SINGAPORE: RS Components (RS) the world’s largest high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products and the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), and Renesas Electronics China have establish a partnership to leverage on RS’s online platform to enhance support for samples and tools.
Under this partnership, RS customers will benefit from a more comprehensive range of Renesas products, providing more choices for design engineers. The partnership will also ensure shorter order fulfilment and faster speed to market.
To meet the needs of customers in China, RS has consistently introduced local initiatives to improve speed to market and increase productivity for local engineers. Last year, RS China implemented Alipay on its fully-transactional website for an integrated online buying experience and, and in April, RS has also opened a new warehouse in Shanghai, which will provide an extensive and fully stocked inventory of over 135,000 product lines.
CM Lim, Head of Electronics, Asia Pacific, at RS Components, said: “We are very happy to be the preferred choice for Renesas China for their online initiative. We are confident that with RS’ multiple ordering channels and assurance of next day delivery to 200 cities in China, we can bring more benefits to our customers, such as accessibility to a broader product range and increased speed to market.”
RS currently offers over 1,000 Renesas products, which includes microcontroller and processors, development kits, optoelectronics, peripheral components and more. The improved range of products is targeted to be the widest range of Renesas offerings amongst high service distributors in the country.
Daryl Khoo, Director, MCU Products, China and Hong Kong, Renesas Electronics, said: “With China’s customers becoming more technology-savvy, many of them are looking to do their purchases online. We have chosen to work with RS Components because of their robust online platform, and we are confident of RS’ promise of fast next day delivery service to our customers in China. Renesas as the world’s no 1 MCU supplier; already has a big share of the China market (23.5 percent in CY2010 Bill-To-Sales source: Isuppli). Our EasyGo online solution coupled with RS Components online capabilities, provides a convenient one stop shop, reducing design lead times for our customers in China.”
“With this partnership, customers can now easily access our comprehensive and competitive line up of microcontrollers and tools through our reference designs; which also leads customers to our other product lines,” he continued.
The partnership with Renesas Electronics in China brings RS Components’ online offerings to the next level, with an option for Renesas’ customers to request for sample via RS Online. Customers can select from a range of product samples, including MCU and OCD,to support their research and designing process.
Monday, July 4, 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Revised EU RoHS directive published
BANNOCKBURN, USA: The revised European Union (EU) Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive was published in the EU Official Journal. The Directive is expected to go into effect on July 21, 2011, twenty days after publication. Member States will have 18 months to transpose the Directive into national law. Member States’ regulations are expected to take force no later than January 2, 2013.
“IPC has advocated over the past two years that any changes to the RoHS Directive be underpinned by a solid scientific examination,” says Fern Abrams, IPC director, government relations and environmental policy.” Due to IPC’s aggressive lobbying efforts, the revised RoHS Directive does not restrict any additional substances. Four substances, however, are identified for priority assessment in a nonbinding recital: Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD), Bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), Butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP), and Dibutyl phthalate (DBP).
“As an industry, we were extremely successful in convincing EU lawmakers of the complexities and implications of restricting substances without conducting thorough scientific analyses of those substances and their potential alternatives,” Abrams adds. The methodology for evaluating substances for priority assessment is congruent with the EU Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) Regulation, which has a robust, scientific evaluation process for evaluating and restricting chemicals.
The revised RoHS Directive now applies to all electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), not just a few select categories. Category 8, medical devices, and Category 9, monitoring and control instruments, will come into scope by 2014. Category 11, all other EEE not covered by any other category, will come into scope by 2019. The exemptions policy will also change. Industry, instead of the EU government, will now have to prove the necessity of an exemption.
Exemptions will also have expiration dates and companies will need to submit renewal applications at least 18 months before the exemptions expire in order to the EU to consider renewing the exemptions. The revised RoHS Directive will be a CE Marking Directive, which requires manufacturers, distributors and importers to accurately label EEE manufactured or sold in the EU.
