Competition for environmental electronic design
18 May, 2007
A major international design competition called Live Edge — Electronic Design for the Global Environment has been launched by Premier Farnell, global distributor of electronic components.
Technology to functionalise nanoparticles for biomedical applications
18 May, 2007
IMEC has developed a generic and versatile method to synthesise stable, biocompatible magnetic nanoparticles.
New company in semiconductor market
17 May, 2007
Royal Philips Electronics has announced that Silicon Hive has been spun out as an independent company.
Green car one step closer
14 May, 2007 by Elizabeth Latham, Journalist
A new variation of a familiar platinum-nickel alloy has been identified and claimed to be the most active oxygen-reducing catalyst ever reported
Plastic: the way of the electronic future
14 May, 2007 by Elizabeth Latham, Journalist
Plastic electronics have been in the public eye since three scientists won the 2000 Nobel Prize for their contribution to the discovery and development of conductive polymer plastics
Call for global collaboration on nanotechnology
09 May, 2007
About 250 technologists and policy makers from around the globe met in Brussels, Belgium, at INC3, the third international nanotechnology conference on communication and cooperation, to discuss the latest developments in nanotechnology, the challenges and bottlenecks, and the economic and societal implications.
High-power PoE accepted by IEEE committee
12 April, 2007
Phihong USA has proposed allowing midspans used in power-over-ethernet applications to put the power onto the data pair as required for Gigabit systems.
Look out silicon here comes graphene
10 April, 2007 by Elizabeth Latham, Journalist
Graphene, a form of bonded carbon, may become the next buzz word in electronics over the next 10 to 20 years if the current rate of miniaturisation continues
Soanar to distribute ZMD AG in ANZ
13 March, 2007
Soanar announced last week that it has been appointed distributor and technical representative for German-based ZMD AG in Australia and New Zealand.
New standard for semiconductor industry
08 March, 2007
A wide range of optical electronic devices, from laser disk players to traffic lights, may be improved in the future thanks to a small piece of semiconductor, about the size of a button, coated with aluminum, gallium and arsenic (AlGaAs).
New name for integrated circuit design and manufacturing company
05 March, 2007
Integrated Electronics Solutions Pty Ltd, an Australian-based integrated circuit design and manufacturing company, has announced a new trading name for the semiconductors division.
Harting names 'Global catalogue distributor of the year'
02 March, 2007
RS Components has been awarded the ‘Global catalogue distributor of the year’ award by Harting Technology Group for the third consecutive year.
Broad strategic alliance announced
22 February, 2007
Sun Microsystems and Intel Corporation have announced a broad strategic alliance centred on Intel's endorsement of the Solaris operating system (OS) and Sun's commitment to deliver a comprehensive family of enterprise and telecommunications servers and workstations based on Intel Xeon processors.
Collaboration to accelerate development of blue phosphorescent OLED materials
22 January, 2007
Idemitsu Kosan and Universal Display Corporation have announced that they have signed a non-exclusive collaboration agreement to accelerate the development of blue phosphorescent OLED materials.
Group formed to address strong demand for electronics
16 January, 2007
Microchip Technology has announced the formation of the Medical Products Group (MPG) to address the emerging challenges of the medical electronics market through close partnerships with medical device makers.
