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Abdelbaset Al Megrahi Dead: Was Justice Served in Lockerbie Bombing?
Libyan intelligence officer Abdel-baset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi, the only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing died at home in Libya today, according to his brother. He was 60. Yet doubts have persisted about Al Megrahi's conviction, and it's never been established who ordered the Dec. 21, 1988, attack, in which a bomb exploded onboard Pan Am flight 103 from London to New York. All 259 passengers and crew were killed, and 11 people ... — Read More
Vintage Kim-1 single-board computer fetches $1,550 on eBay
A MOS Kim-1 single-board computer, originally released 36 years ago in kit form for $245, recently sold on eBay for $1,550. Following the acquisition of MOS by Commodore International, the historic computer became the basis of the Commodore PET. The Kim-1 was a single printed circuit board based on the 6502 eight-bit processor, incorporating a 24-key keypad, six seven-segment LEDs, and 1kB of RAM. Offering a way for users to play with the processor, ... — Read More
ELSA Launches Gladiac GeForce GTX 670
Professional video card manufacturer, Japanese company ELSA is launching today the Gladiac GeForce GTX 670, on its official website. The company is well known in the professional TESLA and Quadro market, but it also has products for end-users. ELSA’s implementation of the GTX 670 design is identical with Nvidia’s own reference card, except for the printed circuit board (PCB) color. The GK104 GPU works at a base frequency of 915 MHz and has a Boost option of 980 MHz. — Read More
New Series of Tantalum HVE Facedown MnO2 Technology T428 Capacitors from KEMET
Shelf Capacitor The company has added these latest surface mountable devices to its family of high-reliability, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS). These devices improve the potential of ripple current and increase the dissipation of power. According to Dr. Philip Lessner, the CTO, Vice President and Chief Scientist of KEMET, the capacitance provided by this new package design is high in any molded lead frame product. — Read More
Global and Chinese printed circuit board (PCB) industry report, 2011-2012
Written by Editor Friday, 18 May 2012 09:44 The report highlights the rigid PCB. In 2010, the output value of PCB, a full-blown industry, grew by 23.8%, a record high since 1998. In 2011, the growth in output value slowed down to only 5.9%. And the figure in 2012 is expected to further trend down to roughly 4%.PCB industry has its unique characteristics. Firstly, it requires demanding environmental-friendly ... — Read More
Infinite Power Solutions Announces New THINERGY Micro-Energy Cell Product Family
Infinite Power Solutions 11149 Bradford Rd. Littleton, CO, 80127, USA Inherently Safe, Low-Cost Solid-State Battery Provides Industry-Leading Performance LITTLETON, Colo. -- Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS), a global leader in manufacturing innovative solid-state, rechargeable, thin-film batteries, today announced its THINERGY MEC200-Series family of micro-energy cell (MEC) products. As the world's most powerful batteries for their size, ... — Read More
Electronic waste rules: In letter, but without spirit
Ever wondered what happens to your old mobile phones, computers, television sets and refrigerators the moment you discard them? They are most likely to land in an unauthorised scrap yard waiting to be recycled in a hazardous and unscientific manner — causing great damage to the environment. The rapid growth of the information technology sector in India has only contributed to this problem of accumulating e-waste or electronic waste. — Read More
Team Group Unleashes World's First 3GHz DDR3 Memory Modules.
Team Group, a leading maker of high-performance dynamic random access memory modules, has announced the world's first and yet the only memory sticks officially rated to run at whopping 3.0GHz. The new Xtreeme Limited Edition modules have all chances to become enthusiasts' favourite memory in the coming months. The Team Xtreem DDR3 3000 Limited Edition 4GB memory ... — Read More
New development kit for Tabula’s ABAX 3D FPGAs
The folks at Tabula have just announced the immediate availability of a development kit to accelerate the creation of designs based on their ABAX family of 3PLDs (which I think of as 3D FPGAs). This comprehensive development system will aid FPGA and ASIC designers to implement and test a rich variety of parallel and serial interfaces such as DDR3 and PCI Express Gen2, as well as embedded systems based on the popular V1 ColdFire soft CPU. — Read More
GigOptix, Inc. Samples Linear Quad Driver for 400G Applications
GigOptix, Inc. (NYSE MKT: GIG), a leading fabless supplier of semiconductor and optical components that enable high speed information streaming, today announced that it has begun engineering sampling of its GX62472, a Surface Mounted Technology (SMT) Mach Zehnder Modulator (MZM) quad linear driver designed with integrated GPPO outputs for 400Gbps DWDM metro and long-haul optical transmitters. “We are very excited to announce the successful engineering ... — Read More
Goldman Small Cap Research Initiates Coverage of TeleFix Communications Holdings Inc.
