#MEMS: "STMicroelectronics Widens MEMS Lead Thanks to Apple"

The most popular micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) maker in the world widened its lead by leveraging its design wins with Apples iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, accoring to IHS iSuppli.



Fueled by booming sales to Apple Inc., particularly its exclusive design wins in the iPhone, iPad and iPod lines, STMicroelectronics in 2011 padded its leadership position in the global market for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) in consumer and mobile devices.

STMicroelectronics in 2011 achieved an 81 percent increase in consumer and mobile MEMS revenue to reach $638.7 million, up from $353.3 million in 2010, according to the IHS iSuppli MEMS & Sensors Service at information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS). This represented the highest level of growth among the top 10 suppliers of consumer and mobile MEMS, allowing STMicroelectronics to increase its market share and leadership margin over No. 2 ranked Knowles Electronics, as presented in the table attached.

French-Italian based STMicroelectronics in 2011 maintained its status as the top supplier with a 30 percent share of the overall consumer and mobile MEMS market, up from 22 percent in 2010.

Early MEMS investment pays off for STMicroelectronics
No. 1 since 2009, STMicroelectronics is the top supplier of accelerometers to cellphones, tablets, laptops and video game consoles, with the accelerometer’s function serving as a motion sensor. STMicroelectronics is also the only provider of accelerometers and gyroscopes—which help improve the motion-based interface of devices—for Apple’s iPhones, iPads and iPods. Apple alone accounted for half of STMicroelectronics’ MEMS revenue in 2011.

Part of STMicroelectronics’ success also stems from the company’s willingness to cooperate with other MEMS companies to shorten time to market, instead of trying to do everything alone. For instance, STMicroelectronics partnered with Honeywell in the electronic compass business, and also collaborated with Omron on MEMS microphones.
STMicroelectronics last year shipped an estimated 15 million digital MEMS microphones into handsets made by Nokia Corp., as well as into laptops from Hewlett-Packard and Taiwanese computer maker Asustek Computer Inc. In the process, STMicroelectronics became the top MEMS microphone supplier to Nokia ahead of former front-runner Knowles, achieving the feat in less than one year.

Top MEMS makers prosper in 2011
The Top 10 suppliers of MEMS devices for consumer and mobile applications accounted for a staggering 86 percent of the market’s overall revenue in 2011. All told, the Top 10 companies collectively generated some $1.9 billion out of a total revenue intake of $2.2 billion for consumer and mobile MEMS.

Consumer and mobile represents the most dynamic and largest MEMS segment, encompassing items like smartphones and media tablets. Combined revenue from the Top 10 this year was up 34 percent from the $1.4 billion generated by the elite circle in 2010.

The rest of the Top 10, as shown in the table, included runner-up Knowles Electronics from Illinois; Texas Instruments from Dallas; Avago Technologies from California; InvenSense, also from California; Bosch of Germany; Oregon- based TriQuint Semiconductor; Japan’s Panasonic Corp.; Kionix Inc. from New York; and Analog Devices Inc. from Massachusetts.

Knowles, TI and InvenSense make gains; Avago drops
Second-ranked Knowles rose one spot from No. 3 in 2010, with MEMS revenue last year up 42 percent to a record $270.9 million. Despite erosion in its market share last year, Knowles still largely dominates the MEMS microphone business with 73 percent share of revenue, remaining highly competitive with a roster of top customers such as Samsung Electronics, Apple and LG Electronics. Knowles also introduced a fourth-generation MEMS microphone last year into the iPhone 4S featuring a 35 percent reduction in silicon area compared to its previous-generation product.
No. 3 Texas Instruments, up a notch from fourth place in 2010, enjoyed consumer and mobile MEMS revenue in 2011 of $204.6 million, a 27 percent increase. Pico projectors are its principal revenue growth driver, as the company’s digital light processing (DLP) technology currently dominates the projector space.

