Counterpoint: Meeting with the unexpected
At trade shows these days, everyone wants to know the number of attendees. This tends to drown out a somewhat more important issue: the quality of the show. But when we walk into unexpected encounters with people we've never met before at a trade show, we are always reminded of one thing: This is why we travel.
Slideshow: ACE Awards Presentation
Photos from the 2009 EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards presentation are now available on the EE Times Image Gallery.
Renesas pilots patent program
Renesas Technology Corp. is piloting a cross-functional program to align its work in patents with the company's R&D units and overall business goals and could generate dozens of new patents it could assert with potential competitors and partners.
Chip industry may have hit 'local bottom,' says VC
With chip inventories at record lows, the semiconductor industry may have it at least a "local bottom," according to venture capitalist Dave Epstein.
RapidIO Gen2: double speed, lower power
RapidIO Gen2 offers twice the performance, lower power, and lower system cost than RapidIO 1.3--all while maintaining backwards compatibility.
ACE Award winner Sanghi uneasy about U.S. economy
Even for Microchip Technology Inc., named 2009 "Company of the Year" during the EE Times ACE Awards, there is no magic formula to quickly lift the company out of the current recession.
Microchip, Chang headline 2009 ACE Award winners
Microcontroller and analog chip vendor Microchip Technology was presented the award for "Company of the Year," one of 11 winners of the 2009 EE Times ACE Awards. Morris Chang, founding chairman of TSMC, was honored with a "Lifetime Achievement Award."
Astronaut invokes 'Apollo spirit' for 'hard days ahead'
Kenneth Mattingly recalled the Apollo spirit of cooperation in the rescue of the Apollo 13 mission and encouraged engineers at the Embedded Systems Conference to apply the same determination to the current hard times.
Intel-ST memory venture: A flash in the pan?
A year after its official inception, Numonyx Inc. continues to move full speed ahead with its charter despite the current memory downturn and chaos in the supply chain.
Intel-ST memory venture: A flash in the pan?
A year after its official inception, Numonyx Inc. continues to move full speed ahead with its charter despite the current memory downturn and chaos in the supply chain.
ESC SV 2009 PREVIEW: Not all embedded virtual machine monitors (VMMs) are created equal
IT organizations have saved millions of dollars in equipment and energy costs in the past several years with virtualization in their servers and desktop computers. It is no surprise that embedded developers a looking to do likewise in their more space and cost and memory constrained designs.
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