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Globalfoundries

Globalfoundries: a look into a chip maker's sanctuary.
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Japan Display, Device Forum

The Japanese consumer electronics industry staged a forum in Yokohama to showcase display and "green" device technology. Here's a glimpse of what we saw.
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2009 Solar Decathlon

Twenty university teams from around the world competed in this year's Solar Decathlon on the National Mall in Washington in early October. The annual event is organized by the U.S. Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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Images from Silicon Saxony

We recently visited Silicon Saxony, a group of about 300 German microelectronics companies, many based around the historic city of Dresden. Here's what we found.
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View from two European R&D centers

We toured the Belgian semiconductor research facility, IMEC, along with a technology park in the Netherlands. Here's a snapshot of what we saw.
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2009 Intel Developer Forum

The 2009 Intel Developer Forum will not be remembered for huge surprises or landmark announcements. Nevertheless, the annual gathering hosted by the world's biggest semiconductor maker had its share of interesting-sometimes visual-moments, a few of which we recorded in the following slideshow.
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A unique look at 'micro' electronics
2009 Midwest Energy Fair
Computex 2009


Amazon's Kindle DX Debuts
2009 ACE Awards Ceremony
ACE Innovators of the Year


2009 Ace Awards
Executive of the Year
Images of health care's future
What you could get at
CES for $199 or less


2008 International Electronic
Devices Meeting
AMD slideshow:
A day at the (foundry) races
Electronica 2008
Wurst or Best?


Advanced Technology
Week in Review: Oct 31
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Week in Review: Oct 24
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Week in Review: Oct 17


$1 million DoD
Wearable Power Prize

 Wireless networks and collision avoidance based on LEDs, new optical fiber material and hack-proof pacemakers highlight this week's Advanced Technology Week in Review.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: Oct 10

 Energy was a hot-button issue at this year's CEATEC, Japan's consumer electronics show. Sharp and TDK helped revive the apparently never-ending DC vs. AC debate. Understanding that Japanese consumers can never get enough cool new gadgets, vendors also demonstrated everything from the world's thinnest LCD TV to a gesture-controlled TV and the newest mobile phones.
CEATEC Japan 2008

Wireless networks powered by trees, an underwater helicopter, and a health warning about quantum dots highlight this week's technology review.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: Oct 3

 A new MEMS microphone design and a thinner MEMS oscillator along with electronic-paper tablets and a new spherical design for a ultrawideband antenna highlight this week's technology review.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: Sept 26

 We revisit one of the great engineering feats in human history, the Apollo Moon landing program. Our slideshow focuses on how the Lunar Module was designed and built, and the engineers at the former Grumman Aircraft Engineering who built each of the 14 Moon landers, by hand!
Lunar Module

A faster 3-D graphics accelerator, higher-temperature magnetosensors and smaller, cheaper wireless antennas highlight this week's slideshow.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: Sept 19

 The International IIC Taiwan exhibition opened at the Taipei World Trade Center on Sept. 9th. Show organizers stressed their efforts to extend the show's reach to cover the entire semiconductor design value chain.
IIC Taiwan Show


 The CERN supercollider became operational. The supercollider is competing with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to discover new subatomic particles. MEMS accelerometers excel and studio-quality audio processing becomes affordable.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: Sept 12

Topping our weekly technology review: Bell Labs bows out of semiconductor research, a remote control robot performs surgery, and Chinese researchers develop an anti-cloaking layer.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: Sept 5

 Growing awareness about climate change has led to a focus on the development of "renewable" energy. Our slideshow highlights developments within the technology and the electronics sector.
Green Engineering


 Hydrogen power, light-emitting nanotubes and a 3-D laser radar for weather forecasting top our weekly technology review.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: August 29

Take a walk around the IDF show floor with editor Rick Merritt
Intel Developer Forum


 The irresistible memristor, new applications for digital signal processors and highlights from the Intel Developers Forum headline this week's technology review.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: August 22

 How the world's first 3D chip process debuted, how terabit per square inch hard disk media works, how ocean power could generate electricity 24/7, and how fluid mechanics is helping engineers to improve the performance of U.S. Olympic swimmers.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: August 15

Will card-playing bots doom online poker? Don't throw in your cards until checking out this week's technology slideshow, which also showcases a fuel cell advance, supermagnets and high-resolution holograms.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: August 8

