Industry News
Speed record
PhD student Daniel Kehrer has established a new speed record in data transmission with an experimental CMOS semicondutor circuit at Infineon Technologies in Munich.
[ + ]B&R Enclosures new manufacturing facility
B&R Enclosures has opened a new head office and manufacturing facility in Brisbane. The 13,000 m2 facility is located at Heathwood in Brisbane's south and will be used for the production of its range of electrical enclosures, data equipment racks and accessories.
[ + ]Closure of Semiconductor Facility
Philips has announced a plan for a phased closure of its semiconductor fabrication operation (fab) in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the end of 2003.
[ + ]World Electronics Forum
The Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (AEEMA) will be hosting the ninth World Electronics Forum (WEF) in the first week of September 2003. Locations details are yet to be finalised.
[ + ]Semi-conductor chip for fibre channel SANS
Agilent has introduced what is claimed to be the industry's smallest four-port serialiser/deserialiser (SerDes) integrated circuit (IC) designed specifically for fibre channel storage area networking (SAN) equipment used to store and transport data between servers and larger corporate data centres.
[ + ]Sales up for semiconductor market
It has been reported by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) that global sales of semiconductors are recovering and are forecast to rise 1.8 % to $141 billion in 2002 and about 20% in each of the next 2 years.
[ + ]Bendable screens
It has been reported that DuPont, Sarnoff and Lucent technologies will work together to develop a display technology that could lead to thin, flexible monitors that can be wrapped around curved surfaces or rolled up and put away or carried. The project is to be sponsored by the Advanced Technology Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
[ + ]Richardson Electronics opens Beijing office
Richardson Electronics, a global provider of engineered solutions have announced the opening of a new branch office in Beijing, China.
[ + ]Its a BLAST for 3G cellular networks
A new chip for mobile devices which was developed by Bell Labs team in Australia, implements multiple input/output wireless technology, called BLAST (Bell Labs Layered Space-Time). The technology is used in base station equipment and mobile devices, and is claimed to increase the capacity and coverage of wireless networks, and permit higher speed mobile data connections for notebook PCs and hand held devices.
[ + ]Austronics, Automate, Electrix Award Winners
The Austronics, Automate, Electrix awards were presented at a gala function compered by John Blackman in the Auditorium at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre on Tuesday 15th October 2002. The winners are listed below.
[ + ]AEEMA Excellence Awards
Awards were presented to electrical, electronic and ICT organisations by the Honourable John Howard MP at the 'Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association Excellence Awards 2002' held at Sydney's Australian Technology Park. There were six awards categories including excellence in smart manufacturing, commercialisation of R&D, export, product stewardship, energy efficiency and innovation.
[ + ]Network alliance agreement
Agere Systems and Infineon Technologies are to jointly develop high-performance chips based on the 802.11 standard. The technology resulting in next-generation wireless LAN products will provide business and residential users with flexible access to email and the Internet. It has a bandwidth that is 20 times higher than current wireless networks and will reach up to 54 Mbit/s.
[ + ]Insulating materials for microelectronics
Researchers from the Commerce Departments National Institute of Standards and Technology reported they have developed methods for characterising key structural features of porous films being eyed as insulators for the ultrathin metal wires that will connect millions of devices on future microprocessors and increase processor speed.
[ + ]Revolution in PC Microprocessing
Intel are be releasing a PC microprocessor with a new capability developed with the assistance of Dean Tullsen, called hyper-threading. The processor executes instructions from multiple threads/programs at once, as if they all came from a single thread. The CPU duplicates the architectural state on each processor, while sharing one set of processor execution resources. It makes one processor appear as two to the operating system.
[ + ]Voice controlled electronics
Scientist from the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD are working on a voice analysis system and a camera with image processing. They are focussing on designing voice activated electrical appliances and electronic equipment. An example may be a video recorder that is activated by someone saying "Record the news on channel 7 this evening" or a lamp which is turned off by the voice command of "lamp out".
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