Former Apple, Google, Facebook engineers launch IoT startup 05/16/2012

Electric Imp Inc has developed a Wi-Fi node in a memory card physical format that it hopes will become a standard technique for assigning IP addresses and linking to the Internet to establish a Wi-Fi-mediated IoT.

GSA spies venture capital investment uptick in April 05/16/2012

Investment in semiconductor industry startup and private companies jumped up in April to $194.2 million, according to the Global Semiconductor Alliance industry body.

Will China hit a (great) wall? Don't bet on it 05/16/2012

There's a fashionable theory making the rounds here that China's booming manufacturing economy will soon "hit a wall" just as did the export-driven Japanese economy in the early 1990s.

AMD's fires Trinity in x86 notebook battle 05/15/2012

Advanced Micro Devices officially launched its 32-nm Trinity processors, going head-to-head in notebooks and desktops with Intel's 22-nm Ivy Bridge CPUs.

NSF's I-Corps targets 'innovation ecosystem' 05/15/2012

A new public-private effort aimed at strengthening the US "innovation ecosystem" seeks to leverage promising technologies emerging from university labs so that they can quickly be turned into products.

Test equipment market snapshot 05/15/2012

Grab your lunch and head to Frost&Sullivan's webinar on the test equipment market.

Four reasons why MIPS new cores may make it relevant again 05/14/2012

With the new cores' smaller die size and reduced energy consumption compared to ARM's midrange core like A15, MIPS is hoping that the new family of cores can put the company back on track.

Intel drives Xeon server CPU to 17W 05/14/2012

Intel launched the first server CPUs using its 22-nm tri-gate technology, including a new 17W part aimed at the emerging micro-server segment. The x86 giant also rolled out new 32-nm server chips, including an entry-level part that narrows AMD's price lead in four-socket servers.

Netronome reduces SoC power use with timing tricks 05/14/2012

Cadence Design Systems claims that Netronome designers achieved a 29% reduction in power consumption using Cadence's latest Encounter 11.1 technology thereby providing performance advantage on its low-power "green" SoCs targeting the secure virtual cloud and data center markets.

Indy engines still pack a 700-HP punch 05/11/2012

This year, when the Indy cars line up in the grid at the "greatest spectacle in racing," they'll be using engines with less displacement than that in a Volkswagen Golf or a Toyota Camry.

ARM dominates 10B unit CPU core market 05/10/2012

Driven by the growth of mobile devices, merchant CPU cores shipped in more than 10 billion chips last year, up 25% over 2010, according to a new report.

OpenFlow debuts on an optical network 05/10/2012

The move to software-defined networks passed another milestone as ADVA Optical Networking demonstrated the OpenFlow specification for the first time on an optically switched network.

Infineon, Fuji agree on HybridPACK 2 automotive power module specs 05/10/2012

At the PCIM Europe trade show in Nuremberg, the two companies announced their agreement on a joint common footprint for automotive IGBT power modules using Infineon's Hybrid PACK 2 power module.

Nvidia contributes CUDA compiler to open source 05/ 9/2012

LLVM, a popular open source compiler, now supports Nvida GPUs.

Sequans tips interference mitigation technology for LTE 05/ 9/2012

French wireless communications chip vendor Sequans Communications said it added a new interference mitigation algorithm to its LTE chip platforms that the company says can increase throughput by more than three-fold and can increase network capacity by up to two fold.

Synopsys buys photonics design tool firm 05/ 9/2012

EDA and IP vendor Synopsys said it completed the acquisition of RSoft Design Group, a provider of photonics design and simulation software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Fraunhofer makes mini-projector for smartphones 05/ 8/2012

Researchers at the German research institution Fraunhofer IOF have developed an array of hundreds of microprojectors that can be used to project images from smartphones and similar small devices. The array enables the design of slim LED projection systems, which nevertheless offer bright images even on curved screens.

Baolab plans monolithic inertial MEMS 05/ 8/2012

Baolab Microsystems SL (Barcelona, Spain), a startup pioneering the creation of MEMS within the metal interconnect layers of CMOS wafers, has announced that it is planning to use its technology to build reconfigurable inertial measurement units.

Microsoft joins Micron memory cube effort 05/ 8/2012

Microsoft became the seventh core member of the Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium led by Micron and Samsung, a sign of the concept’s broad technical implications.

At Indy 500, rules make it tough to gain competitive edge 05/ 7/2012

When the cars take the track at the Indy 500 a few weeks from now, the margin of victory might be directly attributable to an engineering detail so miniscule most spectators have never heard of it.

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