Nu Horizons has announced the opening of their first office in Australia.

The Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (AEEMA) will hold its biennial Excellence Awards and Gala Dinner on Wednesday 18 October 2006, in Melbourne.

Growing low sheet resistivity transistors on 150 mm silicon wafers has been achieved by a European research group and presented at the 13th International Conference on Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy in Japan.

German manufacturer of advanced cable managements systems, icotek GmbH, has appointed Switches Plus Components as their exclusive distributor for Australia.

SmartCal and Trio Test & Measurement Solutions have merged. The new Trio SmarCal is a Tektronix service, repair and calibration provider and was formed by ex-employees of the Tektronix service department when Tektronix closed its Australian T&M office in 2001.

NewTek Instruments has moved its Sydney office to Homebush where the new address and contact details will be:

Farnell InOne has re-energised its dedicated RoHS website with an RoHS first aid kit that provides emergency assistance to design engineers trying to meet the requirements of the July 1 law.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and DuPont Electronic Technologies have demonstrated a non-destructive method for measuring how temperature affects the electrical properties of three common circuit board materials (ceramic, polymer and glass).

The directors of Compliance Engineering Pty Ltd have announced the launch of Compliance Engineering in the Australian EMC compliance market.

Unispan Instruments Pty Ltd has been appointed distributors of Kimo Constructeur products in Australia.

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed an inexpensive, reliable and easy-to-manufacture class of dielectric films that have the capability of enabling programmable antifuses on integrated circuits (IC) at less cost and using easier-to-manufacture methods.

Electronic circuitry company Qualitec in Rydalmere are moving out of their comfort zone and into electrical and semi-mechanical assembly.

Due to the continual growth of AMS Instrumentation & Calibration Pty Ltd, the company is again on the move.

Techno s.r.1. of Guanzate Italy have signed Switches Plus Components as their exclusive distributor for the Australian/New Zealand region.

A network processor chip could cut the cost of 10 Gig ethernet to as little as US$400 a port, according to semiconductor company Bay Microsystems.