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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Power Integrations Offers Practical Online Courses to Power Supply Design Engineers

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Power Integrations  today launched PI University, an online technical learning center featuring practical instructional videos that build to form a complete how-to tutorial in power supply circuit design.

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The L-Prize – Going for the High-hanging Fruit

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The Race for the L-Prize Heats Up – With the first entry in the L-Prize contest now on record, the pressure is on manufacturers to produce a lamp that meets the challenging specs set by the U.S. Department of Energy. To the winner will go the spoils of being first in line for new market opportunities, not to mention the 10 million bucks.

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California Tunes in to New Mandatory TV Standards

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

CEC Moving Forward Towards Flat Panel TV Standard: Mr. Green discusses the California Energy Commission’s move to reduce the power consumption of flat panel televisions in the Golden State. Despite concerns from some stakeholders, the CEC is confident that TV suppliers can meet the challenge. Read about the active mode efficiency specifications, the timetable and a comparison with other TV efficiency programs.

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ENERGY STAR Continues Integral LED Light Bulb Spec Quest

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Integral LED Light Bulb Spec Nears Completion: With feedback now being gathered for Draft 3, ENERGY STAR’s new spec for integral LED bulbs is beginning to take final shape. In his latest blog, Mr. Green discusses the importance of the spec and what is new in Draft 3.

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Keeping up with Efficiency Standards… It’s a Moving Target (and a full-time job)!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

October 7, 2009 – Staying on top of the constantly-changing world of power supply standards is (literally) a full-time job. Most engineers simply don’t have the time to attend all the various council and stakeholder meetings around the globe, nor do they want to search through dozens of websites or thousands of documents to figure [...]

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IQE is to acquire UK based NanoGaN Limited

Monday, October 5, 2009

IQE (www.iqep.com) a leading global supplier of advanced wafer products and wafer services to the semiconductor industry, is to acquire UK based NanoGaN Limited (www.nanogan.com) NanoGaN has established a range of unique processes and key intellectual property relating to gallium nitride (GaN) materials and devices. This includes its proprietary Nanocolumn Technology for producing high quality, [...]

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