Goldman Small Cap Research, a stock market research firm focused on the small cap and micro cap sectors, has initiated research coverage of TeleFix Communications Holdings, Inc. (OTCPK:TLFX), a minority and woman-owned telecommunications services company. TeleFix serves the wireless infrastructure development, ... — Read More
Pulse Electronics Introduces Pin-in-Paste RJ45 Connectors with Integrated Magnetics
Pulse Electronics Corporation (NYSE: PULS), a leading provider of electronic components, introduces pin-in-paste RJ45 connectors with integrated magnetics. The pin-in-paste method, also called pin-in-hole or intrusive reflow, is a process that allows through-hole components to be reflow soldered instead of wave soldered. The pin-in-paste option has been added to the Pulse ... — Read More
Harris & Harris Group Notes Recent Portfolio Company Accomplishments and Internal Developments
Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:TINY), an early-stage, active investor in transformative nanotechnology companies, notes that a number of its portfolio companies recently announced accomplishments that we believe indicate continued development and growth of their respective businesses. We also note some recent internal developments. Solazyme In April 2012, Solazyme and Bunge announced ... — Read More
MaKey MaKey let’s you to play Mario with a banana
Two MIT students, Eric Rosenbaum and Jay Silver, have submitted their first project to the crowd-funding site, Kickstarter. Their promise is to produce the ultimate DIY starter kit. The MaKey MaKey is a simple control board that requires no soldering, no programming, and no breadboarding. It’s a printed circuit board that hooks up via a USB connection to your computer, any object that can conduct a small amount of electricity (i.e. a person, potato, banana), and you. — Read More
KEMET Introduces Tantalum High Volumetric Efficiency Facedown MnO2 Technology
KEMET Corporation (NYSE: KEM), a leading manufacturer of tantalum, ceramic, aluminum, film, paper and electrolytic capacitors, today introduced its new Tantalum High Volumetric Efficiency (HVE) Facedown MnO2 T428 Series capacitors. These surface mountable devices are the latest addition to KEMET's High Reliability Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) family and offer increased power dissipation and enhanced ripple current capability. — Read More
Professional Circuit Designs Ltd Standardizes on Mentor Graphics PCB Design-Through-Manufacturing Technologies for Design and Consulting Services
Professional Circuit Designs Ltd Standardizes on Mentor Graphics PCB Design-Through-Manufacturing Technologies for Design and Consulting Services NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Wilsonville, OR, United States, 05/16/2012 - Mentor Graphics Corporation announced that Professional Circuit Designs (PCD) Ltd, based in Winchester, UK has standardized on the Mentor Graphics® PCB design-through-manufacturing product flow, including the Valor® NPI tool. — Read More
Open Bottom PCB Receptacles feature organic fibre plugs.
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Wire to Board Connectors feature 4.20 mm pitch.
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ZALMAN Shows New Radeon and GeForce Custom Video Cards
Korean well-know expert Zalman is reportedly showing some of the video cards using the company’s own design and custom cooling. The cards use the efficient VF3000, GV1000 and VF1000 VGA coolers. When it first started selling video cards late last year, Zalman was only working on AMD Radeon graphic cards. Now, the company is also unveiling custom Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 cards along with GeForce 560 Ti cards. — Read More
Optical vs Social: So what kind of engineering makes sense?
It is only a matter of hours before Facebook starts trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange under ticker symbol, FB. Mark Zuckerberg, its 28-year-old founder is worth $18 billion at the IPO price and if predictions turn out to be true, he be worth many times more. The recent (and quick) monetary success of companies like Groupon makes one wonder how one motivates a new breed of engineers to think about the innards of today’s technology — chips, optical components and other unsexy stuff. — Read More