Industry News
Logic devices 100% lead-free
Texas Instruments has announced that its complete logic portfolio is now offered in Pb-free solutions for all finishes and balls.
[ + ]Australian calibration centre
NewTek Support Pty Ltd has an approved calibration centre which services and calibrates the range of National Instrument hardware products in Australia.
[ + ]Design verification application support
Agilent technologies has announced design verification application support to help electronic and wireless communication companies get products to market faster. The electronic design automation (EDA) software is integrated with test instrumentation to offer 'connected solutions' applications.
[ + ]Recall of UPS units
APC in Australia and New Zealand has announced a voluntary recall of two specific models in its Back-UPS CS uninterruptible power supply (UPS) line due to potential safety issues that may result in over heating and represent a potential fire hazard.
[ + ]Bright colourful future for LEDs
Technical Insights Frost & Sullivan has discovered two developments in the light-emitting diode (LED) arena. A single LED, with the facility to switch its emission spectrum and a hybrid device based on an inorganic quantum dot/organic LED combination capable of enhanced luminescence.
[ + ]Chip made on 90 nm process
Texas Instruments' fully functional wireless digital base band on 90 nm process offers many benefits. By shrinking the dimension of the transistors power consumption, size and manufacturing costs are reduced relative to the previous manufacturing process. Distances between transistors are also reduced, increasing overall processor performance and allowing integration of many more features on an equivalent size chip.
[ + ]Nano-competence for hard thin films
Major advances are still being made on magnetic disk drives despite competition from optical storage media like CD-ROM, DVD, semiconductor flash and smart cards.
[ + ]Photochemically-etched anodes and cathodes for high volume applications
Photofabrication Engineering Inc (PEI) has a line of custom-made photochemically-etched anodes and cathodes for fuel cells, heat exchangers, oxygen and hydrogen generators. These products have applications in the aerospace, automotive , biotechnology, medical, appliances, power and electrical/electronic industries.
[ + ]Flexible screens ready to roll
In the future, powering up your laptop may require you unroll it first. Engineers at the University of Toronto have constructed flexible technology that could lay the groundwork for future generations of bendable television, computer and mobile phone screens.
[ + ]Research promises faster, cheaper microchips
The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK has joined forces with Atmel to create 'strained silicon' microchips, which involves adding a material called germanium to the traditional silicon used in semiconductor manufacturing.
[ + ]Xilinx GSD for Asia Pacific
Xilinx has extended its Global Services Division (GSD) to the Asia Pacific region. The main objective of the division is to provide a range of services using its Programmable Logic Device (PLD) solutions.
[ + ]Open standard for wireless applications
STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments have teamed up to define and promote an open standard for wireless application processor interfaces.
[ + ]New shape for electronics
A fractal is a repeating pattern of ever smaller branches that gives structures a unique profile.
[ + ]Laser light to new regions of the spectrum
Combining concepts from electromagnetic radiation research and fibre optics, researchers have created an extreme-ultraviolet, laser-like beam capable of producing tightly-focused light in a region of the electromagnetic spectrum not previously accessible to scientists.
[ + ]Joint development of high density flash memory
Macronix, Taiwan has announced an agreement with Mitsubishi Electric which covers 0.15 um DINOR Flash technology development, joint design of product and wafer manufacturing.
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