 New technologies embody the Olympic motto - swifter, higher and stronger. EETimes editors identify 10 new technologies deployed for the Beijing Olympic Games. They include: "cloud seeding" technology to divert rain; a MEMS-equipped torch that spells out messages in midair; a drug detector sensitive to substances that mimic naturally occurring agents; and a driverless airport train to the heart of Beijing.
Technology@Olympics


 This week our top technology stories include how MIT demonstrates a method of making solar power 24/7, how a microscope-on a-chip has been invented, how semiconductor lasers no longer need lenses, and how nano-inks could advance printed electronics.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: August 1

This week, how micro-electro-mechanical systems are built into an Olympic torch, how CherryPal is redefining the PC, how a software tool called Supple personalizes user-interfaces, how to extend optical lithography down to 12 nanometers, and how drug testing is being done at the Olympics.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: July 25

 Improved white LEDs, fire-fighting UAVs and solar-powered cars racing from Texas to Canada highlight this week's Technology Week in Review....
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: July 18

 This week's top technology stories include how an AI beat humans at poker, how a robot defeated human air hockey players, paint-on solar panels, a millimeter-sized microphone and how memristors, the fourth passive electronic component, are ready for prime time....
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: July 11

A new type of transistor is bridging the gap between electronics and optics, potentially replacing expensive converters. See our slideshow for details....
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: July 3

 Second Life co-creator Cory Ondrejka makes his pitch for the advantages of virtual worlds in this week's technology review....
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: June 27

 There was plenty of electricity in the air at the 19th annual gathering of the Midwest Renewable Energy Association in bucolic Custer, Wisconsin. The fair is claimed to be the nation's oldest....
19th annual Energy Fair

Lisa Su, CTO of Freescale Semiconductor talks of her company's "embedded" future....
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: June 20

 Our intrepid contributing editor for advance technologies R. Colin Johnson is visiting the Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) Americas in Orlando, Fla. to view and interact with Freescale experts FTF is a global community comprised of Freescale and its partners, customers and universities....
Freescale Technology Forum


 Night vision technology and "quantum-entangled" images illustrate this week's Technology Week in Review....
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: June 13

Intel Corp. staged an annual press tour of more than 60 research projects at the Computer History Museum ranging from work on health care sensors and optical modulators to bread-and-butter projects for the CPU giant in process technology and processor design....
Slide Deck: Inside Intel's
research day

 Top technology stories this week include IBM Research's new approach for water-cooling 3D chip stacks and the opening of a new carbon nanotube fab....
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: June 6

 Computex 2008 in Taipei, Taiwan, is billed as Asia's biggest IT and computer exhibition. Our colleagues at EE Times Taiwan walked the giant show floor looking for the most interesting new products, gadgets and digital applications. Here's what they found....
Computex 2008

This week, how nanotubes may be as bad as asbestos, how computers are modeling the mechanism by which nanoparticles harm living cells, how high-temperature superconductors could....
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: May 30

 This week, how a room-temperature terahertz laser was invented, how nanotechnology is making radioactive sensors obsolete, how a beetle solved the photonic-crystal mystery that has been bugging researchers....
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: May 23

 Display vendors showcased their technologies and prototypes at the Society for Information Display (SID) Conference and Exhibition in Los Angeles May 19-23. The society presented its annual Gold Awards to Luminus Devices, whose....
Society for Information
Displays in 46th year

This time out, our we look at how Hewlett-Packard has targeted silicon photonics as a strategic business; how DriveCam indentifies risky driving; how a new kind of test bed could streamline RFID development; and how Avago claims the first RF chip-scale packaging solution.
Advanced Technology Week
in Review: May 16

 Dubai hosted the 17th International Electronics Forum and, in doing so, accelerated its move away from a stereotypical oil-based economy to one based more on technology, tourism and real estate...
Travels in a flat world,
Part 3: Dubai

 This week our top stories include how a Raytheon Exoskeleton is bringing 'Iron Man' to life, how the major leagues drafted electronics for a performance-boosting mouthpiece, how a MEMS vibration sensor debuted and how the first MEMS oscillator has been listed in the Digi-Key catalog.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: May 9

