Microchip Technology has appointed RS Components its catalogue distributor in Asia-Pacific.

Universal Display Corporation and Palo Alto research Center (PARC), a subsidiary of Xerox Corporation, has announced a collaboration to develop poly-silicon (poly-Si) thin film transistor (TFT) backplane technology on metal foil. The flexible OLED (Foled) and top-emitting OLED (Toled) technologies.

NewTek Sales has changed its name to NewTek Instruments. It will be operating out of premises located a 3 Byfield Street, North Ryde 2113 from 1st August 2004.

Perth company Hitec Energy has been offered an Australian Government R&D start grant for a mineral extraction process that produces the key ingredient for alkaline batteries in a more cost-effective way.

The end of the traditional navigating table on ships and their dependence on traditional paper charts is now in sight with the development in Britain of an electronic chart and navigation system.

Blackburn North-based Rectifier Technologies Pacific has signed an agreement with the Wuhan Putian Telecom Equipment Group that will see state-of-the-art Victorian designed rectifiers being used under licence in China.

Kingston Technology has announced a worldwide memory marketing agreement with computing systems developer, Silicon Graphics.

Engineers at Oregon State University have created what is claimed to be the first transparent transistor, a see-through electronics component that could open the door to many new products.

Molex has receive approval for its CoolFin heat sink from AMD for the next generation 64 bit processor, the Athlon 64. As the result of meeting strict thermal resistance and other design requirements, Molex is one of a few vendors to receive AMD's approval on this new platform.

An improved method for correcting nano- and micro-scale friction measurements has been developed by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The new technique should help designers produce more durable micro- and nano-devices with moving parts, such as tiny motors, positioning devices or encoders.

ADC has announced its completed acquisition of Krone Group, global supplier of copper and fibre based connectivity solutions, cabling products and services used in public access and enterprise networks.

A new type of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) is being developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories to help bring the goal of a micro fuel cell closer to realisation using diverse fuels like glucose, methanol, and hydrogen.

Eaton Corporation has announced an agreement with Invensys PLC to purchase its power systems business, Powerware Corporation. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the second quarter, following regulatory review and the approval of Invensys shareholders.

The rapid growth in indoor and outdoor public access kiosk applications is fuelling an increased demand for robust and reliable touchscreens that give high levels of performance while withstanding a wide range of environmental, accidental and malicious physical threats.

Mitsubishi Electric has developed a ‘reversible’ liquid crystal display that can display images on both its front and rear surfaces.