News & Analysis

Arctic Silicon Devices, ASD, based in Norway have appointed Broadband Technology to market their innovative range of Low Power and analog and mixed signal front end ICs

Mirics today announces it has commenced volume shipments of its software-based broadcast TV receiver, FlexiTVÔ, to its global customer base. FlexiTV rewrites the economics of supporting global standards broadcast reception on PC platform devices such as desktops, notebooks, and netbooks, by implementing the traditional silicon demodulation functionality in software. The ability to offer value-add features such as FlexiTV is especially attractive...

Freescale Semiconductor has unveiled the future of the smartbook category with a tablet reference design featuring a 7-inch touch screen with up to four times the viewing area of a typical smartphone and based on a form factor that is approximately one-third the size and volume of today’s typical netbook.

Today, Enel Green Power, Sharp and STMicroelectronics signed an agreement for the manufacture of triple-junction thin-film photovoltaic panels in Italy. At the same time, Enel Green Power and Sharp signed a further agreement to jointly develop solar farms.

Sunburst Electronics, a contract manufacturer of electronic controls based in Erie, Pa., announced today that the company has achieved a new quality milestone – ISO AS9100.

Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, was ranked first in the world' s incremental SDM (Subscriber Data Management) and ngHLR(next-generation Home Location Register) markets by Frost & Sullivan in their report, World Subscriber Data Management Market, Q3 2009, which covers the first three quarters of 2009.

Rohde & Schwarz will put its T&M expertise on display in Barcelona with its complete product portfolio for new mobile radio and wireless technologies (hall 1, booth 1D33). Solutions for LTE, HSPA+ and WiMAX are available for both manufacturers and network operators and include everything from the measurements required during RF and protocol development through conformance testing, production and network optimization.

Furthering its initiative in offering world class electronic solutions to meet the demanding requirements of the aerospace and defense applications, Mistral Solutions, a leading product realization company specializing in real-time embedded solutions, today announced the availability of its Radar Receiver.

Leading mobile TV chip maker, Siano Mobile Silicon (www.siano-ms.com), announced today that the world’s largest Personal Navigation Device (PND) makers, Garmin, Mio, Navigon and others – have integrated its leading MDTV receiver chips into their latest consumer GPS products. The design wins represent a major penetration of the consumer GPS market for Siano, further enhancing its position as a one-stop shop for MDTV chip solutions in emerging...

Fairchild's Global Power ResourceSM Centers (GPRCs), located in Shenzhen, Shanghai and Taipei, have further enhanced their reputation as a valuable resource for system design engineers around the world by announcing the development of a number of innovative, energy-efficient solutions. These solutions target a wide range of applications and markets including the rapidly emerging LED, netbook and PC power segments.