Avago slipped from second place in 2010 to No. 4 last year—one of only two companies alongside Panasonic to decline in ranking among the Top 10. Avago remains the top manufacturer of bulk acoustic wave filters, but price erosion was stronger than unit growth in 2011, causing Avago’s revenue to drop to $190.6 million, down 8 percent from $207.3 million in 2010.

Rounding out the Top 5 last year was InvenSense with revenue of $142.8 million, up 54 percent from the year earlier. While STMicroelectronics was the sole supplier of 3-axis gyroscopes for Apple, InvenSense dominates the 3-axis gyroscope market for other original equipment manufacturers excluding Apple. InvenSense also ships dual-axis gyroscopes into sectors like gaming, and has achieved some success with single-axis gyroscopes for toy helicopters and other consumer goods. The company has managed to reverse its heavy dependence on gaming, diversifying into mobile handsets and tablets last year.
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#MEMS: "Gravity Sensors to be Self-Calibrating"

Future gravity sensors will make possible altimeters without barometric pressure sensors, by using 10-times more sensitive micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) that are self-calibrating. MEMS devices usually have to be calibrated at the factory, to insure that they respond in precisely the same way as all the other chips of the same type. But now an accurate, precise, and repeatable self-calibrating technique has been demonstrated that measures planar gaps with a comb drive, but which could also measure other properties such as displacement, force, stiffness or mass with 10-times more precision--enough to create gravity meters that measure your precise distance from the center of the Earth: R. Colin Johnson



With self-calibrating MEMS an on-chip or off-chip electrical probe applies enough voltage to close two unequal gaps with a comb drive while measuring the resulting changes in capacitance. (Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center image/Jason Vaughn Clark)

Here is what Purdue says about self-calibrating MEMS: Researchers have demonstrated tiny machines that could make possible super-accurate sensors and motors, with far-reaching applications from computer storage to altimeters, detecting petroleum deposits to measuring DNA-binding forces.

The machines are called self-calibratable micro-electromechanical systems, or MEMS. Although MEMS are in commercial use, the new device is the first of its kind capable of self-calibration, a step critical for applications requiring high performance and accuracy, said Jason Vaughn Clark, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and mechanical engineering at Purdue University.

"Self-calibration is needed because each MEMS device is slightly different due to variations that occur in manufacturing," he said. "Small variations in microstructure geometry, stiffness, and mass can significantly affect performance. Because of this variability, no two MEMS behave identically. Since conventional methods to measure MEMS properties are usually impractical, expensive, have unknown accuracy and large uncertainty, enabling MEMS to calibrate themselves is a game-changing innovation."

Clark previously developed the self-calibration theory. He and doctoral student Fengyuan Li have now created the device and conducted experiments to validate the theory. Findings are detailed in a paper to appear later this year in the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, or JMEMS.

The peer-reviewed work received a grade of A for "innovation" and an A for "importance to the field," which testifies to the significance of the research, Clark said.

"I think it's important to note that in 1990 MEMS pioneer Richard Muller said research on the mechanical properties of the materials in these devices is needed to provide the engineering base that will make it possible to exploit fully this technology," he said. "And during a 2007 visit to Purdue, physics Nobel laureate John Hall said that without accurate and precise measurements, no reliable form of science or engineering is possible."

The self-calibrating technology makes it possible to accurately measure displacement, or how far a measuring device moves, on a scale of micrometers to less than a nanometer - a range that spans a fraction of the diameter of a human hair to a fraction of the width of an atom.

"The difficulty in accurately measuring small displacements represents a bottleneck in MEMS and nanotech advancements," Clark said. "Accurate metrology is a problem that has eluded researchers since the beginning of MEMS and nanotech in the late 1980s. Displacement is fundamental to science and engineering. We know that quantities like velocity, acceleration, force, stiffness, frequency, and mass can be related to displacement. Now, using a $15 chip that can fit on your fingertip, we showed that our technology is able to measure MEMS displacements better than a $500,000 electron microscope."

