Fairchild's energy efficient solutions include a range of products for solar inverters. Alfred Hesener, Director of Marketing and Applications Europe, highlights the FOD3120 which features high noise immunity with 2.5A output current.

There must be two different chip markets operating in industrialised countries across the world.

Pasquale Pistorio, who put together the small, loss-making chip businesses Thomson Semiconducteurs and SGS-Ates, to form STMicroelctronics and drove it to become the fifth largest semiconductor company in the world, worked his first 17 years in the semiconductor business at Motorola. He admired American business culture.

Chip distributors are back to where they were in 2003 in terms of quarterly sales revenues. The latest figures from Europe’s chip distributor association DMASS indicate how weak the first quarter of the year really was.

Qualcomm has outlined its view of the netbook as the 21st Century mobile phone, and it looks like something called a “smartbook”. As long ago as 2007, Qualcomm was saying there was every likelihood that by the end of this year mobile handsets would look and act more like PCs than phones. In 2007, Qualcomm defined the next generation PC handset ...

ACAL Technology will be launching registration for it's "COOL IDEAS" competition at Electronics Weekly Live.

The latest range of Metal Oxide Varistor (MOV) planar arrays from Syfer Technology are designed to deliver protection against lightning strikes and other transi

Tyco Electronics has added a 10A version of its Corcom GG series general-purpose and HG series medical filtered power-entry modules.

Silicon Laboratories is offering a digital isolator which supports six unidirectional isolation channels capable of data rates up to 150Mbit/s.

XP Power’s Power Supply Guide for 2009/2010 has over 50 new product ranges added since the last edition.