Newark element14, the Development Distributor, is today enhancing its power management IC and evaluation board offering with a global franchise agreement with Richtek. Targeting the industrial and telecommunications markets, Richtek provides affordable power management solutions to the major power management suppliers. Ricktek’s power management solutions improve the performance of consumer electronics, computers, communications equipment, industrial […]
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Japan’s SoftBank to Buy Fortress Investment for $3.3 Billion
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese telecommunications, internet and solar company SoftBank Group Corp. is buying U.S. investment company Fortress Investment Group for $3.3 billion. The deal was announced by both sides Wednesday. New York-based Fortress, which manages global investments, said its senior professionals will stay to keep up its fund performance. Tokyo-based SoftBank has been aggressive in […]
Polarized IEC appliance inlets now shipping from sager electronics
Sager Electronics, a leading North American distributor of Interconnect, Power and Electromechanical components, is now stocking Schurter’s Polarized IEC Appliance Inlets for Protection Class II. The 2577 and 2579 series are designed to polarize the line contact of the power mains into the appliance. The polarized inlets are popularly used in portable audio devices, cable […]
Schottky diodes could say goodbye to parasitic resistance
Examine the typical equivalent circuit schematic for a Schottky diode and you’ll find one of the elements is a series resistance. That resistance represents the behavior of the interface between the diode semiconductor material and the metal contact. It turns out that the termination of the semiconductor crystal against a metal creates metal-induced gap states […]
Nokia Buying Software Company Comptel for $370M in Bid to Adapt to Changing Market
Nokia on Thursday announced plans to acquire fellow Finnish company Comptel for $370 million (347 Euro) in a bid to boost its appeal to telecom operators in a rapidly-changing market. According to Nokia, the acquisition is part of the company’s strategy to build a standalone software business at scale. The company indicated the addition of […]
Novel idea for ingestible batteries: Use stomach acid as the electrolyte
A group of researchers have come up with an idea for an energy-harvesting battery that uses body fluids for part of its chemistry. In tests, device delivered an average power of 0.23 μW/mm2 of electrode area for an average of 6.1 days while sitting in the gastrointestinal tract of pigs. They say this power-harvesting cell could […]
Sprint – Now a Seller Instead of a Buyer?
Shares of Sprint leapt nearly four percent Wednesday after CEO of parent company SoftBank Masayoshi Son let fly some interesting comments about potential M&A deals for the U.S. carrier during the company’s earnings presentation. Rumors around the possibility of a T-Mobile and Sprint hookup have ebbed and flowed since Donald Trump was elected in November, […]
EEMBC upgrades experience benchmark tests for mobile devices
The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC®) today announced the significantly upgraded version of its industry-accepted, standardized method of evaluating the browsing experience on mobile devices. Unlike other browser benchmarks, the EEMBC® BxBench™ 2.0 (formerly BrowsingBench™) measures the complete page load experience including JavaScript execution, page-rendering speed, and factors involved with Internet-content diversity. New features include […]
Smart street lights get smarter and more efficient with unique LED array
Of the several technologies behind smart cities such as data, infrastructure, IoT devices, it is smart lighting technology that has emerged as the leading smart city application. Energy and operations savings make the business case for smart lighting obvious. Street lighting can consume as much as 40 percent of a city’s energy budget — smart […]
Master Electronics hits half-century mark as global distributor
Ike Nizam founded Master Electronics in 1967 from a small apartment in Santa Monica, California. Fifty years later, Ike still works at Master’s headquarters, just blocks away from the apartment where he started it all. From the cramped 750-square foot apartment to amassing 750,000-square feet of office and warehouse space, Master enjoys over 300 employees […]