Fujitsu transfers Iwate semiconductor plant to DENSO
FUJITSU Semiconductor will transfer ownership of its Iwate Plant to DENSO, with the transaction to be completed on 1 October 2012.
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Silicene, the silicon-based alternative to graphene
EUROPEAN researchers have created silicene, by turning silicon into a one-atom-thick sheet (just as graphene is one-atom-thick carbon).
Future Awards 2011 winners announced
THE TEAM behind Electronics News magazine has unveiled the winners for the 2011 Future Awards.
A balanced Perspective: Power costs should come down
Following Ray Keefe's latest column "Engineer's Perspective: What limits distributed renewable energy uptake? (Part 1)", John Martin from Docklands...
New RTP approach improves chip yields from silicon wafers
APPLIED Materials has announced its Vantage Vulcan rapid thermal processing system, which heats silicon wafers from the back for improved control and...
Green Engineering Grant program to focus on renewable energy, smart grid systems
NATIONAL Instruments has announced its 2011 Green Engineering Grant program to boost renewable energy, energy efficiency and smart grid systems.
Short Circuit: China Beckons For Altium; Skills Shortage Threatens NBN
In his last column, your correspondent was lamenting the fact that Australian companies were forced into collaborations with overseas firms in order to...
Japanese earthquake and tsunami boosting semiconductor revenue
IHS iSuppli claims the Japan earthquake and tsunami will actually boost semiconductor revenue globally in 2011, as prices rise due to parts shortage.
The future of printed electronics
IDTECHEX CEO Raghu Das says current understanding of the roadmap for printed electronics differs significantly from previous perceptions.
Conducting electricity with plastics
RESEARCHERS at the University of Queensland and New South Wales have developed a way to produce plastics which conduct electricity.
Mass-manufacture of nanoscale sensors, on the wings of cicadas
RMIT University researchers have found a way to fabricate batches of nanoscale sensors on the tips of optical fibres, with insect wings playing a role...
CPE Systems wins at 2010 Integral Energy Shoalhaven Business Awards
CPE Systems, an ISO 9001:2008 Quality Assured company, won at the 2010 Integral Energy Shoalhaven Business Awards (...
$40M in venture capital for tech
Australian innovators now have access to an extra $40 million in venture capital funding with the establishment of new fund manager OneVentures.
AMD celebrates forty years of innovation
Microprocessor and memory maker AMD is celebrating 40 years of innovation in the semiconductor industry.
Crystalaid acquires die and wire bonder
Brisbane-based contract manufacturer Crystalaid says it has acquired a die and wire bonder. According to the company, the equipment, from FEK Delvotec...
Numonyx and Ovonyx ink deal for phase change memory
Memory companies Numonyx and Ovonyx say they have entered into a license agreement for memory products under Ovonyx’s patents and intellectual property...
NECA supports ITSE initiatives to develop trade skills
According to James Tinslay, the national chief executive officer of The National Electrical and Communications Association (NECA), the Association...
Guilty as charged
An executive from Technic Inc., a Rhode Island-based chemical and plating company, has pled guilty to hatching a scheme to destroy the trade secrets of...
First hi-tech snowboard competition
Forget the image of sports success as a triumph of brawn over brains—Australia’s smart athletes are now embracing micro-technology as their secret weapon.
European and Asian distribution
Seoul Semiconductor announced that it has signed European and Asian distribution agreements with Avnet Electronics Marketing, a division of Avnet...
Mobile recycling fails
Two recent reports by the mobile phone industry and a survey conducted by the Total Environment Centre revealed the ‘Mobile Muster’ scheme as seriously...
Semi suppliers see turbulent start to 2007
The first half of the year has brought a serious shake-up to the semiconductor supplier market, analysts said. According to preliminary results...
NASA uses NI LabVIEW FPGA to test advanced space telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA’s next-generation successor to the Hubble, has passed a crucial milestone toward its 2013 launch with the...
Apple posts record sales on iPhone debut, strength of Mac computers
Apple Inc.’s stock price hit a new record high in trading after the company’s fiscal Q3 report bested analyst estimates and revealed a whopping 73%...
STMicroelectronics and IBM to collaborate
STMicroelectronics and IBM announced that the two companies have signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of next-generation process...
EuP plus PLM equals opportunity
It doesn’t have the industry buzz of the European Union’s Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, but the next environmental compliance...
Hop, jump, and spread: wireless machine-to-machine interfaces
wireless machine-to-machine interfaces represent the third wave of computers. The first wave was business computers, expensive mainframe and...
Bridging the compatibility gap
The Portland Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics and supplier of compilers for high-performance computing (HPC), announced that...
How to implement high-security in low-cost FPGAs
In today’s global market, the competition is fierce. This makes first-to-market revenue gains key to fund R&D of new products which takes months, if...
Measuring nanoamperes
Thousands of applications require a circuit to measure a small current. One of the most common is the measurement of photodiode current to infer the...
Debugging a mixed-signal embedded design
Today’s embedded design engineer is faced with the challenge of ever-increasing system complexity. A typical embedded design may incorporate various...
Advances in microcontroller peripherals facilitate current-mode for digital power supplies
Early Switch-Mode Power Supply (SMPS) designs used a standard approach referred to as “Voltage Mode” operation. A ramp generator drove one input of a...
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