News & Analysis

According to the latest market research carried out by industry research specialist consultants BSRIA, Brand-Rex grew its market share by 2.4% in 2008, despite the fact that the UK market for structured cabling fell by some 8%, forcing most suppliers to report declining sales.

Since 1st September iC-Haus is a member of the IO-Link consortium and hence reintroduces the iC-GF, as a fully IO-Link compliant slave transceiver.

Minicom Advanced Systems - a leading developer of IT & KVM remote access and management solutions for the server room and datacenter - today announced the integration of diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation's ePDU products into its remote access management solution, AccessITTM. Acting as power distribution units for enclosures, Eaton's ePDU products measure power consumption at the data center level, as well as the sever level, t...

The OpenVPX Industry Working Group, an alliance of VITA member defense and aerospace prime contractors and embedded computing systems suppliers focused on addressing VPX (VITA 46) system-level interoperability issues, has announced on schedule the completion of the OpenVPX draft V0.8 specification.

LSI Corporation and Aricent have announced an expansion of their strategic collaboration to accelerate the deployment of wireless and wireline networking infrastructure and enterprise networking systems to the global marketplace. Aricent and LSI currently offer pre-integrated software stacks for multi-service business gateways that run on LSITM APP communications processors and have co-developed broadband networking software with IPv6 capabilitie...

PLX Technology, Inc. today announced a combined demonstration plan of its market-leading products at the upcoming Intel Developers Forum (IDF), September 22-24, 2009. PLX will demo an emerging enterprise usage model of its latest PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 switches and merge it with several new consumer applications by blending its PCIe and network attached storage (NAS) devices, thus showcasing the convergence of PLX® products in the connected worl...

American Industrial Systems, Inc. (AIS) has released a new line of Digital Signage Media Appliances powered by IAdea firmware supporting the latest Scala Content Manager 5 Release 5 Software, empowering users to distribute digital signage content from any internet-connected computer. Traditionally Scala has been limited to PC based hardware, but with Release 5, Scala has changed the game by offering lower cost non-PC (RISC) based hardware solutio...

u-blox, a leading provider of embedded GPS receiver semiconductors and solutions, is announcing its support of Microsoft Corp.’s initiative to make development of location-aware applications on Windows 7 hassle-free. Through the release of u-blox’ driver supporting Microsoft’s Sensor and Location API, software developers now have a standardized interface to the entire line of u-blox GPS chips and modules. The Sensor and Location platform fo...

NEC Electronics Corporation, Renesas Technology Corp, NEC Corporation, Hitachi, Ltd., and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to integrate business operations at NEC Electronics and Renesas (the “Business Integration”). The Business Integration will become effective following the adoption of the resolutions at the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of NEC Electronics and Rene...

ARM has announced the development of two Cortex-A9 MPCore hard macro implementations for the TSMC 40nm-G process, enabling silicon manufacturers to have a rapid and low-risk route to silicon for high-performance, low-power Cortex-A9 processor-based devices. The speed-optimized hard macro implementation will enable devices to operate at frequencies greater than 2GHz.