This week's top stories include how the "missing link" memristor completes circuit theory and could enable 100-Gbit memory chips; how self-healing mesh optical nets emerged; how "what if" software can now simulate wireless nets; and how the second-generation "Robot Guitar" was built....
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: May 2

 Gibson's second generation Robot Guitar includes an SG model in addition to the original Les Paul model, both of which include a new locking input jack from from Neutrik AG (Liechtenstein, Germany)....
Second-generation 'Robot Guitars' play on

 This week's stories include Algorithms developed by a range of research groups aim to automate microfluidic lab-on-chip technologies that perform chemical identification and medical tests by shuffling nanoliters of samples and reagents around micron-sized channels....
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: April 25

This week's slideshow includes how IBM's 'racetrack' memory could replace flash and disk drives, where the future of chip design techniques is headed, how electronic-paper is now ready for interactive applications, how to use a new FRAM chip to create microcontroller-free devices and how scientists are channeling lightning strikes to the ground with lasers.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: April 18

 The 4th Annual Awards for Creativity in Engineering. And the winners of the ACE awards are...
2008 EETimes ACE awards


 A large crowd gathered yesterday to watch Portelligent's David Carey destroy Gibson's limited edition Les Paul Robot Guitar at this week's Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose....
Embedded Systems Conference
Silicon Valley 2008

This week, how microelectromechanical system (MEMS) oscillators are replacing quartz crystals, details of IBM's water-cooled supercomputer, what wireless network operators are doing to provide more IP services to mobile handset users, why scientists are alarmed about toxic nanoparticles being woven into fabrics as "odor neutralizers" in socks, and how an algorithm concocted by engineers correctly predicted the winner of the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: April 11

 The growth spurt of sister cities Shenzhen and Hong Kong is back on track following set-backs, including the Asian financial crisis, SARS and bird flu. But chief executives at two of Shenzhen's more successful startups say the challenges and global competition is intense, inhibiting their growth. Editor at large Rick Merritt toured the two cities recently and came back with a few observations-and some great photos--about the people and places he saw there.
Travels in a flat world,
Part 2: China

 This week, how superconductors could help spacecraft hover unpowered; how CMOS could replace that last moving part in electronic circuits--quartz crystals; how WiMax wireless services are integrating broadcast TV into handsets; how the world's first combination satellite/terrestrial phone debuted at the....
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: April 4

India aspires to be the next big hub of electronics design, courting an emerging business for what it calls "outsourced R&D." EE Times Editor-at-Large Rick Merritt spent a week touring locations in Bengaluru and Delhi to explore how this new business is emerging. The following gallery tells the stories of some of the people and places he visited.
Travels in a flat world,
Part 1: India

 This week, graphene monolayers that could be used for carbon tranistors that might outperform today's fastest chip materials; hyper-entanglement that may possibly increase channel capacity of satellite-to- satellite data transmission by more than 3.5 times; the first commercial rollout of WiMax at airports....
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: March 31

 This week, R. Colin Johnson looks at telematics, a new superconducting material, the nanotechnological reconstruction of a classic bulk material for thermoelectric uses, and FlatWire, a wired way to overcome wireless intricacies.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: March 24

Each week, R. Colin Johnson, EETimes.com's advanced technology correspondent, will prepare a slide show highlighting the week's most interesting high-tech stories. Look, read and enjoy.
Advanced Technology
Week in Review: March 17

 Just about 10 years ago, EE Times published "40 forces that will shape the semiconductor industry." In this image gallery, we revisit some of those predictions to see how we did. As would be expected, we hit some and missed some.
Ten Years After:
Hits & Misses

 Thirty-five years ago, EE Times began covering the electronics industry from the engineer's perspective. We have chronicled the rise of ICs and how they have forever changed communications, computing and consumer technology. Here, as we quickly move into the new century, we serve up the "35 people, places and things that will shape the future," a future well beyond just chips....
35 People, Places, & Things
That Will Shape The Future

CEA President and CEO Gary Shapiro speaks at the opening keynote address for the 2008 International CES (above). EE Times' editors Junko Yoshida and Rick Merritt are on the scene, and they've snapped some pictures of the coolest products in Las Vegas. Click through our Image Gallery to see what's hot this year as CES.
2008 Consumer
Electronics Show
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