Integrating miniature solar panels into mobile telephones is just the beginning, as the list of possible applications is long and includes all network- independent and mobile applications in particular. Miniature solar cells can significantly extend the operating life between battery charging cycles...

Ansys announced that Joshua Fredberg has joined the senior management team as the vice president of marketing. Before joining Ansys, Fredberg was senior vice president of product and market strategy at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC). Prior to joining PTC, he held leadership roles with both ...

From the 4th to the 11th November 2009 MathWorks is inviting all Matlab users worldwide to take part in the 20th Matlab Central Contest. The online competition has been taking place every six months since 1999 and is open to participants from every country. The participants are given the task of sol...

Ember, supplier of Zigbee network technology, has appointed Bert Lutje Berenbroek as vice president of European Sales. Lutje Berenbroek was most recently vice president of Sales at Ubicom, a manufacturer of communication chips and software. Prior to Ubicom he held sales positions at Cypress Semicond...

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...

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...

The ASIC and Foundry Business Unit at Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced that European ASIC and system-on-chip (SoC) customers can now take advantage of eFUSE (electrical programmable fuse) technology when developing ICs based on Toshiba processes. The eFUSE technology uses electrically ...