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Lighting Science Group Completes $18 Million Private Placement
Lighting Science Group Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: LSCG), a leading American maker of LED lighting, completed an $18 million private placement of its common stock on January 26, 2011. The purchase price of the shares purchased in connection with this private placement represents a discount of less than 3% to the closing price of the company's common stock on the date the company's Committee of Independent Directors approved the transaction. ...
National Semiconductor Demonstrates 28 Gbps Data Centre Technology with Molex and Amphenol
National Semiconductor today announced it has achieved a breakthrough in high-speed signal conditioning by becoming the first company to successfully demonstrate 28 Gbps discrete quad-channel retimer technology with ultra-low power consumption to drive 100 Gbps to 400 Gbps interfaces in next-generation data center systems.
Cadence Drives Giga-gate/Gigahertz Design at 28nm with New Digital End-to-end Flow
Cadence Design Systems today advanced the design of giga-gate/gigahertz system on chips (SoCs) with a proven digital end-to-end flow at 28 nanometers that yields both performance and time-to-market advantages. Driven by the Cadence Silicon Realization approach, the new Encounter-based flow provides a faster, more deterministic path to achieve giga-gate/gigahertz silicon through technology integration and significant core architecture and algorith...
Quality Award for NXG Electronics Ltd
Following an assessment by an independent body, NXG Electronics Ltd has been awarded ISO 9001 certification. This certification has only been achieved by about 5% of UK businesses and this prestigious award is supported by the Government and recognised world-wide.
Medical group Elekta gets to market quickly with LynuxWorks LynxOS-SE
International medical technology group Elekta is basing its new generations of equipment on LynuxWorks LynxOS-SE to get to market quickly with systems that deliver high levels of functionality, fault tolerance and safety.
KACST-INTEL CENA kicks off research at imec
King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (KACST) signed agreement today with imec, a world-leading nanoelectronics research center headquartered in Belgium, to host researchers from KACST-INTEL consortium Center of Excellence in Nano-manufacturing Applications (CENA) at imec facilities in Belgium starting September 2011 for a period of three years. CENA focuses on leading-edge research on advanced nano-processing and fabrication technology, ...
STI Electronics’ Director of Training Services Celebrates 10th Anniversary
STI Electronics, Inc., a full service organization providing training, electronic and industrial distribution, consulting, laboratory analysis, prototyping, and small- to medium-volume PCB assembly, announces the 10-year anniversary of Pat Scott, Director of Training Services. In honor of her anniversary, Pat was presented with a travel certificate to be used for a cruise or travel destination of her choice.
Cypress Reports Fourth-Quarter and Year-End 2010 Results
Cypress Semiconductor today announced that non-GAAP1 revenue for the 2010 fourth quarter was $226.6 million, down 2.3% from $231.9 million for the prior quarter, and up 16.8% from $194.0 million for the year-ago period. GAAP revenue for the 2010 fourth quarter—which included a reduction of $6.3 million due to the accounting treatment for settling a long-standing civil antitrust lawsuit on SRAMs—was $220.3 million.
Atos Origin and NXP Introduce End-to-End Security in the Smart Grid
Atos Worldline, which brings together Atos Origin’s expertise in high-tech transactional services, and NXP Semiconductors today announced a unique end-to-end security and authentication solution designed to protect Smart Grid networks against energy theft, privacy breaches and grid attacks.
Sentec partner, OnStream, wins Metering Manufacturer & Technology of the Year Award and Innovation of the Year Award at European Smart Metering Awards
Sentec, the smart grid technology specialist, is pleased to announce that its partner, OnStream, a National Grid company, has triumphed at the European Smart Metering Awards, taking both the Metering Manufacturer & Technology of the Year and the Innovation of the Year categories. This prestigious accolade, adjudicated by a panel of industry specialists, recognise the success of the meters launched by OnStream last year that are bringing Sentec’...