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Ericsson Adds Full PMBus Read & Write Capability to Voltage Regulators

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Ericsson Power Modules announced that its BMR450 and BMR451 point-of-load voltage regulators are now able to write as well as read data via the power management bus; PMBus. Customers buying these revision 2A products...
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Emerson Network Power and Freescale Semiconductor Collaborate on Power Architecture Technology for Small Form Factor Boards

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Emerson Network Power and Freescale Semiconductor announced a collaborative effort to deploy Freescale multicore QorIQ processors on modular single-board computers (SBCs) based on the COM Express® small form factor. The goal of the collaborative initiative...
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Growth of Global Solar Market Spurs Spate of Plans for US PV Production Facilities

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Highlighting a spate of announcements the last few months by global companies to open solar manufacturing facilities in the US, Kyocera Solar, Inc. of Japan announced plans to begin manufacturing solar modules in San...
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Trina Solar Announces Establishment of EU Regional Headquarters in Switzerland

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Trina Solar Ltd. announced the establishment of its European regional headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, which commenced initial operations as of January 2010. In order to further strengthen Trina Solar’s presence and growing customer base in...
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Wartsila & Hitachi Zosen Sign Agreement to Develop & Market Fuel Cell Based Power Plant Solutions in Japan

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wärtsilä and Hitachi Zosen have signed a business development agreement to develop and market fuel cell based power solutions for distributed power generation applications in Japan. The combined heat and power applications, which can...
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ZMDI Expands Family of Dual-Core ADCs for Parallel Sampling in High-Speed Applications

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

ZMDI has introduced 12 new members of its SARah converter family. The new A/D-converters ZADC510x and ZADC512x have a dual-core and operate with sampling rates of up to 1MSample/s. The dual-core enables developers to...
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CamSemi Opens Korea Business Development Office

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

CamSemi announced that it has strengthened its commitment to the Korean market by opening a dedicated business development and application design center in the Bundang-GU district of Gyungg-Do, Seoul. The new office will be instrumental...
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Exide Technologies Appoints Michael Ostermann as President of Exide Europe

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Exide Technologies announcesd that Michael Ostermann, President of the Exide Transportation Europe operating division, also will lead the Company’s Industrial Energy Europe division under his new title as President – Exide Europe. Effective March...
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STMicroelectronics Unveils Ultra Low-Loss Rectifier Diodes

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

STMicroelectronics has introduced a new family of high-efficiency power rectifiers that will help product manufacturers achieve energy-efficiency approvals, such as 80 PLUS®. The new STPS50U100C is a rectifier diode and can be used in the...
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NXP Semiconductors Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

NXP Semiconductors announced fourth quarter sales of USD 1,130 million, a comparable increase of 8.0% over the third quarter of 2009 (nominal 9.3%) and a comparable increase of 12.6% over the fourth quarter of...
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