Introducing accurate measurement methods made the difference between alchemy and chemistry about 230 years ago, and self-calibrating MEMS might bring a similar transformation in the world if nanotechnology, he said.

"The ability to perform accurate measurements is of paramount importance to technological advancement," he said. "In the late 1700s, Antoine Lavoisier transformed alchemy to chemistry by introducing quantitative measurements. Today, some compare the state of micro and nanotechnology to alchemy, where nanotechnologists can precisely sense small signals, but they have not had a practical way to accurately measure most mechanical quantities. That is, no two nanotechnology labs have been able to show that they can measure the same phenomenon and obtain the same numerical result."

The heart of the self-calibrating MEMS are two gaps of differing size, electrostatic sensors and tiny actuators called comb drives, so named because they contain meshing comb-like fingers. These meshing fingers are drawn toward each other when a voltage is applied and return to their original position when the voltage is turned off. The comb drives measure the change in an electrical property called capacitance while gauging the distances of the two gaps built into the device. The fine measurements reveal the difference between the device's designed layout and the actual dimensions.

"Once you learn the difference between layout and fabrication, you have calibrated the device," Clark said. "Many MEMS designs with comb drives can be easily modified to implement our technology. Our research results suggest the days of inaccurate micro and nano-mechanical measurements are numbered."

MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes currently are being used commercially in products such as the Nintendo Wii video game, iPhone, automobiles, the Segway human transporter and walking robots. However, those MEMS don't require ultrahigh accuracy like those used in tactical- and navigation-grade inertial sensors, which must undergo a complex calibration procedure in the factory. The chips are tested using machines that translate, rotate, shock, and heat the devices.

"The new self-calibratable MEMS could eliminate or reduce the need for rigorous factory calibration, cutting manufacturing costs," Clark said. "Something like 30 percent of manufacturing costs are related to calibration."

The self-calibratable MEMS could lead to high-performance data storage technologies and advanced lithography to create next generation computer circuits and nanodevices.

Researchers will use the new self-calibration approach to improve the accuracy of atomic force microscopes, or AFMs, which are tools essential for nanotechnologists. Purdue operates about 30 AFMs, and Clark's research group will use the calibrated MEMS to calibrate AFM displacement, stiffness, and force.

The group also will use a calibrated MEMS to measure the difference in gravity between different heights above the ground. The ability to measure gravity with such sensitivity could be used as a new tool for detecting underground petroleum deposits.

"Conventional gravity meters can cost over $200,000," Clark said. "They consist of a large vacuum tube and a mirrored mass. Gravitational acceleration is determined by measuring the drop time of the mass in free fall. Since oil or mineral deposits have a different density than surrounding material, the local gravity is slightly different."

The bulky and expensive gravity meters could be replaced with a small and inexpensive MEMS chip. Another potential application is as an altimeter for aircraft. Conventional altimeters measure height by using air pressure, which fluctuates.

"These altimeters aren't really accurate," Clark said. "Having a sensor that could accurately determine height would be an asset while flying at night, through fog, or bad weather.

The self-calibratable technology also could allow MEMS to recalibrate themselves after being exposed to harsh temperature changes or remaining dormant for long periods.

Yet another potential application is the study of exotic phenomena such as forces between molecules and within tiny structures on the scale of nanometers.

"A more accurate MEMS device could make it possible to measure physical phenomena that have been beyond the resolution of conventional technology," Clark said. "To fully understand and exploit the attributes of the nanoscale, you really have to be able to accurately measure subtle phenomena. Without accurate measurement tools, it becomes difficult to discover or resolve these phenomena, to develop accurate physical models, and to subsequently use the models to explore possibilities leading to useful innovations."

