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B2B Chips Launched to Improve Independent Electronic Component Distribution in China

Company announces partnership with American independent distributor MGA Engineering.

Shenzen, China (PRWEB) June 19, 2006 -- B2B Chips, Ltd. today announced its formation to bring guaranteed quality to independent electronic component distribution in China. At the same time B2B Chips announced that it has been appointed Sales Partner for China by MGA Engineering, a leading independent distributor in Largo, Florida, USA that specializes in Zarlink, Mitel, Plessey and Zetex components and has one of the world's largest stocks of obsolete and hard to find parts.

“By sourcing from top quality suppliers, buying excess inventory from top-tier OEMs/EMS providers and offering a quality guarantee, B2B Chips will rapidly establish our reputation for having the gold standard for quality in China,” said George Huang, Product Manager of B2B Chips. “Our top notch sales people provide a level of service that reinforces our creed that customers are #1.”

Greg Minadeo, President of MGA said, “We studied entering the Chinese market for some time and we concluded that partnering with B2B Chips would give us the kind of jump start that could save us years of struggling. MGA's unique product knowledge and inventory together with B2B Chips services, gives Chinese customers a local access point to MGA that is quick and convenient. Most of MGA’s products are special, application specific components and many are obsolete and hard-to-find. Most distributors just do not have these products or the knowledge about these products to service customers well. For the past 10 years European and North American customers have benefited from doing business with MGA and now Chinese customers can do the same through our partnership with B2B Chips.”

“Our high ethical standards, solid partnerships and best-in-class MIS capability set B2B Chips apart from the thousands of other independent electronic component distributors in China,” said Harry Cochran, CEO of B2B Chips. “There are lots of North American and European suppliers who have been sitting on the sidelines as China has grown to become the world’s largest market for electronic components. We believe that partnering with B2B Chips is the best way for these companies to enter the Chinese market.”

About B2B Chips, Ltd.
B2B Chips is an independent distributor of electronic components based in Shenzhen, China. We put our customers first and provide a quality standard that gives peace of mind backed by our satisfaction guarantee. By working closely with international suppliers, we give our customers a robust breadth of supply choice. Our Web site, www.b2bchips.com, gives us a great way to disseminate information and place parts at Internet speed and “China” price.

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New Kit Provides PC-Based Evaluation of Frontier Silicon’s Advanced Multi-Standard Mobile TV Chipset

Frontier Silicon, the market leader in semiconductor solutions for mobile TV and digital radio, has introduced a complete evaluation kit which will allow designers to explore the capabilities of its mobile TV chipset.

London (PRWEB) June 12, 2006 -- Frontier Silicon, the market leader in semiconductor solutions for mobile TV and digital radio, has introduced a complete evaluation kit which will allow designers to explore the capabilities of its mobile TV chipset. The kit, named Troy, contains Frontier Silicon’s Apollo RF receiver and Kino 2 chipset for mobile TV applications; software and documentation allowing a PC to act as the host processor in a mobile TV system, displaying up to four video streams simultaneously as well as dynamically configuring and monitoring various parameters; flexible interfacing to all the leading media processors; plus all necessary cables and documentation.

The Troy kit allows developers to test and measure the performance of Frontier Silicon’s mobile TV chipset in lab and real-life situations, and is fully configurable through a USB interface. It receives a T-DMB RF signal on Band III and L Band, and delivers an MPEG-2 transport stream to a host processor for audio and video decoding. Troy can process up to four simultaneous T-DMB streams, each displayed in a separate player window on the PC; the streams can be started and stopped using the AV control area’s play and stop buttons. Once evaluation is complete using the PC, a flexible media processor connector enables easy interfacing to media and application processor development kits, allowing quick mobile TV reference platform development.

The kit supports dual-band, multi-mode operation – Band-III, L-Band for T-DMB, eDMB, DAB-IP – and the software includes T-DMB decoder object code and reference PC utility source code. The SPI-USB bridge included allows a standard PC to act as the host processor, and the interface connector also contains serial SPC, GPIO and I2S signals. The media processor connector supports multiple supply voltages enabling connection to all popular media processor development kits.

The Apollo RF receiver and Kino2 baseband processor IC chipset provides mobile TV handset manufacturers with maximum flexibility to easily customize their products to meet the needs of their customers and offer high quality TV and radio services.

Apollo is the smallest low power RF tuner for T-DMB currently available. It measures just 5.0 x 5.0 x 0.9 mm, supports Band-III, Band II and L-Band reception, features market leading ultra-low power consumption of less than 80 mW and requires less than 20 external passive components.

