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Micron Appoints New Vice President of Global Supply Chain
Micron has today revealed that the company has named John Waite as vice president of global supply chain. Waite will be responsible for all aspects of global supply chain management at Micron including customer delivery, operational planning, forecasting and inventory management.
Sharp launches 15 inch initiative with industrial displays
With two new variants (LQ150X1LW12 and LQ150X1LG11) Sharp now expands its range of industrial TFT LCDs with a diagonal of 15 (38.0 cm) to four models. The displays are characterised by their respective contrast ratios of 1000:1 and 800:1 - a basis for brilliant image reproduction - which in both cases is also due to the 16.8 million colours. The LQ150X1LW12 model also has a wide viewing angle of 170° in all directions, making it ideal for all sc...
New Executive VP for NFC and secure payment division of INSIDE Secure
INSIDE Secure have declared the appointment of Pierre Garnier as executive vice president of the NFC and secure payment division and member of the management board, effective as of August 1, 2012. Mr. Garnier replaces Charles Walton who will be leaving the company later in August to become chief executive officer of Canadian company SecureKey, a partner of INSIDE Secure in the NFC and secure transactions industry.
Organic Photovoltaics: Forecasts for the Next Decade
Today there are multiple devices available for harnessing solar energy. Each device offers a different set of characteristics. Wafer-based devices consist of mono or polycrystalline and are the most mature technology due to the experience borrowed from the microelectronics industry. They also offer very competitive production costs (Organic Photovoltaics: Technologies, Markets & Players 2012-2022 www.IDTechEx.com/OPV).
electronica’s automotive conference will point the way to the future of electro-mobility
Electro-mobility and all it offers continues to dominate the headlines. However, it remains to be determined how the automotive industry will adopt and implemement the changes that technology has to offer. This question will be one of the most important topics at electronica 2010 (November 9 to 12, 2010, New Munich Trade Fair Center).
picoChip appoints Steve Laurenson as VP Engineering
picoChip has announced the appointment of Steve Laurenson to the newly-created post of VP Engineering. A 28-year veteran of the mobile communications and semiconductor industries, Laurenson will take on a customer-oriented role, ensuring that picoChip continues to develop and support the technologies and products required by the wireless market.
Fujitsu Wins 2010 ‘Golden Mousetrap Award’
Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME), today announced that its MB86298 ‘Ruby’ graphics display controller (GDC) has won a 2010 Golden Mousetrap Award from ‘Design News Magazine,’ arguably the industry’s leading technical resource for design engineers in the USA.
Novatek Selects Tensilica’s HiFi Audio DSP for Blu-ray Disc and DTV
Tensilica Inc. today announced that Novatek Microelectronics Corp., of Hsinchu, Taiwan, selected Tensilica’s HiFi Audio DSP for upcoming DTV (digital television) and Blu-ray Disc SOC (system-on-chip) designs.
Smallest licensable 32-bit processor core from Tensilica
Tensilica has introduced the industry’s smallest licensable 32-bit processor core based on an industry-standard architecture. The new Diamond Standard 106Micro core takes up only 0.26 mm2 in a 130-nm G process and only 0.13 mm2 in a 90-nm G process, which makes it smaller than the ARM7 or Cortex-M3 cores, yet at 1.22 Dhrystone MIPS/MHz, it delivers higher performance than the ARM9E cores.
Zetex wins Manufacturing Site of the Year Award
Zetex Semiconductors has won the National Microelectronics Institute’s Manufacturing Site of the Year Award for 2007. Sponsored by Sematek, the award was made to Zetex’s Mick Conlon, Rob Davies and Iain Scott by NMI CEO Derek Boyd and Sematek’s Gerrie Pimm at the NMI’s annual awards dinner in London.