News & Analysis
High Visibility 638nm Laser Diode
Photonic Products has announced a new high visibility, short wavelength laser diode from Sanyo which offers a very high optical output power of 40mW CW with a low threshold current of 60mA in a 9mm package.
Unipower to launch new power system at GlobalComm 2006
UNIPOWER Telecom will introduce its latest DC power system at GLOBALCOMM 2006 (June 4 to 8 - Chicago - Booth 20022), the World’s premier exhibition and conference for the World’s information and communications technology industry.
Riedo becomes Corporate Senior VP at Maxwell Technologies
Maxwell Technologies has announced that Alain Riedo, general manager of the company's Maxwell Technologies SA subsidiary, has been promoted to senior vice president and appointed a corporate officer.
TI's Network Support Package gets Substantial Updates
Texas Instruments has announced it has made substantial updates to its gateway software solution, the Network Support Package (NSP) 3.7.1, enabling manufacturers to quickly and easily make improvements across product lines and realize faster time-to-market and return on investment.
Clever picoChip
picoChip has announced that it has been nominated as a double finalist at the Wireless Broadband Innovation (WBI) Awards 2006. picoChip is in contention for both Most Innovative Wireless Broadband Company and Best WiMAX / Wireless Broadband Product award categories. This follows last week¹s announcement that it won Frost & Sullivan¹s prestigious 2006 Semiconductors Industry Innovation & Advancement of the Year Award.
High-Definition Set-Top-Box Platforms to be demonstrated at MEDC in Las Vegas
STMicroelectronics will demonstrate state-of-the-art product solutions that can address a variety of digital-consumer electronics market segments at MEDC (Mobile & Embedded DevCon), Las Vegas, May 8-11, 2006.
Acte finds its way to QinetiQ's GPS modules
Acte Components has announced its appointment by QinetiQ as their European commercial sales partner for a range of highly Sensitive GPS modules, which are suitable for markets requiring tracking indoors.
CoWare gets new Sales Director for Central and N Europe
CoWare has announced that Hubert Wolters has joined the company as senior sales director for Central and Northern Europe reporting to Mike Faust, CoWare's vice president of North America and Europe sales.
Fanless industrial PC for RoHS compliant embedded applications
The family of Geode processors from AMD has been highly successful as longlife, low power, fanless computing solutions. To extend the Geode roadmap, Arcom has introduced a next generation board based on the AMD Geode GX CPU clocked at 400MHz but with performance equivalent to a similar class of CPU running at 533MHz.
Thuraya satellite phones get first portable and dockable tracking system
Triteq Ltd has designed the electronics in an advanced location-tracking unit developed by Geonix Tracking Ltd for the Thuraya satphone handset. The UK-developed clip-on unit is designated as GT2000 and was introduced by Geonix to the Thuraya Service Providers at a conference and exhibition held in Dubai from 24-25 April.