The Engineer
11 May 2001
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Agere Systems and RF Micro Devices announce strategic alliance
17 May 2001
Agere Systems, formerly the Microelectronics Group of Lucent Technologies, and RF Micro Devices have formed a strategic alliance to develop, design and manufacture ICs for data-capable digital cellular phones and other communications products.
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Alcatel to acquire Thales' stake in Alcatel Space
17 May 2001
Alcatel is to acquire the 48.83% stake in Alcatel Space currently held by Thales, bringing its participation up to 100%. Price of the transaction will amount to 795 million euros...
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Businesses relax more on e-investment
17 May 2001
Investment in e-business technology could be wasted if a company lacks strong and sophisticated supply chain relationships, according to a study out last week.
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Credence Systems to acquire Integrated Measurement Systems
17 May 2001
Credence Systems is to acquire Integrated Measurement Systems in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at approximately $170 million.
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Flash memory holds twice as much data
17 May 2001
US chipmaker AMD has disclosed that it has developed a memory cell architecture that enables a Flash memory product to hold twice as much data as standard Flash.
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Microsoft comes out of the Xbox
17 May 2001
Microsoft yesterday disclosed US pricing and availability for its new X Box video game system. Starting November 8th, 2001, Xbox consoles will be available for purchase at retail outlets throughout North America for an estimated retail price of $299.
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Missile Shield puts Blair to the ultimate test
17 May 2001
Is the US missile shield a political dilemma or an industrial opportunity?
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Missile technology to bowl C4 over
17 May 2001
Technology for predicting the flight paths of missiles could be pressed into service to help cricket umpires, by taking the guesswork out of leg before wicket decisions.
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Sector guilty of overselling ITself
17 May 2001
For years, the IT sector has oversold itself and has comprehensively failed to understand the needs of its customers...but firms still maintain their enthusiasm for the Internet despite dotcom doldrums.
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Speed kings of the superhighway
17 May 2001
The world's biggest telecoms players are going all out to provide the fastest e-traffic. The prize money is big, but will there be enough demand for it?
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Spikes still polluting the UK grid
17 May 2001
Britain's power supply is getting increasingly 'polluted' by voltage spikes that, at their most extreme, can wreak havoc with electrical equipment plugged into the mains. Electrical engineers will be familiar with the problem: it's caused by harmonics sent back into the supply by rectifiers on DC equipment.
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When business pops the question
17 May 2001
In the case of DaimlerChrysler, what was billed as a friendly merger was really a takeover by the German car maker, leading to resentment on both sides and making integration of the two firms difficult.
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Faster phones with lower power
16 May 2001
MachStream is an 'application acceleration' platform that allows designers of mobile devices to move computationally-intensive portions of their Internet applications into silicon.
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International Rectifier forms strategic collaboration with Sanken
16 May 2001
International Rectifier has announced a strategic collaboration with Sanken Electric of Japan that includes joint design and development activity between the two power semiconductor companies.
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JPEG2000: kit yourself out now
16 May 2001
LuraWave JP2, LuraTech's beta implementation of the up-coming JPEG2000 standard, is currently available for testing to developers. Software development kits for Windows 98/ME/NT/2000) and an Adobe Photoshop Plug-In (Win98/NT and Macintosh) are currently available.
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Single-cell charge pumps save board space, improve power efficiency
16 May 2001
Designers are able to reduce board area by up to 25 percent while enhancing power efficiency in portable systems thanks to a new family of DC/DC converters.
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TriQuint and Sawtek in $1.3 billion merger
16 May 2001
TriQuint Semiconductor, a supplier of GaAs ICs, and Sawtek, developers of signal processing components based on surface acoustic wave technology, are to merge.
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Europe and USA sign energy research agreement
15 May 2001
The US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham and European Union Commissioner for Research Philippe Busquin have signed agreements to conduct joint research in the areas of fusion energy and non-nuclear energy.
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When work wont go away
14 May 2001
The world of work continues to be devolved. No longer must you be 'attached' to your desk. A new CAD viewer is both wireless and pocket-size
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Getting the ozone down
15 May 2001
A new report demonstrates the gains that the OTC's air pollution trading program continues to make in cleaning up the air of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States of the US.
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Send handwritten notes via your mobile
11 May 2001
Motorola has launched a version of its iSKETCH technology that can be downloaded from the Internet into PalmOS-based mobile devices.
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Tomkins drops its guns
14 May 2001
Tomkins PLC has announced that its subsidiary Tomkins Corporation has completed the sale of the entire share capital of Smith & Wesson Corp to Saf-T-Hammer.
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Luxell signs technology evaluation agreement with Philips
11 May 2001
Philips Components and Luxell Technologies are to work together to evaluate the impact of Luxell's 'Black Layer' technology on Philips' PolyLED display structure.
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Helping design composites better
14 May 2001
Vistagy has released Version 3.4 of its FiberSIM software, enabling engineers working with CAD systems to create products made of lightweight composite materials.
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Easy conversion to 4WD
14 May 2001
ProDrive has developed a transmission system that it says will make it easier to convert vehicles to four wheel drive.
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Development framework for smart devices
11 May 2001
Helping companies overcome the difficulties of developing and managing smart devices, BSQUARE Corporation has announced its Pivot 360 framework.
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Optical mouse points to the future
14 May 2001
New developments in optical navigation are changing the way we interact with technology.
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Wheel meet again
14 May 2001
The Falkirk wheel is the fascinating centre-piece of a millennium initiative to reopen much of Scotland's canal network
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2D or not 2D: that is the question
14 May 2001
Simple 2D is perfectly adequate for many kinds of technical drawings such as schematics, layouts and circuits. The current crop of 2D drawing tools are easy-to-use and smart.
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Delphi and TotalFinaElf partner to advance fuel cell technology
15 May 2001
Delphi Automotive is to collaborate on the research and testing of fuel cell technologies and fuel reformation with TotalFinaElf. The goal of the partnership is to better understand the impact of fuel composition and additives on the performance of fuel reforming devices.
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Diesel be better than the other ones
14 May 2001
A 100 year old engine design that saves fuel and lasts longer is reborn in Austin, Texas.
