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.

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.

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.

Origin Electronics Asia has extended its distribution agreement with Lattice Semiconductor from Greater China, ASEAN and India into Korea.

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.

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.

LG Display claims to have developed the world’s thinnest LCD TV panel, measuring 2.6 mm.

The European projects ‘Carbon nanotubes technology on Si IC’s’ and ‘Nanowire-based one-dimensional electronics’ have been completed.

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.

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.