Amplifier driver
28 July, 2009International Rectifier has introduced the IRS2093 driver IC for Class D audio applications from 50-150 W including home theatre systems and car audio amplifiers.
Power control ICs
01 June, 2009 byRenesas has announced the R2A20114 series of power factor correction control ICs employing continuous conduction mode interleaving to enable implementation of compact, highly efficient, low-noise power supply units for high-power products such as computer servers and air conditioners.
Power switching IC
01 June, 2009 bySwitches Plus has introduced the STR-A6000 series, a small capacity switching power supply IC that features a consumption of 25 mW with no load.
500 mA battery charger
01 June, 2009 bySummit Microelectronics has introduced its latest device to its family of programmable battery charger integrated circuits for single-cell Li-Ion and Li-polymer powered systems.
Dual driver IC
01 June, 2009 byInternational Rectifier has introduced the AUIRS4427S dual low-side driver IC for low-, mid- and high-voltage motor vehicle applications including general-purpose motor drives, vehicle DC-DC converters and hybrid powertrain drives.
PCI cards
01 June, 2009 byStrategic Test Corp has announced two 400 MS/s 14-bit digitiser cards for the PCI bus.
Chip resistor array
27 April, 2009 byVishay has released the ACAS 0612 AT motor vehicle precision thin film chip resistor array, which is tested according to AEC-Q200 and offers a 1000 V ESD stability rating.
Quad multicomputer
27 April, 2009 byGE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has announced the DSP220 6U VXS (VITA 41.2) quad 8641/8641D multicomputer.
Motor vehicle ICs
27 April, 2009 byInternational Rectifier has introduced the AUIRS212xS family of rugged 600 V, single-channel high-side driver ICs for low-, mid- and high-voltage motor vehicle applications, including general-purpose drives, high-voltage actuators and fuel-efficient direct injection systems.
Gate driver IC
24 April, 2009 byInternational Rectifier has introduced the IRS233x(D) family of three-phase gate drive ICs for low-, mid- and high-voltage motor drive applications including permanent magnet motor drives for air conditioners, washing machines, pumps and fans, and micro, mini and general-purpose inverter drives.
Wireless chip
17 April, 2009 byFreescale Semiconductor has released the next-generation MC13224 device in its single-chip IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee platform-in-package family.
WiMAX chipsets
17 April, 2009 byFujitsu has announced a mobile WiMAX chipset optimised for mobile devices such as smart phones and PDAs.
Terabit comms moves closer
20 February, 2009University of Sydney scientists have developed a photonic integrated circuit that can not only increase internet network speeds making them 60 times faster but can act as traffic monitors to keep the speed high and error free.
More chip cores can mean slower supercomputing
05 February, 2009The attempt to increase the speed of supercomputers by increasing the number of processor cores on individual chips unexpectedly worsens performance for many complex applications, according to simulations by Sandia.
Phone chip under joint development
08 December, 2008NTT Docomo, Renesas, Fujitsu and Sharp plan to jointly develop the SH-mobile G4 single-chip LSI device, and a platform incorporating it, to support the HSUPA/HSDPA/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE (2G) mobile telephony standards.
