Nose-on-a-chip
13 May, 2002
Engineers and scientists from three United Kingdom universities are combining to produce, what they claim to be, the world's smallest electronic nose, an industrial device that is able to replicate the odour sensor capability of the human nose.
AMD and Microsoft collaborate to further 64-bit computing
06 May, 2002
AMD has announced it is collaborating with Microsoft to incorporate 64-bit support for the future 8th-generation AMD Athlon and Opteron processors into the Windows operating system.
China becomes major "chip" centre
11 April, 2002
Rob Westerhof, Chief Executive of Philips Electronics China Group, says Hong Kong is going to benefit as China becomes the world's semiconductor centre.
Sapphire based chip trades copper wires for light
09 April, 2002
A team at Johns Hopkins University in the US has developed a prototype chip that uses light instead of wires as an interface.
Wafer-5825 Single Board Computer
09 April, 2002 | Supplied by: ICP Electronics Australia Pty Ltd
ICP Electronics Australia has added to its range of low power consumption embedded boards. The Wafer-5825 is designed to meet the requirements of such applications as transportation (car PC), internet appliances and information terminals.
Supplier rankings change, worldwide chip sales stay static
09 April, 2002
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.
Possible recovery in IC industry
03 April, 2002
The recovery in the IC business is somewhat mixed, according to research company IC Insights.
SONET/SDH equipment to revitalise optical market
28 March, 2002
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.
Intel shrinks chips to 90 nanometres
28 March, 2002
Intel has produced memory chips containing 330 million transistors through manufacturing technology that will hit the mainstream in 2003.
Memory price rises to continue
27 March, 2002
The memory market looks set to be more stable and profitable in 2002, and this could mean higher prices.
Floppy computer
25 March, 2002
Phillip Bullock, IBM Australia/New Zealand CEO, has said the company is trying to develop a computer flexible enough to roll up and put in your pocket.
DRAM prices will continue to rise
21 March, 2002
Citing a dramatic increase in average selling prices coupled with a slight increase in consumer demand for PC memory upgrades, market research company iSuppli has raised its forecast for the DRAM market.
Mobile technology requires new memory
19 March, 2002
Recent advances in mobile phone technology have generated demand for memory with high levels of functionality and capacity. However, there is no standardisation in the packaging of the chips that power them.
IBM claims fastest semiconductor circuit
13 March, 2002
IBM has announced that is has created what it believes is the fastest semiconductor circuit, operating at speeds of more than 110GHz and processing an electrical signal in 4.3 trillionths of a second.
Audio codec chip for PDAs
01 March, 2002
Philips semiconductor division has debuted an advanced mixed-signal audio codec chip for LCD-based handheld applications, such as PDAs, 3G mobile phones and other mobile devices.
