One of Europe’s leading power management distributors, Avnet Abacus, is launching a new power microsite that will not only offer product information on its full portfolio of power products, but will also be kept up to date with the latest guidelines and legislation information.

Avnet Memec announced the extension of its distribution agreement with HALO Electronics for whom it was previously serving customers in all of EMEA except Central Europe. The two companies will now extend their strategic partnership to include the distribution of HALO’s magnetics devices and inductors for RF and power solutions into Switzerland.

In recent weeks one of Europe's leading power management distributors, Avnet Abacus, has unveiled a series of initiatives to offer its 13,000 customers sustained support for 'green' power design applications. EE Times Europe talks with the distributor's senior management to discover what it means for design engineers.

International Rectifier has introduced the IR3550, the first in a family of integrated PowIRstage products that delivers higher efficiency and better thermal performance than competing solutions along with smallest footprint while simplifying the DC-DC converter design for next-generation high performance servers, storage and communication systems.

CISSOID has introduced a dual High Temperature 40 V N-channel MOSFET Transistor which is available in the small footprint, surface mounting, hermetically sealed ceramic SOIC16 package, this new device will help designers to achieve the highest system density.