Tyson Tuttle will take the helm at analog and mixed-signal specialist Silicon Labs, the company announced Thursday (March 1), replacing Necip Sayiner as president and CEO effective April 18. Tuttle, 4 ...
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
SAN FRANCISCO--The president of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said Thursday (March 1) that the organization remains committed to programs that provide valuable industry statistics and t ...
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
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
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
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
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. ...
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
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
New research points to two important roles for bacteria that live in the underground fungal gardens of leafcutter ants: they help decompose leaves that ants bring to the gardens and play a major role
As scientists struggle to find an effective way to prevent Alzheimer's disease, researchers may have found a new approach to interrupting the process that leads to the devastating disease.
The majestic leatherback turtle is the largest sea turtle in the world, growing to more than 6 feet in length. It is also one of the most threatened. A major new study of migration patterns has identi
Depression is common enough -- afflicting one in ten adults in the United States -- that it seems the possibility of depression must be "hard-wired" into our brains. This has led biologists
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
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
Qualcomm not worried about mobile graphics competition
The discovery of two new extinct camel species sheds new light on the history of the tropics, a region containing more than half the world's biodiversity and some of its most important ecosystems.
The floor of the world’s oldest forest has been unearthed. Scientists are now piecing together a view of this ancient site, dating back about 385 million years ago, which could shed new ligh
A new method for creating nanofibers made of proteins promises to greatly improve drug delivery methods, aid in regenerating human tissue, and pave the way to an organic method of building nanofibers
LONDON – Xsilon Ltd., a 2008 startup, has announced it is offering in-home machine-to-machine powerline communications technology.Xsilon (Bath, England) is developing a physical layer circuit to opera ...
As America streched for the moon in the 1960s, a group of daring, talented men was specially chosen for the success of this heroic, pioneering effort. They were not astronauts but a team of young Grum
Rebuilding America: Design moves front and center in manufacturing debate
What's going on?I feel like the nerdy schoolkid who has just had one of the lenses in his spectacles broken. I can still see but everthing is a bit blurred and fractured.First it was the dropping of t ...
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 ...
Luxtera, ST in deal to take silicon photonics mainstream
Some animal and human populations were shown to shift their birth sex ratio from the expected unity. Using fluorescence in situ hybridisation, scientists now show that males in a captive endangered py
Building a better mobile experience from network to microprocessor
What's going on?I feel like the nerdy schoolkid who has just had one of the lenses in his spectacles broken. I can still see but everthing is a bit blurred and fractured.First it was the dropping of t ...
The biggest challenge ahead of engineers can be solved only by engineering.
SAN FRANCISCO—The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said Wednesday (Feb. 29) it would cease publication of a closely watched quarterly report on chip fab capacity utilization, one day after it ...
A new study revealed that the oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing at a faster rate than the younger and thinner ice at the edges of the Arctic Ocean's floating ice cap.
Rebuilding America: Design moves front and center in manufacturing debate
PMC buys Maxim's 12-Gb/s server storage expander line
Fifty million years ago, India slammed into Eurasia, a collision that gave rise to the tallest landforms on the planet, the Himalaya Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau.
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 ...
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 84 ...
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 ...
A new study reveals for the first time that activating the brain’s visual cortex with a small amount of electrical stimulation actually improves our sense of smell.
Fifty million years ago, India slammed into Eurasia, a collision that gave rise to the tallest landforms on the planet, the Himalaya Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau.
Researcher who previously found evidence of the Earth's earliest tree, has gone one step further. The research team has now unearthed and investigated an entire fossil forest dating back 385 million y
By observing the Moon using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have found evidence of life in the universe -- on Earth. Finding life on our home planet may sound like a trivial observation, but t
A repression of gene activity in the brain appears to be an early event affecting people with Alzheimer's disease, researchers have found. In mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, this epigenetic block
How is it that an insect can remake itself so completely that it appears to be a different creature altogether, not just once, but several times in its lifetime? Working with fruit flies scientists fo
A recent decline in ovenbirds, a ground-nesting migratory songbird, in forests in the northern Midwest United States is being linked by scientists to a seemingly unlikely culprit: earthworms.
EDN recently discussed with Patrizio Vinciarelli, chairman, president, and CEO of Vicor Power, the company's IBA technology, the evolution of Vicor, and how the patent lawsuit Vicor was involved in ha
A rare and endangered monkey in an African equatorial rainforest is providing a look into our climatic future through its DNA. Its genes show that wild drills, already an overhunted species, may see a
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 ...
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 ...
The domestication of chickens has given rise to rapid and extensive changes in genome function. Scientists have established that the changes are heritable, although they do not affect the DNA structur
In this world, there are winners and losers – and, for your own safety, it is best to fear the winners.
The prevailing model for planetary accretion assumes that the solar system's planets formed in an extremely hot, two-dimensional disk of gas and dust, post-dating the sun. Scientists now propose a rad
Research, using computer models to reconstruct the jaw muscle of Tyrannosaurus rex, has suggested that the dinosaur had the most powerful bite of any living or extinct terrestrial animal.
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 makes the processors 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).The 7-inch ...
The prevailing model for planetary accretion assumes that the solar system's planets formed in an extremely hot, two-dimensional disk of gas and dust, post-dating the sun. Scientists now propose a rad
MWC Talk: Nokia and HTC CEOs discuss what it take to transform the mobile experience
MWC Talk: Build mobile ecosystems,design great products and integrate consumer lifestyles
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 ...
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 ...
Researchers have developed a method for inducing magnetic sensitivity in an organism that is not naturally magnetic -- yeast. Their technology could potentially be used to magnetize a variety of diffe
Slowing or preventing the development of Alzheimer's disease, a fatal brain condition expected to hit one in 85 people globally by 2050, may be as simple as ensuring a brain protein's sugar levels are
ABB, RMIT University and the ABB Corporate Research Centre will establish a new Australia-India Research Centre for Automation Software Engineering (AICAUSE).
TOSHIBA has developed a circuit technique to remove distortion on wireless transmissions, which can be directly integrated into a CMOS radio frequency power amplifier.
CONSUMERS have long accepted a world of short smart phone battery life, and multiple incompatible battery formats and interfaces. This could soon change.
THE VICTORIAN government has announced a $250,000 grant to Daintree Networks to develop a new lighting control system that could slash lighting energy use by up to 80 percent.
IBM Research says it is nearing the minimum requirements for the creation of a practical, full scale quantum computer.
APPLE has sent out official invitations to a launch event on 7 March 2012 in San Francisco, with widespread speculation that it would unveil the iPad 3 tablet device there.
ELPIDA Memory has filed for bankruptcy, after failing to win a second bailout from the Japanese government.
A new study reveals for the first time that activating the brain’s visual cortex with a small amount of electrical stimulation actually improves our sense of smell.
A mysterious phenomenon detected by space probes has finally been explained, thanks to a massive computer simulation that was able to precisely align with details of spacecraft observations. The simul
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 ...
LDRA Certification Services assures IEC 61508 certification for safety-critical industrial products
A mysterious phenomenon detected by space probes has finally been explained, thanks to a massive computer simulation that was able to precisely alig n with details of spacecraft observations. The simu
Google's Schmidt talks up the transformative power of connectivity
From gannets to seagulls, puffins to penguins, all seabirds suffer the same drop in birth rates when the supply of fish drops to less than a third of maximum capacity. Below the critical level of one
A new study is the first of its kind to systematically investigate the use of different land cover types for tiger habitat.
Initiative on 450mm moves gets Europe's full attention
Scientists have now discovered that sperm do not function like olfactory cells -- a finding that casts doubt on the assumption that scents play a role in fertilization.
Researchers have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the aging process to be potentially immortal. The discovery may shed light on the possibilities of alleviating aging and age-related c
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 ...
Initiative on 450mm moves gets Europe's full attention
The famous Iceman mummy known as Ötzi was genetically predisposed to cardiovascular diseases, according to recent studies. Not only was this genetic predisposition demonstrable in the 5,000-y
We know since the dawn of modern physics that although events in our everyday life can be described by classical physics, the interaction of light and matter is down deep governed by the laws of quant
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. 28). ...
New laser light source has a global market in consumer electronics. Mobile phones currently on the market are capable of showing high quality images and video, but the phones' small size sets insurmou
Xilinx 2.5-D Virtex-7 2000T named China ACE Awards 2012 FPGA of the Year
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 ...
Intel's new partnerships and processors for the mobile space
SEMI acquires Plastic Electronics for special interest play
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 ...
FRAM helps TI cut power for Wolverine MSP430 platform
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.Silicon Labs takes Cortex-M3 route for 32-bit MCUs ...
BARCELONA--One thing at Mobile World Congress 2012 that you really can't miss (both literally and figuratively) is Google Inc.'s Android booth. The largest booth on the show floor, the Android booth i ...
The frigid McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica are a cold, polar desert, yet the sandy soils there are frequently dotted with moist patches in the spring despite a lack of snowmelt and no possibility of
ISS Europe 2012 ponders 450mm wafer fab challenges
Researchers have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal.