ON Semiconductor has with great sadness learned of the death of Phillip D. Hester, who served as a valued and influential member of the company’s Board of Directors since 2006. Mr. Hester, who held the position of Senior Vice President of Research and Development for National Instruments, reportedly passed away on September 17.

ON Semiconductor driving innovation in energy efficiency, has moved its Limerick Design Center into an expanded and technically upgraded campus. The newly acquired state-of-the-art facilities, located at Limerick’s Raheen Business Park, now boast 2,000 square meters of office space and engineering laboratories that are ISO 9001:2010 and ISO 9001:2012 certified.

ON Semiconductor announce the new NCN5150 integrated slave transceiver for use in two-wire Meter Bus slave devices and repeaters. The NCN5150 provides all necessary functionality to satisfy the EN 13757-2 and EN 1434-3 standards that describe the physical layer requirements for remote meter reading M-BUS applications in multi-energy, heating and cooling, water and gas meters.

ON Semiconductor driving innovation in energy efficiency, has significantly expanded its portfolio of AEC-Q100 and AEC-Q101 qualified standard components designed for demanding automotive applications. 

ON Semiconductor have today revealed that Takahisa Amemiya has joined the company to manage and lead the sales and marketing operations in Japan as President and Representative Director of ON Semiconductor Japan and Co-President and Representative Director of SANYO Semiconductor Device.

ON Semiconductor announce a new MP3 capable device to support both record and playback in portable MP3 audio applications where there is a strong requirement for miniaturization, reduced BoM and reduced cost. The LC823430TA audio processing system provides a single-chip solution by integrating digital signal processing circuitry for MP3 encoding and decoding, and analog blocks such as audio analog-to-digital conversion and digital-to-analog conve...

ON Semiconductor has announced that it will present its latest semiconductor solutions for power and motor applications at TECHNO-FRONTIER 2013, from July 17-19 being held at Tokyo Big Sight. A team of experienced engineering experts from ON Semiconductor and the company's SANYO Semiconductor division will be available to demonstrate products that play key roles in various power supply and motor applications.

ON Semiconductor have collaboratively developed and released to production a complex Application Specific Integrated Circuit for the A350 XWB Flight Control Computer. Code named JEKYLL, this custom silicon solution was designed using ON Semiconductor’s internal 110 nanometer process technology and manufactured at the company’s Gresham, Oregon, facility. Completion of the JEKYLL project reflects a successful collaboration from feasibil...

ON Semiconductor has announced collaboration with SRI International and Ball Aerospace & Technologies to secure funding for the Defense Production Act Title III, Advanced CMOS Focal Plane Arrays for Visible Sensors for Star Trackers (VSST) Project. The goal of the project is to increase the availability of domestically produced visible imagers, manufactured using advanced CMOS technology, that are designed to enable flexible visible imaging s...

Switched-Mode Power Supplies (SMPS) are increasingly popular in automotive electronic systems but can present EMC problems. Frequency modulation could provide the answer. By Kieran McDonald, Field Applications Systems Engineer for ON Semiconductor.

ON Semiconductor has introduced two new MOSFET devices designed for use in smart phone and tablet PC applications where they provide a crucial part of the Lithium ion battery charging / discharging protection circuit switching. The EFC6601R and EFC6602R help designers to reduce solution size, improve efficiency and maximise battery life.

ON Semiconductor, driving innovation in energy efficiency, will present its latest automotive semiconductor solutions at the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2013, from May 22-24 at the Pacifico Yokohama.

ON Semiconductor has expanded its portfolio of high performance IGBTs targeted at high performance power conversion (HPPC) consumer appliance and industrial applications. The new generation Field Stop II (FSII) devices improve switching characteristics and reduce losses by up to 30 percent leading to higher efficiency and translating into lower case temperature, giving designers options for improving overall system performance and reliability

ON Semiconductor expands its portfolio of high performance IGBTs targeted at high performance power conversion consumer appliance and industrial applications. The new generation Field Stop II devices being launched at PCIM improve switching characteristics and reduce losses by up to 30 percent leading to higher efficiency and translating into lower case temperature, giving designers options for improving overall system performance and reliabilit...

ON Semiconductor has been awarded a “2012 Best Partner award” from ASUSTeK Computer. This is the second time ON Semiconductor has been honored by ASUS for its best-in-class technology, quality and customer service.

ON Semiconductor Corporation today announced that it has successfully completed a privately negotiated exchange of $60 million aggregate principal amount of its 2.625 percent Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due in 2026 (“Old Notes”) with an institutional holder.

ON Semiconductor will showcase its latest power efficient product advances at APEC 2013, March 17 - 21, 2013, in Long Beach, California. The new devices are designed for boosting performance and simplifying the design of offline power supplies, AC lighting infrastructure and motor control systems.

ON Semiconductor has introduced a new family of Tunable RF Components (TRFC) that address the design challenges faced by engineers developing the latest generation smartphones. The new devices optimally combine tuning range, RF quality factor (Q) and frequency operation, providing a superior solution to existing fixed approaches.

ON Semiconductor has today announced the launch of the LV5980MC, a 3 ampere step down DC-DC converter integrated circuit that improves conversion efficiency at light load. In consumer electronics designs, the device is able to reduce energy consumption during standby mode. The LV5980MC regulates input voltages from 4.5 volts to 23 V down to an output voltage as low as 1.235 V.

ON Semiconductor has today announced the introduction of two new clock distribution ICs. “The NB6L56 presents the industry with a more advanced 2:1 signal management solution. It is pin-to-pin compatible with existing products on the market, but offers greatly enhanced jitter performance, allowing a wider eye opening so that system reliability can be improved, states Ryan Cameron, vice president of Industrial and Timing Products at ON Semic...