News & Analysis
Fairchild Appoints Dr. Justin Chiang Senior VP of Its New Power Conversion Product Group
Fairchild Semiconductor has appointed Dr. Justin Chiang, Senior Vice President of the newly formed Power Conversion, Industrial & Automotive Product Group. This new organization includes Fairchild’s Power Conversion, High Voltage and Automotive product lines and will focus on leveraging the group’s extensive expertise in developing advanced power supply and power management solutions for this fast growing market segment. Dr. Chiang formerly ...
EDA Solutions gets NMI Training and Education Award
Southampton-based electronic design automation specialist, EDA Solutions, has won the National Microelectronics Institute (NMI) 2007 award for Commitment to Training and Education. The award was presented to Paul Double, Managing Director of EDA Solutions, at the NMI’s Innovation Awards 07 event, held in the Hilton London Metropole Hotel on 8th November.
picoChip powers Xinwei McWiLL basestations for 2008 Olympics
picoChip announced today that Xinwei Telecom Technology has selected the PC203 as the baseband processor in the latest revision of its McWiLL basestation design. McWiLL (Multi-carrier Wireless Information Local Loop) is a Chinese-developed mobile broadband wireless access standard, optimized for extremely wide area coverage, which is being deployed for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
IDT Receives ISO/TS 16949:2002 Certification
IDT® (Integrated Device Technology, Inc.) announces that it has been awarded the prestigious ISO/TS16949:2002 certification for all IDT manufacturing facilities. Receiving this award validates the IDT commitment to proactively and continuously strive for (manufacturing) quality improvements and to deliver consistently high-quality products that meet or exceed customer expectations.
Intersil offers latest technologies through cost-effective VID compliance program
Intersil has announced the launch of a Vendor Item Drawing (VID) compliance program with several power management devices for the military/high-reliability marketplaces that meet Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC) requirements for Vendor Item Drawing certification.
DTS Audio Technologies for Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD
Tensilica ®, Inc. and DTS, Inc. today announced that the two companies have entered into an agreement for Tensilica to provide leading-edge DTS technologies for both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD and other high end consumer audio applications with Tensilica’s HiFi 2 Audio Engine, the most popular commercial audio DSP core for system-on-chip (SOC) designs.
DriveCam Inc. Leverages Texas Instruments Signal Processing Technologies Within Automotive Driver Risk Management Solution
DriveCam Inc announced today that it has integrated Texas Instruments Incorporated's(TI) (NYSE:TXN) digital signal processors (DSP), analog components, microcontrollers (MCUs) and radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies into their innovative behavior-based risk mitigation solution. DriveCam's risk mitigation solution is used by distribution fleets worldwide to predict and prevent risky driving behaviors and save lives.
Zetex wins Manufacturing Site of the Year Award
Zetex Semiconductors has won the National Microelectronics Institute’s Manufacturing Site of the Year Award for 2007. Sponsored by Sematek, the award was made to Zetex’s Mick Conlon, Rob Davies and Iain Scott by NMI CEO Derek Boyd and Sematek’s Gerrie Pimm at the NMI’s annual awards dinner in London.
Murata Power Solutions names Rob Hill Business Lead for Mansfield, Massachusetts operations
Murata Power Solutions, formerly known as C&D Technologies Power Electronics Division, has decided to combine its Mansfield operation’s product development and marketing teams under a single management line. This has resulted in the appointment of Rob Hill as the Business Lead for the Mansfield product lines which include DC-DC converters, AC-DC power supplies, Point of Load Converters, Voltage Regulator Modules (VRMs) Data Acquisition Hybrids,...
Currency and Market Conditions Drive Need for Tundra Semiconductor Restructuring
Tundra Semiconductor Corporation announced today that the Company is implementing a restructuring plan to immediately adapt its cost structure to the rapid Canadian dollar movement and telecom market conditions.