News & Analysis
SiTel wins 2009 Frost and Sullivan Green Excellence Award
SiTel Semiconductor yesterday received the Frost and Sullivan 2009 Global Enterprise VoIP Semiconductors Green Excellence Award in Product Innovation, for its energy-efficient Green VoIP processor range. The award is clear recognition of SiTel’s commitment to delivering low-power, environmentally friendly VoIP and DECT / CAT-iq IC solutions, which enable enterprise manufacturers to reduce power consumption by up to 2 Watts per desktop phone.
3M Shows Multi-Touch, Multi-Player Functionality at IGE 2010
3M Touch Systems will demonstrate new Multi-Touch technology, the next generation gaming interface, on stand 3570 at the International Gaming Expo (IGE) 2010, 26-28 January, Earls Court, London. Multi-Touch technology offers simultaneous tracking of up to 10 individual fingers, from single or multiple users, and supports standard flick and scale gestures, making it ideal for next generation game and user application development.
JAOtech named Start-Up of the Year at top Technology Awards
JAOtech was named Start-Up of the Year at the prestigious Electronics Weekly Elektra awards in London – the third award in a month for the young Redhill-based company. Making the award, the judges were impressed by JAOtech’s progress in developing the market for its patient entertainment terminals increasing its sales ten-fold in 2008-9, shipping well over 30,000 to hospitals and clinics. They commented, “This year it acquired a company in ...
TEAC Selects ADI Blackfin Processor for New Chromatic Tuner/Recorder
Analog Devices, Inc. announced today that TEAC Corporation, a premier designer and manufacturer of professional audio equipment, has selected ADI’s Blackfin processor as the processing platform for its new PT-7 Chromatic Tuner/Recorder designed by TASCAM, the company’s recording equipment brand. The recorder leverages Blackfin’s converged platform for audio signal and control processing, along with complementary ADI high-precisi...
Freescale sees growth in smart mobile devices
Consumer demand for faster, sleeker, longer-playing mobile devices has helped Freescale Semiconductor establish early leadership in the smart mobile devices category – a fast growing market segment that includes smartbooks, eBook readers, smartphones and other mobile consumer products.
NanoKTN and JEMI Host Workshop To Look At Packaging and Integration Challenges For Micro & Nano-enabled Sensors
The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network has announced the date of the 21st of January for its next micro and nano-enabled sensors workshop. This follows on from a series of collaborations with JEMI and the Sensors & Instrumentation KTN.
Dialog Semiconductor Sweeps Hat-trick of Industry Technology Awards
Dialog Semiconductor plc completed a hat-trick of major European awards by winning the GSA's EMEA Leadership Council Award. This adds to the two Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards won earlier this month - Company of the Year and Fabless Semiconductor Supplier of the Year.
Intersil to acquire Rock Semiconductor, a Chinese maker of highly integrated power management solutions
Intersil Corporation today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rock Semiconductor, a privately-held, fabless semiconductor company with technology leadership in highly integrated power management ICs.
DEDF '09: The First Annual Digital Electronics Developers Forum is a Success!
The 1st Digital Electronics Developers Forum, DEDF '09, was held on November 26, 2009. The conference was dedicated to the practice of Analog Devices DSP processors’ applications for digital electronics design.
Tekdata reveals miniature contribution to astronomical challenge
Tekdata Interconnections' Cryoconnect Division has completed delivery of bespoke flight harnesses for the Alpha Mass Spectrometer, a space-research instrument due to be launched to the International Space Station aboard one of the last ever NASA Space Shuttle missions in July 2010.