News & Analysis

Texas Instruments and Ascom Wireless Solutions, a market leader in on-site wireless communication throughout Europe, have announced that Ascom's i75 voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) handsets are leveraging TI's Wireless LAN (WLAN) IP phone platform, the TNETV1700. TI's integrated hardware and software solution delivers the performance and low power required for Ascom to deliver extended talk and standby times to its enterprise customers, and enhanced fe...

STMicroelectronics has announced that its three-axis acceleration sensors will be used to provide a motion-activated user interface for Nintendo’s new home console, Wii.

Multi-project wafer services company MOSIS has teamed up with IBM¹s silicon foundry to offer 90nm chip process technology on a shared-wafer basis. The MPW service will give many companies that have previously found sub-micron silicon fabrication costs prohibitive access to these technologies for as little as 10% of the price of a dedicated wafer run.

Photonic Products has announced a new high visibility, short wavelength laser diode from Sanyo which offers a very high optical output power of 40mW CW with a low threshold current of 60mA in a 9mm package.

UNIPOWER Telecom will introduce its latest DC power system at GLOBALCOMM 2006 (June 4 to 8 - Chicago - Booth 20022), the World’s premier exhibition and conference for the World’s information and communications technology industry.

Maxwell Technologies has announced that Alain Riedo, general manager of the company's Maxwell Technologies SA subsidiary, has been promoted to senior vice president and appointed a corporate officer.

Texas Instruments has announced it has made substantial updates to its gateway software solution, the Network Support Package (NSP) 3.7.1, enabling manufacturers to quickly and easily make improvements across product lines and realize faster time-to-market and return on investment.

picoChip has announced that it has been nominated as a double finalist at the Wireless Broadband Innovation (WBI) Awards 2006. picoChip is in contention for both Most Innovative Wireless Broadband Company and Best WiMAX / Wireless Broadband Product award categories. This follows last week¹s announcement that it won Frost & Sullivan¹s prestigious 2006 Semiconductors Industry Innovation & Advancement of the Year Award.

STMicroelectronics will demonstrate state-of-the-art product solutions that can address a variety of digital-consumer electronics market segments at MEDC (Mobile & Embedded DevCon), Las Vegas, May 8-11, 2006.

Acte Components has announced its appointment by QinetiQ as their European commercial sales partner for a range of highly Sensitive GPS modules, which are suitable for markets requiring tracking indoors.