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Technology News Highlights 2003 p3 of 3:

• New light-emitting-polymer technology unveiled
  MARCH 27--Cambridge Display Technology (CDT; Cambridge, UK; www.cdtltd.co.uk) has improved the life performance of display devices based on light-emitting-polymer technology, achieving more than 11,000 hours of operation for its blue polymer research devices.
• Terahertz technology improves 3-D tomography
  MARCH 24--Terahertz imaging is finding applications in security scanners.
• USDC launches R&D funding program for flexible displays
  MARCH 5--The US Display Consortium (USDC; San Jose, CA; www.usdc.org), a public/private partnership chartered with developing the industry infrastructure needed for next-generation flat-panel displays, has awarded the first in a planned series of research-and-development contracts.
• Intel discusses future product innovations
  FEBRUARY 21--Speaking to an audience of technology industry experts at the recent Intel Developer Forum (San Jose, CA), Intel senior vice president Mike Fister and executive vice president Sean Maloney explained how innovations are helping to quickly drive new products to market.
• PCMCIA cards gain PCI Express connection
  FEBRUARY 20--The PCMCIA standards group (San Jose, CA) has announced a major makeover for PC plug-in cards, putting them on the PCI Express interconnect.
• Flexible displays and microelectronics collaboration needed
  FEBRUARY 20--During the recent Flexible Microelectronics and Displays Conference, sponsored by the United States Display Consortium (San Jose, CA), industry-critical information emerged about the next major innovation for the flat-panel-display industry.
• VMEbus Switched Serial Standard ratified
  FEBRUARY 19--The VMEbus International Trade Association (Fountain Hills, AZ) announced the ratification of the VMEbus Switched Serial Standard, or VITA 41, which will provide OEMs with up to 50 times more bandwidth than the VME64 parallel bus on individual board-to-board transfers.
• National Semiconductor unveils technology for A/D converters with serialized LVDS outputs
  JANUARY 28--Leveraging its strengths in data-converter design and low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS), National Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA; www.national.com) has announced the capability to integrate serialized LVDS outputs into analog-to-digital converters with an embedded clock.

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