Philips announced his intention to reduce its ownership share in its Semiconductors division in the course of the second half of 2006 to a minority stake through an IPO of the company and/or sale of shares to financial investors, while continuing to evaluate industry consolidation opportunities. In ...

Epson Toyocom announced the development of the RA-8565SA real time clock module with a built-in crystal unit for automotive and industrial machinery applications. The clock module is operating at high temperatures (up to 125°C). The module also uses an I2C-Bus interface to control reading and w...

Wolfson Microelectronics announces the appointment of Alistair Banham as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales. He takes over the role from Jim Reid who has been acting in this role over the past year alongside his on-going business development responsibilities. Banham joins Wolfson from Philips Se...

Eleven of 33 gold medals, which were contested in the RoboCup 2006 in Bremen, remain in Germany. The second strongest was China with nine gold medals –place three in the medal games was Japan with six medals and place four was Iran with five. The first and second place in the crowd’s favourites – th...

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DuraComm debuted 3 new products. The DT-2012-BBSC is a desk-top power supply (with a VDC range of 13-16) that has built-in smart charging capability. This unit provides 20 Amps of continuous power and 7 Amps of battery charging. Power Factor Correction (PFC) improves efficiency. The charging compone...

Maxim introduces the MAX7461, a single-channel loss-of-sync (LOS) alarm that provides composite-video sync detection in NTSC, PAL, and SECAM standard-definition television (SDTV) systems. This stand-alone LOS alarm operates from a single +5V supply while consuming 1.7mA. The circuitry make the MAX74...