The work is based at the Birck Nanotechnology Center in Purdue's Discovery Park. The research is funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Cell Phone Antenna Woes Cured by Radio Frequency RF#MEMS

RF-MEMS uses tiny mechanical switches, filters and other radio frequency front-end replacements that can be dynamically tuned in realtime to compensate for mobile user reception woes causes by antenna interference. Look for improved reception for #Apple #iPhone and other #smartphone models adding RF-MEMS chips in 2011 creating a quarter-billion dollar market by 2014. RColinJohnson @NextGenLog


The iSuppli global market revenue forecast for RF MEMS switches and varactors from 2006 to 2014.

Here is what iSuppli says about RF-MEMS: Help may be on the way for iPhone 4 users frustrated by dropped calls with the arrival of Radio Frequency Microelectromechanical Systems (RF MEMS), semiconductors that can improve the performance of antennas in cell phones...Long plagued by technological hurdles and other disappointing setbacks, RF MEMS are finally ready for the big time, with revenue projected to double in 2010 and more than triple in 2011. From slightly less than $4 million in 2006, global RF MEMS revenue is anticipated to climb to $8.1 million this year—and then surge to $27.9 million in 2011...By 2014, revenue will reach a whopping $223.2 million.



Arrays of tuning capacitors that can by dynamically switched in and out of circuits tune a cell phone's antenna in realtime to improve reception and mitigate dropped calls.

Although other technologies will address antenna issues, including SoS FETs and BST varactors, MEMS deliver the best performance in terms of insertion loss...Seven firms are sampling RF MEMS...California-based WiSpry Inc. and Japan’s TDK-Epcos are offering RF MEMS for high-volume cell phone applications. On another front, U.S. firms Analog Devices Inc., Radant Technologies Inc. and XCOM Wireless Inc.—in cooperation with relay manufacturer Teledyne Technologies Inc.—as well as Japanese supplier Omron Corp. are targeting high-end applications for testing and instrumentation such as ATE and RF test. U.S. startups Radant MEMS and MEMtronics focus on defense applications...In particular, interest is growing among mobile handset manufacturers on how RF MEMS can be used for the front-end tuning of cell phones to improve antenna performance, given the advent of new wireless standards like LTE for 4G technology. WiSpry—which has garnered several design wins for its MEMS varactors...
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"MEMS: Knowles Acoustics ships billionth MEMS microphone"

Knowles Acoustics (Itasca, Ill.) has shipped its one billionth micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) microphone, which the company claims makes it the world's largest supplier. Sales of its surface-mount SiSonic MEMS microphone has catapulted Knowles Acoustics into the top MEMS microphone slot as well as placed it in the top five MEMS suppliers for consumer and mobile applications, according to iSuppli Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.) Knowles Acoustics, a supplier of traditional electret microphones, delivered its first MEMS microphone in 2003, two years behind the debut of the world's first MEMS microphone by Akustica Inc. (Pittsburgh). Since then Knowles Acoustics has become the world's largest supplier of MEMS microphones, passing by Akustica who claims to have delivered only five million microphones to date. Akustica was recently acquired by Robert Bosch North America. Knowles manufactures its SiSonic MEMS microphones in its own dedicated 80,000 square foot fab in Suzhou, China, where it currently makes 30 different models of MEMS microphones, which it supplies to makes of mobile phones, laptop computers, gaming systems, and Bluetooth headsets.

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#MEMS: market growth outpacing competitors

Instead of beginning to wane, the exponential growth of MEMS devices is just starting, according to analysts at the MEMS Executive Congress 2012 (Nov. 7-9, Scottsdale, Ariz.), who predict that a dozen new types of MEMS device will keep the market vitalized for the foreseeable future: R. Colin Johnson


News MEMS devices take a decade to mature (right) with the bulk of next-generation MEMS innovations still in the formative stages (left).

Here is what EETimes says about the MEMS market: Micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) have revolutionized every market in which they have become successful, but the trend is just beginning, according to analysts speaking on a panel at the MEMS Executive Congress 2012 here.

