Industry News
RoHS and WEEE legislation
Farnell InOne has issued the first of what will become regular email newsletter to its customer base on issues relating to the RoHS (Restriction of Certain Hazardous Substances) and WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) directives.
[ + ]Robotics to fuel electronics growth
Future Horizons has predicted that robots will become mainstream consumer products within the next decade, providing a significant growth opportunity for the electronics sector.
[ + ]Burning issue facing chip and computer designers
Chip designers, computer makers, researchers and specialists are uniting to tackle one of the most urgent, but overlooked, for the global semiconductor industry: the soaring densities of heat on integrated circuits, particularly high-performance microprocessors.
[ + ]Stacked, packed nanowires hold triplexed megadata
Scientists have created a transistor architecture using molecular-scale nanowire memory cells. It promises unprecedently compact data storage.
[ + ]RS online for Aus
RS Components says its Internet Trading Channel (ITC) is now live in Australia and New Zealand.
[ + ]Powerware and Lightning Protection International, join forces
Invensys Powerware has partnered with Lightning Protection International to distribute the latter's range of Guardian CAT (Controlled Area Triggering) series Air Terminals, LPI Surge and Transient protection products for data, communication and signal lines, and LPI grounding products throughout Australian and New Zealand.
[ + ]Philips and IBM join forces
Philips and IBM are jointly developing systems for radio frequency identification (RFID) and smart card applications. The companies will combine to address the growing need for high-security smart cards and RFID technology in day-to-day business processes, operations and consumer lifestyles.
[ + ]Fluke recall
In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Protection Safety Commission, Fluke Corporation is voluntarily recalling the TL221, TL222 and TL224 modular test leads.
[ + ]ADC acquire Krone
GenTek has announced signing an agreement to sell its Krone communications group to ADC Telecommunications.
[ + ]Electronic reading device
Philips, Sony, and E Ink Corporation have announced what is claimed to be the first consumer application of an electronic paper display module.
[ + ]Kingston in memory deal
Kingston Technology has announced a worldwide memory marketing agreement with computing systems developer, Silicon Graphics.
[ + ]Sea charts give way to electronics
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.
[ + ]SA electronics suppliers join forces
Adelaide-based Tyronics and Tekelek have merged combining their design and manufacturing operations.
[ + ]Another twist in the field of superconductivity
Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered an interesting type of electronic behaviour in a recently discovered class of superconductors known as cobalt oxides, or cobaltates. These materials operate quite differently from other oxide superconductors, namely the copper oxides (or cuprates), which are commonly referred to as high-temperature superconductors.
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