News & Analysis

Following the phenomenal success of last year’s in-house Process Day, Blakell Europlacer are delighted to announce that they will be repeating the event again at their UK manufacturing headquarters in Poole, Dorset on the 15th June, 2011.

The new Audi Q3 compact SUV is in good shape to take on the UK following the confirmation this week of keen pricing starting from £24,560 OTR, and the finalization of an impressive equipment list for all versions. Orders for the third Q-model in the series, which will have the distinction of being the first Audi SUV to offer the efficiency-focused option of a 54.3mpg front-wheel-drive variant, are set to begin in June. Deliveries will start in N...

Cypress Semiconductor unveiled a breakthrough feature for its TrueTouch touchscreen controllers that enables manufacturers of handsets, cameras, GPS systems and other mobile systems to offer the benefits of capacitive touchscreens at resistive touchscreen costs. The new feature available for Cypress’s CY8CTST241 (single-touch with one-finger gestures) and CY8CTST242 (adds limited two-finger gestures such as “pinch” and “zoom”) delivers ...

The performance brand within Mercedes-Benz Cars is presenting a new dream-car: the SLS AMG Roadster. This super sports car thrills with a perfect synthesis of open-top driving pleasure, outstanding driving dynamics and systematic lightweight construction. The overall visual appearance of the new two-seater is marked by its purist design.

Volvo Car Corporation anticipates a continued strong demand thanks to successful models, such as the Volvo XC60, V60 and S60. Based on this the company has decided to increase its production capacity. Consequently, Volvo Car Corporation needs to recruit an additional 600 employees to the Swedish plants in Gothenburg, Olofström, Skövde and Floby, and also to the Ghent plant in Belgium.

Agilent Technologies Inc. has received this year's Frost & Sullivan award for market-share leadership in global wireless test equipment.

Ubiquisys has announced a strategic agreement with Intel to develop intelligent basestation (BTS) computing platforms based on Intel® architecture. This emerging generation of intelligent small cells (small base stations) will offer new levels of processing power, creating a cloud of IP-enabled “compute engines” much closer to mobile users.

Atlona Technologies today introduced its HDKVM series of HDMI KVM switchers. The new HDKVM-V21 and HDKVM-V41 allow users to incorporate and switch between multiple computers to one display easily, while utilizing a single keyboard and mouse across all computers.

The chipKIT™ UNO32(tm) and chipKIT™ MAX32(tm) development boards are the first 32-bit microcontroller-based platforms that are compatible with a modified multi-platform version of the Arduino™.

This presentation, provided by Digi-Key and TE Connectivity, will describe the shield terminator products and review information regarding the application of these products. Features of the S200 terminators as well as the benefits will be discussed, and performance data will be reviewed.