Peregrine Semiconductor Australia won the ‘AusIndustry Award for Excellence in Innovation and Commercialisation of R&D’ for the quality of relationships established with users and government, and the role that PSA has played in demonstrating the worth of Australian microelectronics designers to the global electronics industry.

Glyn High-Tech Distribution has been appointed as a distributor of ZigBee wireless solutions provider Jennic for Australia and New Zealand.

Recharging your notebook computer and mobile phone and a variety of other gadgets might one day be possible in the same way many people now surf the web: wirelessly.

Despite Brisbane’s traffic chaos, a steady stream of visitors attended the Queensland Manufacturing Technology Exhibition (QMan) 2006, held from 17-19 October. The exhibition attracted just under 1900 visitors and 94 exhibitors.

Zilker Labs has signed an agreement with Avnet to support Zilker’s business throughout the Asia-Pacific region, including major markets such as Korea, Taiwan, China and Hong King. Zilker Labs also has an Asian subsidiary, Zilker Labs Asia, Ltd, based in Hong Kong, that supports users throughout Asia.

Premier Farnell has formed a global franchise agreement with Cypress Semiconductors.

An electronics company in Brisbane is one of three firms that have recently installed HALT (highly accelerated life testing) chambers. The other installations are in New Zealand.

Lippert Automationstechnik has made Dominion Electronics sole distributor for its products in Australia and New Zealand.

Fuel cells are growing rapidly in popularity and the abundance and diversity of research means it can be difficult to stay in touch with new developments.

The Australian Profibus Association will be hosting accredited Profibus training courses around Australia beginning in March 2007.

Soanar and Soanar Plus have become distributors of LTW Technology’s range of industrial connectors in Australia.

Konica Minolta Technology Centre and Universal Display Corporation have strengthened their collaboration to incorporate Universal’s PHOLED phosphorescent OLED technology into Konica’s white OLED devices.

Embedded Logic Solutions has announced that it is the Australian distributor for Wind River in the non-aerospace and defence market.

BAE Systems, National Instruments and Phase Matrix (PMI) have announced a joint initiative to develop a PXI Express-based synthetic instrument for military and commercial RF and microwave applications.

AEEMA has held information sessions for digital television and radio suppliers in Melbourne and Sydney, following the decision by the AEEMA Board to form the Australian Digital Suppliers Industry Forum (ADSIF) earlier this year.