Industry News
Testing recognition
EMC Technologies' Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane laboratories have been appointed by TÜV Rheinland as recognised test laboratories.
[ + ]Sensor deal
Digi-Key Corporation and Bosch Sensortec have entered into a global agreement to distribute Sensortec acceleration and pressure sensors and its BMP085 baromateric pressure sensor.
[ + ]LED licence agreement
Osram (Germany) has extended its existing licence with Everlight Electronics of Taiwan, about manufacturing and sales of white and coloured LEDs with conversion technology for all applications.
[ + ]Grants to help medical developments
National Instruments says it will continue its investment to further medical device development by offering software and training grants in 2009.
[ + ]Filters merger
Schaffner has bought Betec-Engineering, specialists in developing and distributing active harmonic filters.
[ + ]Touch sensor deal
Omron and Renesas are to jointly develop capacitive touch sensor solutions, a field that is attracting a great deal of interest as a next-generation man-machine interface.
[ + ]Sign of the times
SpinetiX has appointed Amber Technology as the distributor for a suite of digital signage hardware and software solutions in Australia and New Zealand.
[ + ]Battery development wins funding
More than US$2 billion has been earmarked for motor vehicle battery research as part of the US$787 billion economic stimulus and recovery package announced by US President Obama.
[ + ]Virtual solution package
Citrix Systems says it will develop the industry's first applications and desktop delivery solutions optimised for Intel Core 2 desktops and Centrino 2 laptops with Intel vPro technology.
[ + ]Partnership agreement
Soanar and WIMA have formed a partnership covering Australia and New Zealand for the distribution of all WIMA products.
[ + ]20th anniversary
Backplane Systems Technology is 20 years old, having grown from a specialist company manufacturing custom backplanes for computer and telecommunications applications to an industrial computer and peripheral supplier.
[ + ]NICTA spin-out wins more funding
Open Kernel Labs has gained a further US$7.6 million in venture funding. The company is a spin-out organisation of NICTA, Australia's Information and Communications Technology research centre of excellence.
[ + ]Lithography collaboration
NIL Technology and IMS Chips have started a collaboration to combine their capabilities related to electron beam lithography.
[ + ]European memory research
To explore solutions to overcome the scaling limitations of conventional flash memory, IMEC, a European research organisation, has started research activities on resistive RAM (RRAM) cells.
[ + ]Laboratory now accredited to the MEPS Standard AS/NZS 4665
According to Comtest, it is the first laboratory in Australia to achieve NATA accreditation to the Minimum Efficiency Performance Standard AS/NZS 4665 for External Power Supplies.
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