Industry News
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.
[ + ]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.
[ + ]Distribution expands
Origin Electronics Asia has extended its distribution agreement with Lattice Semiconductor from Greater China, ASEAN and India into Korea.
[ + ]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.
[ + ]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.
[ + ]Carbon nanotube research concluded
The European projects ‘Carbon nanotubes technology on Si IC’s’ and ‘Nanowire-based one-dimensional electronics’ have been completed.
[ + ]Asia distributor
Arrow Asia Pac will distribute Recom Asia's range of AC/DC power supplies, DC/DC converters, the R-78 switching regulator series and constant current high-power LED drivers, under a new agreement.
[ + ]Self-validating thermocouple
Scientists at Britain's National Physical Laboratory have developed a self-validating thermocouple technology which incorporates metal-carbon eutectic alloy fixed points. This means that the thermocouple can self-validate, or check that it is measuring the temperature correctly.
[ + ]GaN-on-Si device opens market
IMEC has produced simple and robust GaN-on-Si double heterostructure FET (field effect transistor) architecture for GaN-on-Si power switching devices.
[ + ]New storage company
Storage solutions from actidata are now available in Australia, according to TData, its newly appointed distributor.
[ + ]Converter distributor
Mornsun Scientfic, manufacturer of AC/DC converters, DC/DC converters, LED drivers, IGBT driver and isolation transmitters distributed in Australia and New Zealand by DLPC, has appointed a new distributor in Victoria.
[ + ]E-readers booked for boost
The year 2009 is likely to be remembered as a watershed year in the evolution of e-books and e-readers with several milestones and product launches standing out as catalysts for change in the market, according to Gartner.
[ + ]Power sharing
Avnet is to distribute the full range of Eaton’s power quality products and services to the Australian IT channel.
[ + ]Thin-film photovoltaic production facility opened
DuPont Apollo, a wholly owned subsidiary of DuPont, has opened its silicon-based, thin-film photovoltaic module manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, China. The facility supports renewable energy such as solar.
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