Analysts project rapid growth for the types of MEMS already in widespread use. But, by later this decade, several more types of MEMS devices are expected to be in production, creating more potential for exponential growth.
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Tiny Spirals May Make Counterfeiting Impossible | EE Times

   

IBM Demos III-V on Silicon | EE Times

   

Free Service Compares Devices | EE Times

   

IBM Renting Its EDA Tools | EE Times

   

Nanoscale Sensor Breakthrough May Lower Costs | EE Times

   

City Smarts Marshalled in Germany | EE Times

   

Intel Unveils Cores and Xeons | EE Times

   

Industry's Most Sensitive MEMS Mic | EE Times

   

Can Formula E Overtake Formula One? | EE Times

   

Gaming Helps Tool Emulate True Power Peaks | EE Times

   

Smart Factories Meet AI | EE Times

   

Self-Driving Cars Without Passengers | EE Times

   

Festo's Smart Robotics Aimed at SMC | EE Times

   

IBM Demos CMOS Silicon Photonics | EE Times

   

Samsung Breaks Ground on $14 Billion Fab | EE Times

   

Intel's High-End Xeon E7v3 Debuts | EE Times

   

Living Computers Ultimate Goal | EE Times

   

Start-up's Co-Robots Handle Logistics | EE Times

   

IBM Solves Quantum Computing | EE Times

   

Ruggedized Tire Pressure Sensor Raises Bar | EE Times

   

Elvis Sees All in Russia | EE Times

   

TI Obsoletes FPGA | EE Times

   

Aluminum Battery Recharges in 1sec | EE Times

   

Moore's Law: Dead or Alive | EE Times

   

IBM vs. Intel in Supercomputer Bout | EE Times

   

3D Testing Standardized by SRC | EE Times

   

IBM Sets Memory Density Record | EE Times

   

Sensor Hub Lowers the Power | EE Times

   

Nanotube Circuits Learn Functions | EE Times

   

Vote Today! Best Nanotech | EE Times

   

Bell Labs Opens New Doors | EE Times

   

Mentor Graphics Drives ISPD Contest | EE Times

   

CoolCube 3D Goes Monolithic | EE Times

   

Analog EDA Finally Automated | EE Times

   

3D Qualcomm SoCs by 2016 | EE Times

   

Researchers Claim 44x Power Cuts | EE Times

   

Robotic Bacteria Senses Humidity | EE Times

   

Nanolaser Enables On-Chip Photonics | EE Times

   

SynBio Stubs for Standards | EE Times

   

Intel's Xeon Phi to House 72-Cores | EE Times

   

Optical Color Shifter Computes Cognitively | EE Times

   

Bi-directional RF Doubles Cellular Capacity | EE Times

   

Insects Harnessed for Surveillance | EE Times

   

Scientists Pursue Super-Fast Material | EE Times

   

Tri-Core Sensor Hub Ups Ante: Sensors Included | EE Times

   

Free Sirius One-Ups Siri | EE Times

   

Heart On-A-Chip Beats | EE Times

   

Intel's 1st Xeon SoC Twists ARM | EE Times

   

Bosch Debuts 1st MEMS Sensor Hub | EE Times

   

IBM's Watson Does Deep-Learning Too | EE Times

   

2D Material Beats Graphene | EE Times

   

3D Printing Everywhere from Lab to Factory | EE Times

   

Graphene Polymer Speeds Electron Transport | EE Times

   

Hi-Speed Transistors from Liquid Processing | EE Times

   

Flash for Even Commodity Servers | EE Times

   

3D E-Beam Enables 3D NAND Flash | EE Times

   

Quantum Transistor Harnesses New Effect | EE Times

   

Microsoft, Google Beat Humans at Image Recognition | EE Times

   

IBM Adds All Vendors to its Cloud-of-Clouds | EE Times

   

CMOS Image Sensors Surpassing Moore's Law | EE Times

   

Out Googling Google on Big Data Searches | EE Times

   

Thermoelectric Nanowires to Cool Chips | EE Times

   

Invisibility Cloaks Now Shield People from Sight | EE Times

   

2nd TransAsia To Crash in a Year | EE Times

   

GE's Open-Source Smart Refrigerator | EE Times

   

Supercapbatteries, Thermoelectrics to Power Future Cars | EE Times

   

Intel 5th Gen vPro Goes 60GHz Wireless | EE Times

   

Quantum Entanglement Now On-a-Chip | EE Times

   

Co-Robots Working Alongside People | EE Times

   

Intel, Microsoft, Autodesk Creating Life | EE Times

   

$2 Waves 3D Gesture Into Any Device | EE Times

   

Drones and Wearables App Store Launches | EE Times

   

Ford Self-Driving Cars On-the-Cheap | EE Times

   

Electronic Spine Cures Paralysis | EE Times

   

CES 2015: Ultra-High-Definition 4K TV over Copper | EE Times

   

CES 2015: MEMS that Wearables/IoT Need | EE Times

   

CES: IoT Modules Quicken Innovation | EE Times

   

Bosch Awash in MEMS Combo Sensors | EE Times

   

Sony Chooses PNI Hub for SmartWatch | EE Times

   

CES: 55 TV Thin as iPad Air | EE Times

   

CES: 2 Displays on Russian Yota Smartphone | EE Times

   

Electric/Hybrid Aircraft Takes Flight | EE Times

   

MEMS Spurred by Industrial IoT | EE Times

   

Researchers Superconduct at 140 Degrees | EE Times

   

Spray Solar Cells on Any Surface | EE Times

   

True 3-D Chips Harness Nanotubes | EE Times

   

MIT Discovers Superconductor Law | EE Times

   

Superconductor Unveils Room Temp Future | EE Times

   

DARPA Offers Free Watson-Like Artificial Intelligence | EE Times

   

MIT Spinoff Funded $143M to Create Sentient Computers | EE Times

   

TI's Digital Light Processor Shrinks to Glasses Size | EE Times

   

Biologists Grow Living Circuits | EE Times

   

Moore's Law Competitor Wins $150K Elevator Pitch Prize | EE Times

   

Stephen Hawking: How He Speaks & Spells | EE Times

   

Carbon Nanobuds Flex, Replace Indium Tin Oxide | EE Times

   

Flexible OLEDs Clear Last Hurdle | EE Times

   

ST's Small 6-Axis IMU a Big Move Into Automotive | EE Times

   

Superconductivity Predicted by Supercomputer | EE Times

   

3D Prints World's Best Inverter | EE Times

   

Lucio Lanza to Receive EDA Honor | EE Times

   

Nanotube Field Emitters Beat OLEDs | EE Times

   

First 2D Atomic Piezoelectric Discovered | EE Times

   

Intel, IBM Dueling 14nm FinFETS | EE Times

   

World's Wireless Record Breaks 40 Gbit/s | EE Times

   

China's 5-Year Plan Revealed | EE Times

   

River Sensors to Clean Up Waterways | EE Times

   

IBM's Watson Going Global | EE Times

   

Cheap Fusion Beats Fossil Fuels | EE Times

   

Why Do Big Companies Make Their Own Sensors? | EE Times

   

$200M Photonics Effort to Keep US Ahead | EE Times

   

Electronic Brain by 2023 | EE Times

   

IBM Water Cooling Enables a Super Solar Dish | EE Times

   

Fairchild Reinvents Itself | EE Times

   

Google Glass & Lookalikes Find Niches | EE Times

   

Moore's Law Has No End in Sight | EE Times

   

Intel Xeon Boosts Workstation & Servers | EE Times

   

Samsung Funds III-V FinFETs in US Lab | EE Times

   

Always-On Touch Gestures Save Time & Battery | EE Times

   

Indoor Navigation: The Next Big Thing | EE Times

   

Free Process Design Kit Hits 15nm | EE Times

   

The Limits of Moore's Law Limits | EE Times

   

MIT Wrist-Robot Adds Extra Fingers | EE Times

   

