| RFID to fuel billion-dollar thin-film/printable battery market
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2007-11-05 |
| Thin-film and printed batteries with their customizable shapes, flexible form factors and ultralow weight are enabling new functionality to be added to a broad range of electronic products, such as smartcards, RFID and sensors both increasing their usefulness and the size of their addressable markets |
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| Wireless networks pave way for e-health era
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2007-11-01 |
| Today's services controlled by physicians and hospitals will give way to a new model in which consumers directly access devices and services on the Internet or their emerging home and personal area networks. |
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| austriamicrosystems, IDS team up on RFID reader chip
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2007-10-30 |
| austriamicrosystems and IDS Microchip are working together to develop an RFID reader IC targeted at the portable reader market |
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| Nanocrystalline market to hit $2.5B by 2015
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2007-10-24 |
| Silicon nanocrystals and printed forms of silicon will transform electronics over the next decade with new memory, logic, photovoltaic and optoelectronic reaching $2.5 billion in revenue by 2015. |
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| Seashells inspire ultrathin yet ultrastrong materials
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2007-10-22 |
| A University of Michigan engineering professor has succeeded in creating an ultrathin material as strong as steel by embedding nanomaterial in an organic polymer matrix, mimicking the way oysters embed calcium carbonate into an organic matrix to create seashells. |
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| Brazil, too, wants to be IC design hub
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2007-10-16 |
| There is a budding realization that meeting Brazil's growing demand for ICs by developing them within its own borders could both stem the tide of illegal chips and bolster the country's competitiveness. |
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| First organic IC self-assembled from nanowires
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2007-10-05 |
| Thin films of organic semiconductors have been cast into n- and p-type transistors separately, but the world's first gate to use both was recently fabricated at the University of Washington and Stanford University. |
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| IBM pushes for open RFID standards
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2007-10-04 |
| IBM convinced RFID device manufacturers to implement the Eclipse open source device model, received certification that its WebSphere RFID Information Center is compliant with EPCIS standards, and is supporting a new Low Level Reader Protocol reader-interface standard |
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| Tower in talks with India chip manufacturing groups
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2007-09-28 |
| Tower Semiconductor is currently in talks with SemIndia and HSMC, two leading proponents of Indian chip manufacturing, on the two companies' use of Tower's manufacturing capability. |
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| Three firms to develop implantable RFID glucose sensor
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2007-09-28 |
| Three companies have teamed up to develop a prototype renewable glucose sensor to be used in conjunction with an implantable bio-sensing RFID microchip to measure glucose levels in the body |
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| Verizon commences part two of IPv6 transition
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2007-09-27 |
| The second phase of Verizon Business' global rollout of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) that uses an existing Multiprotocol Label Switching network as the platform for "dual-stack" IPv4/v6 is now underway. |
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| Startup drives Active RFID adoption
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2007-09-25 |
| British startup RFTRAQ has started production of its Active RFID tags to advance help push the use of the devices and expand into new application sectors |
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| Oracle carves niche in embedded software design
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2007-09-12 |
| Seeing the potential of the embedded industry, Oracle is one of the many software providers now fielding embedded software solutions to gain inroads in the market. |
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| Daring the students to imagine
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2007-09-07 |
| More than 100,000 students from 100 countries joined Imagine Cup 2007, sponsored by Microsoft Corp., and among the standouts at this year's events were students from China. |
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| Car systems call for secure memory
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2007-08-16 |
| Today's cars comprise several dozen processors, a wide range of sensors, and various types of control, safety, comfort and communications systems. All these systems have one thing in common—the need for non-volatile storage. |
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| ULP apps close in on portables in power chase
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2007-08-03 |
| The worldwide market for DC/DC converters and regulators will grow from 12.3 billion units in 2006 to 18.6 billion units in 2011, at a CAGR of 8.6 percent per year, according to Darnell Group Inc.'s latest analysis report. |
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| Nanotero tries HP inkjet tech on nanotube memory
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2007-07-12 |
| Nantero said it is working with HP to explore the use of HP inkjet tech and Nantero's carbon nanotube formulation to create flexible electronics products and develop low-cost printable memory. |
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| ST, French tech org team on mini energy sources
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2007-07-03 |
| STMicroelectronics and CEA, a French public technological research organization, have signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of new miniaturized energy sources. |
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| NXP design center aims to up RFID adoption
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2007-06-26 |
| NXP Semiconductors has set up a Reference Design Centre (RDC) in Austria to facilitate deployment and adoption of RFID technology |
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| RFID looks good to tech firms, vague to customers
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2007-06-22 |
| Technology companies are ready to offer RFID products, but consumers have been slow to embrace radio-frequency identification, says survey |
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| Russia's Mikron teams with ST for 180nm process
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2007-06-11 |
| JSC Mikron is pushing ahead with its partnership with STMicroelectronics for the 180nm CMOS foundry process. |
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| Hitachi, Oracle unite vs. piracy in China
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2007-06-06 |
| Hitachi and Oracle plan to sell IC tags in China to track the movement of goods in an emerging economy dogged by commercial piracy complaints. |
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| In-Stat: Wi-Fi RFID tag market to double annually
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2007-05-30 |
| In-Stat reported that there were 135,000 shipments of Wi-Fi RFID tags and the market is set to double each year until 2010. This would result to more than 2.1 million units in three years |
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| Nokia phones to offer lightning detection
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2007-05-28 |
| Nokia Corp. has applied for a lightning detection system patent for mobile phones, involving having RF device that has radio interfaces for at least two communication channels or frequency ranges. |
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| Singapore aquarium displays RFID-tagged fish
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2007-05-25 |
| Singapore's Underwater World aquarium has tagged some of its fishes using microchips in order for visitors to identify the different species on display. |
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| NXP eyes India acquisitions
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2007-05-22 |
| NXP president and CEO Frans van Houten disclosed that the company is looking for acquisitions in India. |
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| Epson invests in RuBee asset-tracking RFID tech
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2007-05-10 |
| Epson Electronics has entered a 'strategic' investment with Visible Assets Inc., an asset-tracking specialist and one of the main backers of RuBee RFID technology |
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| NXP, Kestrel RFID tech to eliminate DVD theft
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2007-05-10 |
| NXP Semiconductors and Kestrel Wireless have joined forces on an RFA/RFID technology that will eliminate the problem of DVD theft throughout the supply chain |
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| Motorola, Avery team to deliver RFID solution
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2007-05-03 |
| Motorola and Avery Dennison announced a strategic relationship under which Avery will supply Gen 2 RFID tags to Motorola, increasing the speed of RFID deployments and product availability |
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| NIST issues RFID security guidelines
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2007-05-02 |
| The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued guidelines for RFID. The report urges everyone using the technology to evaluate security and privacy risks and use best practices to mitigate them |
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