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Innovative Silicon (ISi), the developer of Z-RAM ultra-dense memory intellectual property, announced today the appointment of Paul Pickering to vice-president of worldwide sales. Reporting to ISi CEO, Mark-Eric Jones, Pickering brings to ISi a strong sales background from market-leading semiconductor companies such as Fairchild, Toshiba, LSI Logic and PMC-Sierra.

ChipX has announced that the company’s recently acquired OKI ASIC team has been named Supplier of the Year by National Instruments Corporation. The NI Supplier of the Year honour recognizes top performance in many areas, including minimal lead times and cost of ownership,, perfect quality scores, the creation of new processes to support off-shore manufacturing, and superior engineering support on current and next-generation products.

National Instruments has announced that Control Engineering magazine awarded NI LabVIEW 8.20 a 2006 Engineers' Choice Award, calling the graphical development platform one of the most significant innovations of 2006. Control Engineering subscribers were asked to select winners based on three criteria – service to the industry, technological advancement and market impact.

Available from ATC Semitec, PEPI’s range of disc thermostats is said to be the most comprehensive currently available.

Quantum Research Group has announced that it has been awarded two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. Generally accepted as the UK’s most prestigious recognition of outstanding business performance, they reward the achievement by UK companies in the three categories of International Trade, Innovation and Sustainable Development. Quantum has achieved the rare position of having been conferred Queen’s Awards for both International Trade and Innova...

Anglia, the UK’s largest privately-owned electronic component distributor, grew sales by 17.5% in 2006, with annual sales through the $65 million mark , in stark contrast with the overall performance of UK distribution that, according to the Association of Franchised Distributors of Electronic Components (AFDEC) in its recently released figures, achieved only 5.3% year-on-year expansion in 2006.

Semtech has announced it will work with prominent frequency control products vendor Rakon Limited (Auckland, New Zealand, NZX:RAK) to develop IEEE 1588 Version 2 (V2)-based timing solutions. Employing Semtech’s advanced timing platform and Rakon’s oscillator technology, these solutions will deliver consistent, cost-effective, timing synchronization for next-generation packet switched network equipment.

Fairchild Semiconductor has introduced the FIN212AC, the first µSerDes device specifically designed for serializing high-speed signals in multi-megapixel-resolution CMOS and CCD image sensors commonly found in portable products such as cell phones with built-in cameras. Using Fairchild’s proprietary CTL I/O for serializing up to 12-bits at speeds up to 40MHz, the FIN212AC can be configured as a serializer or deserializer and is implemented in ...

Situations requiring more than 1GHz of processing power and up to 1GB of RAM will benefit from the new low cost AHM 6xx5 fanless industrial panel computer range from Datasound Laboratories. Available with either a 1GHz or 1.5GHz Celeron M processor or the 1.8GHz Pentium M, users of this NEMA 4/IP 65 compliant unit can also choose between a 2.5” hard disk drive or a CompactFlash card where ruggedised Flash storage is required.

Photonic Products, the UK opto-electronics device manufacturer and laser diode specialist, has been appointed by Ondax as authorised European distributor for its range of wavelength stabilised laser diodes which are low cost, miniature lasers in a standard TO package. Stabilisation is achieved using the Ondax Volume Holographic Grating (VHG) PowerLocker(tm). The PowerLocker(tm) increases the spectral brightness of laser diodes, ensuring a precise...