News & Analysis

Innovative Silicon has announced the promotion of Jeff Lewis to the new position of senior vice president of marketing and business development. Lewis, a 20-year veteran in the semiconductor IP industry, has been instrumental in ISi’s growth since joining in January 2006, initially as vice president of marketing and most recently as vice president of marketing and product operations. As senior vice president of marketing and business developm...

Analog Devices has introduced the ADV7521NK, what it says is the industry’s smallest, low-power HDMI v 1.3 (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) transmitter that enables video delivery to HD televisions from portable multimedia devices, including digital still and DSLR cameras, camcorders, portable media players and cell phones.

Renesas Technology Europe today announced that it will shortly release an updated version of its power line communications-based (PLC) Renesas Ubiquitous Network – Metering (RUN-M) network layer software. Designed for automatic meter reading (AMR) applications, the new software, RUN-M (RF), will incorporate wireless extensions that conform to the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC layer standard. Using a wireless approach will now allow AMR applications to not ...

Murata's latest family of SAW resonators is designed for short range devices (SRDs) operating in the ISM300 and ISM400 bands, and achieves ±50ppm tolerance. Because of its tight tolerance, the SARCC series of SAW resonators helps designs comply with the latest ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) frequency error standard.

AnalogicTech has announced that Edward Lam has joined the Company as its Vice President of Marketing and Engineering. Effective immediately, Mr. Lam will oversee global marketing and engineering operations, reporting directly to the President, CEO and CTO of AnalogicTech, Richard K. Williams.

Intelligent Digital Integrated Security Co., Ltd. (IDIS), a leading provider of digital video surveillance solutions, announces it is utilizing Texas Instruments Incorporated’s (TI’s) TMS320DM6446 digital media processor based on DaVinci technology for two video surveillance-focused product lines. IDIS is delivering a low-cost, four channel Digital Video Recorder (DVR) and an Internet Protocol (IP) video transmitter and receiver for I...

Nu Horizons Electronics has continued its expansion in Europe with the appointment of a Sales Manager for Hungary and Romania. This follows the company's move into Eastern Europe earlier this year when it announced the opening of an office for the Polish and Czech territories. Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. is one of the top five publicly quoted distributors of semiconductors and power products in the world.

Innovative Silicon, Inc. (ISi), developer of the Z-RAM zero-capacitor floating body memory technology, today announced that renowned memory innovator and pioneer Michael Van Buskirk has joined the company as senior vice president of engineering and operations. He is charged with overseeing the continued development of the company’s Z-RAM memory technology and deploying it to customer licensees. Van Buskirk directly reports to Mark-Eric Jones,...

Hamamatsu Photonics has expanded their range of semiconductor detectors featuring photon detection capability with the introduction of the brand new S10362-33(X) series multi-pixel photon counter (MPPC). The new device utilizes a Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode structure for ultra-low-level light detection, and the active area has been increased almost ten times from 1 mm2 to 9mm2. The MPPC is easily connected to an external circuit for simple o...

VersaLogic Corp has announced the release of a fanless version of its Cheetah PC/104-Plus embedded single board computer (SBC). The new Cheetah version (EPM-32v) boasts the processing power of Intels Ultra-Low Voltage Celeron® M CPU, but operates without a fan and uses only eight watts of power.