Analysis

Nu Horizons Electronics, a global distributor with annual sales of over $700 million, has announced its entry into the German market, effective from May 1, 2007. The company sees an opportunity for a focused, design-led distributor to fulfil a market need created by various mergers, acquisitions and company closures amongst electronic component distributors in the last two years. The office will be located in Munich and the German company, Nu Hor...

Tensilica®, Inc. today announced that it will deliver a Dolby® Digital Plus 7.1-channel decoder designed for HD DVD players, Blu-ray Disc™ players, and set-top boxes. Tensilica will also offer a Dolby Digital Plus 5.1-channel decoder/converter to ensure compatibility with most existing home theater systems equipped with coaxial or optical digital audio inputs. These two optimized decoders have been approved by Dolby for use with Tensilica’s...

Nexcom, the world leader in the provision of Industrial Embedded Computing and Network Security Appliance Platforms, has produced its most comprehensive and informative and product catalogue to date.

Productivity on the manufacturing lines for intelligent driving experts, Trafficmaster, is being boosted by functional test systems from the Peak Group.

PEI-Genesis, the franchised assembler and distributor of electronic connectors, has been approved by Amphenol-Air LB to assemble its range of VG95234 multi-pin circular connectors. The connectors are now available from PEI-Genesis with its market-leading 48-hour assembly service.

Schaefer, Inc, has published a new short form catalog detailing its complete line of ac/dc switchmode power supplies, battery chargers, dc/dc converters, dc/ac inverters and ac/ac frequency inverters.

Camden Electronics has signed a franchised distribution agreement with Rapid Electronics, widely recognised as one of the leading suppliers of electronic components, electrical products and industrial supplies to industry and education.

Aeroflex and AT4 wireless have entered into a worldwide distribution agreement for the sale and support of the WiMAX RF Conformance Test (WiMAX RCT MINT T2110) and WiMAX Protocol Conformance Test (WiMAX PCT MINT T223x) systems. Under the terms of the distribution agreement, Aeroflex will provide the worldwide sales and support channel for both conformance test systems to all customers for WiMAX technology including the accredited WiMAX test labo...

Texas Instruments has introduced a pair of voltage-output, high-side current sense monitors with a wide common-mode input range of -16V to +80V. The INA270 and INA271 also feature a two-stage architecture to ease the design of circuits requiring additional filtering of the current signal. The devices are especially suited for current measurement applications in automotive, motor control, power management and battery charging.

Quantum Research Group, the charge-transfer (QT) capacitive touch company, announces the opening of its new engineering and support facility located within the Hong Kong Science Park. Customers across China will now benefit from the increased access to Quantum’s technical and design support services.