Pickering Interfaces is expanding its range of PXI RF switching cards with four RF switching modules which support frequencies to 3GHz.
Monthly Archives: July 2007
Wake Up, You Wall Street Journal Guys!
It’s very odd to see the Wall Street Journal today complaining about the EC’s application of anti-trust law to Intel. After all the WSJ is the organ of American business, and America pretty much invented modern anti-trust law with the Sherman Act of 1890.
Cyan raises £5.3m to fund Chinese ambitions
UK fabless semiconductor firm Cyan has raised £5.3m after a share placing of 53,300,000 new ordinary shares at 10 pence per share. The company said it intends to use the money as working capital. The firm is still focusing on the Chinese market where it believes there is an opportunity in the domestic market. The firm said it would develop ...
Fairchild Semiconductor 4-Bit, Low-Voltage Dual-Supply Voltage Translator with Independent-Direction Controls
Fairchild claims the FXL4TD245 provides design flexibility and reduces board space in computing, communications, industrial and ultra-portable applications
KEMET C0G dielectric MLCCs
KEMET expands its range of MLCC (Multilayer Ceramic Chip) products in C0G dielectric, and capacitance values have been extended in 25V rated 0402, 0603, 0805, 1
Talk to us – Union tells Freescale at East Kilbride
Union officials have been unable to talk to the management at the Freescale Semiconductor fab in East Kilbride over three weeks after the firm said it would try and sell the facility. A union representative for the Transport and General Worker’s Union – currently merging with Amicus to form Unite – said it was not easy to get to talk with private ...
Mobile device manufacturers face increasing test demands
"The carriers are now beginning to exert their muscle beyond certification, implementing their own schemes for accepting devices"
Motorola plans tiny display projectors for mobiles
Motorola signs a deal with US-based Microvision to develop the miniature laser-based display systems
Linear Technology Dual SIM/Smart Card Power Supply IC
A dual subscriber identity module (SIM) and Smart Card power supply IC with level translator that provides both 1.8V and 3V SIM power and digital signal level s
Anti-Competitive? What Me, M’Lud? Asks Intel
It looks as if Intel will be adopting the ‘there seems to have been a bit of a misunderstanding M’lud’ defence to the EC’s charges against it, with Intel’s lawyer saying that it was ‘a failure of logic’ to suggest that payments made to allegedly delay launches of AMD-based products were part of any kind of anti-AMD activity.