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STMicroelectronics announced that Airoha Technology, a fabless design company for wireless communication products, has selected ST’s latest family of...
STMicroelectronics announces that Maxwell Guider Technology, an innovative wearable-solutions company in Taiwan, selected ST’s LSM330 6-axis inertial...
THE Australian Synchrotron will be among the first users of Bluechiip’s tough MEMS-based wireless tracking technology.
THE Fair Work Ombudsman has filed suit against serial inventor Kia Silverbrook and three of his companies for allegedly underpaying or not paying a...
Nemex Resources will invest in an Australian-developed security technology that uses the eye as its biometric mechanism.
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An Israeli defense contractor will make use of an Australian firm's secure wireless technology in a project with the US Department of Homeland Security.
Ferroelectric materials have an intrinsic electrical polarization caused by a small shift in the position of some of their atoms that occurs below a...
AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel have formed the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), an open membership group focused on breaking down the barriers of...
The former owner and operator of an electrical manufacturer has been fined nearly $8,000 for exploiting a migrant worker.
A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) has launched the Silicon Micro Cooler (SMC) consortium to develop integrated thermal management solutions...
Used and non-authentic counterfeit electronic components are widespread throughout the defense supply chain; over the past two years alone, more than...
University of Cincinnati researchers are reporting early results on a way to make solar-powered panels in lights, calculators and roofs lighter, less...
Lighting Council Australia, electrical contractor representative bodies, and fire industry representative bodies, amongst others, have expressed...
From friendly Wall-E and helpful R2D2 to the dystopian worlds of the Matrix and Terminator, robots have captured our imagination and visions of the...
MIT researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) have introduced new directed self-assembly (DSA) techniques that promise to help...
Wearable technology mainly concerns devices and apparel/ textiles.
element14 in conjunction with RIoTboard.org has launched the official community website for the RIoTboard.
Mouser Electronics has unveiled their Open Source Hardware (OSHW) technology site.
Global shipments of cellphones equipped with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology will surge by more than a factor of four from 2013 to 2018...
The global memory market presented a vivid picture of contrast last year given the wildly divergent fortunes of its two main segments, with spritely...
Researchers have developed the technology for a catheter-based device that would provide forward-looking, real-time, three-dimensional imaging from...
Copper makes sturdy, affordable wiring, and helps our bodies absorb iron. Now, researchers at Duke University would like to use copper to transform...
PCB design software vendor CadSoft Computer (part of Premier Farnell) marked its 25th anniversary by revealing the findings of its global survey of PCB...
RS Components has signed a Global Authorised Distributor agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor, broadening the scope of the existing collaboration...
Altium has released a new version of its flagship product, Altium Designer 14.
Texas Instruments has unveiled an automotive System-on-Chip (SoC) family, the TDA2x, incorporating a Vision AccelerationPac with features to help...
More than 8 billion Internet-connected video devices will be installed worldwide in 2017, exceeding the population of the planet, according to research...
Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) won first place in the National Instruments (NI) Autonomous Robotics Competition, taking the title from...
Largely driven by demand from upscale Samsung smartphones, particularly the Galaxy S4, global shipments of high-end active-matrix organic...
A recent study reveals the surprising hidden potential in mature SME businesses across the country and what needs to be done to help these businesses...
The team behind the very first Maker Faire in Australasia in Melbourne in January 2012 is organising a sequel to that event.
Today, most information is transmitted by light – for example in optical fibres. Computer chips, however, work electronically.
NXP Semiconductors and TTTech will jointly develop automotive Ethernet switch solutions supporting OPEN Alliance BroadR-Reach Ethernet PHY technology.
Agilent Technologies plans to separate into two publicly traded companies: one in life sciences, diagnostics and applied markets (LDA) that will retain...
Japan’s Sharp Corp announced yesterday that its plant in Karawang, Indonesia, has begun producing washing machines, as it looks to take advantage of...
element14, will be hosting a webinar titled ‘The Power of the Ring’ with the inventor of the NFC Ring, John McLear, an entrepreneur and inventor living...
Electronics News is currently featuring a half-hour webinar, hosted by Jonathan L Cobb of world leader Stratasys, titled Additive Manufacturing 101...
Agilent Technologies has opened its Spectroscopy Technology Innovation Center in the Melbourne suburb of Mulgrave.
A new algorithm better implements the dynamic effects that occur in drive heads, meaning that overall the code works faster and more efficiently.
One of the most promising types of solar cells has a few drawbacks. A scientist at Michigan Technological University may have overcome one of them.
Innovative methods for teaching University of Queensland first-year engineering programs have attracted funding in the latest round of Commonwealth...
Close to 4,000 engineers and professionals from around the world gathered at the Austin Convention Center in Texas for NIWeek 2013, National...
The most important industry event for the Electronics Industry in almost here – Electronex and the SMCBA Electronics Design and Manufacture Conference.
MathWorks have announced that MATLAB and Simulink have been deployed to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Synchronised Position Hold...
AMD has announced a low-power Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) in the AMD G-Series SOC family with the GX-210JA, further reducing x86 power...
Robots are used across an increasing array of industries from mining and defence to manufacturing and healthcare to undertake tasks that are unsafe or...
The peristaltic crawling of an earthworm inspired Professor Taro Nakamura of Japan's Chuo University to create an effective robot for narrow spaces.
