STMicroelectronics has announced a robust low-power processor chip dedicated to managing SIM data for machine-to-machine (M2M) cellular communications, a growing market that could account for over 200 million mobile connections by 2013, according to an August 2009 report by Beecham Research. The ST3...

With the Barflex, Baumer offers a robust digital manometer with integrated data memory. In the ATEX version Barflex 4Y, it is also suitable for the use in rough and hazardous surroundings. It can measure the gauge and absolute pressure of almost all liquid and gaseous media in a range from 500 mbar ...

Maxim ended the first financial quarter of 2010 with total sales of 449.2 million US$ and a net profit of 42.0 million US$. Total sales fell by 10% compared with the same period of the previous year. Profit fell by 38%. However, the financial position appears positive compared with the previous thre...

Altera announced the Cyclone IV FPGA family. The family offers two variants. Cyclone IV GX devices have up to 150K logic elements (LEs), up to 6.5-Mbits of RAM, up to 360 multipliers, and up to eight integrated 3.125-Gbps transceivers supporting mainstream protocols including Gigabit Ethernet (GbE),...

Maxim Integrated Products introduces the MAX8884Y/MAX8884Z 700mA step-down converters with dual 300mA LDOs in a 2mm x 2mm CSP (chip-scale package). The on-board, hysteretic, PWM-controlled step-down converter provides two switching-frequency options to allow designers to optimize for highest efficie...

Rohm Semiconductor presents the all-in-one fingerprint authentication module MK67Q5250-2510. Based on OKI Semiconductor’s ML67Q5250 fingerprint solution and the AES2510 Sensor from AuthenTec, the module meets the growing demand for fingerprint authentication functionality. The MK67Q5250-2510 is as s...

The Central Association of the German Electrical and Electronics Industry (ZVEI) reports that in the first quarter of 2009 the number of new orders amongst German manufacturers of electronic assembly groups fell by 27 percent and total sales by 19 percent compared with the same period of the previou...