| TI acquires power management start-up
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2009-02-13 |
| With Ciclon, TI gains quick entry into the power MOSFET and other analogue-oriented IC businesses |
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| Vishay licenses TrenchFET tech to KEC
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2006-06-22 |
| Vishay Intertechnology Inc. will license its power MOSFET technology to KEC, a Korean-based discrete components company |
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| Packaging becomes problem-solving tool
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2005-09-01 |
| Package technology provides improved electrical and thermal performance for today's single-die power products. |
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| Converter makers compete to maximise light-load efficiency
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2007-12-03 |
| Given the importance of battery life to the end products' market success, high efficiency across the entire load range has become an increasingly crucial characteristic in today's step-down converters. |
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| TowerJazz, Vishay deepen foundry ties
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2010-07-02 |
| TowerJazz and Vishay Intertechnology Inc. have added planar MOSFETs and Super Junction MOSFETs to their foundry business. |
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| Examine power priority
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2010-03-22 |
| Examine your priorities and weigh your pros anc cons before going low-power advises Bill Schweber |
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| TI 300mm analogue fab put rivals on notice
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2009-10-05 |
| Texas Instruments Inc. is putting pressure on its analogue rivals with its latest a 300mm fab in the United States. |
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| ST explores fuel cell, biochemical sensor markets
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2007-05-15 |
| STMicroelectronics said it expects to bring samples of micro-fuel cells to market in 2009 and to sample biochemical sensors and electronics-on-plastics in 2008. |
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| Digital power supply technology steadily gains ground
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2007-03-20 |
| The introduction of digital power technology to power supplies stood out at the 12th Annual International IC-China Conference & Exhibition. |
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| Intel reveals Sandy Bridge design techniques
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2011-02-25 |
| Intel Corp. shared technical details of its 32nm Sandy Bridge processor at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). |
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| Power management IC market to grow more slowly
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2011-11-18 |
| A new report shows that general slowdown in consumer spending is one of the reasons for the slow growth of the power management semiconductor market. |
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| ST, Semikron partner to deliver integrated power modules
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2006-04-21 |
| Semikron International and STMicroelectronics are teaming up to develop and deliver integrated power modules for industrial, consumer, and automotive markets. |
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| Silicon FETs, LEDs integrated for optoelectronic ICs
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2011-03-29 |
| Toyohashi Tech researchers have successfully made a one-bit counter circuit optoelectronic IC with an optical output consisting of silicon FETs integrated with gallium phosphide nitride LEDs on a single chip. |
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| GlobalFoundries reports high-k tech for 22nm
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2009-06-18 |
| GlobalFoundries has found a technique that enables a high-k/metal-gate transistor to scale to the 22-nm node. |
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| Good vibrations for energy scavenging
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2008-11-13 |
| Patrick Mannion looks at the forces driving energy harvesting and performs an exam on the Joule-Thief demonstration kit from AdaptivEnergy. |
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| Freescale, ST to establish automotive partnership
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2006-02-09 |
| Freescale and STMicroelectronics have announced that they are teaming up to establish a wide-ranging initiative to reinforce their respective strengths in automotive applications. |
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| Intel lists challenges for chip scaling
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2009-02-12 |
| At the ISSCC, Intel's Mark Bohr listed five major stumbling blocks for the 32nm node and beyond. |
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| Design trends in solar inverters
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2010-01-15 |
| The solar inverter design is becoming one of the hot areas of focus for China's engineers. This article lists some design trends to make solar inverters highly efficient and reliable. |
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| Step-down converter manufacturers up efficiency
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2007-10-22 |
| Step-down converter manufacturers are employing a wide array of schemes to maximise the efficiency of their devices in light load. |
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| TI offers chips for charging portables safely
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2007-11-02 |
| TI?s battery charger front-end ICs can protect a system from input overvoltage, overcurrent and battery overvoltage conditions that may result from a power spike during charging or from a defective wall adapter. |
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| Nanovacuum tubes could enhance batteries, memories
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2009-12-30 |
| Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign tout that nanometre-scale vacuum tubes should be able to achieve 3x the energy density of Li-ion batteries. |
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| Infineon, IR ink DirectFET licensing deal
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2007-10-03 |
| Infineon will combine IR's DirectFET power package tech with its OptiMOS chip tech to enable power supply designers achieve energy and cost-efficient solutions for a given application. |
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| IEDM: Focus on energy conservation
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2010-12-01 |
| The 2010 International Electron Devices Meeting focuses on semiconductors and other devices that generate, transmit, use and save energy. |
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| Streamlining power systems for servers
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2005-11-16 |
| New opportunities must be found in server systems to reduce energy consumption. |
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| Renesas to focus energies on power ICs
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2010-10-15 |
| Strengthening its lead position in microcontrollers, Renesas plans to leverage this position to grow sales of other types of semiconductors, particularly power management ICs. |
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| TI acquires National Semi, grows analogue portfolio
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2011-04-06 |
| Texas Instruments Inc. announces the signing of a merger agreement to acquire National Semiconductor Corp. for Rs.29,562.59 crore ($6.5 billion) in cash. |
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| Power Integrations gains high-voltage diode supplier
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2011-02-08 |
| Power Integrations Inc. recently bought high-performance high-voltage diode supplier, Qspeed Semiconductor for an estimated Rs.32.11 crore ($7 million) in cash. |
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| Freescale exec tackles future of automotive
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2009-06-15 |
| The market and the technology definitively will be different when the automotive market does recover. |
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| Analogue circuit may boost energy harvesting
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2009-01-15 |
| ALD said it increased the output of green power sources with an array of zero-threshold transistors. |
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| Optos, sensors, discretes sales to outpace ICs
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2009-03-27 |
| Sales of optos, CMOS image sensors, power transistors, and overall discrete devices set record high revenue levels last year. |
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