OmniVision CMOS imagers debut
OmniVision Technologies, Inc. will show its second-generation CMOS imaging chip to OEMs during next week's Mobile World Congress.
Shuttle lights up the night sky on flight to space station
On its second attempt, Space Shuttle Endeavor thundered off the launch pad on a 13-day mission to deliver and install the last major component of the International Space Station.
An analyst's 10 reasons to be cheerful
Bill McClean, analyst with IC Insights Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.) has provided ten reasons that support the idea that 2010 could be between a good and a great year for the semiconductor industry.
Samsung Electro-mechanics licenses Peratech's QTC sensor technology
Peratech Ltd. (Richmond, UK) has signed a licensing agreement for its Quantum Tunnelling Composite (QTC) technology, which will be included within a new range of pressure sensing components from Samsung Electro-mechanics (Seoul, Korea).
Engineers explore life beyond 10 Gbit links
Electronics engineers are bumping up against the limits of their tools and techniques—and perhaps even physics--to keep pace with the rapidly expanding needs of an Internet-driven society as they coalesce around a move to 25 Gbit/second chips and ponder what comes next.
Security, smart-grid standards groups get creative
What motivates the desire to develop consensus standards?
OK Labs, Citrix aim beyond Android with Nirvana platform
Embedded virtualization software provider Open Kernel Labs Inc. (Chicago, Ill.) has teamed up with Citrix Inc. and developed the "Nirvana phone" reference architecture. The idea is a smart phone that is able to work with a virtual desktop and email environment as provided by an enterprise.
Electrocomponents sees sharp improvement in sales
In its second half interim management statement covering Oct 1 2009 to Jan 31 2010 Electrocomponents plc. (Oxford, UK) says it has seen a sharp improvement in sales.
IBM demos 100-GHz graphene transistor
A 100-GHz transistor has been demonstrated by IBM Research.
Intel tips NAND strategy, reveals a surprise
During a recent event here, the new chief of Intel Corp.'s NAND group outlined the company's strategy and revealed a surprise.
Magnetism seen as key to superconductivity
Magnetic spin excitations that couple electrons may be the key ingredient for superconductivity.
ESC speaker to describe emerging bio-ASICs
The future of medical electronics could turn on the arrival of a new class of nanoscale chips that can monitor and deliver personalized therapies to human cells, according to a Berkeley researcher who will discuss the latest work in one of several sessions on medical electronics at the Embedded Systems Conference in April.
2010 First robots competition takes off
The latest kit for the First robots competition has been gifted from Cypress Semiconductor Corp., part of the company's over 1,900 customized kits already provided to First for use in building competitive robots.
Higher growth predicted for MEMS microphones
Market research firm iSuppli raised its global microelectromechanical systems microphone forecast, citing the emergence of active noise cancellation technology through the introductions of Google's Nexus One and Motorola's Droid smartphones.
ARM lays out roadmap with three more cores
ARM Holdings plans to launch three processor cores during 2010. The cores, codenamed Eagle, Heron and Merlin, all have lead licensing customers and deliveries of intellectual property will start either in 2010 or early in 2011 depending on the core, said ARM CEO Warren East.
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