Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with LS Research, a wireless development company.

Taiwan is being recognised as the key manufacturer of ICT products, including personal computers, notebooks, monitors and motherboards, and has cultivated a strong connector industry, ranked at three in global production value.

Kontron has acquired Digital-Logic, headquartered near Solothurn in Switzerland.

In its Quarterly LCD Glass Subsctrate Report, DisplaySearch says that TFT LCD glass tightness this year will continue as TFT LCD panel makers are increasing capacity use and demanding more glass substrate from suppliers.

IMEC has combined vapour-phase doping and sub-melt laser annealing to fabricate high-quality, defect-free, ultra-shallow junctions (USJs) with abrupt dopant profile.

In the second quarter of 2009, Asia Pacific continued its downward trend in server shipments with a 17.2% year on year decline, with shipments totaling 323,388 units.

National Semiconductor and SunEdison, a solar energy services provider, have begun field trials to optimise the energy output of solar arrays.

IMEC has launched an industrial affiliation program to focus on the development of GaN technology for both power conversion and solid-state lighting applications.

An online technology resource and community for electronic design engineers has been launched at www.element-14.com.

Demand for tantalum, of which some 75% goes into electronics and aerospace, is, this year, likely to be 40% lower than 2008, according to a report from Roskill Information Services in London.

Digi-Key Corporation has signed an agreement with Fujitsu Microelectronics of America, for the worldwide distribution of FMA's low-power, low-pin-count, 8-bit microcontrollers and digital touch-screen sensor ICs.

Double-frame rate (100 and 120 Hz) and quadruple-frame rate (200 and 240 Hz) LCD TV panels have quickly become integral to LCD TV panel makers' product roadmaps and shipment plans.

A high-speed, low-cost chip that facilitates short-range, multi-gigabit transfer of data has won Innovic’s International Next Big Thing Award - Innovation Excellence category.

Production of large-area TFT LCD panels reached 46.7 million units, up 8% per month and 24% per year, according to the DisplaySearch Monthly TFT LCD Shipment Database.

RF Engines has been contracted by Eonic of Delft in the Netherlands to develop a digital downconverter to be used in signal processing platforms.