| DARPA taps Maxwell for lighter radio energy source
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2011-01-10 |
| The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency is collaborating with Maxwell Technologies Inc. on the development of lighter, longer-lasting energy storage devices for radios and other portable electronic equipment carried by military personnel. |
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| Nanoscoop promises better Li-ion batteries
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2011-01-10 |
| Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers present a material dubbed nanoscoop—because its shape resembles a cone with a scoop of ice cream on top—which could enable the next generation of high-power rechargeable Li-ion batteries. |
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| Solar hybrid system launch for India telecom market
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2011-01-06 |
| Power solutions provider, Eltek Valere introduces a specifically designed solar hybrid outdoor DC power system to address power challenges in the Indian telecom market. |
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| Insight into the Stellaris microcontroller family
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2011-01-04 |
| Jean Anne Booth shares the vision behind the acquisition of Luminary Micro and integration of the Stellaris MCU family into the TI portfolio. |
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| Fujitsu reveals economical energy harvesting
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2010-12-15 |
| A technology that uses a single device to generate electricity using either heat or light offering a more efficient and economical way to harvest energy was revealed by Fujitsu at the IEDM. |
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| Freescale develops smart meter, two-way radio SoCs
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2010-12-13 |
| Freescale has retargeted its base band and RF expertise in 2010 and beyond at specialised SoCs for two-way radios, wireless medical monitors, smart meter market and multi-model handsets. |
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| mPhase unveils 'Smart Nanobattery'
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2010-11-16 |
| mPhase's multi-cell 'Smart Nanobattery' uses an electrolyte reservoir bonded to the company's patented, porous, silicon based smart surface boasting programmable triggering and long shelf life. |
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| Panasonic invests Rs.134.01 crore in Tesla
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2010-11-10 |
| Panasonic invests Rs.134.01 crore in Tesla towards accelerating the market expansion of electric vehicles while Tesla selects Panasonic as its preferred lithium-ion battery cell supplier |
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| EU group aims to cut standby power losses
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2010-11-03 |
| The European Union is funding a programme to cut power losses resulting from standby power and lower active power by 10x for electronic devices by switching from MOSFETs to tunnel FETs. |
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| Industry vexed by rare earth
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2010-10-29 |
| China's monopoly on rare earths mining and materials is a sign of the country's rising dominance in electronics manufacturing and its move to reduce export quotas for 2H 10 presents a growing problem to the industry. |
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| Stage is ready for PCM
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2010-10-27 |
| Phase-change memory (PCM) is touted as the best candidate to continue the scaling of NVM as it blends the attributes of NOR- and NAND-type flash memory, EEPROM memory, and DRAM. |
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| Future of vehicle mobility
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2010-10-26 |
| At the Baden-Baden Spezial 2010 congress on automotive technology, engineers discussed Li-ion batteries for electric vehicles to smart traffic infrastructure sans traffic lights and even brake lights. |
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| Li-ion cells to get smaller than a grain of sand?
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2010-10-21 |
| If UCLA researchers prove successful in their project, one can look at having lithium-ion batteries, the largest of which would be no bigger than a grain of sand. |
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| Intel aims to reign supreme over tablet market
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2010-10-20 |
| The Intel CEO has declared that the company has set its sights on winning the tablet segment and will use all the assets at their disposal to reign supreme. |
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| Micromax spreads its wings to Middle East
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2010-10-12 |
| Micromax forays into the Dubai, Oman, Kuwait and Qatar to entice the youth population with its range of dual-SIM mobile handset offerings from gaming specific phones to social messenger. |
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| Microsoft charges Motorola of patent infringement
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2010-10-06 |
| Microsoft Corp. sues Motorola Inc. for alleged violations of nine Microsoft patents by Motorola's Android-based smartphones. |
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| Maxim remodels its business strategy
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2010-10-05 |
| Tunc Doluca, president and chief executive of Maxim Integrated Products Inc. revealed ''Maxim 2.0'' and tipped a range of new products and technologies. |
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| Home sensing systems use wiring as antenna
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2010-10-05 |
| Sensor technology developed by researchers presents the use of residential wiring to transmit information to and from almost anywhere in the home. |
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| ARM micros compete with Freescale's ColdFire
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2010-10-04 |
| Industrial designers now have a choice between Freescale Semiconductor's two new families of ARM- and ColdFire-based microcontrollers. |
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| TI bestows innovative microcontroller design awards
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2010-10-04 |
| Texas Instruments Inc. bestows DesignStellaris awards for innovative microcontroller designs. |
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| Atmel's maXTouch finds place in Samsung's Galaxy
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2010-10-01 |
| Samsung once again taps Atmel's maXTouch solution, this time to power its Android-based Galaxy tablet. |
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| Li-ion batteries go under the microscope
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2010-09-22 |
| ORNL researchers have devised a new type of scanning probe microscopy called electrochemical strain microscopy (ESM) to learn how lithium ions move through a battery's cathode material |
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| Electric vehicle market to zoom on collaboration
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2010-09-20 |
| Forging creative partnerships and business models will be critical for sustainable, long-term success of the global electric vehicles industry. |
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| ATMI, CVD, SiGen unveils a new class of components
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2010-09-09 |
| ATMI, Ovonyx make inroads into germanium antimony telluride-based phase change memory devices using chemical vapour deposition processes while CVD Equipment Corp. and Graphene Laboratories Inc. have introduced a line of CVD graphene products. Silicon Genesis (SiGen) not to be left out starts production of solar wafers using its new high volume manufacturing system, dubbed PolyMax. |
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| WiSpry, NTT Docomo partner on tunable filters
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2010-09-08 |
| The duo has signed an agreement to jointly develop tunable filters for mobile phone applications based on WiSpry's RF-MEMS technology |
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| HP Labs tap IIT Bombay for research programme
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2010-09-01 |
| IIT Bombay will collaborate with HP Labs on a research initiative focused on 'Semantic Linkage between the Web, Intranet and Wikipedia: Discovery and Exploitation in Search and Aggregation'. |
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| Batteries to be a part of clothing?
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2010-08-31 |
| Scientists have reported headway in using a common virus to develop lightweight, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that could be woven into clothing to power portable electronic devices. |
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| Biofuel cells to power consumer electronics
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2010-08-30 |
| Scientists claim to have developed a device using biofuel cell technology that produces electricity using sugar or cooking oil byproducts as fuel. |
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| Researchers gear cell phone for sign language
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2010-08-25 |
| UW engineers are developing a mobile device that uses motion detection to identify American Sign Language (ASL) and transmit the images over U.S. cellular networks. |
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| Researchers develop micro-supercapacitors
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2010-08-20 |
| A team of researchers from the U.S. and France have developed a micro-supercapacitor with the potential to power nomad electronics, wireless sensor networks, among other devices. |
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