“IPC has advocated over the past two years that any changes to the RoHS Directive be underpinned by a solid scientific examination,” says Fern Abrams, IPC director, government relations and environmental policy.” Due to IPC’s aggressive lobbying efforts, the revised RoHS Directive does not restrict any additional substances. Four substances, however, are identified for priority assessment in a nonbinding recital: Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD), Bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), Butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP), and Dibutyl phthalate (DBP).
“As an industry, we were extremely successful in convincing EU lawmakers of the complexities and implications of restricting substances without conducting thorough scientific analyses of those substances and their potential alternatives,” Abrams adds. The methodology for evaluating substances for priority assessment is congruent with the EU Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) Regulation, which has a robust, scientific evaluation process for evaluating and restricting chemicals.
The revised RoHS Directive now applies to all electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), not just a few select categories. Category 8, medical devices, and Category 9, monitoring and control instruments, will come into scope by 2014. Category 11, all other EEE not covered by any other category, will come into scope by 2019. The exemptions policy will also change. Industry, instead of the EU government, will now have to prove the necessity of an exemption.
Exemptions will also have expiration dates and companies will need to submit renewal applications at least 18 months before the exemptions expire in order to the EU to consider renewing the exemptions. The revised RoHS Directive will be a CE Marking Directive, which requires manufacturers, distributors and importers to accurately label EEE manufactured or sold in the EU.
Novellus ships Vector LED system to China Semileds
SAN JOSE, USA: Novellus Systems announced that it has shipped a VECTOR® plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) system to Xurui Guangdian Co. Ltd (China SemiLEDs), a joint venture company in the People’s Republic of China in which SemiLEDs Corp., a leading manufacturer of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (LEDs), is a partner. The new VECTOR will be installed at the China SemiLEDs’ plant in Foshan, China, and will be used for the manufacturing of SemiLEDs’ MvpLED high-efficiency LED products.
Cost-per-die and cost-per-lumen are critical factors in driving the adoption of LED technology into the mainstream lighting market. Current LED manufacturing technology is predominantly based on sapphire substrates in 2”, 3” and 4” diameters. The inherently low-productivity manufacturing process used in making LEDs consumes a considerable amount of energy — on average, more than 200 kWh of electricity is spent in making a 2” sapphire wafer.
The VECTOR system has industry-leading process performance, a wide process window, and high productivity, a combination of factors which provides a lower manufacturing cost-per-die in comparison to traditional LED manufacturing solutions. With a multi-wafer carrier configuration, the VECTOR LED system is capable of handling all wafer sizes — 2”, 3”, 4”, 6”, 8” and 12” — with exceptional throughput, film quality and uniformity at each size. In contrast to a traditional PECVD reactor used in LED manufacturing, the VECTOR LED also deposits films at lower temperatures, provides better manufacturing process control and is more energy-efficient.
“The new VECTOR LED system is the LED manufacturing industry’s most productive PECVD solution,” said Sesha Varadarajan, senior VP and GM of Novellus’ Electrofill and PECVD business units. “We are pleased to add VECTOR LED to the company’s existing suite of products for LED manufacturing, including our process solutions for photoresist strip, descum, PVD, electroplating, and wafer polishing and thinning.”
“In our continual effort to increase productivity and energy efficiencies, we will be placing the VECTOR LED system at China SemiLEDs’ Foshan plant,” said Marco Mora, GM of China SemiLEDs. “Novellus’ infrastructure and service capabilities in China made the selection of this vendor a very logical choice for China SemiLEDs.”
Cost-per-die and cost-per-lumen are critical factors in driving the adoption of LED technology into the mainstream lighting market. Current LED manufacturing technology is predominantly based on sapphire substrates in 2”, 3” and 4” diameters. The inherently low-productivity manufacturing process used in making LEDs consumes a considerable amount of energy — on average, more than 200 kWh of electricity is spent in making a 2” sapphire wafer.
