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2017-03 Connectors United Chemi-Con

[Mar 16 2017] U-blox, a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, announced the launch of two new Wi-Fi modules for the industrial market. NINA-W131 and NINA-W132 are ultra-low power Wi-Fi modules that support the 2.4GHz ISM band 802.11b /g/n standard. They are the first two variants of the new NINA-W1 module family. Developed with the concept of security and reduced time-to-market, the NINA ...

2017-03 Semiconductors Cypress Semiconductor

[Mar 15 2017] Cypress Semiconductor Corporation announced that its leading dual-band 802.11ac combination solution is now in production, enabling high-speed Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity using advanced algorithms for coexistence of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The solution has been adopted in the new Nintendo Switch to support online gaming and communication with the innovative Joy-Con controller. The Nintendo Swit ...

2017-03 Power STMicroelectronics

[Mar 14 2017] STMicroelectronics, a leading global supplier of semiconductors across multiple electronic applications, announced the addition of a powerful plug and play solution to its STSAFE family of security units, providing advanced security protection for Sigfox low-power wide-area Internet of Things (LPWAN) devices. The new STSAFE-A1SX Secure Unit (SE) is based on tamper-proof Common Criteria EAL5+ cert ...

2017-03 Power STMicroelectronics

[Mar 13 2017] STMicroelectronics, the world's leading semiconductor supplier and the world's top MEMS supplier across multiple electronic applications, and DSP Group, the world's leading provider of converged communication wireless chipset solutions, and the world's largest developer of voice interfaces and keyword detection algorithms Sensory Co., LTD., jointly announced the technical details of the high effi ...

2017-03 Connectors Maxim Integrated

[Mar 12 2017] Maxim Integrated introduces the MAX30034, a new defibrillator protection device that can be used in a wide range of medical devices such as defibrillators, ECG diagnostics and monitoring to protect them from defibrillation pulses and electrostatic discharge (ESD). Compared to existing processing methods and devices, the device can simplify design, save more than 75% of space, reduce the material ...

2017-03 Passive Components Littelfuse

[Mar 11 2017] Littelfuse announced the launch of the smallest (5.0×5.0×4.2 mm) square gas discharge tube (GDT) on the market today, with a surge capacity of 5kA and an off-state capacitance of ≤0.7pF. The SH series GDT is designed to provide a high level of protection against fast-rising transients caused by lightning interference. Its low off-state capacitance can meet the requirements of high bandwidth appli ...

2017-03 Power WIMA

[Mar 10 2017] Wiwynn Corporation, a leading provider of cloud infrastructure and data center rack solutions for high-quality computing and storage products, previewed its 48V server platform M1 at the OCP Summit, which will be presented at Booth B3. The server platform design will not only meet the growing demand for 48V servers and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO), but also meet the increasing power n ...

2017-03 Connectors Vicor

[Mar 9 2017] Vicor has announced the addition of a new member to its growing PI37xx family of Cool-Power ZVS booster regulators. The new PI3740 Cool-Power regulator supports an operating voltage range of 8 to 60 VDC and a regulated output voltage of 10 to 50 VDC, delivering up to 140 watts of power and up to 8 amps of output current with up to 96% efficiency. The PI3740 not only incorporates Vicor's proprieta ...

2017-03 Connectors STMicroelectronics

[Mar 8 2017] STMicroelectronics and Usound, a fast-growing audio innovation company, have jointly announced a partnership to market and manufacture the world's first micro-piezoelectric MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical Systems) actuator for intelligent audio systems in portable devices. Usound's patented micro speaker technology is designed to replace today's most commonly used balanced armature speakers and mo ...

2017-03 Power STMicroelectronics

[Mar 7 2017] STMicroelectronics and Airbiquity, a leading global provider of connected car services, At the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the largest event in the world for the mobile industry, ST's in-vehicle information services and Telemaco processors, which integrate Airbiquity software update management services, were jointly presented. The highlight of the product is the integration of Airbiquity's Over- ...

2017-03 Power Alpha Wire

[Mar 6 2017] Actility, the global low-power wide area network (LPWAN) industry leader, announced that it will support 3GPP LTE-M and NB-IoT technologies in its ThingPark iot suite of software, Enables service providers to seamlessly deploy and manage LoRaWAN and NB-IoT integrated LPWA networks using a single OSS/BSS system, device management solution, and data presentation interface. Boris Lacroix, senior vic ...

2017-03 Power United Chemi-Con

[Mar 5 2017] U-blox, a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips; Pietro Fiorentini S.p.a., a leading provider of components, systems and services for natural gas metering and management; and the Italian market leader in meter data management software. Terranova Software, a member of the Pietro Fiorentini Group, today announced that the three companies have successfully completed field testi ...