The European Commission has put forward a proposal to prohibit cadmium batteries in electrical vehicles during 2005.

Rob Westerhof, Chief Executive of Philips Electronics China Group, says Hong Kong is going to benefit as China becomes the world's semiconductor centre.

Sony is actively searching for component parts, as well as the technology required for development of new products, from its existing component suppliers worldwide via the internet.

Looking to cut biodetector size and cost, Washington State University researchers have applied microprinting to the design of lab-on-a-chip systems.

As the shake-up in the rankings, largely the result of the severe economic downturn that hit the semiconductor industry in 2001, occurs worldwide chip sales in February totalled A$20 billion, the same as January's sales.

A team at Johns Hopkins University in the US has developed a prototype chip that uses light instead of wires as an interface.

Nanotubes measuring just 100 atoms in diameter have been created from designer molecules that were customised to self-assemble into angstrom-sized circuit elements, according to researchers at Purdue University, US.

Leaders from across the ICT innovation spectrum will join with Senator Alston, Minister for Communications, IT and the Arts, in delivering a framework for the development of Australia’s ICT sector over the next decade.

The Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (AEEMA) will hold its third annual excellence awards on 31 July at Sydney’s Australian Technology Park.

The recovery in the IC business is somewhat mixed, according to research company IC Insights.

East & Partners’ quarterly benchmark of IT&T supplier performance, has just been released.

German researchers have developed a technique that could be used to construct tiny photonic crystals, enabling the construction of all-optical circuits.

The PC and laptop resellers market is holding steady and showing signs of promise, according to channel research company Inform.

Intel has produced memory chips containing 330 million transistors through manufacturing technology that will hit the mainstream in 2003.

In-Stat/MDR finds that manufacturers of synchronous optical network (SONET) and synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) equipment suffered heavily in 2001, due to a sharp cut back on capital expenditures by telecommunications carriers and the demise of many competitive local exchange carriers.