Cambridge Nanotherm is to build its first prototype manufacturing plant in Haverhill, UK following the award of £250,000 in matched funding from the UK Innovation Agency – Technology Strategy Board (TSB).
Cambridge Nanotherm has developed and patented a nanoceramic-aluminum substrate for thermal management of electronics, which can be used…
Energy Micro is working with TSMC to verify the benefits of using the foundry’s Extreme Low Leakage (eLL) process to produce the next generation of its Cortex-M microcontrollers.
TSMC’s eLL process is a refinement of its embedded flash (EmbFlash) technology with even lower power consumption than its…
This year, the market size for high brightness (HB) LEDs is expected to reach $12bn and grow to $20.2bn by 2015. One application area driving this growth is the use of LEDs in backlight of TFT-LCDs, writes Tony Armstrong (pictured), director of product marketing for power products at…
Toshiba has announced a family of 600V mosfets with integrated high-speed intrinsic diodes.
Part of the firm’s fourth generation of 600V super-junction devices, they are aimed at switching power supplies, micro inverters, adaptors, and photovoltaic inverters.
TK16A60W5 is supplied in a TO-220SIS package. Maximum current 15…
STMicroelectronics has launched the 2013 iNEMO Design Contest in Taiwan.
It is the third time ST is running the competition for students and young engineers in Taiwan to design new applications built around ST’s iNEMO MEMS-based multi-sensor technology.
This year’s contest encourages contestants to use sensing…
Cree has announced it first commercially available silicon carbide (SiC) six-pack power module in an industry standard 45mm package.
When replacing a silicon module with equivalent ratings, Cree claims the 1.2kV, 50A six-pack module can reduce power losses by 75%.
“This leads to an immediate 70% reduction…
Altera has agreed to acquire Enpirion, a supplier of power converter ICs.
US-based Enpirion develops DC-DC converter system-on-chip devices with integrated inductors which it offers as an alternative to discrete power products.
“Power is increasingly a strategic choice for product differentiation in communications, computing and enterprise…
Energy Micro has released the ARM Cortex-M4F version of its ultra-low-power microcontroller family, with up to 256kbyte flash and 32kbyte RAM.
M4 is a Cortex-M3 with added DSP functions, and the Norwegian company has gone for the floating point unit (FPU) M4F option, considerably adding to…