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In 2008, the German branch of Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V, based in Ratingen celebrates its 30th anniversary. In addition to a summer event held for around 500 employees and their families on June 20th 2008, an anniversary event for an expected 400 customers and partners is due to be held in October 2008. “For 30 years our German branch has been an essential part of the European business of Mitsubishi Electric. The excellent achievements and...

Murata Boy's next performance will be at Electronica 2008 in Munich, Germany, 11-14 November, where he will perform his latest moves in front of a live audience. Murata Boy is Murata's cycling robot mascot and this year, he has travelled all the way from Japan to show Electronica visitors the new tricks he has been taught by Murata's team of engineers. Shows will be hosted 8-10 times each day throughout the week on the Murata stand.

NEC Electronics Europe held its second Industrial Open Day which took place in Barcelona from 16th-18th October 2008. This unique event brought together over one hundred market-leading customers and allowed them to experience first hand NEC Electronics’ latest technology developments, thus providing a platform for continued partnership into the next decade and beyond.

Global test and measurement expert, GOEPEL electronic, will showcase products at the 2008 Electronica trade in Munich, Germany focused on achieving the highest test coverage throughput the product life cycle. Comprehensive test solutions in the JTAG/Boundary Scan, AOI and Automotive test will be demonstrated at Booth A1.542 and A6.A51 from November 11th to 14th. These “Get the total Coverage” solutions are targeted for development, producti...

Patient terminal specialist JAOtech and the pioneers of the column hospital bed, Linet, are partnering to create a connected bed that can collect patient data and transmit it to a hospital IT infrastructure. Linet beds fitted with JAOtech terminals are being exhibited at Medica in Düsseldorf, 19-22 November 2008.

Tensilica,® Inc. today announced that Panasonic Mobile Communications Co. Ltd. has licensed the Xtensa® LX2 customisable processor core for a baseband processor integrated circuit for mobile phones. Now Panasonic Mobile will develop several different configurations of the Xtensa processor.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced an IP licensing agreement with INOVA Semiconductors under which the company will licence INOVA’s APIX® digital serial data link technology.

DAILY RFID has developed a GEN 2 RFID Wristband. The GEN 2 RFID Wristband is the first of its kind for most popular hospital solutions,just like RFID patient tracking,RFID newborn baby tracking. The wristbands are constructed from 100% pure non-allergenic silicone and designed using ISO 18000-6 compliant inlays.

Renesas Technology Corp., Fujitsu Limited, and Sharp Corporation today announced that they plan to jointly develop the SH-Mobile G4 single-chip LSI device, and a platform incorporating it, to support the HSUPA1/HSDPA2/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE (2G) mobile telephony standards. Development of the platform is targeted for completion by the forth quarter of fiscal 2009 (January–March 2010).

Renesas Technology Europe, aicas GmbH, and emtrion GmbH have announced the availability of JamaicaVM 3.2 for the HiCO.SH7780 Single Board Computer. This solution facilitates short engineering cycles for innovative industrial products and equipment.