News & Analysis
AVX Receives Arrow’s Largest Passives Supplier Award for Second Consecutive Year
AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of advanced passive components and interconnect solutions, received the Arrow Electronics 2008 Largest Passives Supplier award at the 2009 Electronic Distribution Show (EDS). Ms. Julie Miller, Supplier Account Manager of AVX, accepted the award from Stephen Sallas, Business Segment Manager at Arrow, at an awards banquet on May 14, 2009.
Registration Opens for NIDays 2009
Engineers, scientists and educators involved in test and measurement, industrial control and automation, and embedded design are invited to attend NIDays 2009, the annual professional development conference, hosted by National Instruments UK & Ireland. This renowned industry event is held in association with the Institution of Engineering and Technology, (IET) and media partners Electronics Manufacture & Test, The Engineer and New Electronics, o...
Major North American expansion unveiled by Teknek
Teknek has announced ambitious plans to open a new US facility in Charlotte (North Carolina) in September. This new facility will not only house sales and service but also a North American fulfilment centre and consumable production capacity.
Zytronic Plays an Integral Role in Enabling Next Generation Shopping Amenities
Zytronic, with the support of its Australian distributor JEA Technologies, has been selected by retail digital media specialist Yeahpoint, for an exciting new interactive project it is undertaking on behalf of leading SE Asian telecom operator SingTel. The Singapore-based company will, as a result of this, use Zytronic’s ZYBRID touch sensing technology in a major update to its chain of retail outlets, providing customers with a stunning degree ...
University of Southampton receives Charles Babbage Grant from Synopsys
Synopsys has announced that the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton is the first Western European university to receive the Charles Babbage Grant from Synopsys. Through the grant, ECS receives licenses of Synopsys' comprehensive electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property. The grant also enabled the University to set up a brand new laboratory for virtual learning.
DivX and NEC Electronics Announce Multi-Year Licensing Agreement for DivX Plus HD Certification
DivX, Inc., a digital media company, and NEC Electronics Corporation, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions, today announced a multi-year licensing agreement covering the integration of DivX Plus HD technology into NEC Electronics’ ‘Enhanced Multi-Media Architecture’ (EMMA). NEC Electronics’ EMMA chips are designed to power next-generation Blu-ray players, digital televisions (DTVs) and set-top boxes, to enable consumer electronic...
SMSC to Showcase Line of Automotive MOST, USB & Ethernet Products at VDI Congress in Baden-Baden
SMSC, a leading semiconductor company that provides Smart Mixed-Signal Connectivity(tm) solutions, today announced that it will present the latest developments in its automotive product line at the 14th International VDI Congress Electronic Systems for Vehicles in Baden-Baden, Germany on October 7 and 8, 2009. In addition to highlighting SMSC's Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST(r)) technology, the Company will also demonstrate it latest Tru...
Cray selects ASSET’s ScanWorks platform for embedded diagnostics in next-generation supercomputers
Supercomputer leader Cray Inc. has selected ASSET InterTech’s ScanWorks platform for embedded instrumentation as the basis for embedded test solutions critical to Cray’s next-generation supercomputers. ASSET (www.asset-intertech.com) is the leading supplier of open tools for embedded instrumentation for design validation, test and debug. Cray will collaborate with ASSET and ASSET will deliver embedded test logic intellectual property (IP) tha...
Philips Lumileds Adds Senior Executive to Lead SSL Expansion in the Asia Pacific Region
Philips Lumileds announced that Alvin Tse, a fifteen-year veteran of the lighting industry has joined the company as its Vice President of Sales in Asia Pacific. Mr. Tse will lead its growing team of technical, marketing and sales professionals in the region which is widely expected to be among the fastest growing for solid-state lighting adoption. In the coming three years it’s expected that the illumination market in Asia will be one of the f...
Link Microtek launches rapid-response system integration service
Link Microtek, the manufacturer and supplier of RF and microwave components and associated hardware, will be using this year’s DSEi exhibition as a platform for launching a new area of its business that will be of direct interest to customers in the defence sector.