Power efficiency is the single biggest challenge facing the mobile handset industry, and collaboration and co-design are needed to enable the industry to deliver a 100X improvement in power efficiency for mobile devices, according to a keynote presentation at the International Solid State Circuits Conference.

Sapphicon Semiconductor, a designer and manufacturer of high performance integrated circuits based on silicon-on-sapphire (SoS) process technology, and AWR Corporation, a high-frequency EDA solutions provider, have introduced process design kits (PDKs) for AWR software that support Sapphicon's advanced SoS processes.

Digi-Key Corp. has expanded its partnership with Avago Technologies US Inc. to supply its products in Europe.

Teridian Semiconductor has begun sampling its fourth generation residential smart metering integrated circuits (ICs) that eliminate costly current transformers and associated copper wiring in 2-element residential meters, with up to class 0.2-accuracy.

The liquid dummy load is an intriguing solution, both literally and figuratively, to a common problem

Scintera Networkshas made available its SC1887 adaptive RF power amplifier linearizer (RFPAL) system-on-chip (SoC).

STMicroelectronics has completed its portfolio of industry-standard comparators in space-saving packages with the introduction of the LMV331 packaged in a choice of 2.00 x 1.25 mm SC70 or 2.90 x 1.60 mm SOT23 form factors.

STMicroelectronics has completed its portfolio of industry-standard comparators in space-saving packages with the introduction of the LMV331 packaged in a choice of 2.00 x 1.25 mm SC70 or 2.90 x 1.60 mm SOT23 form factors.

Diodes Incorporated has introduced a new family of low noise block (LNB) controllers for direct broadcast satellite (DBS) applications.

Maxim Integrated Products announced the MAX16914/MAX16915 overvoltage-protection controllers for automotive and industrial systems that must tolerate high-voltage transient and fault conditions