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Charging/Switching Solution suits portable electronics.

Charging/Switching Solution suits portable electronics.

Available in Pb-free DFN-8 package that requires 9 mmÂ-² board space, NUS3116 combines main battery switch, wall charging switch, and USB charging switch elements. Integration of main power switch, -12 V, -6.2 A, Â-µCool(TM) single P-channel MOSFET handles main battery switch function, while 2 internal low-saturation PNP transistors handle dual-channel charging elements. With 40 mW max...

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Korea Telecom's IPTV Service Uses STMicroelectronics' High-Definition Digital TV Decoder Chips

ST's STi710x single-chip decoders in set-top boxes chosen by Korea Telecom to deliver high-definition multimedia content to consumers Seoul, South Korea, July 5, 2007 - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), the world's largest supplier of silicon chips for set-top boxes (STBs)*, today announced Korea Telecom's (KT) launch of its new IPTV service using high-definition (HDTV) set-top boxes based on ST's...

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STMicroelectronics Licenses Leading-Edge Smart Power Process Technologies to Bosch Automotive

World's leading automotive electronics company adopts ST's proprietary BCD8 smart power and HVCMOS8 high-voltage technologies in continuation of 20-year partnership Geneva, July 10, 2007 - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a leader in supplying semiconductors to the automotive market, today announced the signing of an agreement with Bosch in which the world's leading automotive electronic systems...

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Chip Scale Module adds WiMAX functionality to devices.

Enabling mobile broadband, 2.5 GHz WiMAX9xxx Module consists of baseband/MAC IC, RF transceiver, power amplifier, and on-board memory. Included software suite with drivers and application layer interfaces will allow content providers, manufacturers, and OEM to integrate applications, host interfaces, and operating systems. Module adds WiMax functionality to handsets, ultra mobile personal...

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CMOS Chip targets wireless USB host and device applications.

Based on WiMedia and Certified Wireless USB standards, WSR601 single-die chip integrates UWB PHY, MAC, and Wireless USB subsystems and supports HWA, DWA, and native device protocols. It features SDIO and USB interfaces, isochronous data transfer, cable and numeric association models, and 2-wire coexistence scheme. Offering power consumption of 385 mW at 100 Mbps throughput, it also features...

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Cell Phone LED Driver provides up to 250 mA output current.

Cell Phone LED Driver provides up to 250 mA output current.

Driving up to 9 LEDs, LTC3219 inductorless, low noise LED driver for cell phone displays and lighting features 2.9-5.5 V input voltage range with efficiencies of up to 91% when driven from 3.6 V lithium battery. IC provides 9 individually configurable current sources for Main, Sub, and RGB displays. Display currents are set via internal current reference and universal current sources can be...

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Physical Layer IP delivers data transfer rates up to 6 Gbps.

Suited for notebook, desktop, and enterprise hard disk drives, 65 nm multi-interface TrueStoreÂ-® PHY8800 is part of integrated circuit and serves as electrical interface that performs data transmission between HDD and host. Device is compatible with SATA, SAS, and Fibre Channel protocols. It includes test features such as firmware-controllable signal analyzer that enables engineers to...

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Improvement in Turn-On Voltage of New Micro Switch, NanoBridge-®, to Enable Smaller Chips, Increased Performance, and High Reliability

Tokyo, June 12, 2007 --- NEC Corporation, the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS), and the Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), have together succeeded in improving the turn-on voltage of a new nanometer-scaled switch, NanoBridgeÂ-® *1, which enables the operation voltage of the switch to be adjusted to that of CMOS. Programmable logic devices *2 employing...

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STMicroelectronics Passes Shipment Milestone for Single-Chip Car Radio Tuner IC

ST reaffirms leadership in analog AM/FM car radio market with shipments of 15 million tuner ICs in less than two years Geneva, July 2, 2007 - STMicroelectronics, a world leader in automotive semiconductors, today announced it has shipped more than 15 million units of its TDA7540 high-performance single-chip tuner IC used in analog AM/FM car radio applications, reaffirming its position as one of...

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