Arduino board plugs DIYers into the cloud for $69

Massimo Banzi launched a $69 Arduino board that plugs do-it-yourselfers into the cloud using a Wi-Fi chip from Qualcomm Atheros running a custom variant of Linux. Read Full Story

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Taiwan reversing brain drain

Government funded research labs are enticing Taiwan's brightest expats to return in hopes of revitalizing the country as an innovator. Read Full Story

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ST to deny rivals FDSOI access

In an interview Jean-Marc Chery, ST's CTO (shown), said his company could install its FDSOI process in multiple foundries but for now has an agreement in place that will deny certain companies access ... Read Full Story

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Slideshow: Google I/O puts 7 platforms on parade

At its annual developer's conference, Google showed advances across seven major platforms--Android, Chrome, Glass, Google+, Maps, Search and Google TV. Read Full Story

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Android drives cameras to GPUs, plans IR support

Google will update Android camera API to support computational photography on graphics cores and build support for infrared into Android.

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Another reason why Android is the future. http://bit.ly/IC4m9t

ST's strategy is a tale of two segments

ST tells analysts it is going to report financial results for both its digital and analog business segments for "transparency" but remains committed ...

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One 300mm fab split into 3 areas with 1/3 being for FDSOI will not have scale to compete on cost in ...

Exclusive: TSMC plots system super chips

TSMC's chief technology officer and vice president of R&D reveals future of semiconductors from perspective of world's foremost microchip foundry, in ...

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Few topic come to mind if there is a follow up to this article with TSMC: -what is TSMC's plan to ...

ST turns to PCM for MCU embedded memory

STMicroelectronics, which began researching phase-change memory more than a decade ago, has said it will offer microcontrollers integrated with the ...

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True, retention less than an hour.

FDSOI gains three design wins

ST claims three design wins for its fully-depleted silicon on insulator manufacturing process; a move that could draw out support from EDA software ...

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What was the outcome? http://bit.ly/IC4m9t

Slideshow: How knockoff nation mastered ecosystem

Da Fen Village, where replicas of Van Gogh, Rembrandt or Monet are mass-produced by Chinese artists and art students, represents everything that gives ...

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She was trying to sneak inside a iiphone factory and take some pics. apparently she doesn't have the ...

Amazon buys Samsung display subsidiary Liquavista

Samsung sells electrowetting display pioneer to Amazon for an undisclosed sum.

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The Hp Z1 has a great display and benchmarks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY5DNyEOBeU

Moving to SystemC TLM for design and verification of digital hardware

By moving to SystemC TLM as the design entry point, and by leveraging high-level synthesis in combination with IP reuse, designers can handle growing ...

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Imperas launches multicore software development tools

Hardware model and and software debug tool functions integrated in simulation code stream provides performance, capability and ease-of-use benefits, ...

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Artificial heart ready for human trial

France’s Carmat SAS applied medical and aerospace technologies to develop a bioprosthetic artificial heart which has won approval for clinical trials. ...

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Oh, this is pretty amazing! Soon we'll be into the Star Trek age fully, maybe even with warp ...

Renesas signs with IMEC for short-range radio research

Renesas is researching ultra-low power short-range radio with IMEC, targeting sensor networks for automotive and industrial purposes.

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Deep packet inspection--Use cases, requirements and architectures—Part I

This article will analyze use cases, define a set of common requirements for DPI applications and outline several architectures and building blocks ...

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Memory IP startup pursues FinFET, FDSOI processes

Startup is developing physical IP for geometries at 20-nm and below with an initial focus on SRAM structures for implementation in FinFET and FDSOI ...

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Taiwan funds smartphone innovations

National Taiwan University has developed several innovations for tablets and smartphones designed to win the hearts of mass-market users.

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I want to earn a master degree of power electronics in CPES.

Taiwan's microelectronics expertise widens

Taiwan, long recognized for design automation, is pioneering innovations in human-computer interaction, medical electronics and resolution of pressing ...

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NTU is proud of asia. Once worked in Foxconn, there are many resources for this gaint corporation

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Could Intel enable $200 Ultrabook?

Market research firm IHS believes the chip giant could reinvigorate the PC industry--if it's willing to sacrifice its own margins.

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Is that chart listing the manufacturer's cost for those components or what would be a retail (to the ...

Yoshida in Japan: Kyocera-Omron-Renesas connections

Will Omron’s chairman be able to save deeply troubled Renesas? That's the $64 billion question swirling around Tokyo.

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The real question is - Why are Japanese companies, once powerhouses in the technology industry, so ...

London Calling: Amazon 'Coins' its own currency

Why has Amazon created its own money? A bit of fun, a short-term promotion, or could Amazon be testing the water ahead of a BitCoin-like move?

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Not only can Amazon lock users into the Amazon maze, but the company can control the financial ...

Google to Apple: Catch us if you can

Despite a low-key Google I/O conference this year, Google has transformed itself into a company of fearsome focus.

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Slideshow: Energy harvesters lift power from surprising sources

Researchers are coming up with new ways to harvest energy from sound vibration, footsteps, and even electromagnetic fields in the air.

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Rapid progress in silicon photonics standards

Silicon photonics sees exciting developments, such as enabling data infrastructure to support codesign of electronics and microphotonics devices in ...

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How much of the chip does IP fill?

How much content does it take to maker a chip unique? Maybe less than you think.

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Chip surface area is a poor metric for measuring IP content. The trend of IP blocks -- both licensed ...

Altera & Enpirion – great things to come

I just had a briefing with the folks from Altera and Enpirion, and things are starting to make a lot more sense…

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Yoshida in Japan: Ailing companies to break away from past

After posting an annual net loss of $5.4 billion, Sharp pulled off a major reshuffle of its management team by naming a new president and chairman.

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All technology advances run in cycles. A good company will embrace that change and prepare their ...

London Calling: GreenTouch is missing chip support

The consortium chartered with improving the energy efficiency of wired and wireless networks should turn to ARM to bolster support; unless Intel wants ...

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Peter, you are such a big brown noser of ARM. You should just work for them rather write these mushy ...

Can Samsung overtake Apple in 2013?

Should we admit that there is in fact "a before and after" Apple's iconic CEO Steve Jobs?

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the inevitable decline when Brits take over, another Oil Spill in the making through a classic ...

EDA in the Cloud: OneSpin says your design is secure

OneSpin has a new offering that makes your design secure even while utilizing Cloud services…

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Slideshow: Astronaut sings Bowie in space

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, the first music video made in space, has rocketed him across the ...

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I still remember the time my sister checked out Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars from the ...

April's contest had larger than life competition

Eight caption-eers made us laugh, but only one was selected as April's big winner.

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Speaking of contests, I'm loving LPKF's #myPCB contest: http://www.lpkfusa.com/mypcb/

Should smartphones pay in defense of French culture?

France plans to impose a tax up to 4 per cent on smartphones, tablets and all other Internet-linked devices to help finance French art, films and ...

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I have more French in ancestry than any other nation and from this perspective suggest that France ...

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Samsung takes 95% of Android Profits

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Iphone5 Brings Bad Luck to Apple?

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