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Electronics component snafu
Component shortages lead to a traffic pileup in the global electronics supply chain, with major contract manufacturers facing a challenging supply imbalance characterised by tight part and finished products inventories and a glut of raw materials, according to the market research firm iSuppli Corp.
Intel follows security with wireless
Predicted by unnamed Bloomberg's sources at the beginning of August, the world’s largest chipmaker Intel Corp is to buy Infineon Technologies AG’s wireless business.
Simulation's gold standard for microelectronics
Gold Standard Simulations (GSS) the long promised spin-out company that will enable microchip manufacturers to develop the next generation of chip circuits has now been launched by the University of Glasgow.
Germanium underground detector growth
The University of South Dakota Department of Physics was awarded a $3 million grant to pursue high purity germanium crystal growth and develop detectors underground used in experiments seeking a deeper understanding of energy and matter.
Multiview Video Encoding on show
Multiview Video Coding (MVC) is the new standard for 3-D movie compression, reducing the data significantly and simultaneously provides full, high-resolution quality. At the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam from 10-14 September, researchers will showcase how 3-D movies can be transmitted via Internet and digital television channels such as via satellite.
Morphing UAV rescue plane
A shape shifting robot plane (ASARP), small and cheap-to-build unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is intended to cut the cost of maritime search-and-rescue missions and reduce risks to material and human lives has been successfully developed in a combined Cyprus-Israel developed project.
Solar cells: improving InGaN and glass
Hot on the heels of better gallium and nanowire solar cells in Germany, Texas Tech University scientists have developed an indium gallium nitride (InGaN) solar cell with characteristics ‘significantly higher’ than previously reported values for devices with similar indium content in the QWs. But in Spain,research has focused on photoactive compounds to improve the solar cell glass.
Diversification does well at THG
Ruaridh Nicolson has been appointed sales and marketing manager at Teknek, the global leader in contact cleaning equipment for a number of sectors including semi-conductors, converting, printing, medical and solar cells.
Intel locks down on software
Intel has agreed to buy McAfee, the computer antivirus software maker, for about $7.7 bn in cash, as the chip giant seeks to expand its presence in security services. Which should see Microsoft, AVG, Kasperski, Zone Labs, Norton, F-Secure et al looking to polish up their own niche acts.
Fully reversible smart materials
Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany have devised a tool which allows fully reversible binding of metal oxides to inorganic chalcogenide nanotubes.
Evatronics grows China silicon customers
The silicon intellectual property provider, Evatronix SA, has appointed Alex Zeng as its country manager in Beijing to optimise support for the growing number of Evatronix customers in mainland China. Its announcement comes with the company's presence at the EDA Tech Forum events hosted in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan on August 24th, and Shanghai and Beijing, China on August 31st and September 2nd, respectively, where Evatronix will unveil its latest IP improvements in USB 3.0, NAND Flash and SD memory, and multimedia.
Probability chip takes a bow
Any UK design engineers out there feeling lyrical? Lyric Semiconductor Inc based in Cambridge Massachusetts, is a DARPA- and venture-funded MIT spin-out, has emerged from stealth mode to launch a new technology called probability processing, poised to deliver a fundamental change in processing performance and power consumption and is looking for a senior design engineer.
An extra antenna approach
The recent furor over the iPhone 4's antenna has focused awareness on the constraints designers face when trying to build sleek, compact gadgets that also get a good connection.
Something that Wolfson Microelectronics, the sound component maestro is always focused on. Now researchers at Rice University have come up with a design to make signal worries a thing of the past, as well as extending battery life in a design that uses two antennas that focus their power in different directions.
Glass in a French spotlight
As Professor Tanguy Rouxel of Rennes University wins this year's Otto Schott Research Award for research achievements in the area of mechanical properties of glasses and glassy materials Yole Développement's latest research study into 3D silicon and glass interposers, lists all of the 3D silicon/glass interposer opportunities by application.
BAE Systems HEADS up in health sensors
A recent $17m award from the US Army for BAE Systems’ Headborne Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Systems (HEADS) Generation II sensor, designed to better monitor soldiers and assist in the identification and diagnosis of combat-related traumatic brain injuries (TBI) was followed by a public first look at the Gen II HEADS device at Farnborough International Airshow, while BAE Systesm also showed off its Ultra Lightweight Warrior (ULW) equipment Deliveries on the HEADS order are expected to begin in April 2011, and completed by July 2011.
Neurotechnology: augmented consciousness and inception
It's not a question of "Will neuroscience deliver a technology that can bring people closer to themselves, as technology has brought people closer with others?" but rather "When exactly will it happen?" Computers play a key role in the development of the concepts of inception, augmented consciousness and that darker side, of brain washing.
Satellite funding: location, location
The 3rd call for proposals for Satellite Navigation research and development (R&D) under the EU's 7th Framework Programme (FP7) makes available €38m in funding and is open to companies and research organisations in various areas such as ICT, Transport, Mobility, SME, Security, Electronics and Aerospace. Closer to home and high technology, ADS Scotland is organising a Workshop at Strathclyde University in September.
IQE adds patents to its GaN portfolio
NanoGaN Ltd, the wholly owned subsidiary of IQE, has been granted two separate patents in Japan and the UK in relation to its nanocolumn technology for the production of advanced blue and green lasers and LEDs.
Honeybee: vision and timing
Despite tiny brains, bees have remarkable navigation capabilities based on their vision. New research has recreated a light-weight imaging system mimicking a honeybee’s field of view, which could change the way mobile robots and small flying vehicles are built.
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