Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:48:00 EST

MIT researchers are using fuel-coated carbon nanotubes as "fuses" for thermowave electrical power sources, which store energy like a battery but promise an unlimited shelf life.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:48:00 EST

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:11:00 EST

Baolab Microsystems SL (Barcelona, Spain) is a startup company pioneering the creation of microelectromechancial systems (MEMS) within the back-end-of-line structure of CMOS wafers.

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 17:05:00 EST

IBM Research claimed the keystone achievement in on-chip optical communications, saying its 40-gigabit-per-second germanium avalanche photodetector completes what it calls its nanophotonic toolkit.

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:07:00 EST

As someone who has had the opportunity to visit CeBIT a number of times in the past 10 years, it occurred to me that it might be interesting for those who have not, to also cover some of the things about this venue and the show that perhaps do not make the news.

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:07:00 EST

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 18:46:00 EST

After declining along with the rest of the chip industry in 2009, the general purpose analog IC market is poised to grow 15 percent to reach more than $15 billion in 2010 as inventory levels normalize and demand increases, according to market research firm Databeans.

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 18:46:00 EST

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:05:00 EST

Good times are here for the IC industry, according to Jim Feldhan, president of Semico Research, who predicts a two-year growth cycle for ICs.

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:54:00 EST

The VITA Standards Organization, a leading standards group for military and aerospace markets, will announce as early as next week a call for participation in a group to explore the feasibility of deploying in 2012 products with optical backplanes and system interconnects.

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:54:00 EST

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:12:00 EST

The 25th APEC kicked off with a dynamic plenary session that discussed the past and future of power, exposed the latest improvements to the Tesla Sports Roadster, uncovered the hidden dangers and inefficiencies of solar panels and showed how close-coupling cooling can achieve a 31 percent improvement in cooling efficiency for data centers.

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:11:00 EST

On April 26-29 at the Convention Center in San Jose, Ca., you're invited to a banquet of courses, speakers, and panels looking at new technologies, opportunities, and problems that will be coming at you in the near future, as well as opportunities to be inspired, to get into arguments or just have idea-laden discussions

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:06:00 EST

Colin Powell, former secretary of state and now a board member at Bloom Energy, will debut the company's Bloom Box energy generator on Wed. Feb 24th along with the company founder's and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:06:00 EST

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:42:00 EST

The MIT Media Lab has commissioned Peratech Limited to develop a type of electronic 'skin' for robotic devices that enables robots to determine the touch's position and its pressure.

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:48:00 EST

In a move that could revolutionize nanoelectronics manufacturing and the semiconductor industry, scientists at the Tyndall National Institute (Cork, Ireland) have designed and fabricated what they claim is the world's first junctionless transistor.

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:01:00 EST

Until a few weeks ago, the biggest worry for E Ink, maker of the Vizplex technology used in Amazon's Kindle and a host of other e-book readers, was the two dozen or so e-paper competitors looking to loosen its grip on the market.

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:01:00 EST

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:24:00 EST

Intel researchers are exploring nanoscale materials that could be used to create ultracapacitors with a greater energy density than today's lithium ion batteries as part of work in a new lab dedicated to work on microgrids.

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:34:00 EST

Chip vendor Analog Devices reported revenue for its most recent quarter which exceeded consensus analyst expectations and issued a sales target for the current quarter that also topped most predictions.

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:41:00 EST

Electronic parts counterfeiters are taking advantage of numerous loopholes within the industry supply chain to infiltrate the system and pose a significant threat to the entire market, according to a U.S. government finding.

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:41:00 EST

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:54:00 EST

Is man-made climate change happening or not? The author isn't sure one way or the other, but is skeptical when proponents look at the data and rationalize what they see to fit their hypothesis.

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:38:00 EST

New energy-scavenging systems being developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could forgo replacing batteries in electronic devices that need to work for long periods of time.

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:01:00 EST

The pervasive focus on power management, the lack of papers on nanotechnology and software and the slow recovery of attendance were among the surprises for EE Times editors at the 2001 ISSCC last week.

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:01:00 EST

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:56:00 EST

A presentation prepared by Paolo Gargini, Intel's director of technology strategy, to give to the Industry Strategy Symposium Europe, held in Dublin, Ireland, earlier this week, stressed Intel's progress in adding compound semiconductor layers to silicon as a means of continuing scaling and reducing power consumption.

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:40:00 EST

What did you think was surprising or significant at this year's ISSCC? We invite you to chime in whether you were in San Francisco or just browsed stories from the conference online.

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:46:00 EST

The two recalls do not indicate lack of quality design and manufacture but they point to a bigger issue that engineers may not be able to solve.

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:46:00 EST

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:09:00 EST

Chip scaling is expected to continue for at least the next 15 years, according to one expert, who also predicted perhaps the next technology after the post-CMOS era.

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 05:27:00 EST

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.

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:35:00 EST

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.

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:35:00 EST