The PCIM Europe 2007, the fair for power electronics was held in Nuremberg from the 22.5 to 24.5. 2007 and had 6 200 visitors (2006, 5 783) and 249 exhibitors (2006, 209). The conference, held in parallel with the fair, attracted 571 (2006, 565) participants from 30 countries. The date for PCIM Euro...

LEM has extended its range of current transducer families designed to operate from a single +5V power supply with the introduction of the HMS model. The new unit measures 16 (L) x 13.5 (W) x 12 (H) mm and integrates a primary conductor. It is directly surface-mounted onto a printed circuit board. Fo...

Austriamicrosystems has expanded its A/D converter portfolio with the AS1524 12-bit, low-power single-channel full-differential A/D converter and the AS1525 dual-channel single-ended A/D converter. The AS1524/25, consumes 350µA (3V) at the 150ksps maximum sampling rate. At reduced speed of 100ksps t...

IBM, Infineon and Freescale together with Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Samsung Electronics have made an agreement regarding semiconductor production. This concerns the development of a 32 nm Bulk CMOS process technology and a process Design-Kit. The cooperation is set to last till 2010....

As the first manufacturer Spectrum Systementwicklung is offering its range of digitizers and data acquisition cards as a PCI Express version. Starting mid of 2007 54 different A/D products with a resolution ranging from 8 bit to 16 bit are available as PCI Express x1. State-of-the-art motherboards n...

Analog Devices announced financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2007, which ended May 5, 2007. Revenue increased to $669 million, an increase of approximately 4% compared to the same period one year ago. Compared to the immediately prior quarter's product revenue of $657 million, revenue...

X-Fab recorded sales of USD 85.4 million in the first quarter of 2007, up 53.0 percent from the same period last year. This growth is due primarily to expansion achieved through X-FAB Sarawak. The Malaysian site was not included in the consolidated figures until September 2006. Compared to the fourt...