Texas Instruments is to consolidate its analogue power product lines into a newly created power management business unit. The new unit, to be headed by Steve Anderson, pictured, will sit alongside TI’s high performance analogue, high volume analogue and logic businesses.
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Claiming an industry first, Ericsson has launched BMR453 series of dc/dc converters. The devices use an integral digital control platform to improve power density and control.
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Energy scavenging specialist Perpetuum and supercapacitor developer CAP-XX have combined their technologies to produce a battery free machinery condition monitoring system.
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Texas Instruments has acquired Ireland based Commergy Technologies, a power supply reference design provider specialising in energy efficient and compact architectures.
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Will supercapacitors enable an energy storage revolution? By David Boothroyd.
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With the number of basestations predicted to grow dramatically over the next few years, attention is turning to the efficiency of the power amplifiers deployed within them. And Cambridge based Nujira is looking to solve the problem with a power modulator that may increase efficiency significantly.
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Qimonda and German solar company Centrosolar are to build, equip and operate a silicon solar cell manufacturing plant in Portugal. Qimonda will have a 51% holding in the joint venture, which will make an initial investment of €70million.
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New materials that enable the manufacture of cheaper and more efficient methanol fuel cells have been developed by a researcher from the University of the Basque Country.
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Acoustic guitar pedals keep the music coming with 32bit audio processing and long battery life.
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Wireless power developer Splashpower has signed a licensing agreement with Alba under which the latter will distribute wireless power products to the consumer market.
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An agreement between Mitsubishi Electric and Renesas will see the former acquire the buildings and associated manufacturing facilities of Renesas’ Kumamoto factory.
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Wolfson has expanded its AudioPlus smart power product line with the introduction of the WM8400. The device combines a multimedia codec with power management facilities to deliver the audio and mixing capabilities required by the latest mobile handsets.
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Singapore based mobile device developer Mobile & Wireless Group (MWg) has signed an agreement with Splashpower that will enable the former’s devices to be powered wirelessly.
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AMI Semiconductor and IMEC have signed a two year collaboration program to develop the former’s Smart Power technologies.
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An energy materials research group from the University of Surrey has won a grant from the EPSRC to develop new low temperature alkaline polymer fuel cells.
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A team of scientists, led by experts at Durham University, is embarking on one of the UK’s largest ever research projects into photovoltaic solar energy. The £6.3million PV-21 programme will focus on making thin film light absorbing cells for solar panels from sustainable and affordable materials.
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Power specialist Power-One has joined the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI), an organisation whose goal is to bring together industry, consumers and conservation organisations to increase the energy efficiency of computers and servers.
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Will solar power make a significant contribution to the world’s energy needs? By Graham Pitcher.
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Cambridge Semiconductor has raised $26million in what it claims is of one of the largest VC funding rounds for a European fabless semiconductor company this year. The investment features a $4m equity stake by Carbon Trust Investments – the first time it has taken a stake in a company looking to improve energy efficiency in consumer products.
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Cambridge Semiconductor is launching a range of performance controller ICs that it says will enable power supply designers and volume manufacturers to develop more energy efficient products at lower cost than can be done with existing solutions.
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Fuel cell membrane developer PolyFuel has created a fuel cell stack with an energy density of 500W/litre of stack volume, a move which it says ‘significantly advances’ the state of the art for direct methanol fuel cells. The stack delivers a peak power of 56W – more than twice that needed to power a typical laptop computer.
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National Semiconductor has launched the PowerWise brand to help designers more easily identify which of the company’s products provide the highest performance with the lowest power.
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Lambda UK is investing $100,000 in a collaborative research project with The University of Sheffield. Lambda’s technical director Robin Jeffery (pictured) said: “We hope that this is the start of a long standing relationship that will demonstrate the capabilities of UK industry and academic research cooperation.”
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Vicor has launched PowerBench, a suite of enhanced online power supply design tools to help designers to select the best power supply to meet their requirements. If an standard product does not exist, engineers can use PowerBench to design a customer specific device.
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In a move which gives it an entrée into high power industrial markets, Cirrus Logic has bought high power analogue amplifier specialist Apex Microtechnology for $42million.
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