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By John Day, Newsletter Editor January 3, 2008 A Penton Media Publication

 Table of Contents

Continental commences Siemens VDO integration
CCID Consulting pegs Chinese automotive electronics growth at 33.4%
Clarion PND accesses Clear Channel real-time traffic
Measurement Specialties acquires Intersema Sensoric SA
Hella, Behr Hella Service to Market Visteon products in Europe
SiRF InstantFixII cuts PND start-up wait time
Parrot hands-free car kits work with iPhone
Kenwood in-car video devices based on MPH in-band mobile DTV system
Bongiovi Acoustics sets car audio demo at CES
Linear Technology 5ppm/°C voltage reference features low noise
ISSI Automotive SDRAMs handle --40 °C to +105 °C
SANYO selects Altera FPGAs for rear-view camera system
NavStar selects NAVTEQ maps for Voice Navigator
Von Stach heated frameless wiper clears windshield on $2M Natalia
TI DaVinci processors use SVOX automotive text-to-speech technology
DriveCam selects Ethertronics embedded antennas for video event recorder
European tier one eyes Microvision display technology
Upcoming Events


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  Industry News
  Continental commences Siemens VDO integration
By John Day
Jan. 3, 2008    
  Continental AG has organized itself into six divisions following its acquisition of Siemens VDO. more >>

  CCID Consulting pegs Chinese automotive electronics growth at 33.4%
Jan. 3, 2008    
  Chinese research firm CCID Consulting estimates that in 2007 China's automotive semiconductor device market reached ¥115.74 billion ($15.87 billion), for a growth rate of 33.4% compared with automobile market growth in excess of 20%. more >>

  Clarion PND accesses Clear Channel real-time traffic
Jan. 3, 2008    
  Clarion Corporation of America has begun shipments of its N.I.C.E. 430 (Navigation In-Car Entertainment) portable navigation device and optional NAVRDS accessory for accessing Clear Channel Radio's Total Traffic Network service. more >>

  Business Briefs
  Measurement Specialties acquires Intersema Sensoric SA
Jan. 3, 2008    
  Measurement Specialties Inc. has acquired Intersema Sensoric SA for approximately $39.7 million in cash and notes plus an additional $17.3 million if performance thresholds are achieved. more >>

  Hella, Behr Hella Service to Market Visteon products in Europe
Jan. 3, 2008    
  Hella KGaA Hueck & Company and Behr Hella Service will partner with Visteon Corporation to sell Visteon aftermarket lighting, air-conditioning and engine-cooling components in Europe. more >>

  Technology News
  SiRF InstantFixII cuts PND start-up wait time
Jan. 3, 2008    
  SiRF Technology Holdings has introduced SiRFInstantFixII, an autonomous version of SiRF's SiRFInstantFix technology designed to reduce start-up times for portable navigation devices (PNDs) from more than half a minute to as little as five seconds. more >>

  Parrot hands-free car kits work with iPhone
Jan. 3, 2008    
  Parrot said seven of its hands-free car kits now support Apple's iPhone. more >>

  Products
  Kenwood in-car video devices based on MPH in-band mobile DTV system
Jan. 3, 2008    
  Kenwood USA plans to demonstrate at the Consumer Electronics Show prototype terrestrial DTV receivers based on the MPH in-band mobile DTV system developed by Harris Corporation, LG Electronics and LG's U.S. R&D subsidiary, Zenith. more >>

  Bongiovi Acoustics sets car audio demo at CES
Jan. 3, 2008    
  Bongiovi Acoustics plans to demonstrate a "Platinum Record Edition" car audio system in the JVC Mobile Entertainment Booth (#1431) at the Consumer Electronics Show. more >>

  Linear Technology 5ppm/°C voltage reference features low noise
Jan. 3, 2008    
  Linear Technology Corporation has introduced the LTC6652, a precision low-noise series voltage reference with an initial accuracy of 0.05% and maximum voltage drift of 5 ppm/°C. more >>

  ISSI Automotive SDRAMs handle --40 °C to +105 °C
Jan. 3, 2008    
  Integrated Silicon Solution Inc. has introduced a line of automotive SDRAMs with densities from 16 Mb to 512 Mb and support for -40 °C to +85 °C (A1 grade) and -40 °C to +105 °C (A2 grade) temperature ranges. more >>

  Design Wins
  SANYO selects Altera FPGAs for rear-view camera system
Jan. 3, 2008    
  Altera Corporation said SANYO Electric Co. is using Altera Cyclone II field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) with a Nios II embedded processor in SANYO's CCA-BC200 aftermarket rear-view backup camera system. more >>

  NavStar selects NAVTEQ maps for Voice Navigator
Jan. 3, 2008    
  NavStar Technologies will use United States map data from NAVTEQ in NavStar's Voice Navigator product. more >>

  Von Stach heated frameless wiper clears windshield on $2M Natalia
Jan. 3, 2008    
  Von Stach Products said its "HeatFlexx" heated frameless windshield wiper will be standard equipment on DiMora Motorcar's $2 million, hand-built Natalia SLS 2 sport luxury sedan, said to be the world's most expensive production automobile. more >>

  TI DaVinci processors use SVOX automotive text-to-speech technology
Jan. 3, 2008    
  SVOX AG said that Texas Instruments is using SVOX's text-to-speech (TTS) technology in Texas Instruments' DaVinci technology processors. more >>

  DriveCam selects Ethertronics embedded antennas for video event recorder
Jan. 3, 2008    
  DriveCam Inc. has selected embedded antennas from Ethertronics Inc. for a behavior-based risk mitigation solution. more >>

  European tier one eyes Microvision display technology
Jan. 3, 2008    
  Microvision said a European tier one firm plans to evaluate Microvision's PicoP miniature laser-projection technology for head-up displays and other automotive display applications. more >>

  Upcoming Events
  Upcoming Events
Jan. 3, 2008    
  North American International Auto Show
Jan. 13-27, 2008
Cobo Center
Detroit, Michigan

Design Automation & Test in Europe (DATE)
March 10-14, 2008
ICM Messe
Munich, Germany

Freescale Technology Forum 2008
June 16-19, 2008
JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton
Orlando, Florida


electronica 2008
Nov. 11-14, 2008

15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
Nov. 16-20, 2008
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
New York, New York more >>


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