Tower makes deal to export know-how, equipment
(05:38 AM EST, 11/23/09)
Loss-making foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel), which trades as TowerJazz, has announced it plans to transfer "manufacturing know-how and certain equipment" to support an un-named Asian company ramp up production.

Chinese PCB market to drop 18% in 2009, says analyst
(04:51 AM EST, 11/23/09)
Frost & Sullivan forecasts that the Chinese market demands for PCB products reach RMB97.2 billion with the decrease of 18.2 percent in 2009, but the market is expected to rebound gradually in 2010.

Living in the (approximately) real world
(04:46 PM EST, 11/21/09)
By necessity, we use approximations to model our world, but you have to keep their limits in mind

Is it time to reap the energy harvest?
(12:00 PM EST, 11/21/09)
Are the factors in place and aligned for this market to really take off?

RTOS supports multiprocessor Windows systems
(04:43 PM EST, 11/20/09)
INtime 4.0 is multi-core enabled and compatible with Windows 7.

OCP-IP adds cache coherence to specification
(09:57 AM EST, 11/20/09)
The Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) announced the release of the OCP 3.0 specification.

Former Bookham executive joins IQE
(05:35 AM EST, 11/20/09)
Adrian Meldrum has joined IQE plc as Group Business Development Director and will be based at the Group's headquarters in Cardiff, Wales.

Synfora names head of Japan business
(03:44 PM EST, 11/19/09)
Synthesis tool vendor Synfora Inc. announced it has appointed Mike Arai as general manager of its office in Yokohama, Japan.

Relaxed tales of the smoke microphone
(11:32 AM EST, 11/19/09)
To get around the dynamic range issues of current microphone pickups, Schwartz Engineering and Design has devised a laser-based pickup that detects voice-induced 'distortions' in a flowing stream of smoke and that then relies on proprietary digital signal processing to translate those distortions into audio. And it works!