A SURVEY from opinion research company UMR has found more than 80 percent of people have a positive view of solar energy.

SAMSUNG Electronics and Micron Technology have announced a consortium for OEMs, enabler and integrators to collaborate on the Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) technology.

THE FINALS for the inaugural National Instruments Autonomous Robotics Competition took place in Sydney on 16 September 2011.

EMERSON Network Power has won the contract to build ten network facilities centres around Australia for NBN Co, in a deal worth more than $100 million.

THE launch of the iPhone 4S may have disappointed consumers who were looking forward to a new form factor, but analysts believe there is a strong market demand for it.

In 2012, expect to see ordinary windows being converted into solar panels with the application of a film from 3M.

NEWCASTLE-based ATSA, which supports advanced electronic systems and delivers technological and electro-mechanical solutions for equipment in harsh environments, has adopted the Supplier Continuous Improvement Program (SCIP).

FROST & Sullivan has identified wireless charging, renewable electricity storage batteries and energy harvesting among the top 50 technologies which will reshape the world.

Many embedded products are released without all the testing that is necessary and/or desirable. Consequently, software quality is receiving increasing focus in embedded application development.

Apple co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs has died at age 56.

DEEPAK Sekar, the Chief Scientist of MonolithIC 3D, has an insightful blog post about the move from 300mm to 450mm wafers.

APPLE CEO has unveiled the iPhone 4S, which provides internal hardware upgrades on the iPhone 4.

ADVANCED Manufacturing CRC has announced a new project in the solar energy sector in a joint venture between MIL Systems and RMIT University.

RESEARCHERS at Curtin University are using electroencephalography to help patients with communication difficulties break through to the external world.

AMKOR Technology will acquire Toshiba Electronics’ Malaysian semiconductor assembly and test operations.

MOBOTIX high definition webcams have been installed to monitor Mount Everest as par of the Everest SHARE 2011 research project.

Power and automation technology group, ABB has opened its first production line for solar string inverters and an engineering center in Jüri, Estonia.

ADVANCED Micro Devices (AMD) has cut its forecasts for third-quarter sales and profitability, citing glitches in its manufacturing operations.

ACCORDING to the Bedford Report, NVIDIA and Intel are the two companies currently dominating the mobile chip market, despite the decline of semiconductor sales.

NOKIA is getting rid of 3,500 of its workers in Europe, due to an increased focus on Asian factories, which provide better scale and geological proximity to its markets.