The automotive IC market is forecast to increase at an average annual growth rate of 6.7% from 2014 through 2019, registering highest growth among the six major end-use IC applications (computer, consumer, communications, automotive, industrial/medical and government/military). [ + ]

A US engineer has received a $2.2 million US DoE grant to develop manufacturing technology that will help produce materials necessary for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles. [ + ]

The UNSW Faculty of Engineering has launched 25 industry research fellowships to boost collaboration with business. [ + ]

Korean researchers have developed an innovative power interruption technology based on a Mott metal-insulator transition (Mott MIT) device. [ + ]

Researchers may have found the solution to faster computing: sound. Certain types of soundwaves can move data quickly, using minimal power. [ + ]

Australian scientists have designed a 3D silicon chip architecture based on single atom quantum bits, providing a blueprint to build a large-scale quantum computer. [ + ]

Electronex 2015, the Electronics Design & Assembly Expo and Conference, held in September at Melbourne Park Function Centre, saw over 1000 trade visitors and delegates attend the two-day event. [ + ]

Cambridge University scientists have developed a working laboratory demonstrator of a high-density lithium-oxygen battery that is more than 90% efficient and can be reportedly recharged more than 2000 times. [ + ]

The Australian Government has announced $245 million in new Discovery Projects scheme funding as part of the Australian Research Council's (ARC) 2016 Major Grants Announcement in Adelaide. [ + ]

Australian researchers, in association with Russian scientists, have created an ultrafast all-optical switch on silicon nanostructures. This device may become a platform for future computers and permit the transfer of data at an ultrahigh speed. [ + ]

Samsung SDI held a completion ceremony for its EV battery plant at Gaoxin Industrial District within Xi'an, Shaanxi Province of China. [ + ]

A combination of two technologies — one to create a thin film and the second to 'cut' designs out of the film — could be a potentially powerful tool to create custom electronic components. [ + ]

German researchers have developed a new redox-flow battery based on organic polymers and water. [ + ]

Transistors have been given a power boost with a new technique that incorporates vanadium oxide — a function oxide — into electronic devices. [ + ]

CSIRO has launched a new robot that can automatically screen and evaluate next-generation materials around the clock. [ + ]