| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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