Intersil has introduced four triple analogue delay lines for video signals - ISL59920, ISL59921, ISL59922, and ISL59923 - that provide clear video images at dis

QuickLogic is to supply part of the upcoming Icera Espresso 300 3G soft modem platform. QuickLogic's ArcticLink platform provides high speed, smart data transfers between USB and SD/SDHC memory via QuickLogic's Smart Programmable Integrated Data Aggregator (SPIDA) system block.

Oxford University scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world's most powerful soft X-ray laser.

'The new office will enable better service to current and future customers with products manufactured at Fab 12i, UMC's Singapore-based 300mm fab', says a UMC company statement, 'the office will be officially opened and ready to serve customers effective August 1, 2009. '

Professor Gilbert Stead, of the Cavendish Laboratory, wrote a song about the discoveries of Max Planck which was frequently sung by the faculty and students of the Cavendish Laboratory at CambridgeUniversity after their annual dinners.

Seems to be a bit of a fuss in mainland Europe at present in respect of semiconductor development tools, their RoHS status, and why are some manufacturer’s still supplying non-compliant parts. Back in 2006 I can clearly remember the concerns around “semiconductor evaluation boards” often referred to as “development tools”. Were they in scope of the RoHS Directive or not?

The recent restriction on Dimethyl Fumarate (DMF) in imported products was clearly not by the standard procedure. The use of DMF was already banned in the EU but not as a component in imported products. In the UK it resulted in illness and was largely ignored by retailers until journalists took an interest, in particular the BBC Watchdog programme. Simultaneously, ...

Interesting to hear an American CEO saying that the workings of a communist dictatorship are more efficient than the workings of liberal democratic capitalism, but that’s what Freescale CEO Rich Beyer reckons.

picoChip of Bath and Elliptic Technologies of Ottawa are collaborating on femtocell security to provide secure communications. The security standard accommodates the following four aspects: secure backhaul of subscriber voice and data traffic across the internet from the femtocell to the operator’s core; the accommodation of many different networks and security architectures such as Iuh and IMS; support for securing the ...

The University of Surrey and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have signed an agreement to collaborate in a £10m programme to realise the full potential of research into areas such as signal processing and nanotechnology.