News & Analysis

The next fastener show for UK manufacturing professionals takes place very soon - on April 30th at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, near Wolverhampton.

The RF200-2500TUNV1 is the first in a family of High Performance, Wideband, RF Tuners (HiPerTUNER) that is designed for both receivers and transmitters filter applications. The RF200-2500TUNV1 can be used as a premier pre-selector in your receiver or as a post filtering in the transmit-driver’s output chain.

Nexcom has launched three fan-less tablet computers. The MTC 2100, MTC 2100-MD and MRC 2100 are based on Intel’s smallest and lowest power processor (at the time of press) the Atom ™, which was specifically created for use within Mobile Internet Devices. All three platforms have a long battery life that can provide uninterrupted usage for up to 8 Hrs.

CML Innovative Technologies (CML-IT) has signed a distribution agreement with Samsung Electro-Mechanics to distribute its medium and high power ranges of LED products. Samsung’s mid and high power illumination LEDs are available in six different package sizes and in several shades, including cool white, warm white, and an RGB version.

The Institute for System Level Integration, iSLI, is to host a course on Digital Test Technology and DFT at the Bath Innovation Centre on 6th-9th May 2008. This is the 3rd iSLI course to be made available in Bath following a collaborative agreement with Silicon South West, the networking organisation for the largest chip design cluster in Europe, last year.

Orange Tree Technologies, a board-level embedded hardware and software company focused on high performance system-host communications interconnect, today announced that it has joined the Xilinx Alliance Program. The announcement comes on the back of Orange Tree’s record sales performance in the Industrial segment. Participation in the Program is a demonstration of its commitment to supporting the increased use and market deployment of low p...

Cissoid, the pioneer of Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) products, announced today the appointment of Tony Denayer as CEO and Director.

Tekdata Interconnections is pleased to report it has just broken a number of records: not only has the company’s production reached record levels, but in the last five months it has had three of its five best months in terms of order intake. The largest single element in its current production is a range of jet engine and fuel control units.

Texas Instruments has announced 15 recipients of the company’s 2007 Supplier Excellence Award (SEA). The winners, selected from across TI’s worldwide supplier base of over 14,000 companies, were evaluated on a number of areas, including cost, environmental responsibility, technology, responsiveness, assurance of supply and quality – along with overall performance and contributions that help TI better serve its customers.

Sony Europe’s Image Sensing Solutions (ISS) division is extending its commitment to Eastern Europe with the announcement of a new network of distributors across the region. Backed by Sony’s established European application support centre, the network will bring the benefits of Sony’s advanced camera technology to OEM customers and system integrators in applications as diverse as security/CCTV, photo booths, videoconferencing, low light vis...