Cloud-Based Chip Design Research & Education | EE Times

   

Energy Harvesting Chip Demonstrated | EE Times

   

Movidius Vision Processing Unit Enters 2nd Generation | EE Times

   

Gadget Uses Brain Waves to Control Household Functions | EE Times

   

IBM Puts Brain On-a-Chip | EE Times

   

Intel Readies Super-Resist for EUV | EE Times

   

Flexible Displays Going Commercial | EE Times

   

Bell Labs Hits 10 Gbit/s Broadband Over Copper | EE Times

   

Invensense MEMS Merges With Movea Motion | EE Times

   

MIT Puts 36-Core Internet on a Chip | EE Times

   

Lowest Power MEMS Mic Cuts Noise | EE Times

   

IBM Pledges Nanotube Transistor by 2020 or Bust | EE Times

   

Top 10 Supercomputers Worldwide | EE Times

   

Monolythic MEMS Sensor Cut Size/Cost | EE Times

   

Intel Massive Parallel Upgrades Due | EE Times

   

MEMS Microphones Busting Out All Over | EE Times

   

Micron 3D Memory Supercharges Xeon Phi | EE Times

   

First Ultrasonic MEMS Controller to Make Mobile Hands Free | EE Times

   

Conductive Polymer Beats Indium Tin Oxide by 10x | EE Times

   

Movidius Redefines Computer Vision | EE Times

   

Intel & Georgia Tech Advance Spintronics | EE Times

   

MEMS Clock Cuts Wearable Power in Half | EE Times

   

SpaceX 3D Prints Rocket Thruster | EE Times

   

Supercaps Breakthrough: Phone Case to Replace Battery | EE Times

   

Cyborg-Like Bionics Harness Sunlight | EE Times

   

IBM Sets World Record With Mag Tape | EE Times

   

Novel, Inexpensive 3D Chips Funded by SRC | EE Times

   

Neurogrid's Electronic Brain Controls Robotics | EE Times

   

Aquifi's Gesture Interface Adapts | EE Times

   

China Takes Lead in Carbon Nanotubes & Graphene | EE Times

   

IBM's 3D Printer to Revolutionize Chip Prototyping | EE Times

   

Ultracapacitor Breakthrough May Recharge Energy Storage | EE Times

   

Cadence to Acquire Jasper | EE Times

   

Archer Supercomputer Is Fastest in UK | EE Times

   

ISPD-14 Focuses on FinFETs, Security, Supply Chain | EE Times

   

NIST Sets New Time Standard | EE Times

   

MEMS Mics Pass $1B Milestone | EE Times

   

GE Claims Fastest, Highest-Power MEMS Switch | EE Times

   

IBM Founds Watson Group | EE Times

   

Mobile Boosts Processor Market | EE Times

   

Stanene May Be Better Than Graphene | EE Times

   

Ink-Jet Printing for OLED Displays Debuts | EE Times

   

Intel to Customize High-End Processors | EE Times

   

IBM Broadens Access to Ask Watson Apps | EE Times

   

5 MEMS Chips Debut at MEMS Exec Congress | EE Times

   

Invisibility Cloak Comes to Life | EE Times

   

Robot Rings Nasdaq Closing Bell | EE Times

   

Samsung Tips $100 Million IoT Strategy | EE Times

   

Allwinner IPO to Fuel Mobile Road Map | EE Times

   

III-V FinFET Fabed on Silicon | EE Times

   

Join Live Chat on Toyota Unintended Acceleration Wed. Nov. 6, 1PM ET | EE Times

   

Graphene Laser to Probe Superconductivity | EE Times

   

Motion Processing for Android KitKat | EE Times

   

Sensor Hubs Arrive for Android | EE Times

   

SK Hynix Licenses BeSang's 3D IC | EE Times

   

Vicarious AI Passes Turing Test | EE Times

   

Wearable Display Goes 1 Step Beyond Google Glass | EE Times