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The market for AC-DC and DC-DC power supplies will grow by $3.5 billion in the next four years from $21.6 billion in 2014 to $25.1 billion in 2018, says IHS Technology.

Qualcomm and DoCoMo have launched a VoLTE service in Japan.

Renesas will implement a business reorganisation on 1 August which has three aims:

Plessey has signed a distribution agreement with CODICO of Perchtoldsdorf, Austria.

Atmel is to buy Wi-Fi and low-power Bluetooth IC specialist Newport Media for $140m.

Record number of students will attend the electrical engineering summer school this week organised by the UKESF (UK Electronics Skills Foundation). It is being hosted this year by the University of Southampton from the 7th to the 11th July. This year 80 A-level and Scottish Higher students from 77 schools across the UK will participate in the UKESF summer school, twice ...

Honeywell Sensing and Control is trying to increase its business presence in Europe. The manufacturer of sensors and control products has product design teams working in Europe and it is looking to capitalise on this to grow its business in the region. European currently accounts for 25% of Honeywell’s $39bn sales but the company believes there is potential to grow ...

Philips is to combine its Lumileds LED component business with its automotive lighting businesses into a stand-alone company. Philips group intends to remain a shareholder and customer of the new company, it said, will continue the existing innovation collaboration, but will “explore strategic options to attract capital from third party investors for this business”. According to group CEO Frans van ...

Silego has introduced another member of its GreenFET3 load switch product line. The SLG59M1563V has an RDSON of 22.5 mΩ. It supports up to 2.5 A continuous current, reverse blocking, and is packaged in a 1.0 x1.6 mm STDFN package.

Richard Wilson travelled to Wales and discovered an electronics sector with world-class companies, cutting-edge university research and with aspirations to grow I travelled to Wales to do some mountain-walking and discovered a two-week festival which was bidding to raise the profile of Wales as a centre for electronics technology. Technologies were on show at 40 events, with companies across the ...