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February 2010—Siemon now offers 40+Gb/s SFF-8470 4X Passive Copper cabling products. These SFF-8470 copper cable assemblies support high-speed interconnect applications such as high-performance computing (HPC), enterprise networking, and network storage systems. The low latency assemblies support data transfer rates from 2.5Gb/s to 10+ Gb/s per lane. Siemon’s 8470 cable assemblies feature a shielded wafer construction in which the signal conductors are directly attached to the connector’s contacts, eliminating a printed circuit board and enhancing noise-resistance to maximize signal integrity. The twin-axial shielded cable conductors are laser-welded, reducing cross-talk and jitter to support 10+Gb/s data rates. SFF-8470 die cast back shells and latches are interoperable with all compliant interfaces. The 8470 product supports a wide array of data protocols and interfaces, including InfiniBand SDR, DDR, and QDR, Ethernet 10GBaseCX4, and 40GBaseCR4. These cables also support FibreChannel, RapidIO, Myrinet, SAS, SATA, Aurora, VITA VXS, and XAUI/XAUI-2 IO interface links, as well as SONET/SDH. Product options include 24 to 30 wire gauges and various assembly lengths.

hina (Chinalco), aiming to turn deficit to profits, is eyeing the opportunity in the high-speed railway market, which has great demand for aluminum products as well as copper products.

The company blamed poor lighting sales on the anaemic construction industry in developed countries, and said its gross sales in lighting would grow in the low single digits. But production capacity is being severely underutilised due to low demand, mainly in western Europe. Margins in the company’s lighting division fell to some 4 per cent, well below the 10 per cent margin in the first quarter.Philips also said low consumer demand in western Europe had hit its consumer products revenues. It also noted some impact from the expected spin-off of its television division to Hong Kong-based TPV, which it announced in April. The company will report that the audio-visual and media section of its consumer products division has fallen into the red. An analyst said Philips officers had told him that the spin-off of the TV business had created customer and retailer uncertainty and led to falling TV sales, which also hurt knock-on sales of other audio-visual products.

Rio, which published its mine-production report on Thursday, disclosed the drop ahead of BHP, the larger partner at Escondida. The production report came ahead of the big miners disclosing their financial results for the first half.

In the first six months of the year Rio’s share of copper production at Escondida, the Chilean mine that accounted for 7 per cent of global production last year, fell 23 per cent to 118,000 tonnes over the same period in 2010.