Panasonic and SANYO Agree to Capital and Business Alliance
Jan 14, 2009
Panasonic Corporation and SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., upon the resolutions of the meetings of their respective Boards of Directors held on December 19, 2008, announced that they have entered into the Capital and Business Alliance Agreement...

New Ferrite Cores from ACME Magnetics USA Included in Magnetics Designer
Jan 14, 2009
The Magnetics Designer inductive design and synthesis product now incorporates several hundred ACME ferrite cores into its existing database of thousands of geometries and materials. Build 3435's core database has also been strengthened for accuracy...

Decline Predicted For Power IC Market
Jan 14, 2009
IMS Research latest forecast update for the global power management and driver IC market predicts a fall in revenues of around 3% in 2009, owing mainly to the current slowdown in consumer spending...

IEEE P1901 Draft Standard on Broadband over Power Line Networks Nears Agreement
Jan 14, 2009
The draft standard for using the power lines to carry broadband networks is beginning to take shape...

Patent Office Rejects Power Integrations Claims
Dec 22, 2008
Fairchild Semiconductor announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued final rejections of patent claims from two of three unexpired Power Integrations patents involved in the four-year-old patent lawsuit between the two companies...

LinkSwitch-II Delivers Five-Star Rating for Cellphone-Chargers
Dec 10, 2008
Power Integrations announced that its LinkSwitch-II family of power conversion ICs enables manufacturers of cellphone chargers to achieve the recently announced five-star rating for no-load energy consumption...

EMerge Alliance Launched to Create New Power Distribution Standard
Dec 10, 2008
In a move aimed at increasing the flexibility, efficiency and sustainability of commercial buildings, a group of visionaries today are announcing the EMerge Alliance...

Electronics Contract Manufacturing Business to Stay Afloat During Recession
Dec 10, 2008
The global electronics contract manufacturing business will not escape the impact of the current economic downturn...

Electronica 2008 results
Dec 10, 2008
Electronica 2008 attendance was remarkably stable despite the difficult financial situation facing many exhibitors and attendees...

The EtherCAT Technology Group Announces Power over EtherCAT
Dec 10, 2008
The EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) has expanded its namesake technology with a new “Power over EtherCAT” enhancement...