Cells fabricated using the new technique and incorporating Dyesol’s key DSC input materials and specially formulated 18NR-T Titania Paste have...
A research team from A*STAR and Samsung Electronics has developed a fast and accurate way to estimate the electromagnetic emissions from printed...
Fujitsu Semiconductor and ARM have entered into a licensing agreement that enables Fujitsu Semiconductor to release a system on chip (SoC) solution...
A layer of graphene can reduce the working temperature in hotspots inside a processor by up to 25 percent – which can significantly extend the working...
A COMMERCIAL LED camera flash unit, a remote real-time milk sensing system, and RFID-based whole of life component tracking are just three Australian...
IMPLANTS in the future may be low-cost, and capable of functioning while in direct contact with living tissue inside the body.
SCIENTISTS at Rice University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have found a way to control the growth of uniform atomic layers of the...
THE COMMUNICATIONS IC market is forecast to exceed the computer IC market for the first time ever in 2013, according to IC Insights.
VICTORIA-based Universal Biosensors has been awarded the 2013 Manufacturing Hall of Fame Technology in Manufacturing Award.
BRISBANE-based NOJA Power says electric vehicle recharging will place additional load on a strained electrical grid, but the solution could lay with...
IDTECHEX Research says graphene will need to overcome two main barriers in order to have practical commercial applications.
DATADOT has renewed is supply contract with Subaru Australia, under which it will supply its microdot-based Theft Deterrent System to over 40,000...
STANFORD University scientists have created an advanced zinc-air battery which provides higher efficiency and durability than similar batteries made...
SINGAPOREAN researchers from Nanyang Technological University have developed a new camera sensor made from graphene which is a thousand times more...
OLED lighting is unlikely to overtake LEDs in the next decade, according to IDTechEx Researcher.
US researchers say inkjet-printed graphene could allow the production of foldable electronics with extremely detailed conductive electrodes.
element14 will launch the latest development kits from a multitude of manufacturers, Raspberry Pi accessories and EAGLE at CeBIT 2013.
IC INSIGHTS says the microcontroller unit (MCU) market is migrating to 32-bit and ARM-based devices, as they continue to be designed into an expanding...
WAKE Forest University researchers have developed an organic semiconductor spray paint that can be applied to large surface areas without losing...
RESEARCHERS from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a lithium-polysulphide...
ABB will acquire Power-One, a provider of renewable energy power conversion and power management solutions, to become a global leader in solar...
Measurements are key to all scientific and engineering disciplines. For the electronics industry, oscilloscopes provide a number of critical...
STMICROELECTRONICS has chosen Agilent’s Electromagnetic Professional (EMPro) software to develop its integrated passive devices (IPDs).
THE NEW Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone is using the Wireless Power Consortium-backed Qi standard for wireless charging.
In recent years, hardware implementations of DSP algorithms became serious competition to their traditional software and signal processor-based...
TEXAS Instruments is aiming to boost wireless power adoption by developing multi-mode wireless power integrated circuits (ICs) aimed at smartphones and...
UNIVERSITY students can now enter the third National Instruments (NI) Autonomous Robotics Competition.
QUALCOMM and Samsung have capitalised on the rise of smartphones and 4G over the past five years to take the top of the market for application-specific...
HGST (formerly known as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) says it will be able to double hard disk drive (HDD) density with self-assembling...
Roughly fifty to sixty percent of cellular base station problems are caused by faulty cables, connectors and antennas. Components may become damaged...
A measurement system is only as good as its weakest link. The bandwidth of an oscilloscope is always a key banner specification, but there is more to...
Over the past 25 years, that I have been involved in high-speed multilayer PCB design, much has changed. Particularly, advances in lithography enables...
THE Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) has approved a wireless power specification which will allow multiple devices with different power requirements...
SYDNEY-based electronic contract manufacturer On-track Technology says it has expanded its facilities to better cater for the needs of its customers.
TWO UNSW scientists who are working on the bionic eye as part of Bionic Vision Australia have won a prestigious research achievement award.
TABLETS and smartphones are boosting the market for power management chips, according to the IHS iSuppli Power Management Market Tracker.
INTEL has cut its 3Q2012 outlook to US$13.2 billion, down from a previously-expected revenue of between US$13.8 billion to US$14.8 billion.
RESEARCHERS from the University of Toronto and King Abdullah University of Science & Technology have made a breakthrough in the development of...
THE ROBOT wars are coming to Melbourne on 21 September 2012, when the top universities in Australia and New Zealand go head to head.
GBI Expert says the integrated circuit industry is caught in a vicious circle of DRAM oversupply.
ARM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) have agreed to collaborate in order to optimise next-generation 64-bit ARM processors for the...
THE latest Arduino, the Leonardo, has arrived, with the new R3 standard pin layout and a simplified, single processor.
Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA have developed a near-transparent photovoltaic cell which blocks infrared light, letting in...
RESEARCHERS from the University of Cambridge have found a way to increase the speed of phase-change memory, potentially allowing the technology to...
MCILVAINE Company says semiconductor manufacturers will spend US $2.3 billion in 2012 for flow control and treatment products.
INTEL is acquiring 1700 patents related to advanced wireless technologies for US $375 million in cash.
SIEMENS has developed a new software system which improves and accelerates the planning process for photovoltaic facilities built in open spaces.
THE HARTING Technology Group will feature a simple and flexible printed circuit board connection and seamless RFID at the 2012 Hanover Fair.