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Expanding its sales reach and focusing on key application areas for the Chinese market, Intersil has opened a sales office in Beijing. The office includes direct sales and field applications engineers to better serve the growing number of research and development centres located in China’s capital city. Beijing is a key growth area for Intersil, with substantial opportunities in consumer electronics, telecommunications, networking, instrument...

The Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) is pleased to announce availability of the classic engineering text Electronic Transformers and Circuits – Third Edition Reprint, authored by the late Rueben Lee and co-authored by Leo Wilson and Charles E. Carter. The book was initially published by John Wiley and Sons in 1988, but has been out of print for several years. Copies of this practical design treatment of magnetics will be available...

The 2006 Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award in the field of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology was presented to Innovative Silicon Inc. for the invention of the capacitorless memory device that overcomes the limitation in scaling dynamic random access memory (DRAM) for future memory needs.

National Instruments today opened registrations for NIDays 2007, the company’s annual virtual instrumentation conference and exhibition. Once again, this industry event will be held in association with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and will take place on Thursday 25th October 2007 at Savoy Place, London, home of the IET.

Low Power Radio Solutions has had its market leading “Easy Radio” modules designed into an intelligent energy management by Envision Energy Ltd. Marketed as Intelligent Energy Controls the system provides a reliable way to save on energy costs by ensuring non-essential equipment is turned off when it is not needed. Most commercial premises contain electrical equipment that only needs to be switched on for a portion of each day, usually when s...

Avago Technologies today announced new advancements in its innovative CoolPAM power amplifier architecture which will extend handset battery life. The company is a leading supplier of innovative semiconductor solutions for advanced communications, industrial and commercial applications. Handsets and other mobile devices leveraging the CoolPAM technology will be able to extend battery life by as much as 20%. Products based on Avago's next generati...

Fairchild Semiconductor, the leading global supplier of power semiconductors, today announced that Dr. Izak Bencuya, executive vice president and general manager of the Functional Power Group, and members of his management team, will review the company’s power technology, products and business strategy from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PT, on February 22, 2007, at the company’s offices in San Jose, California.

ACAL Semiconductors today announced that they have signed a franchise agreement to partner with SiliconSystems™ Inc, a world leader in advanced storage technology engineered exclusively for the Enterprise System OEM market, to provide Solid-State Disc (SSD) storage systems for customers in the UK.

Future Technology Devices International Limited (FTDI) announces that Parallax Inc. has expanded its distribution agreement with the addition of the Vinculum Universal Serial Bus (USB) host controller IC to their product portfolio. Vinculum provides USB host capability to microcontroller-based products that previously did not have the hardware resources available. A wide range of consumer, commercial and industrial products can now incorporate US...

Anglia has been nominated as “Outstanding Regional European Distributor” by circuit protection specialist, Raychem, a division of Tyco Electronics. The award, for Northern Europe, was won in the face of competition from four other distributors, including the world’s largest. Raychem judges the performance of its distributors on sales growth, number of design registrations, conversion of design registrations, sales of new products, and parti...