Chipmaker Toshiba has filed a suit against Taiwan's Powerchip Technology Corporation and three companies, Powerflash Technology Corporation, Zentel Electronics Corporation, and C.T.C. Co. together, for infringement of Toshiba's Taiwan patents for NAND flash memory. [ + ]

Analytica, an Australian listed medical device company, has commenced production of the Pericoach sensor devices on schedule with first domestic sales expected in the next few weeks. [ + ]

With the increasing use of drones, it is perhaps only a matter of time before robots replace soldiers. A Swedish researcher suggests that it is necessary to reconsider the international laws of war. [ + ]

Engineers Australia is calling for nominations for Sydney Engineering Individual Excellence Awards. [ + ]

Emerson Network Power is working with Facebook to design and deploy the company's second data centre building in Luleå, Sweden. [ + ]

RS Components and Allied Electronics have recognised Siemens, Phoenix Contact, Arduino and Schneider Electric with 2014 Global Supplier Awards. [ + ]

Comtest has increased its capability by being accredited for testing low-voltage mains power sockets to AS/NZS 3112 and the standard AS/NZS 3105. [ + ]

Researchers at Stanford and MIT have found a new alternative for low-temperature waste-heat conversion into electricity - that is, in cases where temperature differences are less than 100°C. [ + ]

A team at Tohoku University in Japan has created a new type of lithium-ion conductor for future batteries that could be the basis for a new generation of solid-state batteries. [ + ]

In a further move to strengthen its position in the market for LEDs, Osram has opened its LED assembly plant in Wuxi, China. [ + ]

US researchers have developed a supercapacitor that stores electricity by assembling electrically charged ions on the surface of a porous material, instead of storing it in chemical reactions the way batteries do. [ + ]

The Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) has selected Matlab and Matlab distributed computing server as vehicles to enable researchers at all Swedish universities to utilise resources at the national data centres for high-performance computing (HPC). [ + ]

Researchers at KAIST have increased the energy efficiency of a piezoelectric nanogenerator by almost 40%. The development is expected to provide infinite supply of power to wearable and implantable electronic devices. [ + ]

Graphene continues to reign as the next potential superstar material for the electronics industry, a slimmer, stronger and much faster electron conductor than silicon. With no natural energy band-gap, however, graphene's superfast conductance can't be switched off - a serious drawback for transistors and other electronic devices. [ + ]

Toshiba has begun construction of a vegetable plant factory at a facility in Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture. The production management system will be based on that utilised for semiconductor device production. [ + ]