Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, announced the RE46C180—the world’s first ionization smoke-detector IC with programmable calibration and ...

According to the National Fire Protection Agency’s Smoke Alarms in US Home Fires report, between 2018 and 2022, 43 percent of home fire deaths were in properties with no smoke alarms, and 16 percent ...

The RE46C126 is a CMOS ionization smoke detector application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) with interconnect up to 40 detectors. This device requires low power and few external components. It has ...

Screwed to the hallway ceiling, chirping once a year and otherwise ignored, sits one of the strangest descendants of the Manhattan Project most households will ever own. An ionisation smoke alarm ...

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, more than 300,000 residential fires cause nearly 2,600 deaths and 11,000 injuries every year. Almost two-thirds of all fire-related deaths ...

If you are reading this in early 2026, you are probably one of thousands of people who started the new year with a nagging thought: when was the last time I actually looked at my smoke detectors? Here ...

PITTSBURGH — Target 11 is sounding the alarm about something you may have in your home. An estimated 90 percent of us have ionization smoke alarms in our homes. While it does alert you to danger in ...

BOSTON (CBS) - More than 3,000 people die in fires across the country each year. In Massachusetts, the number of deaths compared to last year is already on the rise. Smoke alarms have been effective ...

Only smoke alarms that detect smoke and raise the alarm promptly and loudly enough in all of our smoke detection tests can become Best Buys. We test them with smoke from fires fuelled by cotton, ...