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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
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WPCS International Incorporated , a company involved in design-build engineering services for specialty communication systems and wireless infrastructure, has has entered the wind power industry by acquiring Lincoln Wind LLC of Bettendorf, Iowa for $400,000 in cash.
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Wednesday 2 July, 2008 12:39 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
ANAHEIM, Calif. — At the Design Automation Conference mid-June in Anaheim, California, an educational panel addressed the thermal issue in integrated circuit (IC) design. Two key questions were raised: When will this issue be emerging as a crucial concern if at all? What are the solutions to solve this potential crisis?
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Wednesday 2 July, 2008 06:43 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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A flexible robotic production cell solution has been delivered to Deutsch UK by robotics and automation specialist Aylesbury Automation. The robot-based machine has been introduced as a result of increasing product demand. It assembles a range of similar, two pin electrical plugs and sockets and produces one complete part every six seconds
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 04:31 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Sydney – Rittal , a leading worldwide provider of electronic packaging technologies, has unveiled its RiCell 5 kW fuel cell system.
Featuring a stand-alone power supply, the RiCell is suitable for an extensive range of applications in transport and environmental technology, power engineering, IT and telecommunications.
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 02:43 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
In January 2008 TenCate acquired 75% of the shares of Xennia Technology Ltd . near Cambridge (UK). The main reason for this acquisition is primarily to accelerate the opportunity to use inkjet technology to produce technical textiles. Inkjet technology has the potential to replace existing finishing and coating technologies and create new materials for the technical textiles sector.
Within the Digitex R&D project, which is subsidized by the EU Commission, TenCate, Xennia, Xaar and other companies and institutes have worked together in order to use inkjet technology to create breakthrough innovations in technical textiles for the European sector.
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 08:40 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
AMMAN - Jordan's first nuclear plant is looming in sight as it inked a preliminary nuclear cooperation deal with Britain on Sunday, the third one in a month with Western nuclear powers on pumping nuclear energy.
Under the latest deal, Britain and Jordan will jointly promote "the establishment of a reliable source of nuclear fuel for future civilian light water nuclear reactors" in the Arab kingdom, said Chairman of Jordan Atomic Energy Commission Khalid Touqan.
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Monday 30 June, 2008 08:35 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
Scientists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), collaborating collaborating with researchers from the German universities of Jena, Gottingen, and Bremen, have developed a new technique for fabricating nanowire photonic and electronic integrated circuits that may one day be suitable for high-volume commercial production.
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Saturday 28 June, 2008 02:51 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
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Orbotech, Inc ., the North American subsidiary of Orbotech Ltd., today announced that ITL Circuits Inc. of Markham, Ontario, Canada has purchased a Newprint Maxi inkjet legend printer for its bare PCB operation.
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Friday 27 June, 2008 02:02 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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Microfluidics experts, Dolomite , have announced that they have now optimised the fabrication of quartz microfluidic chips, enabling instrument manufacturers to benefit from the many important qualities of synthetic quartz for use within bioscience and medical systems
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 08:58 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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IRVINE, CA - EADS North America Test and Services , a division of EADS North America, today announced a contract from Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor Company for its 5032 Environmental Stress Screening System. Toshiba will be using the 5032 for reliability testing of its newest 40/45nm semiconductor production technology.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 05:13 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
Thousands of North East youngsters have come face-to-face with the future on Wearside.
The Youth Engineering Show (Yes) at Rainton Meadows has attractions including Honda's Asimo, the world's most advanced humanoid robot, and a man versus machine face-off which sees challengers pit their wits against one of Nissan's production-line robots in a buzzer game.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 04:31 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
The high-tech industry in Chicago has grown at a modest 1 percent rate and shows some signs of staying competitive, said a report that will be released today.
"Cybercities 2008: An Overview of the High-Technology Industry in the Nation's Top 60 Cities," compiled by American Electronics Association, or AeA, shows that Chicago's high-tech industry added 2,300 net jobs, for a total of 164,000 jobs, from 2005 to 2006, the most recent data available.
