IC Insights released its forecast of the top 10 fastest-growing products for 2006. The ranking is a list of IC products that displayed the best percentage revenue growth for 2006. Among the list are five products from the analog segment, three from memory, and two logic segments. Comparators are for...

Analog Devices has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, in Boston, against Silicon Laboratories. The complaint alleges that Silicon Labs' Si84xx family of products infringe multiple U.S. patents addressing physical construction and signaling techniqu...

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International Rectifier has introduced a 600V fully-integrated and protected ballast control IC for advanced linear fluorescent lamp ballasts which incorporate active power factor correction (PFC). The IRS2166D integrates PFC, ballast control and half-bridge driver in a monolithic IC. Its PFC circui...

Cypress introduced five development and evaluation kits for its PSoC mixed-signal arrays. The SD Card Module Evaluation Kit gives designers a hands-on look at how the PSoC SD Card user module can write to, read from and seamlessly integrate an SD card module into an embedded design. The CapSense Pro...

IDT announces PCI Express switches optimized to solve system I/O connectivity challenges. The devices are PCI Express 1.1 compliant and deploy a broad range of lane/port configurations. The PRECISE family delivers switching bandwidth of 24 gigabytes per second (GBps) for the 48-lane/12-port switch. ...

Maxim Integrated Products announced that John Gifford, Maxim's founder and CEO from 1983 to the present, has, on the advice of his doctor, elected to retire as CEO. He will remain with the company on a part time basis as a strategic advisor focused on product planning and business direction. Tunc Do...