News & Analysis
Zeroing in on the Elusive Green LED
Researchers Discover New Method for Boosting the Light Output of Green LEDs — A Critical Step Toward the Development of LED Televisions and Displays
Lighting Industry’s Top Award Given to Sunovia’s EvoLucia Cobra Head
Sunovia Energy Technologies’ EvoLucia LED Cobra Head SCHX5 was given the award for Best Outdoor Street Light, in its class, by the U.S. Department of Energy, the International Association of Lighting Designers and the Illuminating Engineering Society in the 2010 Next Generation LuminairesTM Solid State Lighting Design Competition. Sunovia has once again proven that the EvoLucia Aimed OpticsTM technology can outperform the industry Goliaths.
Lattice Machxo2 Pico Development Kit Simplifies Consumer Applications
Lattice Semiconductor announced the immediate availability of its new $29 MachXO2 Pico Development Kit for prototyping low power, space constrained consumer designs.
Apple Grants Developers Advantage Electronic Product Development the “Made For i” (MFi) License
Electronic product developer, Advantage Electronic Product Development has been granted the prestigious Apple MFi and iOS licenses which allows them to develop & manufacture products that leverage the Apple platforms, as well as peripherals that interact with Apple’s, iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad products.
Toshiba - 19nm process NAND flash memory
Toshiba Electronics Europe, reinforcing its leadership in the development and fabrication of cutting-edge, high density NAND flash memories, today announced that it has fabricated NAND flash memories with 19nm process technology, the finest level yet achieved. This latest technology advance has already been applied to 2-bit-per-cell 64-gigabit (Gb) chips that are the world's smallest and offer the highest density on a single chip (8 gigabytes (GB...
Sofradir will demo a “HOT” infrared detector with very low power consumption at SPIE Defense and Security Symposium 2011
Sofradir, a leading developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared detectors for military, space and industrial applications, announced today that it will demonstrate its prototype High Operating Temperature (HOT) infrared (IR) detector at the SPIE 2011 Defense and Security Symposium, April 25 – 29, in Orlando, Fl.
LG Licenses ARM Processor Technology for Home and Mobile Applications
ARM today announced a new licensing agreement with LG Electronics that provides access to the high performance, low-power ARM® Cortex™ processor and ARM® Mali™ GPU families. This includes the Cortex-A15 MPCore and Cortex-A9 MPCore processors, as well as the ARM Mali-T604 GPU and ARM CoreLink™ interconnect and system IP. The comprehensive license will reinforce LG Electronics’ already strong technology leadership and will be used to driv...
Microchip celebrates 50th anniversary
The microchip (integrated circuit / IC) yesterday celebrated its 50th birthday. Fairchild Semiconductor’s Robert Noyce received the first patent for a commercially available silicon IC on the 25th of April 1961.
Highly Automated Driving Taking Shape
EU funded project HAVEit is set to make vehicles safer, more environmentally- friendly and efficient by enhancing their level of automation. After more than three years of research work on intelligent driver assistance systems, seven vehicles demonstrating concrete results are to be presented in Borås (Sweden) on 21 and 22 June 2011.
Business ministers brought up to speed on Axeon electric vehicle battery technology
Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, and Business Minister, Mark Prisk, were yesterday brought up to speed on Axeon’s industry-leading battery technology for electric vehicles, on display in the Low Carbon vehicle exhibition at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.