Vitesse's latest clock and data recovery device is designed to meet the challenges of transmitting and recovering 8G Fibre Channel data in lossy legacy blade server backplanes and host bus adapters (HBA).

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., has introduced a new 20-V p-channel power MOSFET which the company claims offers the lowest on-resistance ever achieved for a p-channel device in the compact 2-mm by 2-mm footprint area of the thermally enhanced PowerPAK SC-70.

Arasan Chip Systems claims to offer the first secure digital SD/SDIO 3.0 combo device controller IP, that is compliant with the latest SD, SDIO specification v3.0.

In motor management applications, piezo knock sensors offer many advantages over other approaches. Austriamicrosystems' (AMS) AS1716 interface device aims at facilitating the usage of these sensors.

West Bridge Turbo-MTP 2.0 from Cypress Semiconductgor transfers movies in <45 sec using the MTP protocol, and supports Android OS.

Luxtera has launched a PCB mounted optical transceiver line dubbed OptoPHY that paves the way to breaking one dollar per Gbps cost barrier.

Texas Instruments claims to offer the industry's first passive low frequency interface (PaLFI) device designed to wirelessly supply an ultra-low-power MSP430 microcontroller (MCU) with energy to operate even if the optional battery is empty.

Nordic Semiconductor ASA has announced that a leading US-based designer and manufacturer of RF audience response keypads and voting systems, Fleetwood Group, has standardized on Nordic nRF24L01+ 2.4GHz transceivers in its latest Ativa® audience voting system.

Freescale Semiconductor claims to have solved the problem by multiplexing mobile device functions onto a single USB connector.

Elan Digital Systems' latest connectivity device is the VUB300, a USB to SDIO host controller bridge chip interface that allows SDIO and SD compliant devices to be connected to any host PC via USB.