March 19, 2012, Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Education Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Masoud Nikravesh, CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) director of computation science and engineering at UC Berkeley presented information on the intersection of computer science and other science fields. This computational science can be a driver for changes to improve…
March 14, 2012, Common Platform Technology Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Juga Jagamather from IBM moderated a panel focused on future semiconductor innovations. The panel members were Michael Liehr from College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Simon Segars from ARM, Subi Kargen from Global Foundries, TC Chen from IBM, and Dongwon Kim from Samsung. Low power? Chen…
January 2012, As result of the recent rise in advanced imaging and motion control with head and eye movement for the gaming and generalized computer use, we contacted the Co-Founder of iScan Corporation of Cambridge MA to get an update on the industry and their products. For those that are unfamiliar with iScan, they have…
January 22, 2012, SPIE BiOS Conference, San Francisco—The BiOS conference had number of sessions that highlighted technologies that may be transferable to areas outside of formal medicine. Most of the sessions were about specific applications of optical and photonic in formal medicine and biological research. Topics included photonic therapeutics and diagnostics; clinical technologies and systems;…
January-10-2012, CES, Las Vegas—Panasonic offered a wide ranging lineup of new TVs and other devices, as well as pointing into new directions for the business. See the video at http://www.panasonic.com/promos/ces/2012/product-lineup.aspx The pace of change in electronics has changed enormously, so Panasonic is developing smart solutions to every day issues. The company is redefining itself to…
December 8, 2011, Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, UCB, Berkeley, CA—An industry panel looked at issued for advanced manufacturing. Krishna Mikkilineni from Honeywell moderated the panel. Panel members included Mathew Ganz from Boeing, Will Coleman from Mohr Davidow Ventures, Dan Jones from Intuitive surgical, Omkaram Nalamasu from Applied Materials, Darlene Solomon from Agilent Technology, and Kurt Peterson…
December 8, 2011, Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, UCB, Berkeley, CA—A panel of government agencies discussed the issues for next-generation manufacturing. Arati Prabhakar from the US Department of Energy moderated the panel. Panel members included David Brinkley from the Department of Defense, Leo Chrisodoulou from the Department of Energy, Patrick Gallagher from the National Institute of Standards…
At the 2011 3-D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging Conference held in San Mateo, CA this month, speaker after speaker made it pretty apparent that 3D is for real. Though there are still competing flavors of 3D, and some advocate ‘2.5D’ as a safe stepping stone, the cost and reliability of 3D are now…
December 15, 2011 – San Jose, CA – Renesas Electronics Corp. just announced the availability of their new embedded Flash memory IP for the automotive industry. Supplementing their 90nm process solutions, they have chosen to bypass the 65nm and 55nm nodes and moved directly to a 40nm process. This is a fully qualified automotive process…
October 27, 2011, Association for Corporate Growth, Santa Clara, CA–The Silicon Valley chapter of ACG looked at big data in a panel moderated by John Furrier of Silicon Angle. The trends in big data are being generated by the growing rate of data production and by consumers who are using these data in new ways….