Slideshow: Sun shines on UMC's new fab

It was a warm, sunny day in Tainan as UMC officially broke ground on its latest and largest fab to date, but there were distant clouds on the horizon for the foundry. Read Full Story

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Teardown slideshow: The anatomy of the LED light bulb

Tech analysis firm MuAnalysis provides a detailed look inside an LED light bulb from LG. Read Full Story

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Resistivity is the key to measuring electrical resistance

Resistivity and resistance are often confused. They're similar, but have differences. Read Full Story

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Active probes: why they are worth buying

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Former Conexant CEO tapped to lead Lantiq

Dan Artusi, a former CEO of both Silicon Laboratories and Conexant Systems, was named to the same position at German broadband and networking chip ...

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Murata completes takeover of VTI with name change

The takeover of MEMS manufacturer VTI Technologies Oy here by Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. was completed with a name change to Murata Electronics Oy.

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Update: Dragon docked to space station

Astronauts on the International Space Station reached out and grabbed a U.S. commercial spacecraft in darkness over Australia on Friday (May 25).

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Dragon now docked to the International Space Station.

Sharp to transfer LCD technology to Hon Hai’s China plant

Terry Gou, founder of Taiwan’s contract manufacturer Hon Hai (known as Foxconn), has been consistent in its one naked ambition: To build technology ...

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Renesas still struggling with restructuring plan

Japanese chip maker Renesas again finds itself at a crossroads as it struggles to come up with a restructuring plan that would ensure its survival.

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Indeed. A new twist we now see in this reported proposal for the mega-merger is that Renesas' ...

High-G MEMS help detect concussions

Analog Devices has crafted a MEMS sensor that is says can help detect concussion symptoms when they happen, giving doctors time to administer ...

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You may be onto something there. That could definitely be tested too by comparing the outputs from ...

IMU integrates accelerometer, gyro

Bosch Sensortec said it has integrated an inertial measurement unit with a three-axis accelerometer and a three-axis gyroscope into the smallest ...

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ARM CTO looks at architecture scaling for 2020 solutions

Anticipating the propagation of the Internet of things, Mike Muller, chief technology officer at ARM Ltd., discussed the needs for architecture ...

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SRC clears path to 14-nm with directed self-assembly

Researchers at Stanford University claim to have perfected a novel self-assembly lithography technique for creating the irregular patterns necessary ...

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Directed self-assembly is not the whole answer, but it is an answer and its one that has the ...

Intel to spend $40 million on international university research

Intel CTO Justin Rattner announced that the company plans to plow more than $40 million into a worldwide network of university research centers over ...

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Tektronix believes in embedded instruments

On chip instrumentation is becoming a necessity as external observability declines and the uses for the technology grows...

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EDA to private equity, part 2

The author attempts to answer a number of reoccurring questions from readers following his recent post suggesting that EDA firms would be better off ...

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Chromebox: Why it's unjustifiable

Samsung’s first ChromeOS desktop PC, the Chromebox, went on sale accidentally yesterday, but at $330, is it worth it?

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Managing change

Entrepreneurs and seasoned executives need to learn to expect, plan for and manage change.

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Bioplastics - cleaner world or bigger mess?

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Failure to launch: Why Sony never got AirBoard off the ground

Life is full of coulda’s and woulda’s. Many engineers have stories to tell about their brilliant technologies (and products), but somehow the project ...

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Point taken, Frank. My use of "cluelessness" was not meant to imply lack of intelligence. However, ...

Aart de Geus on job sharing

Does the fact that Aart de Geus suddenly has company at the top of Synopsys' org chart mean he's laying the groundwork for his retirement?

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What makes a good engineering culture?

An interesting post cropped up on Quora this week, entitled “What makes a good engineering culture?” Edmond Lau, a software engineer at the question ...

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Power optimization starts early in the process

For many companies, power optimization starts at the RT level, but Docea Power attempts to take it to the ES level…

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Can advanced tools actually slow us down?

Too much of a good thing can be counterproductive, in life and in engineering

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Remember back in those days drawing diagonal line on the edge of a deck of cards so if they were ...

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pinhead 05.25.2012
Slideshow: Sun shines on UMC's new fab

Well I guess that wasn't so subtle.

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R_Colin_Johnson 05.25.2012
High-G MEMS help detect concussions

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george.leopold 05.25.2012
Update: Dragon docked to space station

Dragon now docked to the International Space Station.

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TingLu 05.25.2012
Teardown slideshow: The anatomy of the LED light bulb

Do we have cost break down here? I am interested in why it is so expensive.

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jnissen 05.25.2012
IMU integrates accelerometer, gyro

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george.leopold 05.25.2012
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