| Group readies standard for 100G networking
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2008-08-15 |
| Around 30 vendors took their first giant step toward defining a standard for long distance networking at 100Gbit/s. |
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| Exec stresses need for antenna, backhaul upgrades in cellular nets
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2008-08-12 |
| Cellular networks need better antennas and backhaul upgrades if they are going to optimize the performance of next-generation technologies, said an engineering manager who has helped build many such nets. |
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| eASIC jumps to 45nm, finds new foundry partner
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2008-08-06 |
| Fabless vendor eASIC Corp. will skip the 65nm node and roll out what it calls a "zero mask charge" 45nm ASIC line. |
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| Cree builds LED engineering center in Shenzhen
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2008-08-05 |
| Cree has established the Cree Shenzhen Engineering Center in Shenzhen, China dedicated to training lighting product designers and manufacturers in best practices for LED lighting product design. |
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| Alcatel-Lucent inks deal on submarine optical network
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2008-08-04 |
| Alcatel-Lucent has signed a contract to deploy the Atlantic-Mediterranean segment of the 15,000km, Europe India Gateway (EIG) submarine cable system. |
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| Multithreading comes undone
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2008-08-01 |
| EDA vendors have struggled to meet the challenge of multicore IC design by rolling out multithreading capabilities for their tools. Nonetheless, the question cannot be ignored: Is multithreading the best way to exploit multicore systems effectively? |
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| Renesas accelerates expansion beyond Japan
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2008-08-01 |
| The company reports that it has achieved its anticipated revenue due to steady growth in MCUs, system solutions and power/analog devices. |
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| Coming soon: Lens-free lasers
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2008-07-31 |
| Focusing semiconductor lasers usually require bulky optical lenses acting as a collimator, but researchers have recently demonstrated a plasmonic collimator that utilizes grooves etched directly into the laser facet |
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| Thin-film solar cells to generate 26GW of power by 2015
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2008-07-31 |
| According to NanoMarkets, the thin-film photovoltaics market will produce the equivalent of 26GW by 2015 and will generate well over $20 billion in revenues in that same time frame. |
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| Fujitsu beefs up capacity of U.S. facility
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2008-07-30 |
| Fujitsu Network Communications announced that they are expanding manufacturing capacity at their Richardson, Texas, headquarters. |
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| Nanotech research encourages Russia-U.S. partnership
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2008-07-29 |
| Executives from Rusnanotech have concluded their first visit to four U.S. nanotech centers, with an objective of promoting collaborative research. |
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| Optical lithography can cover 12nm, says MIT
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2008-07-24 |
| Optical lithography can be extended to 12nm, according to MIT researchers who have so far demonstrated 25nm lines using a new technique called scanning beam interference lithography |
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| Nokia Siemens to focus on DSL, optical access
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2008-07-22 |
| Nokia Siemens Networks plans to focus on DSL and next generation optical access (NGOA) technology and limit its investment in existing gigabit passive optical networks (GPON |
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| Mesh nets survive catastrophes
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2008-07-16 |
| The rapid growth of high-speed services and the increasing dependency on networks for mission-critical applications are driving the need for self-healing and fully meshed networks. And that type of network requires intelligence to make it aware of itself and its environment, incorporating the ability to react to any network event. |
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| Beyond supercool: room-temperature THz lasers
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2008-07-16 |
| A heterodyning method, cast in nonlinear materials, mixes two optical frequencies whose difference is the desired THz frequency, resulting in a room-temperature THz laser. This may act as scanner like x-rays safe for people and can detect hidden weapons, toxic materials present in the air or distinguish improvised explosive devices at a distance |
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