November 2009 Archives

Small high-tech companies are at last getting the opportunity to say where government policy towards small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) is failing them.

A new national survey of SMEs is intended to find out what are their concerns and could lead to better directed support from the UK Government and the industry's trade associations.

Intersil is very impressed with its newest UK distributor, Anglia.


Just six months in and Wisbech-based Anglia has secured important design wins and so picked up Intersil's 'Best Distribution Partner' award for Europe in 2009.

Texas Instruments claims to have the industry's smallest four-channel clock buffer in a package measuring 1.6x2mm.

Building wind farms out at sea creates a problem. How do you get the power generated into the land-based power grid?

The answer is to install the world's longest HVDC power cable.

Easby's staff are celebrating a Kemet franchise for the North Yorkshire distributor.

Digi-Key has extended its agreement with CTS Corporation to include the Tusonix line of EMI/RFI filters, capacitor assemblies, and related components.

Europe's electronic component supply chain may be turning the corner, but distributors don't seem to be popping Champagne corks just yet.

And they are probably right to still be glass half-full merchants.

EBV Elektronik has taken on a new LED product line to address the lighting market in Europe.

Linux lies at the heart of yet another big takeover deal in silicon valley.

Chip makers love Linux.

Executives from UK's distribution community gathered near Windsor last month to welcome Mark Larson, president of Digi-Key and to mark the catalogue distributor's membership of the industry trade body, AFDEC.

Element14, the design community website set up by Farnell, has launched a resource centre for Microchip Technology's range of nanoWatt XLP microcontrollers.

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