Tiny security chip turns every watch into a contactless payment device
Swiss company Winwatch integrates tiny security chips from Infineon Technologies, enables fast and secured payment transactions by radio frequency within milliseconds...
UPS Operating Modes: Simple Question, Complex Answer
The technical differences between an uninterruptible power system with a short switchover gap versus none is significant...
Hard Disk Drives in the Circular Economy
Disk drives are smaller and use less material, but we're making more than ever. What are we to do with…
Supercapacitors Usurp Battery Technologies
Supercapacitor are still evolving, but the energy storage and charging technology gains adherents...
NASA Prototypes X-57 All-Electric Airplane
A veteran pilot endorses the NASA concept of electric planes, but notes the energy density gap is going to be…
Optical Processor Targets to Accelerate Compute for Next-Gen AI
MIT spinout Lightmatter presented its optical compute chip at Hot Chips 32, promising orders of magnitude improvements in latency and…
LED Smart Street Light Revenue Projected to Exceed $1B by 2024
Chinese companies are the primary drivers of global smart street light development, as Huawei and Tencent attain market dominance...
Eases Design of Advanced Energy-Saving Power Supplies with 400W Evaluation Board
STs’ EVL400W-EUPL7 evaluation board delivers 400-Watt power-supply solution that meets today’s toughest eco-design norms...
Solar Energy Harvesting: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch?
An experiment with solar-powered outdoor lamps was conducted to see if solar energy harvesting works well and what limits the…
Power GaN and SiC: Entering a New Era
Yole Développement estimated a general view of wide bandgap materials such as Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide...