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ACME's EMP 370, 390 Portable Platforms Support Xeon 32-nm 5600 Series CPUs

ACME Portable Machines, Inc., a leading provider of rugged portable computers, rugged tablets/notebooks, and industrial LCD keyboard drawers, today announced the support of the Xeon 5600 series CPUs from Intel in their l...

8 Apr 2010

Hoowaki Licenses Microstructure Manufacturing Technology from University of Illinois

Hoowaki, LLC and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) have entered into a license agreement under which Hoowaki will utilize innovative technology developed in the laboratory of Dr. William P. King.

8 Apr 2010

Microchip Technology Announces EEPROM Devices in WLCSP and TO-92 Packages

Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced that its single-I/O bus UNI/O EEPROM devices are now available in miniature, Wafer-Level Chip-Sca...

8 Apr 2010

MEMC Wins 2009 Outstanding Supplier Award

MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., a leading provider of silicon wafers and North America's largest solar energy services provider, said today that it received the 2009 Outstanding Supplier Award from Inotera Memories, Inc.

From GlobalWafers Co., Ltd. 8 Apr 2010

World’s Largest Particle Accelerator Achieves Highest Energy Collisions

The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator — a 17-mile loop under the Franco-Swiss border that was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to help scientists answer some of the most fundamental questions in physics.

8 Apr 2010

TSMC Selects Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS Verify Integrated Sign-Off Flow

Magma Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that TSMC has selected Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS for physical verification in TSMC's Integrated Sign-off Flow (ISF). ...

From TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company 8 Apr 2010

Research Highlight Potential Toxicity of Nanoparticles in Sunscreens

Scientists are reporting that particle size affects the toxicity of zinc oxide, a material widely used in sunscreens.

8 Apr 2010

Research on Disorder Phenomena Could Help Build Future Quantum Simulators

Researchers from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO, Barcelona) and the Institute of Optics (IO, Palaiseau) describe in Nature Physics the new trends in research on disordered systems using ultracold gases that cou...

8 Apr 2010

Analog FastSPICE Platform Qualifies for 28nm LP Technology

Berkeley Design Automation Inc., provider of the Analog FastSPICE™ unified circuit verification platform today announced that the Analog FastSPICE™ Platform qualified through TSMC’s SPICE Tool Qualification Program for 28nm low-power (LP) technology.

8 Apr 2010

Solterra Announces Incentive Pricing for Tetrapod Quantum Dots

Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc., a solar technology and quantum dot manufacturing company (and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hague Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: HGUE)) announced today that only 18 months after licensin...

8 Apr 2010

Researchers Identify New Mechanism That Governs Strength of Nanostructured Metals

Materials scientists have known that a metal's strength (or weakness) is governed by dislocation interactions, a messy exchange of intersecting fault lines that move or ripple within metallic crystals. But what happens when metals are engineered at the nanoscale?

8 Apr 2010

Wake Forest University Receives Patent for Flat Solar Cell Technology

Wake Forest University has received the first patent for a new solar cell technology that can double the energy production of today's flat cells at a fraction of the cost. "It comes at a pretty high price to be green,...

8 Apr 2010

New Test System to Investigate How Dangerous are Air Pollutants

How severely do smog, diesel exhaust and secondhand smoke damage the lungs? What do pollen or nanoparticles trigger when they infiltrate the human body through inhaling? At this year's BIO Convention in Chicago from May 3 to 6, Fraunhofer researchers will present a new test system that can be used to investigate these questions.

8 Apr 2010

FutureCarbon on Show at Hanover 2010

At this year's Hanover Fair, FutureCarbon, a leading name in carbon supercomposites, is presenting its innovative products based on carbon nanomaterials. Included are Carbo e-Therm, an electrically heated coating, an...

8 Apr 2010

Eight MNCs and SMEs Join Consortium to Stimulate Growth and Raise Productivity of MEMS Manufacturing in Singapore

The Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), today announced the launch of the Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) Consortium to bring tog...

8 Apr 2010