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New Apple Watch Has Lowest Ratio of Hardware Costs to Retail Price, IHS Teardown Reveals
The new Apple Watch has the lowest hardware costs compared to retail price of any Apple phone, on the order of 24% of the manufacturer's suggested retail price.
Thermoelectric Nanowires Could Aid Energy Harvesting from Car Exhaust
Even though nanowires are not great for thermoelectric applications, researchers at Sandia National Labs believe that better control of the manufacturing process could improve the quality enough to make a useful thermoelectric material.
Design Innovations Led to a Compact, Simple-to-Use Medical Defibrillator
You've seen those live-saving defibrillators in offices, shopping malls and even homes, standing at the ready for immediate use in case of a medical emergency.
Renesas Creates Chip for Safety, Experience in Connected Vehicles
Renesas says it has built a microcontroller (MCU) for use in instrument clusters found in connected cars that can deliver a safer and better driving experience.
Revenues from Smartphone and Automotive Displays Grew in 2014, IHS Says
As smartphones monopolize product sales for cameras and other devices with small and medium displays, automotive display revenues rose 26% to become the second-highest growth category in 2014, according to IHS.
Paper-thin Nanofiber Has Potential for Electronics and EVs
Researchers have developed a paper-like material for lithium-ion batteries that has the potential to boost by several time the amount of energy that can be delivered per unit weight of the battery.
Leap in Conductivity Measured When a Semiconductor Is Exposed to High Pressure
Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) obtained conductivity values for stroncium iridate that were 250 times higher than in normal conditions.
Bendable Implant Taps Nervous System without Damaging It
Body implants that can interface with the nervous system run up against a basic material problem: wires are stiff and bodies are soft. Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale, in Lausanne, Switzerland, have designed a soft, flexible electronic implant, which they say has the same ability to bend and stretch as dura mater, the membrane that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.
Energy Management Smart Thermostats Installed in 3.2m U.S. Homes
Consumers in North America and Europe bought twice as many smart thermostats in 2014 as in the previous year, according to an article in Metering.com.
LED Companies Diversify with Moves into the Module Market
Leading suppliers of LED components are increasingly diversifying in order to produce LED modules and light engines, according to research from IHS Inc. Many companies, known only as packaged LED providers in the past, have expanded their product offerings and are now also supplying LED modules.
Top Access Control Trends for 2015
2014 proved to be a busy year for the access control industry which brought an abundance of innovation and change with some suppliers challenging security perceptions, according to a white paper from IHS Technology.
Industrial Ethernet Market Poised for 8.6% Growth Through 2018, IHS Says
The world market for industrial Ethernet infrastructure grew by 7.1% in 2014, reaching $1.48 billion, up from $1.38 billion in 2013, according to IHS Technology. I
2014 Was Bumper Year for Automotive Semiconductors
The automotive semiconductor market did exceptionally well in 2014, according to new analysis from IHS. Robust vehicle production growth, together with increased semiconductor content in cars charted a path of 10% growth year over year to reach $29 billion in 2014.
DARPA Program Seeks Partners for Drone Systems
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) issued a special notice inviting interested parties to participate in Phase 1 meetings of its Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) program.
Laser-induced Graphene Shows Promise for Electronics
Rice University scientists in Houston say they have advanced their recent development of laser-induced graphene (LIG) by producing and testing stacked, 3D supercapacitors, energy-storage devices that are important for portable, flexible electronics.
Your Smart Phone as Medical Lab Instrument
High-priced microscopes, spectrometers and chromatography devices get all the attention in lab equipment circles.
Global Semiconductor Market Set for Strongest Growth in Four Years
Worldwide semiconductor market revenue is on track to achieve a 9.4% expansion this year, with broad-based growth across multiple chip segments driving the best industry performance since 2010.
Internet of Things Stimulates MEMS Market
The explosive expansion of the Internet of things (IoT) is driving rapid demand growth for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices in areas including asset-tracking systems, smart grids and building automation.
UV LEDs: A Cool Alternative to Arc Lamps
LEDs are efficient. The Nobel Prize committee understands this; in December in Stockholm they present the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for the invention of blue light-emitting diodes.