Chomerics Europe has introduced a thermal grease designed to conduct heat between hot components and heatsinks or equipment enclosures. T670 is a silicone based material with a high bulk thermal conductivity of 3W/m-k. T670 can be screen printed, stencilled or dispensed and requires virtually no com...

Maxim Integrated Products introduces the MAX9938, a high-side, current-sense amplifier. It integrates precision resistors to minimize total solution size, eliminating the need for external gain-setting resistors.

The MAX9938 features a ±0.5mV (max) VOS and 0.5% (max) gain error, for a total erro...

Lattice Semiconductor announced FPGA-based support for the Reduced Latency Dynamic Random Access Memory (RLDRAM) I/II memory devices. The LatticeSC and LatticeSCM FPGA families support RLDRAM I/II rates up to 800Mbps. The memory controller IP is implemented in Lattice’s MACO (Masked Array for Cost O...

Vishay announced the acquisition of a specialty capacitor (wet tantalum) product line from Kemet for $35.2 million and other consideration in the form of a three-year term loan of $15 million. Sales of these products during Kemet’s fiscal-year ended March 31, 2008 were approximately $16.0 million, o...

The Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Consortium and IEEE Council on EDA (CEDA) announced that Dr. Phil Kaufman Award, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Synopsys, Aart de Geus, has been chosen as this year’s recipient of the Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to EDA. The EDA Consortiu...

Despite the economic downturn, the German electrical industry sees itself on a successful path for 2008. “Our growth this year will be around 4% which is about double that of the of he average growth of the economic segment of the Federal Republic of Germany as a whole,” reports the President of the...

NXP Semiconductors (formerly Philips Semiconductors) announced a redesign program. The program includes major reduction of NXP’s manufacturing base, its central R&D, and support functions. This program is expected to affect approximately 4,500 people globally and will result in annualized savings of...