Redmond, WA -- Datalight and Data I/O Corp. announced a joint technology effort aimed to ease the task of bringing NAND Flash products to market.

As market demand for increased memory in electronic products has surged, designers of new products increasingly use NAND Flash memories in new designs to capture a cost advantage. The challenge is that NAND memories require bad-blocks to be detected and managed while writing to the device.  The joint effort hopes to enable NAND flash users to leverage performance capabilities, shortening the development cycle and ensuring accurate handling of bad blocks.

Datalight specializes in system software to help OEMs add value to embedded devices. Data I/O is a provider of manual and automated device programming systems for programmable flash technologies.

Mansfield, TX – Mouser Electronics will be the first catalog distributor to market Oki Semiconductor’s advanced integrated circuits to the industry.

Oki manufactures a line of ICs for the telecommunications, automotive, computer, medical and consumer markets. Its portfolio of products includes microcontroller, ASIC, memory, speech synthesis and RF devices.   

Mouser’s customer base of over 100,000 business accounts focuses primarily on the design-in and prototyping stage of the design cycle and are comprised of a range of companies, universities and engineering consultants who recommend, specify and purchase board level components for product designs. 

 

GREENVILLE, SC -- Kemet Corp. today June quarter net income of $3 million on net sales of $114.1 million. The company's net loss before special items was $300,000, with the difference made up by a one-time tax benefit of $3.3 million. 

Sales at the maker of passive chips were down 6.8% from last year and up 12.5% sequentially.

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BOSTON --  Revenues of Europe-based electronics manufacturing services firms are in recovery, according to a recent research report.

Reed Electronics Research says the European EMS market will reach €47.1 billion by 2009, up 139% from €19.7billion in 2003. Reed estimates the market grew 20.3% in 2004, to €23.7 billion.

One big factor: Eastern Europe. The cost savings gained by moving manufacturing to the emerging region is driving the rest of the continent. Eastern Europe's EMS sales will reach €11billion by 2009, up from an estimated €4 billion this year, Reed reports. Eastern Europe is already the third largest EMS market in Europe, with a 16.8% share.

Germany is the market share leader, at 23%, followed by the U.K. (18.1%) and France (13%).

As of last year, the 10 largest companies made up an estimated 64% of total EMS sales, Reed says.