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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.

STMicroelectronics has introduced a new generation of AC Switches to control the numerous AC loads employed by appliance applications. Designed to drive pumps, fans, valves, relays, dispensers, door locks, and micro-motors in appliances such as dishwashers, air conditioners, washing machines, dryers, refrigerators, ovens, and freezers, the new ACSes provide designers with higher voltage capability while ensuring overall system reliability and e...

Sharp Corporation will start mass production of blue LED chips at its Fukuyama Plant in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan within 2010.

With an output rating of 300 mW on an area of only 27.7 cm², the new LR0GC02 solar panel is one of the leading photovoltaic components when it comes to efficiency. With a thick-ness of only 0.8 mm, it is also the thinnest photo cell currently available on the market. Sharp is thus setting new standards right from the outset as it enters the market for photovoltaic components.

Colour displays are being used more and more frequently for displaying image information in consumer applications. Customers expect to find displays in appliances such as coffee machines, door phones, microwave ovens and washing machines etc. In order to help manufacturers of, e.g., white goods and other household and CE-devices to produce functional and aesthetically appealing HMIs with the lowest possible development costs, Sharp is offering so...

The 16:9 format 7 inch diagonal screen is emerging as the new standard for numerous portable test, measurement and input devices spanning all industrial sectors - logistics, transport, medicine, vehicle manufacturing and repair, the hotel trade and catering, etc - and various consumer applications such as pocket PCs, media players and electronic picture frames.

For large screen applications such as LCD TV Sharp has developed the world’s first four-primary-color 3D LCD featuring the industry’s highest brightness*1) with extremely low crosstalk.

Sharp has extended its successful range of industrial-grade LCDs with LED backlighting by intro-ducing two new displays. As highlight amongst the new additions to the product family, the 23-inch LQ231U1LW31 display is characterised above all by its excellent optical characteristics. These include amazing 500 cd/m² brightness, a wide viewing angle of up to 170° in all directions, incredible colour depth with 16 million colours and a high static ...

LCDs and LEDs are two very important drivers for innovation and development of electronic devices and applications in almost every kind of industry. As intelligent HMI (Human-Machine-Interface) LCDs are to be found in industrial controls, information clusters of different means of transportation, phones and other communication equipment, white goods, toys, audio visual equipment, just to mention a few. LEDs on the other hand are currently revolut...

Today, Enel Green Power, Sharp and STMicroelectronics have signed a binding letter of commitment for a project financing agreement for 150 million euros for the development of what will be Italy’s biggest photovoltaic panel factory. The 3Sun equal share joint venture thus enters its operational phase, in line with the agreement signed by the three partners on January 4th, 2010, with its statutory bodies having been appointed today. The goal of ...