The VECTOR system has industry-leading process performance, a wide process window, and high productivity, a combination of factors which provides a lower manufacturing cost-per-die in comparison to traditional LED manufacturing solutions. With a multi-wafer carrier configuration, the VECTOR LED system is capable of handling all wafer sizes — 2”, 3”, 4”, 6”, 8” and 12” — with exceptional throughput, film quality and uniformity at each size. In contrast to a traditional PECVD reactor used in LED manufacturing, the VECTOR LED also deposits films at lower temperatures, provides better manufacturing process control and is more energy-efficient.
“The new VECTOR LED system is the LED manufacturing industry’s most productive PECVD solution,” said Sesha Varadarajan, senior VP and GM of Novellus’ Electrofill and PECVD business units. “We are pleased to add VECTOR LED to the company’s existing suite of products for LED manufacturing, including our process solutions for photoresist strip, descum, PVD, electroplating, and wafer polishing and thinning.”
“In our continual effort to increase productivity and energy efficiencies, we will be placing the VECTOR LED system at China SemiLEDs’ Foshan plant,” said Marco Mora, GM of China SemiLEDs. “Novellus’ infrastructure and service capabilities in China made the selection of this vendor a very logical choice for China SemiLEDs.”
Friday, July 1, 2011
LeCroy LabMaster 9 Zi-A oscilloscope now offers 36 GHz bandwidth on 4 to 10 channels
CHESTNUT RIDGE, USA: LeCroy Corp. announced that the innovative LabMaster 9 Zi-A Modular Oscilloscope System now provides higher bandwidth at the same channel density with the addition of a 36 GHz Acquisition Module.
The new 36 GHz capability--20 percent more than previously offered by LeCroy at this channel density--keeps LeCroy at the forefront of customer needs by providing the most four-channel bandwidth in this class. In addition, LabMaster 9 Zi-A has significant other technical and performance advantages.
The higher bandwidth is desired by customers performing optical coherent modulation analysis at data rates of 28+ GBaud (112+ Gb/s) or for 10 to 28 Gb/s electrical non-return to zero (NRZ) serial data testing. Development and installation of systems utilizing these data rates is being driven by trends in cloud computing and mobile device communication that are requiring more optical backhaul transmission bandwidth. The IEEE 802.3ba standard and Optical Internetwork Forum (OIF) recommendations for 100 GbE are the technical drivers in these areas.
The new Acquisition Module can be configured in a LabMaster 9 Zi-A system to provide up to 10 channels at 36 GHz with 80 GS/s and 20 channels at 20 GHz with 40 GS/s, with analysis memory up to 512 Mpts/Ch. It is also backwards-compatible with previously purchased LabMaster 9 Zi-A "Master" Acquisition Modules. In addition, customers needing even more bandwidth than 36 GHz can purchase LabMaster 9 Zi-A Modular Oscilloscope Systems that provide up to five channels at 45 GHz with 120 GS/s.
The new 36 GHz capability--20 percent more than previously offered by LeCroy at this channel density--keeps LeCroy at the forefront of customer needs by providing the most four-channel bandwidth in this class. In addition, LabMaster 9 Zi-A has significant other technical and performance advantages.
The higher bandwidth is desired by customers performing optical coherent modulation analysis at data rates of 28+ GBaud (112+ Gb/s) or for 10 to 28 Gb/s electrical non-return to zero (NRZ) serial data testing. Development and installation of systems utilizing these data rates is being driven by trends in cloud computing and mobile device communication that are requiring more optical backhaul transmission bandwidth. The IEEE 802.3ba standard and Optical Internetwork Forum (OIF) recommendations for 100 GbE are the technical drivers in these areas.
The new Acquisition Module can be configured in a LabMaster 9 Zi-A system to provide up to 10 channels at 36 GHz with 80 GS/s and 20 channels at 20 GHz with 40 GS/s, with analysis memory up to 512 Mpts/Ch. It is also backwards-compatible with previously purchased LabMaster 9 Zi-A "Master" Acquisition Modules. In addition, customers needing even more bandwidth than 36 GHz can purchase LabMaster 9 Zi-A Modular Oscilloscope Systems that provide up to five channels at 45 GHz with 120 GS/s.
