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The Prism Sound group is pleased to announce that it has purchased certain assets of Imerge Ltd, the award-winning home media server business formerly affiliated with Linear LLC of Carlsbad, California, USA. Imerge brands will continue with current production as well as new product development under the ownership of Prism Sound. Customer support will be maintained for all former customers of Imerge Ltd, including OEM partners Elan, Speakercraf...

Farnell, the leading multi-channel, high service distributor of electronic and industrial products, has been presented with a multitude of awards at this year’s electronica. The awards from leading suppliers such as Bournes, International Rectifier, Emerson, Lecroy, TDK-EPCOS and Microchip are a reflection of the company’s continuous drive to accelerate electronic design engineering growth through its multi-channel strategy and driving sales...

ARM today introduced the ARM Mali-T604 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) at the ARM Technology Conference 2010 in Santa Clara, bringing innovative and compelling visual computing to next generation consumer electronics devices.

DNA Electronics Ltd, a fabless provider of semiconductor solutions for real-time DNA and RNA detection, announced today the company has been awarded three key patents for semiconductor-based nucleotide detection. These latest patent allowances in the United States, China and Europe build upon DNA Electronics’ strong semiconductor IP portfolio, relevant parts of which have been licensed non-exclusively to Roche and Life Technologies in recent mo...

Diodes Incorporated has received the 'Environmental Awareness' award from the UK's National Microelectronics Institute (NMI). The award was presented at NMI's prestigious annual awards' dinner held in London.

Plessey Semiconductors and the University of Sussex today announced a new, innovative and disruptive technology called the Electric Potential Sensor (EPS). This is a completely new area of sensor technology that measures changes in an electric field in a similar way to a magnetometer detecting changes in a magnetic field. The sensor, which requires no physical or resistive contact to make measurements, will enable innovative new products to be m...

Fujitsu today announced that it has been able to halve the power consumption of an optical waveguide switch based on silicon photonics* through the world's first use of fine-patterned silicon germanium (SiGe) for this application, rather than conventional silicon (Si).

The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN) and HealthTech and Medicines KTN, are pleased to announce that the support they have offered through events and networking has helped build a consortium of micro engineers and micro biologists that has recently received a £4 million grant for research into telecommunication-dependent STI diagnosis.

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today reported that Cavium Networks, Inc. used NanoTime transistor-level static timing analysis (STA) solution to achieve full-chip STA signoff for its next-generation internet application processor, OCTEON II that is shipping now.

Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry's broadest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, today announced Kemet, global manufacturer of a complete line of through-hole and surface mount capacitor technologies, recently honored Digi-Key with the Catalog Distributor of the Year award.