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Toshiba have announced that Toshiba and Toshiba T&D Europe have won an Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract for a High Voltage and Direct Current power conversion system for an undersea power transmission line between Cepagatti, Italy, and Kotor, Montenegro. The project will deliver a maximum 1,000MW of power to Cepagatti and will contribute to the integration of the Southeastern Europe and EU power grids.

Kilopass Technology today announced that it has filed the initial legal appeal brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Appellate Court”), outlining the procedural and legal errors in the U.S. District Court’s decision on Summary Judgement to dismiss the patent infringement case against Sidense. The Appellate Court is expected to review, and if Kilopass prevails return the case with instructions for trial in the second...

For most of the last two decades personal computers have accounted for a third or more of annual IC sales, but standard PCs are now on the brink of being replaced as the largest end-use product category for integrated circuits, according to IC Insights’ new 485-page 2013 edition of IC Market Drivers—A Study of Emerging and Major End-Use Applications Fueling Demand for Integrated Circuits. With cellphones and tablet computers racking up strong...

Molex and profichip announce a strategic cooperation focusing on PROFINET technologies. Molex software development kits are the first choice of many PLC manufacturers and device makers for PROFINET connectivity where maximum throughput and efficiency are key requirements. The Molex offer includes PROFINET IO-Controller and IO-Device SDK based on ANSI “C” source code.

SMART Group hjas today revealed that it will present the webinar “100 Years of X-ray Advancement” on Tuesday, 29 January, 2013, at 2:30 p.m. (GMT). This SMART e-webinar will be presented by Dr. David Bernard and Keith Bryant of the SMART Technical Committee. The webinar will discuss numerous advances in terms of X-ray tube, software and X-ray detector technology that have been increasingly applied into helping with the manufacturing of electr...

The HARTING Technology Group achieved revenues of €479 million in the financial year under review (October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012) coming in at slightly under the previous year’s level (€481 million) with a decline of just 0.4%. The revenues of the internationally active company were therefore maintained at a very high level overall.

Crocus Technology and SMIC today announce a new strategic manufacturing agreement. SMIC will supply CMOS wafers to produce Magnetic Logic Unit(TM) (MLU) devices at 90 nanometer, 65 nanometer and 45 nanometer nodes, with a path to process the entire flow.

See the amazing thermal performance of Intersil's new ISL8225M, the industry's best thermally performing single 30A/dual 15A power module. This simple to design in module can deliver up to 100W of power from a tiny 17mm sq. QFN package.

At the automation fair SPS/IPC/Drives in Nuremberg the German HEITEC AG announced the acquisition of Rittal’s complete line of electronic packaging systems. Effective January 2013, design, production and sales of all serial products and customer specific solutions concerned will be transferred to HEITEC. After taking over the customer specific solutions business from Rittal three years ago, with this agreement HEITEC will now continue to extend...

PCB manufacturers can take advantage of a fast, reliable and safe solution to meet the growing demand for flash/HIPOT tested (2kV) unpopulated boards. Clare has developed a bespoke system utilising its HAL104 instrument connected to a test enclosure, which enables the easy flash testing of PCBs during the initial production stages.