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Agilent Technologies has announced the new Agilent Complex Proteomics Standard, created to help researchers with protein biomarker discovery by validating mass-spectrometry-based workflows for protein identification. It is the most advanced standard for MS-based proteomic workflow qualification testing.

Philips Lumileds announced today that it has opened a new office in Shanghai that is being staffed with an applications team and market specialists to support the growing number of companies in China developing solid-state lighting solutions. The applications team and specialists will support customers as they design systems for reliability, efficiency and performance. By providing optical, thermal and electrical LED design expertise, Philips Lum...

NXP Semiconductors today announced that its Sound Solutions business, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, has received a special award for its customer focus at yesterday’s ceremony of the prestigious European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence Award. The award was presented in recognition of the organization’s track record in delivering outstanding customer satisfaction, its customer-centric approach to business, and its abili...

NXP Semiconductors today unveiled intelligent switches supporting the new HDMI 1.4 specification released in June 2009. The NXP TDA19997 and TDA19998 smart switches support the Audio Return Channel (ARC) feature, a new option introduced in the HDMI 1.4 release, which reduces the number of cables required to deliver audio upstream for processing and playback. Building on the success of previous HDMI smart switches from NXP, the TDA19997 and TDA199...

C-MAC MicroTechnology and Linear Technology Corporation today announced a strategic partnership to provide the European, Canadian and Asian space markets with space qualified radiation hardened (rad-hard) monolithic devices and hybrid modules. This important partnership forms part of C-MAC's strategy for growth within the space market following C-MAC's accreditation to MIL-PRF-38534 Class K in 2007.

Mirics has announced it has developed a global broadcast TV solution for NVIDIA GPUs (graphics processing units). By leveraging the massively parallel NVIDIA CUDA architecture for the Mirics FlexiTVTM software-based receiver, a universal low-cost TV receiver can now be implemented on entry-level PCs that have CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPUs.

Akros Silicon announces its AS1854 Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) Powered-Device System-on-Chip (PD SoC) has successfully demonstrated compliance with IEEE 802.3at and IEE802.3af standards and multi-vendor interoperability. Results were announced following tests conducted by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory.

productronica 2009, the world’s leading trade fair for all aspects of electronics production, will be held at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre from Tuesday November 10 to Friday 13, 2009. productronica has been the production industry’s global meeting place since 1975 and this year’s event will bring together more than 1000 exhibitors from over 30 countries. Altogether, well over 60,000m² of exhibition space has already been reserved by ...

Imagination Technologies Group has signed a multi-use license agreement with Ambarella Inc., a technology leader in high definition video compression and image processing SoCs, for a member of Imagination's POWERVR SGX graphics processor family.

Inertial Aerosystems is introducing a new low cost miniature navigation system that is capable of positioning within 5 metres (SEP). Designated the MMQ-G, it is manufactured by U.S.based Systron Donner Inertial. This product is an innovative combination of a solid state inertial measurement unit and a Jupiter PICO (GPS) receiver.