Kino 2 delivers significant improvements in size, power consumption and cost compared to other IC solutions available today, resulting in longer battery life and reduced system size to enable mobile TV in smaller, slimmer phones. The chip consumes as little as 80 mW of power and supports a full decoding rate of over 1.8 Mbps

The Kino 2 IC is a true multi-mode device with built in flexibility through software customization, supporting all T-DMB variants as well as DAB and DAB-IP in a single chip. Its flexibility enables advanced software features such as conditional access and data services. When combined with the multi-band capability of the Apollo silicon tuner, handset vendors can produce mobile TV featured devices that are compatible with the requirements of all T-DMB markets worldwide including China, Korea and Germany.

About Frontier Silicon
Frontier Silicon is the leading supplier of digital and RF integrated circuits and modules for mobile TV and DAB digital radio products. Frontier is supplying solutions for leading products such as the Samsung B2300 and SGH-P900 T-DMB mobile phones and has over 80 percent market share for DAB receiver solutions. Frontier Silicon’s products include solutions for DAB digital radio, T-DMB and DAB-IP and a multi-standard receiver solution for mobile TV reception combining DVB-H, T-DMB and DAB-IP.

Customers include Bang & Olufsen, Denon, Grundig, JVC, Philips, PURE Digital, Roberts Radio, Samsung, Sharp, Sony and TEAC. Frontier Silicon has operations in UK, Ireland, China, South Korea and Japan. For more information, visit www.frontier-silicon.com.

Frontier Silicon uses Meta(TM) and UCC(TM) intellectual property from Imagination Technologies.

Contact details:
Steve Evans, VP sales and marketing
Tel:     +44 (0) 1923 474200
Fax:     +44 (0)1923 202251

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Sunburst Electronics Adds New Lead-Free Production Capabilities in Keeping with European Environmental Protection Regulations

Sunburst Electronics, an electronic contract manufacturer based in Erie, Pa., expanded its production capabilities to include the manufacturing of lead-free electronic controls bound for Europe.

Erie, PA (PRWEB) June 9, 2006 -- Sunburst Electronics, an Erie-based electronic contract manufacturer, expanded its production capabilities to include the manufacturing of lead-free electronic controls bound for Europe. The European Union, via its RoHS environmental directive, mandated that lead-free solder materials be used in electronic products, effective July 1, 2006. Non-compliant companies exporting to Europe from the U.S. will otherwise be “locked out.”

To meet these changing market conditions and the higher temperature demands of lead-free solder compounds, Sunburst purchased an Electrovert OmniExcel 7 Solder Reflow Oven (with seven chambers) and an Electrovert Speedline Wave Solder machine, best-in-class brands produced by Massachusetts-based, Speedline Technologies. Having already received lead-free manufacturing orders, Sunburst’s new, seven-chamber, solder reflow oven meets higher temperature requirements for lead-free alloys but minimizes thermal stress on other electronic parts through a gradual, chamber-to-chamber heating process.

Dennis Cantoni, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Sunburst Electronics, said “Local businesses producing industrial controls, sensors, medical devices and other electronic products for Europe are facing major challenges when it comes to RoHS compliance. They must determine if they are exempt (or not) from RoHS regulations, generate compliant Bills of Material and transition to RoHS compliant manufacturing and inventory – a very disruptive process for manufacturers in our industry.”

In addition to adding new lead-free production capabilities, Sunburst is also partnering with local and regional companies to position them for RoHS compliance by identifying lead times associated with RoHS compliant parts, searching for alternative components or suppliers, evaluating current levels of non-compliant materials, determining strategies to maximize inventory use and creating compliant Bills of Materials.
                                                                                         
Editor’s Note: Certified to ISO 9001:2000, Sunburst Electronics specializes in developing electronic assemblies (printed circuit boards, chassis assembly, cables and harnesses) for industrial machinery, control and measurement applications, instrumentation, avionics, transportation, transducers and medical devices, among others.

The company houses its operations in a 31,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility based in Erie, Pa., and maintains a separately staffed, 4,000-square-foot repair center specializing in end-of-life product management.

Originally founded in 1975 by Robert Heiges, Sunburst was purchased by Bliley Technologies, Inc., in 1986. Bliley (www.bliley.com) is a manufacturer of quartz crystals and crystal oscillators used in the telecommunications, military and space industries.

For more information, visit www.sunburstelectronics.com, or call or write Sunburst Electronics at 420 East Bayfront Parkway, Erie, Pa., 16507-1456. Phone: (814) 461-9120.

CONTACT:
Dennis Cantoni
(814) 461-9120
www.sunburstelectronics.com

Sandra McVeigh
(724) 776-5279
www.spectria.biz

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