KEMET announces construction of new manufacturing facility in Macedonia
GREENVILLE, USA: KEMET Corp., a leading manufacturer of tantalum, ceramic, aluminum, film, paper and electrolytic capacitors, announced plans to construct a new manufacturing facility in Skopje, Macedonia.
"This facility is a component of KEMET's long-term strategy of consolidating and maintaining manufacturing for its European customer base, while fulfilling our objective of lowering the cost structure associated with our Film and Electrolytic business," stated Per Loof, CEO. "The first products to be manufactured at this new facility will be standard DC film capacitors which support many industries including alternative energy, automotive and industrial."
The initial facility will be a total 10,000 square meters of manufacturing and administrative office space and employ approximately 200 people when fully operational. The expected completion date of the facility is summer 2012. The investment in this new facility, including transferred assets, is expected to be approximately euro 12 million. The cost of the facility construction during the company's current fiscal year is included in the previously announced capital plan for the year.
"This facility is a component of KEMET's long-term strategy of consolidating and maintaining manufacturing for its European customer base, while fulfilling our objective of lowering the cost structure associated with our Film and Electrolytic business," stated Per Loof, CEO. "The first products to be manufactured at this new facility will be standard DC film capacitors which support many industries including alternative energy, automotive and industrial."
The initial facility will be a total 10,000 square meters of manufacturing and administrative office space and employ approximately 200 people when fully operational. The expected completion date of the facility is summer 2012. The investment in this new facility, including transferred assets, is expected to be approximately euro 12 million. The cost of the facility construction during the company's current fiscal year is included in the previously announced capital plan for the year.
Nordson completes acquisition of flexible packaging equipment manufacturer Verbruggen
WESTLAKE, USA: Nordson Corp. announced it has completed the acquisition of Temse, Belgium-based Constructiewerkhuizen G. Verbruggen NV, a leading manufacturer of flat dies and coextrusion equipment for the multi-layer flexible packaging industry. Terms were not disclosed.
Nordson is one of the world’s leading producers of precision dispensing equipment that applies adhesives, sealants, powder and liquid coatings and other materials to a broad range of consumer and industrial products.
The company also manufactures equipment used in the testing and inspection of electronic components as well as technology-based systems for curing and surface treatment processes. Headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, Nordson has direct operations and sales support offices in more than 30 countries.
Nordson is one of the world’s leading producers of precision dispensing equipment that applies adhesives, sealants, powder and liquid coatings and other materials to a broad range of consumer and industrial products.
The company also manufactures equipment used in the testing and inspection of electronic components as well as technology-based systems for curing and surface treatment processes. Headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, Nordson has direct operations and sales support offices in more than 30 countries.
Panasonic Electric Works names Digi-Key distributor of the year for sales growth 2010
EDS 2011, THIEF RIVER FALLS, USA: Digi-Key Corp. has announced its selection as Panasonic Electric Works’ Distributor of the Year for Sales Growth 2010.
“We are pleased to receive this honor from such a distinguished company as Panasonic Electric Works,” said Jeff Shafer, vice president, global interconnect, passives, and electromechanical product, Digi-Key. “Our exponential growth in 2010 came as a direct result of our partnership with top-level companies such as Panasonic Electric Works.”
Digi-Key representatives accepted this award at the EDS conference in Las Vegas, Nev., in May.
“We are pleased to receive this honor from such a distinguished company as Panasonic Electric Works,” said Jeff Shafer, vice president, global interconnect, passives, and electromechanical product, Digi-Key. “Our exponential growth in 2010 came as a direct result of our partnership with top-level companies such as Panasonic Electric Works.”
Digi-Key representatives accepted this award at the EDS conference in Las Vegas, Nev., in May.
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