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Toshiba has announced it will build a new production facility to relocate its semiconductor operations and redress the problems caused by the 2011 floods and to meet future growth demands. The plant, which will be operated by subsidiary Toshiba Semiconductor Thailand Ltd (TST), will be 135,000 square metres and be due for completion in the spring of 2013, production will begin in the subsequent months.
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Carlos Lee appointed new director general of EPIC (Di, 17 Apr 2012)
The European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) has announced that Carlos Lee will become its new director general with immediate effect. The announcement, made at the association’s recent annual general meeting, will see Lee replace Thomas Pearsall, who has been with the organization since its formulation in 2003.
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‘Velocity’ the new buzzword in Intel’s PQS annual awards (Do, 12 Apr 2012)
The usual suppliers that include the major sector players and host of Japanese firms dominated Intel’s Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award system in 2011. However, the word ‘velocity’ has become the new measuring stick, with Nikon winning an ‘Achievement’ category award for ‘velocity.’ In total 19 companies received Intel’s PQS honour in 2011 and 2 companies as Achievement winners. In the Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement (SCQI) award category system, Intel acknowledged 9 suppliers in 2011.
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India Semiconductor Association (ISA), the premier trade body representing the Indian electronic systems, semiconductor and embedded software industry today announced its new Executive Council (EC) for the year 2012-13.
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Locations and Dates Set for Novell Tour 2012 (Mo, 26 Mär 2012)
Technology experts and partners showcase Novell solutions in more than 25 cities in Europe and South Africa
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ALi Corp. Cheering for Accumulated Shipments of STB ICs Breaking through 300 Million Units (Di, 14 Feb 2012)
ALi announced that the company's accumulated shipments of STB SoC have exceeded 300 million units, representing a CAGR of 43% since 2005 that far surpasses the industry average of 5%.
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Dez
2011
New DANUBE DC-DC CONVERTER
DANUBE DC-DC CONVERTER
KHW Series
- 60W DIL PACKAGE
- INPUT UVLO & OVLO
- EFFICIENCY UP TO 93%
- 2:1 WIDE INPUT RANGE
- CASE SIZE:50.8mm*50.8mm*11.0mm
- SAFETY STANDARD: CE & FCC
- 3 YEARS WARRANTY
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Okt
2011
New DANUBE DC-DC CONVERTER
DANUBE DC-DC CONVERTER
CW Series (SMD PACKAGE)
- 3W TO 5W SMD PACKAGE
- EFFICIENCY UP TO 85%
- 2:1 WIDE INPUT RANGE
- SHORT CIRCUIT PROTECTION
- CASE SIZE:31.8mm*20.3mm*11.4mm
- DESIGNED TO MEET CE & FCC
- 3 YEARS WARRANTY
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Okt
2011
New DANUBE DC-DC CONVERTER
The new FEWS Series - 20W originally, 2”x1”, high efficiency – extends to 30W is now available.
The series separates to FEWS-A20(20W) & FEWS-B30(30W) series.
DANUBE DC-DC CONVERTER
FEWS Series
- 20W-30W DIL PACKAGE
- 9-18V,18-36V,36-75V,9-36V,18-75V WIDE INPUT RANGE
- REGULATED OUTPUT
- INPUT UVLO & OVLO
- HIGH EFFICIENCY UP TO 90%
- CASE SIZE : 50.8mm*25.4mm*11.2mm
- APPROVALS : CE & FCC
- 3 YEARS WARRANTY
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Aug
2011
ASIX Electronics buys MosChip assets
ASIX Electronics Corp. recently announced it has acquired the business line of I/O connectivity, including all assets and intellectual property rights, from India-based MosChip Semiconductor Technology Ltd. The acquisition enhances ASIX’s portfolio of embedded networking and connectivity products by adding single, multi-port Serial, Parallel, Ethernet, VGA, and IrDA connectivity for various computer and peripheral equipment with PCI Express (PCIe), Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) and USB host interface.
The I/O connectivity products include three series: MCS99xx PCIe bridge controllers, MCS98xx PCI bridge controllers and MCS78xx/MCS77xx USB bridge controllers. For chip-to-chip or system-to-system connections, these controllers provide cost effective, standards compliant, and high-performance embedded system applications, such as remote access servers, storage network management, data acquisition systems, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, handheld devices, set-top box, digital TVs, industrial control and building automation equipment.
The PCIe bridge series, MCS99xx, provide a single-chip, PCI Express x1 (single-lane) to a peripheral controller with support for single and multi-port Serial, Parallel, VGA, ISA and USB interfaces. PCIe is an interconnection system based on the PCI standard connecting a microprocessor to attached devices for high-speed operation. The electrical and mechanical interfaces of PCIe are not compatible with the PCI bus interface. This bus also provides a high-speed 2.5GBs data rate.
The PCI bridge series, MCS98xx, provide OEMs low cost solutions for developing products that bring single and multi-port Parallel, Serial and ISA devices to the market place. PCI is an interconnection system between a microprocessor and attached devices. The MCS98xx supports 3.3/5V PCI bus signaling specifications at full 33 MHz clock speed and allows direct interface to the system bus, delivering a significant reduction in board space requirements.
