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Table of Contents Departments News Distributor turns up the heat for national RoHS directive The European Union’s Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, which went into effect on July 1, was discussed and written about virtually everywhere across the electronics industry for more than a year leading up to its early-summer effective date. Card edge connector technology developed for PCI Express performance A 1-mm centerline card edge connector has been developed by Tyco Electronics (www.tycoelectronics.com) to meet PCI Express point-to-point full duplex I/O bus standard performance. Newsmakers News briefs Innovating toward efficiency Five years after the crash, the interconnect industry is a vortex of price pressures, global operations, and lean practices. ECI buying two cable assembly businesses Electrical Components International Holdings Co., a provider of wire harnesses, subassemblies, and value-added assembly services, is set to purchase GenTek Inc.’s Noma Wire and Cable Assembly business. IC maker acquiring PoE pioneer PowerDsine PowerDsine, whose unwritten mission is to turn the RJ-45 interface into a universal receptacle for the transmission of power to networked devices, is being acquired by integrated-circuit and semiconductor manufacturer Microsemi. Editor's View The great big harness that couldn’t Guilty. I plead guilty to ripping off the title of this issue’s Editor’s View column from the classic children’s book The Little Engine That Could. Products New Products What’s new Connectors Coaxial Connectors Fiberoptic Connectors Cabling & Connector Support Manufacturing Equipment & Tools Focus On: Adhesives & Epoxies Features Connectors for the rail industry transform onboard technology Advances are letting designers spec connectors that deliver high-speed data transfer in harsh environments. Torsion-contact technology adds new twist to electrical connectivity Potential applications include high-performance backplanes and sockets, and high-speed transmission line interconnections. Smart vision board checks backplane pins Embedding a vision system onto a circuit board allows the integrity of backplane pins to be closely monitored.

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