April 30, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Frank Straka from Panduit described the changes in specifications and technologies to permit the use of copper in the datacenter at speeds above 1G. The extended capabilities for the wires permits applications to 10G and 40G. Copper base-T products provide the lowest cost technologies and at speeds…
February 12, 2014, ISSCC, San Francisco—New materials and technologies are starting to move beyond the lab into new applications. The different semiconductor materials are being deposited on many types of substrates and the component libraries are now rich enough to make microprocessors and PROMs and well as display drivers and analog circuits. Kris Myny from…
February 3, 2014, Photonics West, San Francisco—Roger Howe from Stanford described his work in electrical-mechanical switches. This work will allow further investigations into alternatives to CMOS. Relays can be used to it is logic elements, since they have discrete on and off properties. Some applications for MEMS switches include RF filters and charge-based measurements One…
May 24, 2012, MEMS Business Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Gabriel Rebeiz from UC San Diego talked bout RF MEMS switches and tuners and the commercialization of those devices. The technology enables higher performance and agility over discrete and other integrated solutions. The investigations into RF MEMS is separated by UC campuses. San Diego focuses on switches…
May 11, 2011 – Las Vegas, NV – At Interop in May, HP introduced their new Flex Network Architecture which is designed to give a single interface and UI for Data Centers, Campus and Branch computing requirements. The Data Centers (DC) feature a flex fabric of compute and storage nodes, the Campus environment is based…