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ECN Offers Its Condolences at the Passing of Steve Appleton

ECN has just learned the sad news out of Boise, Idaho about the passing of Micron Technologies CEO Steve Appleton in a plane accident. We send our condolences to Steve's family and everyone at Micron Technologies.

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HP awards new CEO Whitman with $16.5M pay package 8 hours ago Hewlett-Packard Co. ushered in Meg Whitman as its CEO with a $16.5 million compensation package. It hinges on whether the former candidate for California governor can lift the stumbling technology company's stock price during the next two years.Last year's pay consists almost entirely of 1.9...
Micron CEO Appleton dies in plane crash 9 hours ago Micron Technology Inc Chief Executive and Chairman Steve Appleton died in a small plane crash on Friday, a major loss for a U.S. memory chipmaker already struggling with sluggish computer sales and declining prices.
A look at how some IPO stocks have fared 9 hours ago Facebook has filed paperwork for an initial public offering of stock. Its public debut will be the most anticipated tech IPO since Google went public in August 2004.In part by riding on Facebook's coattails, Zynga Inc. and Jive Software Inc. set new highs on Friday. Below is a look at how the...
Introducing New KOAXXA RF Interconnects, Fully Redesigned RF Products Offering Flexibility and Value 10 hours ago TE Connectivity announces its next generation of RF products -- the KOAXXA RF interconnects product family.This new offering from TE premieres today with the launch of the KOAXXA SMA product line, which is on display at DesignCon 2012, booth #411, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
Axion Power Announces Registered Direct Common Stock Offering of up to $10 Million 10 hours ago Axion Power International, Inc., a developer of advanced lead carbon PbC® batteries and energy storage systems, announced that it has entered into definitive agreements to sell an aggregate of not more than 28,571,429 shares...

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Top gear: China's Huawei outmuscles Swedish rival 15 hours ago \| News When Huawei Technologies posts its annual results in April, they will likely show the unlisted Chinese firm has overtaken Sweden's Ericsson as the world's top-selling telecoms equipment maker.
Siemens on look-out for new CEO for NSN 15 hours ago \| News Siemens is on the look out for a new Chief Executive for its mobile phone network equipment joint venture unit Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), Siemens supervisory board member Sibylle Wenkel said on Friday.
Apple stops selling some devices online in Germany 15 hours ago \| News Apple Inc stopped offering older models of its iPhone and 3G-based iPads at its German online store on Friday in a response to an injunction won by Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc in December.
UK police probe claim that hackers hacked FBI call 15 hours ago \| News British police said on Friday they were investigating reports that the activist hacker group Anonymous had hacked into a conference call between FBI agents and London detectives to discuss action they were taking against hacking.
ON Semiconductor Names Its 2011 Distribution Partner Award Winners 15 hours ago \| News ON Semiconductor has announced its top 2011 distribution partners. These awards honor the distributor in each region that led overall channel sales, grew market share, captured increased sales of products from acquisitions made by ON Semiconductor, and scored high on overall process excellence.

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Top gear: China's Huawei outmuscles Swedish rival 15 hours ago \| News When Huawei Technologies posts its annual results in April, they will likely show the unlisted Chinese firm has overtaken Sweden's Ericsson as the world's top-selling telecoms equipment maker.
Canon earnings outlook falters, president steps down Jan 30 \| News Canon Inc's 76-year-old chairman and CEO will take on the additional role of president after the $60 billion Japanese camera and printer maker forecast weak earnings growth and said its current president was stepping down.
Analysis: Asia may not be such easy pickings for Apple Jan 27 \| News Investors in Apple Inc have a one-word answer for those who wonder whether this corporate juggernaut can maintain its phenomenal momentum in the years ahead: Asia.
Uncertain Economic Conditions Spur Decline in Electronics Contract Manufacturing in 2012 Jan 26 \| News Following a year of expansion in 2011, the global electronics contract manufacturing business is expected to decline slightly in 2012, as continuing economic uncertainty in Europe and the United States constricts growth, according to an IHS iSuppli EMS & ODM Market Brief report from information and analysis provider IHS (NYSE: IHS). Total contract manufacturing revenue this year is
Soitec and Sumitomo Electric announce major milestone in strategic joint development of engineered gallium nitride substrates Jan 24 \| News Soitec (Euronext) and Sumitomo Electric Industries have reached a major milestone in their strategic joint development program started in December 2010 by demonstrating four- and six-inch engineered gallium nitride (GaN) substrates...

