BASF and Delta Electronics, Inc. want to use environmentally friendly magnetocaloric technology to develop new cooling systems and explore the opportunities of magnetocaloric power generation.

NXP Semiconductors today announced that it has shipped its one millionth FlexRayTM transceiver to the automotive industry.

Apple has come out with their new operating system for Mac users. Called the Snow Leopard, this is found to have a more responsive finder, and will free up to 7GB in your hard drive once you install it in your Apple laptops.
Here are the salient features of this OS:
- Mail that loads messages up [...]

EAST FISHKILL, N.Y.–When the PowerPC was introduced in 1993, many people saw it as a sure-fire winner. For one thing, it was the product of a strategic alliance of three of the best and biggest names in the electronics industry: IBM, Motorola and Apple Computer. Analysts saw it looming as a formidable competitor to Intel’s [...]

“The ability to migrate from FreeRTOS and gain additional components or support when needed is a real benefit for designers, particularly in these lean times,” said FreeRTOS creator and High Integrity Systems’ head of innovation, Richard Barry

If you’ve ever wanted to battle “The Terminator,” talk smack as “The Godfather” or get in the shower with a “Psycho,” now you can – without having to move to Hollywood.

US technology giant Apple on Friday rejected reports that overheating batteries had caused some of its iPhone devices to explode in users’ hands, blaming incidents in France on “external pressure”.

Tiny robots the size of a flea could one day be mass-produced, churned out in swarms and programmed for a variety of applications, such as surveillance, micromanufacturing, medicine, cleaning, and more. In an effort to reach this goal, a recent study has demonstrated the initial tests for fabricating microrobots on a large scale.

Intel adds to the recent string of good news, improving its Q3 revenue and gross margin expectations. The new guidance calls for $9 billion in revenue, a $1 billion improvement over Q2, and Q3 gross margin percentage in the upper half of the previous range of 53%.

Dialog Semiconductor, with Harman Becker, has developed a power management IC for the Intel Atom.
Dubbed DA6001, it will be used Harman’s in-vehicle infotainment command centres.
It is the only available integrated power management and clock supply IC for the Intel Atom, claims Dialog, and allows a substantial reduction in the number of active and passive system [...]