mobile Internet markets, said Greenliant. »
ADI says medical/industrial apps will be the next big thing for MEMS
Analog Devices believes the MEMS motion sensor market is heading into a third wave of adoption in medical and industrial applications, according to the company's presentation at the recent MEMS panel at the 2010 Globalpress Electronics Summit. »
ST AC motor switches deliver built-in protection, enhanced switching
ST intros its latest generation of AC switches, aimed at appliance motor control. Since these devices come with built-in protection and enhanced switching, they eliminate many of the additional components typically needed to ensure smooth switching and protection, lowering costs for heavy-duty home appliances such as washing machines or refrigerators. »
ST intelligent power switch minimizes energy losses in industrial controls
ST debuts an IPS for use in industrial controls, delivering improved accuracy to minimize energy losses and prevent system errors when faults occur. These improvements are thanks to ST's latest generation VIPower technology, which allows a lower overload current limit than competing devices to maintain stable power conditions while the system is recovering. »
National claims first LED driver with dynamic headroom control
National Semi claims the industry's first LED driver with dynamic headroom control and multiple outputs for high-power applications that drives up to four strings of LEDs. The LM3464, a member of National's PowerWise energy-efficient product family, maximizes system efficiency and reduces system complexity and cost in LED-intensive apps. »
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 »