Fuelled by a rapidly developing OLED lighting market and many new applications for OLED displays beyond mobile phone sub-displays and MP3 players, there will be an explosion in demand for OLED materials of all kinds, says a new report from NanoMarkets, an industry analysis firm based in the US.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Agilent is holding a series of spectrum analyser workshops in major cities across Australia.

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.

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.

Digi-Key and Vitesse Semiconductor have signed a global distribution agreement.

Eaton Corporation has appointed Craig Gob as managing director for the company’s Electrical Business in Australia and New Zealand based in Sydney.

Digi-Key Corporation and Amphenol Sine Systems have signed an agreement for the worldwide distribution of Sine Systems interconnect products.

Premier Farnell is expanding in the Asia Pacific with a new sales office in Penang, Malaysia.

Nextreme Thermal Solutions says it has cooled a laser diode in a TO-8 package using an embedded thin-film thermoelectric OptoCooler HV14 module.

Mouser Electronics has extended its distribution agreement with EPCOS into Europe and Asia.