Oct 23 2009 12:18PM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (18) |
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Here's one that should be taught in law schools as more and more cases come to courts based on IP, technologies, and new legal provisions that most juries made up of so-called peers would not fully understand.

A trial began this week involving two engineers that have been accused of conspiracy to commit economic espionage and to steal trade secrets. Indicted by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) in September 2007 after being arrested in June 2006, US citizen Lan Lee, aka Lan Li, of Palo Alto, and Chinese national Yuefei Ge of San Jose, allegedly conspired to steal trade secrets from their former employer, NetLogic Microsystems, and from TSMC, at which they were not employed.

According to the indictment, the defendants allegedly created a company, SICO Microsystems, "for the pu...Read More

Oct 7 2009 5:00PM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (2) |
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Election Day is still a month away, but there's another vote you should be aware of.  It's called Project 10¹⁰⁰.  Sponsored by Google, Project is a call for ideas to change the world, in the hope of helping as many people as possible, that launched last October.

Project's voting has been delayed more than once, which encouraged some naysayers across the Web to call the effort a scam. Google insists that it was simply overwhelmed by the flood of ideas that came in (more than 154,000) and that the organization process took more time that it originally thought. Whatever the reason, the delay caused Project and its vote to slip my mind. Luckily, I was reminded of it and the vote this afternoon by Deirdre Walsh, a member of the NI team who I follow through my personal Twitter account (@deffree). (Thanks, Deir...Read More

Sep 1 2009 9:33AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (1) |
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IBM is claiming images of the chemical structure inside a molecule with unprecedented resolution. Read our news story for the details on how IBM scientists achieved this (IBM claims chemical structure images of a molecule), but also take five minutes and view the below IBM-produced video on the research. The video also discusses a previous experiment by IBM where scientists measured the charge states of atoms and briefly touches on how the two experiments tie into atomic scale.

It goes without saying to EDN's engineering audience, but such advances could one day bring processors and memory that are faster, smarter, and much smaller in size than anything possible (perhaps even anything plausible) today.

What do you think? Has IBM reached a milestone? Share your comments on the news or video below.

Aug 28 2009 7:07AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (2) |
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In this world, one either stays up to the minute or falls behind. That's what we heard from our readers when EDN's Twitter efforts were so well accepted at its spring launch. Now @EDNmagazine on Twitter is approaching 1,000 followers. From what can be told from their listed bios, they are a mix of design engineers, execs, sales folk, at-home tech hobbyists, professors, and students -- a rich and vibrant community of innovators from around the globe.

So far, there has been little complaint from @EDNmagazine's Twitter following. Rather, after a warm welcome by our audience at launch, many of our tweets have since been "retweeted" or shared by our followers and @EDNmagazine is often noted in "Follow Friday" posts.

But despite that, and despite the fact that the ...Read More

Jul 29 2009 8:14PM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (10) |
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Global Foundries had two milestone events in the last week, ones that perked up another rainy workweek for this New Yorker. This morning the company announced its first customer as aspun out company from AMD,  landing low-power manufacturing work for bigwig STMicroelectronics. And prior to that, the company announced Friday it had broken ground on its upstate New York 300-mm fab.

Admittedly, I've had little confidence that shovel would meet dirt on this ground breaking. Covering the fab since rumblings of AMD plans began in 2006 and for years attending AMD events where execs danced around questions on the plans for the fab build -- a ...Read More