Start with the news release Dates announced for National Electronics Week from National Electronics Week, which we summarised at the time by saying "NEW Events has announced that National Electronics Week 2011 is taking place from 12-13 April at the NEC Pavilion in Birmingham. ". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release SOS substrate enables IC semiconductor manufacture from Peregrine Semiconductor: "A bonded silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) substrate developed by Peregrine and Soitec has been qualified for use in manufacturing Peregrine's next-generation STeP5 UltraCMOS RF IC semiconductors.".
 
In December 2010, we covered the news from Amphenol - take a look at Rugged connectors for oil and gas downhole tools which says: "Amphenol is offering a line of high-pressure, rugged connectors for oil and gas downhole tools that feature a bidirectional psi of 20,000. ".
 
Take a look also at the news release from UL International, UL acquires testing and data security company, as well as Keithley updates semiconductor test software from Keithley Instruments, and Seminar focuses on design for healthcare markets from Linear Technology.