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Latest offerings enhance power efficiency and miniaturization for smart meters, industrial machinery and medical devices SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Fujitsu Semiconductor America today announced two new FRAM products featuring 1 Mbit and 2 Mbits of memory. The MB85RS1MT and MB85RS2MT, the largest-capacity, serial-interface FRAM products offered by Fujitsu, will be available in sample quantities at the end of March. (Logo:...

KEARNEY, Neb., Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Hastings Premium Filters will be exhibiting at the Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo (AAPEX) in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 30 through November 1, 2012. Hastings will be located at Booth 6010 in the Sands Expo Center. Hastings provides lube, air, fuel, transmission and coolant filters for automotive and heavy-duty over-the road vehicles and off-highway equipment. "Our exhibit will focus on how Hastings can help prevent the damage that...

GASTONIA, N.C., March 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As people across the country are keeping their vehicles several years longer, knowing how to choose quality filters and maintain vehicles properly is more important than ever to improving an engine's performance and lifespan. And now there's a new website - NAPAFilters.com - that offers expert filtration help for people with all types of vehicles, equipment and machinery. It's loaded with "all you need to know" about what quality...

DANBURY, Conn., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In a summer when much of the U.S. has endured record-breaking high temperatures with no reprieve in sight, Prestone®, a leading producer of antifreeze/coolant, conducted a study representing more than 1,000 car owners that revealed while 50 percent of respondents said their biggest fear on the road was being stuck roadside with a smoking engine, only 16 percent said they planned to add engine coolant on a hot day to prevent their vehicle from...

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a recent study, 90 percent of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America youth graduate high school, thanks in large part to influential mentor relationships built at the clubs. Bottom line: Mentoring works. With this in mind, America's leading oil filter brand FRAM® (www.fram.com), MTV's Pimp My Ride host Xzibit, and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica kicked off the FRAM Ready to Role program, a nationwide initiative...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fujitsu Semiconductor America, Inc. (FSA) today introduced a new series of advanced Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (FRAM) products designed and manufactured by Fujitsu to meet the rapidly increasing demand for FRAM in industrial systems, factory automation, metering, and many other low-power applications that require high-performance, non-volatile memory. The new MB85RSxxx SPI FRAM family includes three different devices: the 256-Kbit...

Temperatures of North Atlantic Ocean currents flowing north into the Arctic Ocean are at their highest levels in nearly 2,000 years, and could ultimately lead to summers that are ice-free in the North Pole region, researchers claim in a new study.The waters of the Fram Strait, which is located at the northern end of the Gulf Stream near Greenland, have gotten approximately 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer over the past century, study leader Robert Spielhagen of the Academy of Sciences,...

On Dec. 16, 2010, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reached a crater about the size of a football field-some 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter. The rover team plans to use cameras and spectrometers during the next several weeks to examine rocks exposed at the crater, informally named "Santa Maria."A mosaic of image frames taken by Opportunity's navigation camera on Dec. 16 shows the crater's sharp rim and rocks ejected from the impact that had excavated the crater.Opportunity...

NEW YORK, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The longer you plan on keeping a vehicle, the more vital it is to have regular oil and filter changes on your car's maintenance schedule. Clean, filtered oil lubricating the engine and its components ensures smooth and efficient operation for as long as the vehicle remains in service. However, if you are a motorist looking for the optimal level of driving performance, going a step further and choosing a high performance oil filter may be the best option for...

In 2007, the Arctic lost a massive amount of thick, multiyear sea ice, contributing to that year's record-low extent of Arctic sea ice. A new NASA-led study has found that the record loss that year was due in part to the absence of "ice arches," naturally-forming, curved ice structures that span the openings between two land points. These arches block sea ice from being pushed by winds or currents through narrow passages and out of the Arctic basin.Beginning each fall, sea ice...