Engineers’ Must-Reads This Week
(June 16 – 22, 2010)
Image sensor sales forecast to grow 31% in 2010
(EE Times 06/21/2010 Dylan McGrath)
San Francisco— IC Insights Inc., a market research firm, predicts that sales of image sensors will grow by 31 percent in 2010, after falling by 19 percent in 2009.
MIT squeezes power from carbon-based Li-ion battery
(EE Times 06/21/2010 Nicolas Mokhoff)
Manhasset, New York— Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology find out that using carbon nanotube for one of a lithium-ion battery's electrodes produces up to tenfold the amount of power compared to a conventional Li-ion battery.
Consultancy ports medical software to wearable phone
(EE Times 06/18/2010 Peter Clarke)
London— Cambridge Consultants Ltd., a design and development firm, launches a software for the delivery of wireless connectivity from a medical device to on-line health services, compliant to the Continua Health Alliance standard.
Low-cost organic semiconductors said to rival silicon
(EE Times 06/16/2010 R. Colin Johnson)
Portland, Ore.— University researchers report a breakthrough that could help organic semiconductors bridge the considerable performance gap with silicon chips.
Trio forms 3-D chip alliance
(EE Times 06/21/2010 Mark LaPedus)
San Jose, California— Elpida Memory Inc., Powertech Technology Inc. and United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) form an alliance to speed up the development of three-dimensional (3-D) chips at the 28-nm node as well as other processes.
3D TV: The future here and now
(Inquirer.net 06/21/2010 Corrie Salientes-Narisma)
The Philippine market has not even fully migrated to LCD televisions—as a great number of Filipinos still use cathode ray tube televisions or CRT TVs—and already, here comes the next generation of televisions, courtesy of Panasonic.
Ricoh redefines the digital camera
(Inquirer.net 06/20/2010 Raquel P. Gomez)
Japanese firm Ricoh creates a new digital camera category when it came out with the GXR, featuring an interchangeable camera unit system.
Mobile TV 'to take off from 2012'
(The IET 06/16/2010)
ABI Research says mobile TV will pick up pace from 2012 through 2015 when total market revenues are forecast to exceed $20 billion.
(Published 23 June 2010, Smart Communications, Inc.)