A plastic bottle cap that senses and reacts to music and movement through use of a smartphone has been released in Japan. Brewing company Kirin's Illumicap has a built-in wireless communication and lighting system which can illuminate the ...
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Teledyne Microwave Solutions Inc of Mountain View, CA, USA (TMS, a business unit of Teledyne Technologies Inc) has launched a line of gallium nitride (GaN)-based wideband amplifiers that is claimed to further lower the form factor threshold ...
Tags: TMS, GaN amplifiers
Standard Motor Products, Inc. (SMP) announces the addition of 220 new part numbers to its TechSmart line. The release increases new coverage through 2015 for an additional 118 million VIO. TechSmart continued to expand its electronic ...
A Wanda cinema in Yichang, Hubei province. [Photo by Zhou Jianping/China Daily] Dalian Wanda Group Co Ltd, the privately owned Chinese property conglomerate, plans to list its film production and distribution business within a year, Wang ...
Trillium US Inc of Clackamas, OR, USA has acquired the Oxford Instruments-Austin division of Austin, TX, USA (formerly Austin Scientific). Focused on the helium-compression-based vacuum and temperature management and control sector, Oxford ...
Tags: Vacuum pumps, blowers, Oxford Instruments
AgiLight® Sustainable and Environmentally–Friendly LED Signage Lighting Products Enters South African Marketplace This agreement opens up a new and exciting market for AgiLight and keeps the company on its dramatic growth ...
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Vishay releases new high- power UV LED with silicon lens. (Vishay/LEDinside) Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. today introduced a new ceramic-based, high-power UV LED with silicone lens. Designed to provide a reliable, energy-saving ...
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Acuity Brands, Inc. announced newly enhanced LED luminaires for retail applications that incorporate ByteLight™ technology to create an ultra-precise indoor positioning and wayfinding system. ByteLight technology from Acuity Brands ...
Pasternack Enterprises Inc of Irvine, CA, USA (which makes both passive and active RF, microwave and millimeter-wave products) has added new millimeter-wave (mm-wave) waveguide frequency mixers available in six down-conversion and six ...
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AKHAN Semiconductor Inc of Chicago, IL, USA has formally opened its new global headquarters and production facility at 940 Lakeside Drive in Gurnee, Illinois, after beginning operations there in June. The firm also says that its first ...
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L.L.Bean Inc. will open its third Ohio store in fall of 2016 at The Kenwood Collection, a mixed-use development located adjacent to the Kenwood Mall in Kenwood, OH, just outside of Cincinnati. The 15,000 square-foot store will feature an ...
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Skechers USA Inc. claimed a partial victory Thursday in its patent infringement dispute with Nike Inc.’s wholly-owned subsidiary Converse Inc. relating to the Converse Chuck Taylor shoe. In October 2014, Converse sued Skechers in ...
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Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has agreed to buy the 8-inch ...
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA, which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications, has launched seven new products – four new power amplifiers and three ...
Tags: Qorvo, small-cell, Power Amplifiers, Duplexer
Toshiba has announced the development of the next-generation TarfSOI (Toshiba advanced RF silicon-on-insulator) process, optimized for radio-frequency (RF) switch applications. Sample shipments of a new SP12T (single-pole 12-throw switch) ...
Tags: Toshiba, SOI-CMOS, RF switches