SOC provider joins alliance
Essensium NV, a fabless provider of low-power systems-on-chip, has joined the Wavenis Open Standard Alliance as a participating member, enabling it to influence the voting committees as the first semiconductor member while continuing its partnership with Coronis SAS to complete Coronis's first Wavenis-compliant SOC. Read more »
Partnership announced
Bestech Australia has formed a partnership with Portuguese company Fiber Sensing, a supplier of fibre-optic sensors. The deal allows Bestech to supply sensors with fibre bragg grating that is claimed to offer: high multiplexing capability; long-distance transmission; EMI/RFI immunity; electric isolation; signal integrity; long-term stability. Read more »
Medical beam steering magnet on line
The Opera electromagnetic simulator has played an important role in the design of the particle beam steering magnet currently being commissioned at Italy's hadron therapy centre in Milan - the Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica (CNAO). Read more »
Solution centre opens in China
Semikron has expanded its global network of solution centres to Zhuhai, China, that specialises in designing and manufacturing Semistack power assemblies, for wind generators and solar power inverters. Read more »
Industrial robots collaboration
National Instruments and Denso Robotics are collaborating to integrate NI measurement and vision technology with Denso robotic arms. This is expected to increase productivity and performance in automated test, research and flexible manufacturing applications. Read more »
All-optical switching moves closer
An ultra-small and fast, electrically pumped all-optical memory on a silicon chip with record low power consumption has been produced by imec and its associated laboratory INTEC at the Ghent University. Read more »
Analyser workshop
Agilent is holding a series of spectrum analyser workshops in major cities across Australia. Read more »
3D microchips and super cooling coming
A technology for stacking several layers of microprocesssors, which is being developed at EPFL in collaboration with ETHZ and IBM Research, could boost the performance of computer chips by a factor of 10. Read more »
LED chip plant opens in Malaysia
Two years after breaking ground in July 2007, Osram Opto Semiconductors has built and process-tested what is claimed to be the world's most modern LED chip production plant, in Penang, Malaysia. Read more »
Ethernet distribution
Digi-Key and Vitesse Semiconductor have signed a global distribution agreement. Read more »
MD appointed
Eaton Corporation has appointed Craig Gob as managing director for the company’s Electrical Business in Australia and New Zealand based in Sydney. Read more »
Global distribution agreement
Digi-Key Corporation and Amphenol Sine Systems have signed an agreement for the worldwide distribution of Sine Systems interconnect products. Read more »
Penang office
Premier Farnell is expanding in the Asia Pacific with a new sales office in Penang, Malaysia. Read more »
Laser cooling
Nextreme Thermal Solutions says it has cooled a laser diode in a TO-8 package using an embedded thin-film thermoelectric OptoCooler HV14 module. Read more »
Global deal
Mouser Electronics has extended its distribution agreement with EPCOS into Europe and Asia. Read more »
Calibration on the road
Celemetrix Australia has taken its calibration service on the road, providing 24-hour turnaround time competitive pricing traceable to national standards with a pick-up and delivery service available. Read more »
Memory research
Numonyx and Intel have demonstrated a 64 Mb test chip that has the ability to stack or place multiple layers of PCM arrays within a single die, allowing memory devices to be built with greater capacity, lower power consumption and smaller. Read more »
Distribution expands
Origin Electronics Asia has extended its distribution agreement with Lattice Semiconductor from Greater China, ASEAN and India into Korea. Read more »
Industrial robots collaboration
National Instruments and Denso Robotics are collaborating to integrate NI measurement and vision technology with Denso robotic arms. This is expected to increase productivity and performance in automated test, research and flexible manufacturing applications. Read more »
SOC provider joins alliance
Essensium NV, a fabless provider of low power systems-on-chip, has joined the Wavenis Open Standard Alliance as a participating member, enabling it to influence the voting committees as the first semiconductor member, while continuing its partnership with Coronis SAS to complete Coronis's first Wavenis-compliant SOC. Read more »