The USB bridge series, MCS78xx/MCS77xx provides OEM customers and end users an instant, no-hassle way to connect existing devices to next generation computer peripherals. By providing bridging solutions, ASIX can incorporate support for legacy devices such as Serial, Parallel and IrDA as well as advancing the next generation of USB technologies.
To help customers evaluate and develop applications with the I/O connectivity product family, ASIX provides comprehensive technical support including hardware application notes, user guides, schematics, PCB design guidelines, and software drivers.
Software drivers are available for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, WinCE, and Mac OS as well as Linux. The Windows drivers are Microsoft WHQL certified. The availability of complete driver support for a wide range of operating systems further simplifies system design and shortens time-to-market for new OEM product introductions.
About MosChip Semiconductor Technology Ltd.
MosChip Semiconductor Technology Limited, a fabless semiconductor company, was founded in 1999 with
headquarters and a design center in Hyderabad, India. The operations, sales and marketing activities are conducted via its wholly owned subsidiary, MosChip Semiconductor Technology, USA. The
company has several products that include audio-video content processors and network appliance processors. For more information about MosChip, please visit www.moschip.com.
About ASIX Electronics Corporation
ASIX Electronics Corporation is a leading fabless semiconductor supplier with focus on networking, communication and connectivity applications. ASIX was founded in May 1995 in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan, and has been listed on Taiwan OTCStock Exchange (TAIEX code 3169) since November 2009. ASIX Electronics specializes in network & I/O connectivity solutions and provides embedded bridge silicon products such as Non-PCI Ethernet controllers, USB 2.0 to Ethernet NIC Controllers, Network SoC and PCIe/PCI/USB Bridge Controllers. For more information about ASIX, please visit www.asix.com.tw
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Jul
2011
Release the new AX220xx Generic Development Kit Rev. 1.20
You can download the latest technical archives from web site (http://www.asix.com.tw/download.php) directly.
We already updated the latest ASIX technical archives onto our FTP server. Please download all new technical archives from the "20110714" subdirectory (refer to the attached ASIX_Technical_Updates_List_20110714.txt file) from our FTP server (ftp://asix.com.tw) ASAP and backup into your local ASIX's product technical archives database. These files will be removed from our FTP server on Aug. 15th, 2011!
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Dez
2010
ASIX Launches Embedded Wi-Fi SoC for the Internet of Things Market
ASIX Electronics Corp., a leading fabless semiconductor company for embedded networking solutions, today announced it is now delivering the AX220xx family, a single chip microcontroller with TCP/IP and 802.11 WLAN MAC/baseband. The AX220xx is the latest member being added to ASIX’s Embedded Network SoC product portfolio. Leveraging prevalent Wi-Fi infrastructure in home and office environment, the new single-chip Wi-Fi SoC, AX220xx family, provides cost competitive wireless connectivity solution for bridging uncompressed digital audio data, compressed digital video data and serial/parallel user data through its versatile interfaces over the Wi-Fi network.
AX220xx is a System-on-Chip (SoC) solution which offers high performance dual-CPU architecture with on-chip 1MB shared Flash as Program Memory, on-chip 64KB Data Memory for Main CPU (MCPU), on-chip 32KB Data Memory for Wi-Fi CPU (WCPU), TCP/IP accelerator, 802.11a/b/g compatible WLAN MAC/Baseband, Fast Ethernet MAC, and rich communication peripherals for wide varieties of application which need access to the wired/wireless LAN or Internet.
The dual-CPU architecture of AX220xx utilizes the MCPU for applications and TCP/IP processing, and the WCPU for WLAN protocol processing and Ethernet to WLAN packet format translation. The built-in WLAN MAC and Baseband processor are compatible with IEEE 802.11a/b/g standard, and support security features compatible with 802.11i and QoS features compatible with IEEE 802.11e, and support operation in Infrastructure or Ad-Hoc (IBSS) network topology. In addition to standalone application, AX220xx with TCP/IP protocol suite running on-chip and various parallel and serial host interfaces supported, such as Local Bus Interface, High Speed UART or High Speed SPI, can be used as a network co-processor to offload TCP/IP and WLAN protocol processing loading from system CPU in an embedded system.
There is a growing need to add wireless network connectivity into embedded systems, such as adding remote control capability to embedded devices and enabling user's smartphone to take control over Wi-Fi. Machine-to-Machine (M2M) or Internet of Things (IoT) communications will be the primary market demand for the embedded networking system for the years to come. Tailor made for this embedded market, AX220xx provides cost effective wire or wireless networking solution to enable simple, easy, and low cost Internet connection capability for many applications, such as consumer electronics, networked home appliances, Wi-Fi speaker, industrial equipments, security systems, remote data collection equipments, remote control, remote monitoring, and remote management.
To help customers evaluate and develop applications with the AX220xx product family, ASIX provides comprehensive technical support information in a Development/Reference Design Kit. The Kit includes the hardware and software application notes, user guides, schematics, PCB layout guide, and the firmware C source code for the AX220xx family with free of charge. In addition, ASIX also offers several versions of platform available for customers’ development purpose.
Volume production of the AX220xx are available now. The chips are offered in RoHS compliant version. For more information on AX22001 and AX22011 family, please contact ASIX Electronics Corp. via e-mail:sales@asix.com.tw, or visit our website:www.asix.com.tw.

