Sometimes, the parts list says it all. 777 transistors, 1223 resistors, 136 LEDs, 455 crimp connectors, 41 protoboards and 500 grams of solder. That’s what went into this transistor logic clock build.

Chengdu Silan Semiconductor Manufacturing, a subsidiary of discrete component IDM Silan Microelectronics, has raised CNY500 million (US$71.7 million) from two new Chinese investors... China-based ...

Component integration has been the driving force of the semiconductor industry for more than 60 years. It’s right there in the industry term integrated circuit, or IC. And year after year, diligent ...

Lite-On Semiconductor, a maker of discrete and analog IC components, swung to net profits of NT$76.5 million (US$2.55 million) in the second quarter of 2013 from losses of NT$13 million... Lite-On ...

El Segundo, Calif., September 22, 2010—After more than a year of increases, prices for discrete components used in nearly all electronic products are set to begin to decline in the first quarter of ...

Over the past century, electronic engineering has improved massively. In the 1920s, a state-of-the-art AM radio contained several vacuum tubes, a few enormous inductors, capacitors and resistors, ...

How to replace MOSFETs with load switches, and the impact of on-resistance. Swapping out diodes with ideal diodes, and the use of ideal-diode controllers. Why replacing fuses and resettable fuses with ...

The LTC4059 single-cell lithium-ion linear charger IC discards three discrete power components while fast-charging cells with no risk of system overheating. It monitors and reports the value of the ...