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Monthly Archives: February 2012

It’s Mobile World Congress week

Monday, February 27, 2012

By Christina Nickolas Mobile World Congress has started and Infineon Technologies is showcasing a new product authentication chip that will help ensure smarter, safer batteries.  The new chip implements the new MIPI Alliance Battery Interface, a standardized single-wire interface for communication between a battery pack and the mobile device it powers. Infineon ORIGA chips provide manufacturers [...]

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Toshiba’s new NAND flash uses 19 nm technology

Monday, February 27, 2012

by Jim Harrison Toshiba has developed a 19 nm, 3-bit-per-cell, 128 Gbit NAND flash memory chip with a die size of only 170 mm2 and a write speed of 18 Mbytes/s – the faastest of any 3-bit-per-cell device. The chip entered mass production earlier this month and Toshiba and its technology partner, SanDisk, unveiled its [...]

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Mobile communications revenue to rise

Friday, February 10, 2012

By Christina Nickolas According to a report from IHS iSuppli Wireless Systems Market Tracker, the overall market for mobile communications is expected to rise by double-digit margin in 2012. As shown below, factory revenue for the mobile communications market in 2012 is projected to reach $398 billion – up 17% from last year.  More info [...]

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The Web is still free

Thursday, February 9, 2012

A federal jury in Tyler, TX, has just decided that claims asserted by patent-holding company EolasTechnologies, that it owns the technology which allows access to the interactive Web, were invalid. The decision cancels upcoming trials in which Google, YouTube, Yahoo, Amazon, Adobe, JC Penney, CDW Corp., and Staples would have been pressed for damages from [...]

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APEC keeps on shining bright

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

By Paul O’Shea The Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) continues to buck the trends of many other trade shows by increasing the number of participants year-over-year and selling out, with a long waiting list, of companies that want to exhibit at the show. Now, this is a very focused show, as the name implies, so [...]

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The embedded world Exhibition & Conference in Nuremberg

Thursday, February 2, 2012

By Jim Harrison One of the main gathering places for electronics engineers and companies is the embedded world Exhibition & Conference, in Nuremberg, Germany, which this year will be held from Tuesday 28 February through Thursday 1 March. The conference is billed as the meeting-place of the international embedded community, and indeed it is. In [...]

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2012 Tri County Science and Technology Fair – Need of judges

Thursday, February 2, 2012

By Christina Nickolas This years Tri County Science & Technology Fair will be held at White Plains High School in NY on April 21, 2012 and they need volunteers. See the link to register online to be a judge. I hope you are free and available, cause it is a lot of fun. I have [...]

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