Electronics Sourcing 
Avnet, Inc. announced today that it has acquired a majority interest in MSC Investoren GmbH (“MSC Group”) as the first step of a two part transaction in which Avnet will ultimately acquire the remainder of the company. MSC is a recognized value-add distributor focused on electronic component distribution, embedded computing technology and display solutions, as … Read more
Intersil Corporation, a leading provider of innovative power management and precision analog solutions, today announced that it has joined the HDcctv Alliance Ltd. Intersil is a market leader in security and surveillance systems and will be contributing to the Alliance’s work to define open standards for interoperability of HD cameras, recording devices, and related equipment … Read more
Mouser Electronics, Inc. today announced a new global distribution agreement with Swissbit to distribute their DRAM and Flash memory solutions. With over 20 years of experience in the memory industry, Swissbit has become a world class leader in technology, supplying high quality, high reliability memory storage solutions in all of the established DRAM and Flash … Read more
“LuxLive 2013 is the UK’s biggest and best lighting event.” The overarching theme of the event is to ‘Come with questions and leave with answers’ which has brilliant synergy with Forge Europa’s ethos and commitment to finding the right solution for customers. Lux Live has over 50 hours of free talks, seminars and shows, and … Read more
Diodes Incorporated, Plano, Texas, has announced the AP1684, a power factor-corrected AC-DC LED driver suiting a variety of offline LED lamp types, including E26, GU10, PAR and T8. Using pulse-frequency modulation technology and operating in boundary-conduction mode, this device provides tight current regulation to an accuracy of ±2%, while achieving a power factor of .97 and THD … Read more
Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has entered into a distribution agreement with Avnet Embedded, a division of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc.. Under the terms of the agreement, Avnet Embedded will market, distribute, and provide sales and product support for the full Wind River portfolio of software, … Read more
Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, an industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, today announced the signing of a global distribution agreement with PRECI-DIP SA, a manufacturer of Swiss world connectors and contacts. Their products are used in innovative designs for applications including industrial, data processing, MIL/aero, medical, telecommunication, automotive, IT, among … Read more
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced that Silicon Labs has significantly reduced the power consumption of its latest energy-friendly ARM-based microcontroller unit (MCU) by 50 percent using the complete Cadence mixed-signal low-power design flow. According to Silicon Labs, the new EFM32 Wonder Gecko, which incorporates an ARM Cortex-M4 … Read more
