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Binder UK appoints David McKenzie as key account manager
Binder UK has appointed David McKenzie as key account manager. His primary responsibility will be to develop new business opportunities with OEMs in market areas such as medical devices, security and lighting as well as Binder core markets such as sensors and automation. In addition, David’s role will include supporting the network of key specialist distribution channels.
First commercial quantum computer system
Triton, Oxford Instruments’ cryofree dilution refrigeration system is an important component in the first commercial quantum computer system to be supplied by D-Wave Systems Inc. Vancouver based D-Wave has announced an agreement to sell a D-Wave One™ quantum computer system to a Fortune 100 company. The Triton™ system provides the low temperature environment that is essential to the performance of its quantum annealing processor...
PlasmaPro System100 at University of Glasgow
The James Watt Nanofabrication Centre in Glasgow, UK, has added a PlasmaPro System100 ICP plasma etch system to its existing installed base of Oxford Instruments etch and deposition tools. The PlasmaPro System100 ICP will be used to etch compound semiconductors materials used in applications such as optoelectronics, mm-wave & terahertz, bioengineering, biotechnology, lab-on-a-chip, energy harvesting and photovoltaics.
LSI Now Shipping in Volume Second-Generation 40nm LDPC Read Channel for Hard Disk Drives
LSI announced it is shipping in volume the TrueStore RC9700 read channel IP integrated into system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs for the hard disk drive (HDD) market. The TrueStore RC9700 is a second-generation 40nm read channel featuring a low-density parity check (LDPC) iterative decoding architecture. First available in silicon in November 2010, the RC9700 is shipping in production volumes with its initial silicon, accelerating time-to-market for n...
National Center for Supercomputing Applications Selects LSI CacheCade SSD Technology for Large-scale, Multinational Dark Energy Survey Project
LSI Corporation announced that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has deployed a system utilizing LSI® 6Gb/s SAS RAID controllers with LSI CacheCadeTM cache tiering software to explore some of the unprecedented data storage challenges that will come with the Dark Energy Survey. The Dark Energy Survey is a large-scale, multinational effort to study the acceleration of the expanding universe. Involving more than 120 scienti...
LSI Honors Outstanding Strategic Suppliers
LSI is honoring 18 world-class suppliers for their exceptional support in helping LSI meet its goal to be a technology leader while remaining cost competitive. STATS ChipPAC Ltd. was named “Strategic Partner of the Year” and was one of three companies designated “Best-in-Class” in recognition of their excellent value as full system suppliers, and for their design capabilities and aggressive pursuit of cost reductions.
PLX and Avago Technologies Team-Up to Prove PCI Express over Fiber Optics at 64Gbps
PLX Technology and Avago Technologies announced a collaboration using optics to demonstrate PCI Express (PCIe) extending beyond its dominant role within the box to a cabled box-to-box solution. This higher-performance alternative is paving the road for next-generation data center applications where lower latency, lower cost, extended cabling distances, and I/O conversion minimization create simpler architectures for cleaner PCIe end-to-end envir...
RS Components sponsors IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award
RS Components is sponsoring the 2011 Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award.
Mouser’s Consistent High Growth Earns e-Commerce Distributor Excellence Award from Bourns
Mouser Electronics, Inc., a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced it was awarded the Bourns’ 2010 e-Commerce Distributor Excellence Award for Circuit Protection Products. The award was based on overall percent growth for CPP in 2010. Mouser had the highest growth percentage year over year for all Bourns’ E-Commerce distributor partners.
Benefit from the 7Layers OTA experience for Battery Life Testing Services
When purchasing a mobile phone consumers are not only looking for design and price but also for stand-by and talk time of their new product.