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MegaChips and Vidatronic Ink Joint Development Agreement [Health & Beauty Close - Up](Health & Beauty Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) MegaChips, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) solution provider, announced that it introduces MegaChips' new generation LDO, a new line of low dropout (LDO) linear voltage regulators offering performance over traditional LDO products. According to a release, MegaChips new generation LDO features dynamic performance and power supply noise rejection with or without an output capacitor. When used without an output capacitor, this LDO will save approximately 25 percent of the PCB board area making this an ideal solution for space sensitive applications such as smartphones, tablet PCs and the latest wearable devices. MegaChips has been expanding lines of standard products, in addition to ASIC solutions, through partnerships and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). MegaChips merged with Kawasaki Microelectronics, Inc. last year to expand ASIC solutions for printers and networks in addition to application-specific standard products (ASSP). In May of 2013, MegaChips and Vidatronic entered a strategic partnership focused on LDO product line development. MegaChips noted that the partnership with Vidatronic, a provider of power management intellectual property (IP) solutions with analog and mixed signal circuit design expertise and a proprietary, industry-revolutionizing LDO architecture, enables MegaChips to enter the power management integrated circuit (PMIC) market. MegaChips has a broad range of customers in the gaming, printing, and telecommunications industries and expects the addition of this new product line to appeal to a wide variety of new and existing ASIC customers. "Our Partnership with Vidatronic allows MegaChips to enter the PMIC market, and provide broader solutions to our customers." said Akira Takata, CEO MegaChips. "We are extremely excited to partner with MegaChips to bring to market some truly revolutionary products," said Moises Robinson, Ph.D., Vidatronic's President. "We see tremendous synergy from this partnership, which will provide our customers with previously unheard of benefits in cost, performance, size and reliability from the Noise Quencher based LDO and load switch products." Vidatronic is a fabless semiconductor and systems company specializing in developing high-performance power management design solutions that assist in the creation of intelligent devices people use every day. More Information: vidatronic.com/ megachips.us/ ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |