In prepartion for the on-coming big conferences of CES and NAMM in January, we took some time to have a short 1:1 interview the Mr. Joe Lamond, President and CEO of NAMM, to get some quick insights on how the music business has been doing this year. In direct fashion, here are the points of the [...]

 November 15, 2011, Nanotechnology Council Symposium, Santa Clara, CA–Hakaru Mizoguchi from Gigaphoton talked about efforts to produce a manufacturing-grade EUV source. This photon source will be needed for the next-generation processes below 20 nm. Some of the shortcomings for EUV sources are low power and short lifetimes. To date, the industry has promised production-quality sources [...]

 November 15, 2011, Nanotechnology Council Symposium, Santa Clara, CA–Hughes Metras from LETI described research results for nanotechnology optical communications. The photonics on silicon and 3-D integration in CMOS will help to address the power issues. Leti is a research organization in Grenoble, France that is working on some of the main challenges facing industry and [...]