Unterpremstaetten, Austria (December 13, 2010) – austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs, has announced the AS5013, a contactless magnetic encoder IC that monitors the displacement of a magnet incorporated in a knob relative to its center position and provides x and y position information via an I²C interface. The AS5013 Hall-sensor IC is used in the EasyPoint™ mini joystick module, which consists of a mechanical stack incorporating a navigation knob, a magnet and the AS5013 magnetic encoder IC. Its simple construction and contactless sensing technology give the module … Read More → "austriamicrosystems announces new Hall-sensor IC based on contactless sensing for 360° navigation in human-machine interfaces"

SUNNYVALE, Calif.  – Dec. 13, 2010 – Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, or AppliedMicro (NASDAQ:AMCC), today announced the Mamba single and dual-core embedded processing devices as the first members of its PacketPro™ System-on-Chip (SoC) family. With the choice of one or two 1.5GHz PowerPC® 465 cores, Mamba devices are optimized for next-generation multifunction printers, enterprise control planes, consumer NAS systems, wireless access points and industrial applications by offering the industry’s most advanced capabilities in power management, security and concurrency.

The breakthrough features of Mamba SoCs are enabled by AppliedMicro’s Scalable … Read More → "AppliedMicro’s Mamba Single and Dual-Core SoCs Enable Breakthrough Power Management, Concurrency and Security"

Dusseldorf,  6 ^th  December, 2010 —  Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of new system-on-chips (SoCs) that achieve playback of audio and video data in a single chip for portable audio-visual (AV) devices, including portable multimedia players, electronic book readers and network TVs.

The new SoCs are EMMA Mobile EV series products that incorporate the latest ARM Cortex™ A9 high-performance CPU and integrate on a single chip the functions … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Introduces EMMA Mobile™ EV0-D SoCs for Portable Audio-Visual Devices with One-third Reduced Package"

Dusseldorf, 9th December, 2010 —  Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced its first low-end flash microcontrollers (MCUs) with a built-in Universal Serial Bus 2.0 (USB) host/function controller, designed for consumer electronics, such as PC peripherals, mobile devices, and healthcare equipment. The new MCU products are part of the R8C Family, and include the R8C/34K and R8C/3MK Groups, which incorporate a USB host/function controller, and the R8C/34U and R8C/3MU … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Introduces R8C Microcontrollers with USB Host/Function and USB On-The-Go Support"