NEWS IN BRIEF
sign global agreement Mouser Electronics, Inc., Mansfield, Tex., has signed a new global distribution agreement with Honeywell Sensing and Control, which extends the two companies' current distribution partnership in place since 2007.
Mouser, Honeywell
Control provides a full portfolio of electronic sensing and electromechanical switching products fromairflow to torque sensors, and snap-action to toggle switches.
Honeywell Sensing and
www.mouser.com www.honeywell.com
Peerless to sell CW
switches, connectors Peerless Electronics Inc., Bethpage, N.Y., has signed an agreement to distribute CW Industries line of specialized switches and connectors. The electromechanical and connector distributor will stock CW's connectors for the defense and aerospace industries.
high-density and high-shock requirements formilitary electronics equipment and are qualified tomany NAVSEA and QPL requirements including MIL-DTL-83503,MIL-DTL-24308 andMIL-DTL-28804.
The CWconnectorsmeet the
complete line of environmentally-sealed toggle, pushbutton and rocker switches, and IP67-rated switches to support themedical equipment industry.
Peerless also will stock CW's
www.peerlesselectronics.com
at Digi-Key Digi-Key Corp, Thief River Falls, Minn., is stocking TE's solid- state lighting (SSL) solution, the NEVALO SSL system. This solution includes over 60 LED lightmodule (LLM) options, ranging from300-to-3400 lumens, in formfactors for popular lighting applications. It also includes a new ribbon- based, four-wire configuration wiring systemthat is physically keyed and color coded for polarity, accurate power connections and ease of manufacturing.
www.digikey.com
www.magnachip.com www.psemi.com
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TE NEVALO SSL systemon the shelves
Note: Company revenue figures include outsourced portions but exclude sub-manufacturing revenue. Unit=million USD
Global revenue for the DRAMindustry in the second quarter of 2011 totaled approximately $8.1 billion, reported DRAMeXchange, a research division of TrendForce, Taiwan. Although DRAMaverage selling prices (ASPs) increased slightly due to supply disruptions caused by the Japan earthquake, ProMOS' decrease in wafer start volume and Powerchip's increase of non-DRAMproducts resulted in an overall revenue decline of 1.9 percent fromthe first quarter of 2011, according to themarket research firm.
In the second quarter of 2011, spot prices
for DRAMfell bymore than 10 percent as a large volume of low-grade chips entered the market, while contract pricing for DDR3 2Gb increased by about 10 percent primarily due
MagnaChip, Peregrine ramp RF switch production
MagnaChip Semiconductor Corp., a Korea- based designer andmanufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, has ramped tomass production of Peregrine Semiconductor's RF switch products using the latest generation "STeP5"UltraCMOS SOS (Silicon-On-Sapphire) technology. Peregrine Semiconductor Corp., based in San Diego, Calif., is a fabless provider of high-performance RF ICs. UltraCMOS technology uses a sapphire
substrate, enabling high levels ofmonolithic integration, which results in smaller die, higher yields and fewer external components when compared to compound semiconductor processes such as GaAS, said the companies. Peregrine andMagnaChip have been
working on the transfer of the UltraCMOS technology sincemid-2007 and have implemented Peregrine's STeP3 and STeP4 process generations atMagnaChip's 0.35µm manufacturing facility located in Cheongju, South
Korea.MagnaChip has now successfully completed the final qualification phase in the transfer of the STeP5 process generation, which has allowed the company to ramp to high-volume production.
Samsung retains leadership position inDRAMmarket
to supply-chain disruptions caused by the Japan earthquake, said DRAMeXchange.
The short-termprice increases have
already dissipated, and when combined with an overall weak economy, DRAMeXchange expects these factors to accelerate the oversupply situation in themarket and result in further decreases in ASPs.
Koreanmakers Samsung and Hynix have
retained their first and second place rankings, respectively, in the DRAMmarket. Samsung's 2Q '11 revenue sawa two percent increase fromthe previous quarter,with amarket share ofmore than 40 percent.
Hynix was impacted primarily by a short-
termcapacity loss froma technology migration and a previous quality issue with a small batch of 44nmproducts, holding its revenue andmarket share at roughly the same level as in the previous quarter, said DRAMeXchange.
Hynix ismaintaining its strategy of
increasing its proportion ofmobile and server DRAM, and is expected to have healthy results even as DRAMASPs fall, added the market research firm.
www.dramexchange.com
TTI upgrades online parts search
TTI Inc., FortWorth, Tex., has simplified the way purchasers can search for similar parts at its website with the addition of a new Find Similar functionality within the "parts details" page of any part number.
The "technical specifications" section
now offers part attributes separated with available check boxes for taking advantage of this new functionality. This allows the customer to check desired part attributes in order to search for similar products that share those same characteristics, said TTI.
Once the Find Similar button is clicked a
new search results page shows only those parts that have the previously checked characteristics. A count of on-hand inventory also is displayed under the Find Similar button.
www.ttiinc.com
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