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Infineon Technologies today introduces the ThinPAK 8x8, a new leadless SMD package for HV MOSFETs. The new package has a very small footprint of only 64mm² (vs. 150mm² for the D2PAK) and a very low profile with only 1mm height (vs. 4.4mm for the D2PAK). The significantly smaller package size, combined with benchmark low parasitic inductances, provides designers with a new and effective way to decrease system solution size in power density drive...

Infineon Technologies and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation agreed to establish a service agreement by which they will both serve the industrial motion controls and drives market worldwide as sources for the advanced IGBT module packages SmartPACKs and SmartPIMs. This revolutionary package concept, recently developed by Infineon Technologies, will be available with the latest generation of power chip technologies from the two leaders.

Infineon has advanced to become the world’s foremost supplier of chips for automotive electronics, according to the most recent study published by Strategy Analytics. The U.S.-based market researcher reports that Infineon captured a 9.0 percent share of the global market with sales totaling $US1.31 billion in 2009. Infineon strengthened its market position even though it was a crisis year for the automobile industry, with the overall market for...

Infineon Technologies announced that the Hirose plant of the Toyota Motor Corporation awarded Infineon the ”Honor Quality Award”, its highest level award for delivering extraordinary product quality. This is the first time ever that a non-Japanese company was honored with a “Honor Quality Award” and Infineon is the only recipient of the award in 2010. Infineon was recognized for providing CAN transceivers with zero-defect quality for fou...

MindTree Ltd., a global IT solutions company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the business (including people, customer contracts and Intellectual Properties) of 7Strata, a Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) services provider. The acquisition will be effective 1 May 2010 and is subject to certain closing conditions which are expected to be completed shortly.

Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, and vividwireless, Australia' s leading wireless broadband operator, today announced the launch of Australia' s first commercial WiMAX network in Perth – the most powerful wireless broadband network in the country. It is also the world' s first WiMAX network to adopt cutting-edge 4T4R (4 transmitter and 4 receiver) and Beamforming ...

Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, today celebrated the official opening of its Ottawa R&D Centre with employees, customers and dignitaries. As the first Canadian R&D Centre for Huawei, the facility is designed to provide operators and partners with local access to Huawei' s industry leading solutions as well as to leverage local talent while driving technology innova...

Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, and Dialog Telekom PLC (Dialog), the largest mobile carrier in Sri Lanka, today announced the successful deployment of a next-generation Home Location Register (ngHLR). The deployment of ngHLR can serve 10 million subscribers in Sri Lanka and enable Dialog to realize centralized management, simplify its network, and support future su...

Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, today announced that it has assisted China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC), the world' s leading telecom operator, launched the world' s first TD-LTE/SAE trial network enabled by Huawei' s E2E solution. The network, which offers a more than 10 times faster download data rate than existing 3G networks, will serve the entire 2...

Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world announced that Huawei has deployed the huge capacity CDMA MSC Pool core network for PT Bakrie Telecom (Bakrie Telecom) in Indonesia. It will allow Bakrie Telecom to accommodate the fast-growing needs in the world' s fourth most populous country and also maximize the use of network resources and ensure reliability and efficiency.