• Industry News |
• Daily Product |
• Technology News |
• Archives Home

Technology News Highlights 2001 p1 of 6:

• Montage software helps build accurate fingerprint images
  DECEMBER 31--The Wiltshire Police Fingerprint Laboratory (Devizes, Wiltshire, England) has installed a digital imaging system that captures fingerprint images from three-dimensional objects without removing or copying the images.
• Matsushita Electric introduces 50-Gbyte blue laser rewriteable dual-layer optical-disk technology
  DECEMBER 17--Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan; www.panasonic.coljp/global/top.html), known for its Panasonic brand of consumer-electronic and digital-communications products, has developed an innovative rewriteable dual-layer optical-disk technology that uses a blue laser.
• British seminar covers industrial product marking and traceability
  DECEMBER 12--Because of the current increased emphasis on quality control, manufacturers must be able to trace the origin of products coming off the production line.
• IBM advances new form of transistor to improve chips
  DECEMBER 4--IBM (East Fishkill, NY) has developed an alternate type of transistor--the basic building block of microchips--that could lead to major performance, function, and power-consumption improvements in semiconductors within several years.
• Matrix Semiconductor unveils methods for building ultradense 3-D semiconductors
  DECEMBER 4--Matrix Semiconductor Inc. (Santa Clara, CA; www.matrixsemi.com) is building semiconductor products in three dimensions, which makes the best use of a semiconductor wafer's area and achieves up to a tenfold cost reduction compared with existing technologies.
• AMD achieves fast switching speeds
  DECEMBER 4--AMD (Sunnyvale, CA; www.amd.com) has built a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) transistor that reportedly achieves the fastest switching speeds yet in the semiconductor industry.
• 1394 Trade Association has selected TTCN for IEEE 1394 conformance testing
  NOVEMBER 28--The 1394 Trade Association has bolstered its compliance and interoperability program, selecting the Tree and Tabular Combined Notation (TTCN) standard for 1394 conformance testing.
• EthIR STAR wireless infrared connectivity enables hand-held radiology for improved patient care
  NOVEMBER 27--Stanford University Medical Center, Department of Radiology (Milpitas, CA), has successfully transferred radiological images from GE Medical Systems' picture archiving and communications system (PACS) to a hand-held personal digital assistant (PDA) via Clarinet Systems' wireless infrared connectivity solution, EthIR STAR (www.clarinetsys.com).
• New transistor and materials combine to help chips run faster and cooler
  NOVEMBER 26--According to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, CA; www.intel.com), its researchers have developed an innovative transistor structure and new materials that represent a dramatic improvement in transistor speed, power efficiency, and heat reduction.
• Data-storage technique speeds astronomy-data recording
  NOVEMBER 21--Last year, MIT approached Conduit Corp. (Longmont, CO; formerly Boulder Instruments) to develop a disk-based system for high data storage.

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |