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MEMS market declines 2%

02 April, 2009

In 2008, the MEMS market saw significant changes in the ranking of the top 30 MEMS companies.

Intrinsically safe keyboards

01 April, 2009 | Supplied by: Interworld Electronics and Computer Industries

Interworld has expanded its industrial and special function keyboards to include the iKey range of intrinsically safe keyboards that are in a rugged, stainless steel case with industrial silicone rubber keypads, ensuring NEMA 4X protection. The sealed keyboards include optical isolated barriers and bulkhead cables for complete protection. They are certified by Factory Mutual and have approval for Class I, II and III, Division I, Groups C, D, E, F and G hazardous locations.

Control collection

01 April, 2009 | Supplied by: Advantech Australia Pty Ltd

The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech has introduced ActiveDAQ Pro, a collection of ActiveX controls performing I/O operations.

Slim panel PCs

01 April, 2009 | Supplied by: Interworld Electronics and Computer Industries

Interworld has released the APC-3x16 series all-in-one fanless panel PCs that are sealed to NEMA 4/IP65 specifications on five sides to provide protection from dust and liquid contaminants.

Scalable cards

01 April, 2009 | Supplied by: Interworld Electronics and Computer Industries

Quatech’s performance series 4-port serial express cards provide serial ports that are connected directly to the host system’s PCI Express bus.

Embedded Wi-Fi module

01 April, 2009 | Supplied by: Caelera Pty Ltd

Connect One has released Nano WiReach, an embedded Wi-Fi bridge that connects any embedded device to 802.11b/g wireless LANs with minimal programming.

Processor board

01 April, 2009 | Supplied by: Metromatics Pty Ltd

The Telum ASLP11 with Core Duo L7400 1.5 GHz processor is a single-width, full- or mid-sized ACM processor board of up to 4 GB memory and is designed for distributed ATCA/Micro TCA processing applications such as wireless base stations, voice over packet, test and measurement, server blades and other enterprise-wide computing.

Making memory smaller

01 April, 2009

The long-term trend that has persisted in the computer industry since the invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 has been for the hardware to become smaller and smaller. But scientists believe that conventional miniaturisation processes could soon reach their fundamental limits.