Topic: Electrical Engineering

What It Takes for a Career to Emerge

I have spent most of this month researching and writing about emerging green careers for a book about that subject, and the effort has made me aware of the many factors that must be in place before an emerging career can reach the ...READ»

Top Scientist Slams Electric Vehicles, But Misses the Mark

A top U.K. scientist says the rush to get electric cars on the road is "dangerous." The scientist, Dr. Richard Pike, is head of the Royal Chemistry Society--an important position with a direct line to the media. He says ...READ»

Intel v. ARM: The Battle to Run Your Smartphone and Netbook

Intel and ARM used to live in peaceful coexistence. ARM designed small chips for a litany of inexpensive devices--mobile phones, disk drives, game systems, anti-lock brakes, washing machines--while Intel's forte was ...READ»

New Chip Technology Could Help Computers Think on Their Own

While there's a lot of work to push nanotechnology as the future of computer chips, good old-fashioned semiconductors still have a lot of life in them yet: and they've recently been given a boost with a radical new type of circuit ...READ»

New Conducting Ink Heralds Printable Semiconductor Revolution

Flexible circuitry is a big upcoming trend in electronics, but there remain a few challenges to overcome before it can really take off. Now Polyera, a US company that makes specialist chemicals for flexible electronic devices, may ...READ»

Future Chips To Get More Powerful, Research Shows Plenty of Life in Moore's Law

Gordon Moore's 1965 observation of increasing integrated circuit power paralleling shrinkage in size was originally tentatively phrased: "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two ...READ»

The Solar Industry Gains Ground

At a time of economic pain and planetary peril, a renewable global powerhouse takes shape. Just when we need it most.READ»

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Rapid Prototyping using Evaluation Boards

Creating electronic products is as easy as installing software and connecting an electronic circuit board (Evaluation Board)to your desktop or notebook computer's USB port. Semiconductor manufacturers are developing and selling ...READ»

Jim Gordon May Have an Answer to our Energy Problems

An alternative to oil? Check. Completely green? Check. Economical? Check. So why has the entrepreneur been sued, pilloried, and lampooned?READ»

His Word Is Law

Face time with Gordon MooreREAD»

Professor Copies the Inner Ear, Invents a Tiny Universal Radio Chip

A new radio chip mimics the human inner ear--but detects signals at frequencies of about a million times higher--could enable universal wireless devices that are able to pick up almost any electrical signal in the air.READ»

SNEC PV Power Expo/Photovoltaic Power Generation Expo 2009 Booth/standfitting Contractor YoHo Expo CHINA

If your company come China for SNEC PV Power Expo,Photovoltaic Power Generation  in Shanghai,please contact YoHo Expo,YoHo Expo offers professional booth/stand design,construction/installation service for SNEC PV Power Expo.Following ...READ»

Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis

Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got.READ»

Disrupter - Akira Ishikawa

The semiconductor has been the driving force behind the digital revolution. Now Akira Ishikawa is looking to force the revolution into overdrive by creating semiconductors in the form of spheres instead of chips -- a breakthrough with truly electrifyingREAD»

Power to the People

AES is big, rich - and unlike any company you've ever seen. It builds power plants by handing power to workers on the front lines. Its radical business model has worked wonders in the United States. Can it also work in Hungary, China, and Brazil?READ»

Intel's Next-Gen 32nm Chips Need Less Power for More Speed

Intel's [INTC] announced details of its next-generation chips, fabricated using a 32nm process, due to go on sale late 2009--the chip's transistors switch 22% faster and result in processors much smaller than the current 45nm ...READ»

How Intel Puts Innovation Inside

Everybody worships at the altar of innovation. But it takes a company such as Intel to distill the very essence of innovation and turn it into a set of learnable, repeatable practices.READ»

Killer Results Without Killing Yourself

At 36, Intel's David Marsing suffered a near-fatal heart attack. Now he's running the world's largest semi-conductor factory -- and trying to save Intel from itself.READ»

Green Power

Thanks to soaring fuel prices, lots of creative energy is being applied to alternative energy. The time may finally have come for these three champions of on-the-verge technologies.READ»

Failure Is an Option

The dream behind Exponential Technology was bold -- to build the world's fastest computer chip. The reality was messy. The end was bloody -- $30 million of wasted capital, four years of wasted effort. So why are so many people grateful for the experience?READ»

Tech Watch: Nukes In Your Yard and Fuel Cells In Your Pocket

Two companies are doing two very different things to address the energy problem in America. How about a mini-reactor giving your neighborhood nuclear power? Or would you like thin fuel cell chips to give your gadgets juice?READ»

Intel Atom: Intel Makes Its Smallest Chip Ever

A completely reimagined computer chip from Intel drinks 10 times less power -- and puts the full Internet in the palm of your hand.READ»

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The Solid State Revolution

The death of moving parts means your stocking will be stuffed with smaller,faster, stronger -- and quieter -- gadgets. READ»

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5 Technologies That Will Change the World

It's hard to believe in advances that are poised to change the world when everyone's just trying to survive. But these tireless innovators are developing technologies that are making the future worth looking forward to again.READ»

A revolutionary new clean, cheap, abundant, and portable energy production technology

I would like to announce the arrival of a clean, cheap, abundant, and portable form of energy production that will make burning fossil fuel obsolete. I am very much aware of how crazy this sounds, but I have very good reasons for thinking that it is legitimate, although I am not a representative of the company.READ»