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Tuesday 24 June, 2008 04:11 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
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It's a special moment for Partap Aggarwal's software company and he just can't conceal his excitement. Brimming with energy, the 50-year-old managing director of IDS Infotech talks about the acquisition he’s just done of aerospace design firm BV Design Production Link (DPL) based in Rotterdam. “This is a huge accomplishment for us,” he says, explaining that when IDS began in 1990, its first tie-up was with a Dutch firm.
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Monday 23 June, 2008 08:39 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
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Neah Power Systems , Inc. a leading developer of fuel cells for military, industrial and consumer portable electronic devices, announced today that it has selected Sanmina-SCI Corporation (NASDAQ: SANM) for its engineering development and manufacturing support in commercializing its silicon based fuel cell systems. Sanmina-SCI is a leading systems solutions provider serving the fastest-growing segments of the global electronics manufacturing services (EMS) market.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 06:27 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
Alstom is the world’s leading supplier of “conventional islands” (or “turbine islands”) for nuclear power plants, and has fitted close to 180 units around the globe. More than 30% of the world’s nuclear power stations operating today use Alstom-made equipment.
Alstom has recently set up major agreements in China, Korea and the United States which confirm its position as a leading supplier for nuclear power generation. These agreements apply either to new equipment and associated engineering or to the retrofitting of existing equipment.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 06:18 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
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Singapore - Siltronic Samsung Wafer Pte. Ltd. , a joint venture of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Siltronic AG, today commissioned a new fab in Singapore for the production of 300 mm wafers. The facility officially started operation in an opening ceremony attended by Singapore´s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. After only 18 months of construction, Samsung Electronics, a leader in advanced semiconductor technology, and Siltronic, a subsidiary of Germany´s chemical group Wacker Chemie AG, now own one of the world´s largest and most advanced factories for 300 mm wafers
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Thursday 19 June, 2008 06:10 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
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MANHASSET, N.Y. — The interdependence between process and design is in full evidence at this year's VLSI Symposia , being held June 17-20 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Symposium on VLSI Technology straddles the Symposium on VLSI Circuits. This year the conference has two overlap days to provide a combined forum that addresses issues from processes, devices and circuits to system-level design and applications.
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Wednesday 18 June, 2008 05:10 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
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Echternach, Luxembourg – GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms , a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, hosted European customers, distribution partners, system integrators and solution providers at a 2-day seminar in Amsterdam, the first in a series of Innovation Seminars to be held throughout the EMEA region in 2008. Aimed at Plant, Operations and IT Management, as well as engineers and operators, over 170 participants attended presentations by executives and Industry Managers from around the world with sessions addressing application industries and introducing the wealth of new software and hardware products recently announced to address those markets.
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Wednesday 18 June, 2008 12:11 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
ATLANTA-Skyworks Solutions, Inc , an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, today introduced a product portfolio of energy management solutions for the wireless home. The company’s Linear Products’ business has captured several key design wins with various market leaders for automated meter reading (AMR), advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), and ZigBee® (IEEE 802.15.4).
Multiple customer's mesh network solutions are going into volume production using Skyworks’ tested technology that includes front-end modules (FEMs), power amplifiers (PAs) and drivers, switches, voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs), phase lock loops (PLLs), diodes, and other key building block components.
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Wednesday 18 June, 2008 06:19 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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PALO ALTO, Calif.-GigOptix , the leading provider of electronic engines for the optically connected digital world and Teleoptix, experts in microwave MCM and hybrid packaging design and manufacture announce that they have signed an agreement that will have the GigOptix iT6135C manufactured by Teleoptix at their facility in Italy. Teleoptix is the latest contract manufacturer to be signed to partner with GigOptix in their continuing strategy to provide cost effective high performance solutions using an outsourced manufacturing model.
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Wednesday 18 June, 2008 04:09 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
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The Department Of Energy (DOE) -- Power Marketing Administration (PMA) is an organization dedicated to the marketing of electricity generated from government hydroelectric dams, management of the transmission and distribution grids and economic development. To achieve its mission, the PMA has substantial technical and engineering capability, contract management expertise, good relationships with the major public utilities as well coordination and cooperation with state and local governments.
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Wednesday 18 June, 2008 02:53 AM |
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