LEDs Offer Rare Ray of Hope During Electronics Downturn
Jan 28, 2009
Aided by rising demand from LCD-TV makers, the Light-Emitting diode (LED) market is expected to expand in 2009, providing a rare growth opportunity amid sharp revenue declines in most other electronics component categories,...
Digitally Controlled 500 Watt AC-DC Power Supplies
Jan 14, 2009
Emerson Network Power announced that it has expanded its NTS line of 500W digitally controlled power supplies with the addition of the NTS505 and NTS508...
Two New Switcher ICs operate at 1.2 MHz and 2 MHz
Jan 14, 2009
Micrel Inc. has introduced the MIC2605/6, two new ICs switching at 1.2MHz (MIC2605) and 2MHz (MIC2606) which supply up to 0.5A switch current...
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...
High Power PD Controller Addresses IEEE 802.3at PoE+ Standard
Dec 22, 2008
Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC4265, an 802.3af/802.3at compliant Power over Ethernet (PoE) interface controller for high-power Powered Device (PD) applications...
XPhase® Control IC Provides High Density, Scalable Power Solution for POL Converters
Dec 22, 2008
The IR3513 provides overall control of a scalable number of phases along with an internal gate driver, current sense and sharing, and PWM to provide a stand-alone single-phase regulator or interface with additional phase ICs enabling a power solution with any number of phases...