TDK-EPC presents the PCC (Power Capacitor Chip) as a DC-link circuit solution for the electric drives of motor vehicles. The B25655J4307K*1 and B25655J4507K*5 types were developed specifically for reference designs of the IGBT modules HybridPACK1 (up to 20 kW) and Hybrid-PACK2 (up to 90 kW) from Inf...

Sanyo Electric announced the construction of a new technical facility for lithium-ion batteries on the premises of the Tokushima Plant, Sanyo’s development and production site for lithium-ion batteries. Construction of the new facility will begin in May of this year, and will be completed in Novembe...

Electronic components distributor Digi-Key and LED manufacturer Seoul Semiconductor have entered into a global distribution agreement. The agreement includes distribution through Digi-Key of the full range of Seoul Semiconductor's products, from the smallest DC LED to the AC LED, Acriche.

Green Hills Software has announced a software development and run-time management solution for embedded products based on the multicore Freescale QorIQ P2020 and P2010 communications processors. Components of the Green Hills Software development toolkit include the INTEGRITY RTOS and INTEGRITY Secur...

National Semiconductor reported sales of $361.9 million and net income of $53.2 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2010. National’s third quarter sales were 23.8 percent higher than in the third quarter of fiscal 2009, and 5% higher than the revenue reported in Q2/2010.

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Altium has announced a technology partnership with Atmel to co-develop an integrated solution combining Atmel's Qtouch Studio, a touch sensor configuration tool, and Altium's electronics design solution Altium Designer. Brokered and negotiated in Europe, the partnership is worldwide in scope. Demand...

Actel unveiled SmartFusion, an intelligent mixed-signal FPGA. Available in production quantities, SmartFusion devices feature Actel’s FPGA fabric, a complete microcontroller subsystem built around a hard ARM Cortex-M3 processor and programmable analog blocks on a flash process. The combination of th...