China debates IP protection, fireworks unsue

A heated debate took place during a Beijing forum over the nettlesome issue of intellectual property rights and what China must do to convince the world that it will honor them. Read Full Story

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Microchip's Nixie Tubes light up DESIGN East

The creators of the Nixie Tube DIY clock will describe how the project was conceived and implemented during a special session at DESIGN East 2012. Read Full Story

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FPGA-based instrumentation withstands chill in deep space

B&A Engineering conducted studies with the Xilinx Virtex-5 mixed-signal radiation-hardened FPGA to address NASA’s need for protected, reliable data-acquisition controllers and computer electronics ... Read Full Story

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Intel's Bohr sees path to 10-nm chips

Intel's Mark Bohr (shown) says the chip maker has found a way to create a 10-nm process technology using immersion lithography and is on track to start making chips in a 14-nm process in late 2013. Read Full Story

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Sharp calls for tougher wage cuts

Japan's troubled Sharp Corp. has asked its labor union to agree a 7 percent cut in wages for the general work force and the company is imposing a 10 ...

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Sharp needs to focus more on marketing. In India this brand is not popular as much as ...

ST tips exec changes, promises new strategic plan

STMicroelectronics announced executive changes, including the departure of Philipe Lambinet (shown), general manager of ST's digital sector, and ...

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That's because upper management benefits from the greatest double standard in history. Good results ...

Numetrics, UBM partner on project management software

Design planning and support company Numetrics has teamed up with UBM Electronics, the publisher of EE Times, to launch SmartPROJECT project management ...

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Automotive Communication at the Speed of Light

Want to speed up your automotive communications design? Leverage optical transmitters and receivers.

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Slideshow: Chinese smartphone menu

Huawei, ZTE, Lenovo and Coolpad are the Chinese smartphone brands you probably know. But what about Kente, Meizu, SGiFe, ThL or Zopo?

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@docdivakar. The first thing to remember about China's mobile market is that consumers go out and ...

Intel describes 22-nm SoC process, not chips

In separate IDF talks, Intel described the system-on-chip variant of its 22-nm process technology but not the Atom-based tablet and smartphone SoCs to ...

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Is this mean a few companies using Intel notably as foundry for 22nm do not have any advantages ...

IPhone 5 bill of materials estimate is $167.50

TechInsights' preliminary estimate of the bill of materials for the IPhone 5 is about $35 higher than a comparable version of the IPhone 4S.

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Not just brand but integration and finish. Some poopoo that as not valuable but using and touching ...

IBM images molecular bonds

IBM researchers say they have imaged individual bonds between carbon molecules, a technique that could prove valuable in crafting new organic ...

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In its Science paper, IBM Zurich also credits, Universidade de Santiago, Compostela, Spain, and CNRS ...

Smartphone is next stop for PCI Express

PCI Express will ride the MIPI Alliance’s M-PHY to link high-end peripherals in smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks starting next year.

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This will be a very welcome development. If they can reduce the size, it implies that more markets ...

Intel blurs line between Atom and Core

Intel is making an aggressive shift toward mobile computing and designing its next- generation core microprocessors with mobility in mind, according ...

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Intel, Apple may be two ships passing in the light

I was humbled—and just a bit frightened--to see the Apple and Intel cruise ships pass so closely as they sailed down San Francisco’s Howard St. this ...

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Samsung has a very different business model--50-60 new handsets a year. Covering all the ...

Making beautiful music with smart MEMS microphones

New "smart" MEMS microphones enable recording with a quality once reserved only for musicians and rich wannabes with their own private recording ...

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I agree. I got the chance to test some MEMS microphones from Wolfston last year. I compared them ...

London Calling: Toshiba offers foundry services

Toshiba is making multiple moves in its chip manufacturing; offering foundry services in Europe and reportedly cutting NAND flash prices just two ...

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Highly competitive market.To survive one need to always do research to reduce the cost of ...

Survey claims over half of Americans 'disappointed' by iPhone 5

It has not even been 24 hours since Apple released its latest iteration of the now iconic iPhone, yet according to flash polls and several press ...

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Apple foisting another proprietary, or at least non-standard, commector on the adoring public? Not ...

Silicon Valley Nation: Five engineering lessons from race teams

Racing engineers can teach their colleagues in other disciplines some useful lessons.

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10G Ethernet switches lead networking growth

Revenues for 10 GE reached $1.8 billion in 2Q12, on sequential port-shipment growth of 13 percent, according to a quarterly update from the Dell’Oro ...

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China Mobile takes SIM card route to e-wallets

As the technorati await word on whether the iPhone 5 will include near-field comms, China Mobile is pursuing its own e-wallet solution: a SIM card for ...

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I'm always in favor of the smarter way of doing things, but unfortunately "smarter" depends on ...

Choosing your business strategy

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were both wildly successful with completely different approaches. What works for your business?

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Intel’s Haswell shines, but Atom remains cloudy

With the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) starting tomorrow (September 11) and the pending launch of new products from Apple on Wednesday, all eyes are on ...

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Heard any good iPhone rumors lately?

The Internet is abuzz with rumors about iPhone 5 features, functionality and components.

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SR656601 09.14.2012
China debates IP protection, fireworks unsue

You mean to say in the headline, "fireworks ensue," right? SR

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Intel, Apple may be two ships passing in the light

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Survey claims over half of Americans 'disappointed' by iPhone 5

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greenlime 09.14.2012
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EREBUS 09.14.2012
Making beautiful music with smart MEMS microphones

I agree. I got the chance to test some MEMS microphones from Wolfston last year. I compared them ...

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RB3200 09.14.2012
Early DIY electronics projects, 1910-1915

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IBM images molecular bonds

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Slideshow: Chinese smartphone menu

@docdivakar. The first thing to remember about China's mobile market is that consumers go out and ...

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Microchip's Nixie Tubes light up DESIGN East

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tritchie 09.14.2012
Analyst says iPhone 5 processor is dual-core Cortex-A15

Everybody else believes this, I think not, likely still just A9s.

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Intel's 22-nm process gives MOSFET switch a facelift

Excellent article. How did BEOL scale with the front end?

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EE times for engineers in India

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A 64-bit horse that can count

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The phenomenon of "The Clever Hans", Mr. von Osten's horse, was described in 1911 [1]. The Clever Hans was famous because of his ability to read and solve

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The compiler is to blame for everything

By Andrey Karpov on 09.10.2012

Many programmers are very fond of blaming the compiler for different errors. Let's talk about it - http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0161/

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