Zero force: Optical touch switch replaces mechanical push buttons
Control Engineering
New Providence, NJ – Panasonic Electric Works Corp. of America offers the Sunx brand optical touch switch, the SW-101, a zero force replacement for mechanical push buttons commonly used in two hand control safety applications.
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Extreme design: Controller board optical switch, 36 layers, 2.5 Terabits/sec, 1.6 mi trace length
Control Engineering
Endicott, NY — Endicott Interconnect Technologies Inc. introduced a controller board that functions as the intelligence of a powerful, advanced optical packet switch. The controller board for a 64×64 port, high-performance optical switch designed by IBM Zurich Research Lab, claimed to be one of the most complex designs ever developed, is a core component in the OSMOSIS (Optical Shared MemOry Supercomputer Interconnect System) research for computer systems.
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Bank regulators: 'Asleep at the switch'
CNN Money
U.S. Senate lawmakers grilled federal regulators Thursday about why they didn't intervene as banks' lending standards deteriorated, leading to a meltdown in the mortgage market and a credit crunch that threatens the economy.
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