Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method for manufacturing green-coloured LEDs with greatly enhanced light output.

According to the latest DisplaySearch Quarterly Advanced Global TV Shipment and Forecast Report, total TV shipments grew by nearly 18% Y/Y in 2010 to 248 million units.

The properties of ferroelectric materials are moving scientists closer to realising a new way of electronic memory storage.

Gennum Corporation has broadened its distribution agreement with Nu Horizons, an Arrow Electronics company.

MEMS foundries shared unequally in their market’s robust 25% growth in 2010. Total combined revenues of Yole Développement’s annual ranking of the Top 20 MEMS foundries - which account for the vast majority of the world’s total MEMS foundry capacity - climbed only about 10% last year, as companies doing their own internal production instead grabbed most of the big growth in consumer and motor vehicle markets.

RECOM Power has formed a distribution partnership with Mouser Electronics.

RS Components has opened a showroom in Brisbane on the back of strong industry growth in the resources, process manufacturing and transport sectors.

OK has appointed Mektronics as an Australian distributor.

Recognising the increasingly critical role that Information Communications Technology (ICT) is playing in the development and growth of local businesses, the ICT Solution and Service Centre (ICTSSC) has launched e-Marketplace (http://www.ictjobsbid.hk).

The novel properties of ferroelectric materials, claimed to have been discovered at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US, are moving scientists closer to realising a new paradigm of electronic memory storage.

OK International has appointed Mektronics as a distribution for Australia. WIth over 25 years of industry experience, the Mektronics team will distribute OK products for electronics assembly, including its Metcal and OKi brands.

Imec's total revenue of 2010 was 285 million euro and 42.7 million was granted to the organisation in Belgium by the Flemish government, to guarantee imec's long-term research and investment in new research initiatives, and imec the Netherlands at Hols Centre received 6.2 million euro from the Dutch government.

Imec is continuing its growth with total revenue being 285 million euro in 2010.

National Instruments has announced its 2011 Green Engineering Grant program.

RS Components has opened an expanded warehouse in Shanghai, China.