SAN FRANCISCO—Technology licensor Rambus Inc. has begun searching for a new CEO to replace Harold Hughes, who plans to retire, the company said Monday (Feb. 27). Hughes, who took over as Rambus CEO in ...
Facebook joins W3C to combat browser fragmentation
ISS Europe 2012 ponders 450mm wafer fab challenges
Embedded World, NUREMBERG - Freescale Semiconductor is to increasingly work with its ecosystem of board vendors to broaden availability of its processors based on Power Architecture and ARM technologi ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—The last major engineering hurdle to quantum computers—millisecond coherence times—has been surmounted by researchers at IBM Research, making commercialization of the technology possibl ...
This year's Embedded World has grown with around 880 exhibitors from 35 countries. On this page we provide links to the latest stories from the event.Freescale initiative supports board designersF ...
FRAM helps TI cut power for Wolverine MSP430 platform
Silicon Labs takes Cortex-M3 route for 32-bit MCUs
Xilinx 2.5-D Virtex-7 2000T named China ACE Awards 2012 FPGA of the Year
LDRA Certification Services assures IEC 61508 certification for safety-critical industrial products
BARCELONA – Claiming the era of the big cellular base station is over, Cisco Systems joined the growing ranks of vendors rolling out hybrid systems that handle both cellular and Wi-Fi traffic. The net ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—Electronic compass applications combine magnetometer-provided headings with corrections from inertial sensors that compensate for stray magnetic fields. As a result, sensor fusion algor ...
SEMI acquires Plastic Electronics for special interest play
Intel's new partnerships and processors for the mobile space
SAN FRANCISCO—Micron Technology Inc. will acquire Intel Corp.'s stake in two IM Flash Technologies LLC fabs operated by the two companies for about $600 million, the companies said Tuesday (Feb. 2 ...
Initiative on 450mm moves gets Europe's full attention
Google's Schmidt talks up the transformative power of connectivity
An alternative fuels expert firmly believes he can go coast-to-coast on l0 gallons of gasoline or less. His attempts will be March 3-8, 2012, and in 2013.
Researchers asked why spiders do not stick to their own sticky webs. Repeating old, widely quoted but poorly documented studies with modern equipment and techniques, they discovered that spiders' legs
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. confirmed Tuesday (Feb. 28) it is no longer a member of the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization, a non-profit organization which publishes monthly report ...
Like something straight out of “Star Wars,” armies of robots could nimbly be crawling up towers and skyscrapers to make repairs in the not-so-distant future, so humans don̵
SAN FRANCISCO—As expected, EDA vendor Mentor Graphics Corp. reported Tuesday (Feb. 28) that its annual sales eclipsed $1 billion for the first time ever, as the company reported sales and earnings tha ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Inc. has roughly 15,500 patents, about 8.500 of which are U.S. patents, according to a new report detailing the tech giant's patent portfolio. Apple is named as the assignee of ...
Probing the largely unexplored question of what characteristics make a leader among schooling fish, researchers have discovered that by mimicking nature, a robotic fish can transform into a leader of
MWC Talk: Build mobile ecosystems,design great products and integrate consumer lifestyles
Ground-breaking research will help to make one of the most versatile of bacteria even more useful to society and the environment. Though it lives naturally in the soil, the bacterium Bacillus subtilis
A major downside of the medical use of marijuana is the drug's ill effects on working memory, the ability to transiently hold and process information for reasoning, comprehension and learning. Researc
MWC Talk: Nokia and HTC CEOs discuss what it take to transform the mobile experience
BARCELONA--Google’s Android Booth at MWC 2012 is one of the major hotspots at the mobile show this year. Taking up a significant portion of Hall 8, the booth attracts tens of thousands of visitors dai ...
BARCELONA--MIPS Technologies, which licenses MIPS processor IP cores that power appliances like TVs and DTV boxes has come out with its own $99 tablet running Google’s Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) ...
Leaves come in all shapes and sizes. Scientists have discovered the simple rules that control leaf shape during growth. Using this "recipe," they have developed the first computer model able
Production of energy from the difference between salt water and fresh water is most convenient near the oceans, but now, using an ammonium bicarbonate salt solution, researchers can combine bacterial
The world's oceans may be turning acidic faster today from human carbon emissions than they did during four major extinctions in the last 300 million years, when natural pulses of carbon sent global t
BARCELONA -- Police closed down significant parts of the Mobile World Congress today while students protested cuts in education outside the event.Security officials began erecting barriers at about 4 ...
Until now, it was presumed that the last glacial period denuded the Scandinavian landscape of trees until a gradual return of milder weather began and melted away the ice cover some 9,000 years ago. N
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of Intel Corp., said Wednesday (Feb. 29) it has created a $100 million investment fund to help accelerate innovation and the adoption of new techno ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will acquire microserver startup SeaMicro Inc. in a deal worth $334 million, under the terms of a definitive agreement between the two companies announced Wed ...
Report: Taiwan seeks merger with restructured Elpida
NEW YORK – The news that Intel is pulling out of the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) – after AMD took the same powder last year – should set off alarms for everyone in the industry.Clearly ...
What if bacteria could talk to each other? What if they had a sense of touch? A new study suggests both, and theorizes that such cells may, in fact, need to communicate in order to perform certain fun
Cut marks found on Ice Age bones indicate that humans in Ohio hunted or scavenged earlier than previously known. A series of 41 incisions appear on an animal's left femur. Radiocarbon dating of the fe
Scientists have developed a "biological computer" made entirely from biomolecules that is capable of deciphering images encrypted on DNA chips.
BARCELONA – “The mobile Internet will be huge,” said Peter Liu, a prominent Beijing venture capitalist, grabbing my sleeve as we spilled out of the keynotes the first day of the Mobile World Congress. ...
Scientists have found an iron-based superconductor that operates at the highest known temperature for a material in its class. The discovery inches iron-based superconductors closer to being useful in
PMC buys Maxim's 12-Gb/s server storage expander line
Researchers have developed a new nanotechnology platform for the development of molecule-based electronic components using the wonder material graphene.
Rebuilding America: Design moves front and center in manufacturing debate
Researchers in California report that they have significantly enhanced polymer solar cells' performance by building a device with a new "tandem" structure that combines multiple cells with d
BARCELONA – China Mobile wants to turn computer servers into cellular base stations. The world’s largest carrier discussed at the Mobile World Congress here its effort to use data center technologies ...
Carbon nanotubes and graphene consist of just a couple of layers of carbon atoms, but they are lighter than aluminium, stronger than steel and can bend like spring-coils. Physicists have been studying