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Events

10th R&D Product Development Innovation Summit

Norwood, MA: March 6-8

DATE 2012

ICC, Dresden, Germany: 12-16 March

Printed Electronics Europe

Berlin, Germany: 3-4 April

The Symposium on Polymers for Microelectronics

Wilmington, Delaware: May 8-10

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Reference Center

The Tinker's Toolbox - Mark Adams of CUI on Advanced Power System Design 16 hours ago \| Audio
IBC Power Simulation Tool Provides Online Modeling Capability Feb 1 \| Products
Silicon-Based SDK Speeds Design of Multi-Mode Software-Defined Modems Feb 1 \| Products

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Multimedia

The Tinker's Toolbox - Mark Adams of CUI on Advanced Power System Design 16 hours ago \| Audio In this episode of the Tinker's Toolbox we talk to Mark Adams, VP of Advanced Power Marketing at CUI, about designing next-generation power systems.
Five Questions with Sanjay Gajendra of Texas Instruments Feb 1 \| Audio Sanjay Gajendra of Texas Instruments’ High-Speed Interface Products group joins me to discuss signal integrity in high-speed enterprise servers, routers and switches. We’ll also cover signal reach, the ICs’ 6-mW per gigabit power consumption characteristics, and how to
Beyond the Smart Grid: Intelligent Energy Feb 1 \| Video Here Jeff Fortin of Wind River demonstrates a connected, managed, and secure demo with a Bachmann M1 controller, a state of the art, real time controller installed into a model wind turbine.

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Dungeons and Dragons Dice Gauntlet 17 hours ago The D&D bracer is a fairly quick, fun, nerdy LilyPad project. The final product is a wearable bracer with a display that will randomly generate numbers between 1 and 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, or 100 in response to arm movement, so it can effectively replace all of the dice in your bag for a D&D session.
Sustainable? Feb 2 I'd like some genius to define sustainable. Could we count something that we can keep doing for 100 billion years - beyond the death of the Universe as we currently understand such things - as sustainable? How about a billion years?

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Top gear: China's Huawei outmuscles Swedish rival 15 hours ago \| News When Huawei Technologies posts its annual results in April, they will likely show the unlisted Chinese firm has overtaken Sweden's Ericsson as the world's top-selling telecoms equipment maker.
Siemens on look-out for new CEO for NSN 15 hours ago \| News Siemens is on the look out for a new Chief Executive for its mobile phone network equipment joint venture unit Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), Siemens supervisory board member Sibylle Wenkel said on Friday.
Apple stops selling some devices online in Germany 15 hours ago \| News Apple Inc stopped offering older models of its iPhone and 3G-based iPads at its German online store on Friday in a response to an injunction won by Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc in December.
UK police probe claim that hackers hacked FBI call 15 hours ago \| News British police said on Friday they were investigating reports that the activist hacker group Anonymous had hacked into a conference call between FBI agents and London detectives to discuss action they were taking against hacking.
ON Semiconductor Names Its 2011 Distribution Partner Award Winners 15 hours ago \| News ON Semiconductor has announced its top 2011 distribution partners. These awards honor the distributor in each region that led overall channel sales, grew market share, captured increased sales of products from acquisitions made by ON Semiconductor, and scored high on overall process excellence.

Top gear: China's Huawei outmuscles Swedish rival 15 hours ago \| News When Huawei Technologies posts its annual results in April, they will likely show the unlisted Chinese firm has overtaken Sweden's Ericsson as the world's top-selling telecoms equipment maker.
Canon earnings outlook falters, president steps down Jan 30 \| News Canon Inc's 76-year-old chairman and CEO will take on the additional role of president after the $60 billion Japanese camera and printer maker forecast weak earnings growth and said its current president was stepping down.
Analysis: Asia may not be such easy pickings for Apple Jan 27 \| News Investors in Apple Inc have a one-word answer for those who wonder whether this corporate juggernaut can maintain its phenomenal momentum in the years ahead: Asia.
Uncertain Economic Conditions Spur Decline in Electronics Contract Manufacturing in 2012 Jan 26 \| News Following a year of expansion in 2011, the global electronics contract manufacturing business is expected to decline slightly in 2012, as continuing economic uncertainty in Europe and the United States constricts growth, according to an IHS iSuppli EMS & ODM Market Brief report from information and analysis provider IHS (NYSE: IHS). Total contract manufacturing revenue this year is
Soitec and Sumitomo Electric announce major milestone in strategic joint development of engineered gallium nitride substrates Jan 24 \| News Soitec (Euronext) and Sumitomo Electric Industries have reached a major milestone in their strategic joint development program started in December 2010 by demonstrating four- and six-inch engineered gallium nitride (GaN) substrates...