Sony Corp. has developed ’single wire interface technology’, a hybrid transmission technology which facilitates both data and power transmissions through a single cable. This technology enables the internal wiring of a mobile device to be streamlined through a single cable (copper wire). Conventionally, the video, audio and control signals as well as the power transmission […]
Ron Sege Joins Echelon as President & CEO
Echelon Corp. announced that the company’s Board of Directors has appointed Ron Sege as President and Chief Executive Officer and to the company’s Board of Directors, completing a search process begun last November. Sege most recently served as President and Chief Operating Officer, and Board member, of 3Com Corp. from 2008 through its acquisition by […]
AMETEK Acquires American Reliance Power Division
AMETEK, Inc. announced that it has acquired assets comprising substantially all of American Reliance’s Power Division (AMREL Power), a provider of highly differentiated dc power supplies and electronic loads for the automated test equipment market. The El Monte, California, business joins AMETEK’s San Diego-based Programmable Power Division, described as a leader in programmable power sources […]
SMA Solar Sales in First Half of 2010 Almost as High as Whole of 2009
SMA Solar Technology AG presented its financial report for the first six months from January to June 2010. With group sales of €815.8 million and an inverter output sold of 3,146 MW, the data published is slightly above the preliminary figures of July 6, 2010. “This means that the first half year of 2010 was […]
Waytronx Reports Second Quarter Financial Results
Waytronx, Inc., along with its wholly owned subsidiaries, CUI Inc. and CUI-Japan, its Japanese subsidiary, and Comex Electronics, a partially owned (49%) Japanese subsidiary, announced that it posted results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010. For the three months ended June 30, 2010, Waytronx produced consolidated revenues of $10,716,227 and EBITDA of $6,494,479. […]
GM & Bright Automotive Announce Strategic Relationship
Bright Automotive and General Motors Co. announced that they have agreed to pursue a strategic relationship and that GM has provided funding to the Indiana automaker, the first funding action by the newly formed General Motors Ventures LLC. The funding will help accelerate Bright’s production of the IDEA, a revolutionary plug-in hybrid commercial vehicle. “This […]
AMSC Acquires 25% Stake in Blade Dynamics Ltd.
American Superconductor Corp. announced that it has acquired a 25% ownership position in Blade Dynamics Ltd., a designer and manufacturer of advanced wind turbine blades based on proprietary materials and structural technologies. Founded in the United Kingdom in 2007, Blade Dynamics has developed wind turbine blade technologies designed to increase the efficiency and performance of […]