The attempt to break the hold that Myriad has on key patents for cancer genes has reopened the debate on who can own rights to biology.
Design for manufacture is moving to a new level of sophistication in the bid to keep Moore's Law on track.
With the loss of much of its manufacturing base to Asia, Europe faces an uncertain future in semiconductors.
Heat may be the answer to energy-efficient computing, scientists claim.
Electronic systems don't like it cold, as the Catlin Arctic Survey 2010 ice team discovered. And it's the batteries that let you down the most.
Transparent electronic materials will make it possible to build a new generation of smart objects.
The collapse of the Internet bubble took the photonics industry down with it. But it's starting to attract venture capital investment again.
Plastic-electronics designers are aiming at the low-cost end of the spectrum with cheaper displays and other products.
SoC design calls for more software but that code is expensive to write.
2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the first practical laser. We look at the history and technology of laser development.
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography has struggled to become a tool for IC production despite the problems facing deep ultraviolet (DUV) tools as they turn to OPC and resolution enhancement technologies.
Vertical transistors could solve space problems as feature sizes on integrated circuits scale down.
Although 300mm foundry capacity is expanding fast, many applications in power and mixed-signal are finding new life in older 200mm fabs.
The Earth’s southernmost continent is not kind to technology. Successfully getting data out of the many scientific stations dotted around Antarctica is not easy, as E&T finds out.
Work is progressing on several fronts to take superconductors out of the laboratory fridge into the real-world.
Wolfson Microelectronics plc has announced that its audio hub solution, the WM8993, and its high-performance low-power audio amplifier, the WM9093, have been selected by mobile phone and smartphone manufacturer LG for its latest devices.
From Abbey Road to prehistoric zoology, E&T videos span the engineering and technology community.
With globalization and technological developments changing market dynamics, it is time for organizations to reassess their business processes and start making some radical transformations.
Linux is firmly established in the embedded market, but migrating existing source code to the operating system is a considerable undertaking. This article explores the steps necessary to migrate, the technical requirements and possible pitfalls and the differences between buying an established Linux implementation and developing one internally.
Electronics commentary
iPhone and consumer products drive MEMS to integrate 6 July 2010
Just ahead of Apple's launch of the iPhone 4, Carmelo Papa, general manager of STMicroelectronics' industrial and multisegment sector, was bullish about a new market for the company. He declared that this year would be the 'era of the gyroscope'.
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